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Recovering substance-impaired pharmacists' views regarding occupational risks for addictionLisa J Merlo
School of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
J Am Pharm Assoc (2003) 52:480-91. 2012..To better understand the occupational risks for substance use disorders among pharmacists and possibilities for improved prevention...
Mandatory naltrexone treatment prevents relapse among opiate-dependent anesthesiologists returning to practiceLisa J Merlo
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
J Addict Med 5:279-83. 2011..Naltrexone ingestion was witnessed and verified via random urine drugs screens or administered via intramuscular injection...- Physician views regarding substance use-related participation in a state physician health programLisa J Merlo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610 0183, USA
Am J Addict 19:529-33. 2010..Participants were generally satisfied with the program, and 92.5% indicated that they would recommend it to others. They provided suggestions to increase the acceptability and efficacy of PHPs for physicians. .. - The association between alcohol-related arrests and college football game daysLisa J Merlo
University of Florida, Department of Psychiatry, PO Box 100183, Gainesville, FL 32610, United States
Drug Alcohol Depend 106:69-71. 2010..Though efforts have been made to combat excessive drinking on holidays, more effort is needed to address the significant binge drinking among students and other spectators that is associated with high-profile collegiate sporting events... - Decreased family accommodation associated with improved therapy outcome in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderLisa J Merlo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610 0234, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:355-60. 2009..Results suggest that the level of accommodation provided by the family may indicate an important obstacle to, or predictor of, treatment outcome in pediatric OCD. Directions for future research are discussed... - Prescription opioid abuse and dependence among physicians: hypotheses and treatmentLisa J Merlo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610 0183, USA
Harv Rev Psychiatry 16:181-94. 2008..Given the extremely positive outcomes demonstrated by specialized programs for treating impaired professionals, it is recommended that their methods be disseminated and utilized in treatment centers for the general public... - Alcohol consumption associated with collegiate American football pre-game festivitiesLisa J Merlo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 116:242-5. 2011.... 
Pediatric obesity epidemic: problem and solutionsLisa J Merlo
University of Florida, Department of Psychiatry, USA
Curr Pharm Des 17:1145-8. 2011..Though many programs have been proposed, more work is needed in this area to successfully combat the problem of pediatric obesity...- Insight in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: associations with clinical presentationEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Psychiatry Res 160:212-20. 2008..These findings suggest that OCD with poor insight may represent a distinct clinical feature that may require more intensive and multimodal treatment approaches... - Clinical features associated with treatment-resistant pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Compr Psychiatry 49:35-42. 2008..The objective of the study was to identify clinical and sociodemographic characteristics that may differentiate youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who are resistant to treatment vs those who have a favorable response... - Florida Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory: development, reliability, and validityEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Clin Psychol 63:851-9. 2007..A strength of the FOCI is that it offers a quick evaluation of both presence and severity of OCD symptoms. An important limitation is that the FOCI does not assess the severity of individual symptoms... - Clinical features of children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding symptomsEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Compr Psychiatry 48:313-8. 2007..This study was conducted to examine whether pediatric patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and hoarding symptoms differed in terms of clinical characteristics from pediatric OCD patients without hoarding symptoms... - Family-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: comparison of intensive and weekly approachesEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:469-78. 2007..To examine the relative efficacy of intensive versus weekly cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)... - Impact of comorbidity on cognitive-behavioral therapy response in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:583-92. 2008..To examine the impact of psychiatric comorbidity on cognitive-behavioral therapy response in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder... - Quality of life in youth with Tourette's syndrome and chronic tic disorderEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:217-27. 2007.... - Convergent and discriminant validity of the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-Symptom ChecklistJason Gallant
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, United States
