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Sleeplessness and aggression in youthRonald E Dahl
J Adolesc Health 38:641-2. 2006
Adolescent brain development: a period of vulnerabilities and opportunities. Keynote addressRonald E Dahl
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara St, Rm E 724, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:1-22. 2004....
Daily emotional dynamics in depressed youth: a cell phone ecological momentary assessment studyJennifer S Silk
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 110:241-57. 2011....
Expressed emotion in mothers of currently depressed, remitted, high-risk, and low-risk youth: links to child depression status and longitudinal courseJennifer S Silk
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 38:36-47. 2009..Higher initial critical expressed emotion was associated with a greater likelihood of having a future onset of a depressive episode in high-risk and depressed participants. Diagnostic groups did not differ in Emotional Overinvolvement...
Neural systems of threat processing in adolescents: role of pubertal maturation and relation to measures of negative affectErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 36:429-52. 2011..Amygdala and VLPFC reactivity were correlated with negative affect and depressive symptoms. Threat-processing changes during puberty may facilitate changes in social behavior and negative affect...
Caffeine consumption, sleep, and affect in the natural environments of depressed youth and healthy controlsDiana J Whalen
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 33:358-67. 2008..We examined caffeine use and its relation to sleep and affect in youth's natural environments...
Real-world affect and social context as predictors of treatment response in child and adolescent depression and anxiety: an ecological momentary assessment studyErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 22:37-47. 2012..Individual differences in the social and affective dynamics of daily life could help to elucidate the characteristics of youth who respond to treatment...
"I won, but I'm not getting my hopes up": depression moderates the relationship of outcomes and reward anticipationThomas M Olino
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 194:393-5. 2011..This finding has implications for understanding the developmental pathophysiology of MDD and suggests specific contexts where altered motivational system functioning may play a role in maintaining depression...
Reward-related decision-making in pediatric major depressive disorder: an fMRI studyErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15218, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:1031-40. 2006..Depression is postulated to involve decreased activity in reward-related affective systems...
Reward-related brain function as a predictor of treatment response in adolescents with major depressive disorderErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 10:107-18. 2010..Final levels of severity and anxiety symptoms were associated with pretreatment striatal reactivity, and rate of anxiety symptom reduction was associated with greater striatal reactivity and lower medial PFC reactivity...
A longitudinal study of childhood depression and anxiety in relation to weight gainDana L Rofey
Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Weight Management and Wellness Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 40:517-26. 2009..The major finding that depression and anxiety are associated with increased BMI percentiles in a non-obese sample suggests that childhood psychopathology is an important factor that should be carefully monitored...
Processing emotional facial expressions influences performance on a Go/NoGo task in pediatric anxiety and depressionCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:1107-15. 2006..This study investigated whether processing emotionally salient information such as emotional facial expressions influences the performance on a cognitive control task in pediatric anxiety and depression...
Pupillary reactivity to emotional information in child and adolescent depression: links to clinical and ecological measuresJennifer S Silk
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:1873-80. 2007....
Altered error-related brain activity in youth with major depressionCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dev Cogn Neurosci 2:351-62. 2012....
Pubertal changes in emotional information processing: pupillary, behavioral, and subjective evidence during emotional word identificationJennifer S Silk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Dev Psychopathol 21:7-26. 2009..These results provide physiological, behavioral, and subjective evidence consistent with a model of puberty-specific changes in neurobehavioral systems underpinning emotional reactivity...
Objective sleep in pediatric anxiety disorders and major depressive disorderErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:148-55. 2008..To examine objective and subjective sleep problems in early-onset anxiety and depression...
Altered striatal activation predicting real-world positive affect in adolescent major depressive disorderErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Loeffler 319, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 166:64-73. 2009..The authors tested differences in reward-related brain function in healthy and depressed adolescents, and the authors examined direct links between reward-related brain function and positive mood that occurred in real-world contexts...
Peri-sleep-onset cortisol levels in children and adolescents with affective disordersErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 59:24-30. 2006..Evidence also indicates that pubertal development may influence the expression of HPA dysregulation. We hypothesized that adolescents with depression and youth with anxiety disorders exhibit elevated peri-sleep-onset cortisol...
Increased error-related negativity (ERN) in childhood anxiety disorders: ERP and source localizationCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 47:1073-82. 2006....
Fearful faces influence attentional control processes in anxious youth and adultsCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Schoolof Medicine, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Emotion 9:855-64. 2009..These findings suggest that anxious individuals, particularly younger ones, exhibit difficulty resisting interference from threat-related stimuli when greater attentional resources are being recruited...
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the CBCL-bipolar phenotype are not useful in diagnosing pediatric bipolar disorderRasim Somer Diler
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 19:23-30. 2009..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the CBCL and CBCL-PBD to identify BP in children <12 years old...
Attentional control moderates relations between negative affect and neural correlates of action monitoring in adolescenceCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Dev Neuropsychol 35:194-211. 2010..These findings are discussed with regard to the interface of attention and emotion processes that are implicated in action monitoring and relevance to the study of self-regulation during adolescence...
Mother-child interactions in depressed children and children at high risk and low risk for future depressionLaura J Dietz
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:574-82. 2008..To compare mother-child interactions and parenting styles in families of children with major depressive disorder, youths at high risk for depression, and healthy controls...
Emotional reactivity and regulation in anxious and nonanxious youth: a cell-phone ecological momentary assessment studyPATRICIA Z TAN
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:197-206. 2012..However, no study has examined anxious youth's emotional reactivity and regulation in real-world contexts...
Affective functioning among early adolescents at high and low familial risk for depression and their mothers: a focus on individual and transactional processes across contextsDana L McMakin
School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, 322 Loeffler Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:1213-25. 2011..transactional processes (e.g., negative escalation). Findings are discussed in concert with attention to affect flexibility, contextual and transactional factors...
PER2 rs2304672 polymorphism moderates circadian-relevant reward circuitry activity in adolescentsErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 71:451-7. 2012..Associations among circadian genes, function in neural reward circuits, and circadian-influenced behavior have not yet been studied in humans, however...
Rapid eye movement sleep in relation to overweight in children and adolescentsXianchen Liu
Department of Psychiatry and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:924-32. 2008..Short sleep duration is associated with obesity, but few studies have examined the relationship between obesity and specific physiological stages of sleep...
Utilizing Ecological Momentary Assessment in pediatric obesity to quantify behavior, emotion, and sleepDana L Rofey
Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Weight Management and Wellness Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:1270-2. 2010..7 +/- 0.3% and 64.2 +/- 0.3%, respectively. Data from the armband and phone calls are presented to illustrate the depth of information acquired by utilizing this innovative methodology...
Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responsesJennifer S Lerner
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:253-60. 2007..Specifically, it hypothesized contrasting patterns for indignation (comprised of anger and disgust) versus fear. Moreover, it hypothesized that facial expressions of these emotions would signal corresponding biological stress responses...
Peer acceptance and rejection through the eyes of youth: pupillary, eyetracking and ecological data from the Chatroom Interact taskJennifer S Silk
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:93-105. 2012..Furthermore, the salience of social rejection and acceptance feedback appears to increase during adolescence...
Reward-related brain function and sleep in pre/early pubertal and mid/late pubertal adolescentsStephanie M Holm
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:326-34. 2009..As part of a larger study examining puberty-specific changes in adolescents' reward-related brain function, the current article focuses on the relationship between functional neuroimaging measures of reward and measures of sleep...
Pathways to adolescent health sleep regulation and behaviorRonald E Dahl
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Adolesc Health 31:175-84. 2002..Finally, this paper briefly examines one specific application of this knowledge area regarding early starting times among some high schools...
Alterations in reward-related decision making in boys with recent and future depressionErika E Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:633-9. 2007..Altered reward processing is postulated to be a feature of depression. Reward processing may be valuable to understanding early-onset depressive disorders, which tend to be chronic and recurrent...
Resilience among children and adolescents at risk for depression: Mediation and moderation across social and neurobiological contextsJennifer S Silk
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
Dev Psychopathol 19:841-65. 2007..The paper concludes with a discussion of clinical implications of this approach...
Subjective sleep complaints in pediatric depression: a controlled study and comparison with EEG measures of sleep and wakingMichele A Bertocci
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:1158-66. 2005..These findings raise provocative questions regarding the nature of sleep complaints associated with early-onset depression...
A genetic epidemiologic perspective on comorbidity of depression and anxietyDouglas E Williamson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 14:707-26, viii. 2005..In addition, anxious children are at increased risk for developing depression particularly during adolescence...
Impact of inflammatory bowel disease and high-dose steroid exposure on pupillary responses to negative information in pediatric depressionNeil P Jones
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, USA
Psychosom Med 73:151-7. 2011..In systemic inflammation, proinflammatory cytokines have been implicated in altering activity in brain regions known to affect emotion processing and emotion regulation in depression...
Sleep deprivation alters pupillary reactivity to emotional stimuli in healthy young adultsPeter L Franzen
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Biol Psychol 80:300-5. 2009..Such responses may have important implications for psychiatric disorders, which may be triggered or characterized by sleep disturbances...
Altered emotional processing in pediatric anxiety, depression, and comorbid anxiety-depressionCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 33:165-77. 2005..Further, research is needed to replicate this study and delineate underlying neural mechanisms...
Measuring mood and complex behavior in natural environments: use of ecological momentary assessment in pediatric affective disordersDavid A Axelson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 13:253-66. 2003..Potential applications of the EMA methodology to the study of neurobehavioral systems and the pathophysiology of pediatric affective disorders are discussed...
Cardiovascular reactivity to acute psychological stress following sleep deprivationPeter L Franzen
Department of Psychiatry, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Psychosom Med 73:679-82. 2011....
Clinical differences between suicidal and nonsuicidal depressed children and adolescentsRémy P Barbe
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 66:492-8. 2005..To examine the clinical symptoms and comorbid psychiatric disorders of depressed children and adolescents with and without clinically significant suicidal ideation...
Misery is not miserly: sad and self-focused individuals spend moreCynthia E Cryder
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 19:525-30. 2008..For example, economic theories of spending may benefit from incorporating psychological theories -- specifically, theories of emotion and the self -- into their models...
Development of action monitoring through adolescence into adulthood: ERP and source localizationCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Dev Sci 10:874-91. 2007..These findings are discussed in light of the role of the maturation of the ACC in the development of action monitoring processes...
Mom-it helps when you're right here! Attenuation of neural stress markers in anxious youths whose caregivers are present during fMRIOlivia L Conner
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
PLoS ONE 7:e50680. 2012..Capitalizing on the ability of anxious youths to manifest low levels of anxiety-like information processing in the presence of a caregiver could help in modeling adaptive function in behavioral treatments...
White matter development in adolescence: the influence of puberty and implications for affective disordersCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Dev Cogn Neurosci 2:36-54. 2012....
Research Review: altered reward function in adolescent depression: what, when and how?Erika E Forbes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:3-15. 2012..Peer-reviewed empirical papers for inclusion in this critical review were obtained by searching PubMed, PsycInfo and ScienceDirect for the years 1990-2010...
Using ecological momentary assessment to determine media use by individuals with and without major depressive disorderBrian A Primack
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 165:360-5. 2011..To use ecological momentary assessment techniques to measure the association of major depressive disorder (MDD) with media use...
Neural systems of positive affect: relevance to understanding child and adolescent depression?Erika E Forbes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dev Psychopathol 17:827-50. 2005..We review the literature on altered positive affect in depression, suggesting directions for future research. Finally, we discuss the treatment implications of this framework...
Healthy adolescents' neural response to reward: associations with puberty, positive affect, and depressive symptomsErika E Forbes
University of Pittsburgh, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:162-72.e1-5. 2010..The current study focused on puberty-specific changes in brain function and their association with mood...
Regulation of sleep and arousal: comments on part VIIRonald E Dahl
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatrics, University of Pittsburg Medical Center, 3811 O Hara St, Rm E724, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:292-3. 2004..This will require studies of normal human development as well as animal models to investigate the mechanisms underpinning these developmental changes in sleep and circadian regulation...
Adolescent development and the regulation of behavior and emotion: introduction to part VIIIRonald E Dahl
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara St, Rm E 724, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:294-5. 2004..This article introduces and identifies key issues in the articles in this section...
Psychosocial functioning in youths at high risk to develop major depressive disorderBoris Birmaher
Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:839-46. 2004..To compare the psychosocial functioning of children and adolescents at high risk of major depressive disorder with youths with acute major depressive disorder and healthy controls...
First episode of depression in children at low and high familial risk for depressionDouglas E Williamson
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:291-7. 2004..To examine the development of first-onset major depressive disorder (MDD) in children at high and low familial risk for depression in a prospective study...
The development of affect regulation: bringing together basic and clinical perspectivesRonald E Dahl
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, TDH E 724, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1008:183-8. 2003....
Clinical presentation and course of depression in youth: does onset in childhood differ from onset in adolescence?Boris Birmaher
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:63-70. 2004..To simultaneously and prospectively compare the clinical presentation, course, and parental psychiatric history between children and adolescents with major depressive disorder...
Gastrointestinal distress to serotonergic challenge: a risk marker for emotional disorder?John V Campo
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:1221-6. 2003..The authors' aim was to determine whether inadvertent gastrointestinal (GI) distress to serotonergic challenge predicted future major depressive and/or anxiety disorders in exposed children...
The stressful life events schedule for children and adolescents: development and validationDouglas E Williamson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychiatry Res 119:225-41. 2003..48). The results of this study indicate that the SLES has good psychometric properties. The SLES is a useful, cost-effective tool for assessing stressful life events in children and adolescents...
Superior temporal gyrus volumes in pediatric generalized anxiety disorderMichael D De Bellis
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Developmental Traumatology Program (Developmental Family Health Clinic and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Rm 392, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 51:553-62. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: These data agree with previous work implicating posterior right-hemispheric regions in anxiety disorders and may suggest developmental alterations in pediatric GAD...
ERP correlates of action monitoring in adolescenceCecile D Ladouceur
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:329-36. 2004....
Stressful life events in anxious and depressed childrenDouglas E Williamson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA Williamson
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 15:571-80. 2005..The aim of this study was to examine the occurrence of stressful life events in anxious and depressed children...
Spectral analyses of sleep EEG in depressed offspring of fathers with or without a positive history of alcohol abuse or dependence: a pilot studyRonald E Dahl
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Alcohol 30:193-200. 2003..75-4.50 Hz) during the second REM period. These findings are consistent with results from previous studies, demonstrating that EEG alpha power is positively associated with a family history of alcohol use disorders...
Sustained neural alterations in anxious youth performing an attentional bias task: a pupilometry studyRebecca B Price
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Depress Anxiety 30:22-30. 2013..We investigated early, intermediate, and sustained forms of bias using behavioral measures and pupillary reactivity, an index of cognitive and affective load, to gain insight into potential neurocognitive targets for early intervention...
Biological, developmental, and neurobehavioral factors relevant to adolescent driving risksRonald E Dahl
Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S278-84. 2008....
Sleep duration and insulin resistance in healthy black and white adolescentsKaren A Matthews
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sleep 35:1353-8. 2012..Yet few studies of sleep and insulin resistance have focused on the important developmental period of adolescence. To address this gap, we examined the association of sleep and insulin resistance in healthy adolescents...
Considering sleep in a family context: introduction to the special issueRonald E Dahl
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Fam Psychol 21:1-3. 2007..Taken together, these studies raise a set of compelling questions for future research in this area...
Sleep and the developing brainRonald E Dahl
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Sleep 30:1079-80. 2007
Growth hormone response to growth hormone-releasing hormone and clonidine in young monkeys: correlation with behavioral characteristicsKristine Coleman
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 13:227-41. 2003..Further studies will be necessary to determine if the characteristics of low GH responsiveness and low behavioral reactivity predict an increased propensity to develop anxious or depressive behaviors over the course of the life span...
Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responsesJennifer S Lerner
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:743-50. 2005..The present study hypothesized a new conception that disaggregates stress into emotion-specific, contrasting patterns of biological response...
Positive and negative affect in depression: influence of sex and pubertyErika E Forbes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:341-7. 2004..Cortisol was generally unrelated to depression and mood. Findings are consistent with emotion-based models of depression and with the literature on depression and emotion regulation during adolescence...
Maternal panic disorder: infant temperament, neurophysiology, and parenting behaviorsSusan L Warren
George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:814-25. 2003..Helping PD mothers parent their more highly aroused/arousable infants could reduce the development of psychopathology...
Differentiating depressed adolescent 24 h cortisol secretion in light of their adult clinical outcomeSanjay J Mathew
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 28:1336-43. 2003..Dysregulation of the HPA axis, combined with dysfunction of sleep-onset mechanisms previously reported in this same cohort, might serve as premorbid biological substrates that predict suicide attempts during follow-up...
Psychological comorbidity and stress reactivity in children and adolescents with recurrent abdominal pain and anxiety disordersLorah D Dorn
University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:66-75. 2003....
An integrative, multidisciplinary approach to the study of brain-behavior relations in the context of typical and atypical developmentCharles A Nelson
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Dev Psychopathol 14:499-520. 2002..Our goal in summarizing our research in this fashion is to promote discussion about promising templates for how research on brain, behavior, and development might proceed into the 21st century...
Heterogeneity in EEG sleep findings in adolescent depression: unipolar versus bipolar clinical courseUma Rao
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
J Affect Disord 70:273-80. 2002..This investigation was designed to assess whether some of the observed variability is related to undifferentiated unipolar and bipolar disorders in a sample that was reported previously...
Twenty-four-hour cortisol secretion patterns in prepubertal children with anxiety or depressive disordersAdriana Feder
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, USA
Biol Psychiatry 56:198-204. 2004..These findings suggest subtle alterations in HPA axis function in prepubertal children with anxiety disorders...
Inattention, hyperactivity, and symptoms of sleep-disordered breathingRonald D Chervin
Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Pediatrics 109:449-56. 2002..However, the frequency of SDB symptoms among inattentive and hyperactive children has received little study...
Transitions into underage and problem drinking: developmental processes and mechanisms between 10 and 15 years of ageMichael Windle
Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd NE, Room 520, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Pediatrics 121:S273-89. 2008..It is proposed that this integrated developmental perspective serve as the foundation for subsequent efforts to prevent and to treat the causes, problems, and consequences of alcohol consumption...
Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward-related brain circuitry in children and adolescentsJ Christopher May
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:359-66. 2004....
Associations between sleep problems, anxiety, and depression in twins at 8 years of ageAlice M Gregory
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
Pediatrics 118:1124-32. 2006..Associations between sleep and internalizing problems are complex and poorly understood. To better understand these covarying difficulties, genetic and environmental influences were estimated by using a twin design...
Maternal depressive symptoms and child sleep: models of mutual influence over timeSusan L Warren
George Washington University, Ross 550, 2300 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Dev Psychopathol 18:1-16. 2006..Additional research is needed to clarify the mechanisms by which maternal depressive symptoms predict increased duration of child awakenings...
Sleep, learning, and the developing brain: early-to-bed as a healthy and wise choice for school aged childrenRonald E Dahl
Sleep 28:1498-9. 2005
Sex differences in the effects of pubertal development on responses to a corticotropin-releasing hormone challenge: the Pittsburgh psychobiologic studiesLaura R Stroud
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School, CORO West, Suite 500, One Hoppin Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021:348-51. 2004..Results show subtle sex differences in the influence of puberty on HPA regulation at the pituitary level, which may represent one factor underlying the emergence of girls' greater rates of depression during this time...
Associations between symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, restless legs, and periodic leg movementsRonald D Chervin
Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Sleep 25:213-8. 2002....
Sleep characteristics of youth with functional abdominal pain and a healthy comparison groupEdward D Huntley
Children s National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue, N W, Washington, DC 20010 2970, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 32:938-49. 2007..To describe sleep problems among youth with and without functional abdominal pain (FAP)...
Applying a nonlinear regression model to characterize cortisol responses to corticotropin-releasing hormone challengeLaura R Stroud
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School, CORO West, Suite 500, One Hoppin Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1032:264-6. 2004....