J Anxiety Disord 22:1369-76. 2008..These results provide initial psychometric support for the CY-BOCS-SC and support its use as a clinical and research instrument for assessing presence of a range of obsessive and compulsive symptoms in youth with OCD... - Associations between miscellaneous symptoms and symptom dimensions: an examination of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Behav Res Ther 45:2593-603. 2007..g., understanding which miscellaneous symptoms relate to certain dimensions) and treatment implications (e.g., hierarchy development)... - Cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a non-randomized comparison of intensive and weekly approachesEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Anxiety Disord 22:1146-58. 2008..Since many people with OCD do not have access to trained CBT providers, intensive treatment may be a viable option in such cases... - Cognitive behavioral therapy plus motivational interviewing improves outcome for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: a preliminary studyLisa J Merlo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Cogn Behav Ther 39:24-7. 2010.... - Fentanyl and propofol exposure in the operating room: sensitization hypotheses and further dataLisa J Merlo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610 0183, USA
J Addict Dis 27:67-76. 2008..Suggestions for reducing secondhand exposure in the operating room are discussed... - Attitudes of college students toward mental illness stigma and the misuse of psychiatric medicationsAmanda M Stone
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 72:134-9. 2011.... - Family accommodation in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorderEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:207-16. 2007..Family accommodation mediated the relation between symptom severity and parent-rated functional impairment... - D-cycloserine does not enhance exposure-response prevention therapy in obsessive-compulsive disorderEric A Storch
Departments of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Florida 32610, USA
Int Clin Psychopharmacol 22:230-7. 2007..As this study is the first to explore this question and a number of methodological issues must be considered when interpreting the findings, the conclusions that may be drawn from our results are limited... - Cognitive-behavioral therapy for PANDAS-related obsessive-compulsive disorder: findings from a preliminary waitlist controlled open trialEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:1171-8. 2006.... - Further psychometric examination of the Tourette's Disorder ScalesEric A Storch
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 38:89-98. 2007..Excellent inter-rater agreement and convergent and divergent validity was found. These results provide further psychometric support for the TODS-PR and TODS-CR... - Clinical predictors of response to cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorderMary L Keeley
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
Clin Psychol Rev 28:118-30. 2008..Implications of findings and recommendations for future research are discussed... - Psychiatric medication-seeking beliefs and behaviors among college studentsAmanda M Stone
McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610 0183, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 38:314-21. 2012..Misuse of prescription psychiatric medications is increasing on college campuses. Sources of medications include friends or family, obtaining prescriptions fraudulently or from multiple physicians, and buying drugs online... - Methadone- and heroin-related deaths in FloridaNoni A Graham
University of Florida College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Division of Addiction Medicine, Evelyn F and William L McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 34:347-53. 2008..Treatment with methadone, for both pain and opioid dependence, should be preceded by an abuse liability evaluation. Attempts to minimize diversion should be implemented... - Trait and social influences in the links among adolescent attachment, depressive symptoms, and copingLisa J Merlo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610 0234, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:195-206. 2007..Correlation magnitudes differed depending on whether the trait or social influence components were examined... - Obsessive-compulsive disorder: strategies for using CBT and pharmacotherapyEric A Storch
Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Fam Pract 55:329-33. 2006 - Lifetime psychiatric and substance use disorders among impaired physicians in a physicians health program: comparison to a general treatment population: psychopathology of impaired physiciansLinda B Cottler
Department of Epidemiology, Colleges of Medicine and Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
J Addict Med 7:108-12. 2013..We determined differences in lifetime substance use, and abuse/dependence as well as other psychiatric disorders, comparing physicians undergoing monitoring with a general population that had sought treatment for substance use... - Personality testing may improve resident selection in anesthesiology programsLisa J Merlo
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610 0254, USA
Med Teach 31:e551-4. 2009..Some residents, despite high exam scores, may struggle in the operating room (OR) in stressful situations... - Obsessive-compulsive disorder: tools for recognizing its many expressionsLisa J Merlo
Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Florida, Box 100234, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Fam Pract 55:217-22. 2006..Consider OCD when a patient exhibits or complains of intrusive thoughts, anxiety-based avoidance of places or objects, excessive reassurance-seeking, or repetitive behaviors/rituals (B)... - Assessment of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: a critical review of current methodologyLisa J Merlo
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 36:195-214. 2005..Finally, a critical review is offered of major trends in the assessment of pediatric OCD (e.g., diagnostic interviews, self-report and parent-report measures, and clinician-administered inventories)... - PATHOS: a brief screening application for assessing sexual addictionPatrick J Carnes
Pine Grove Behavioral Health Services, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA
J Addict Med 6:29-34. 2012..Sexual addiction is estimated to afflict up to 3% to 6% of the population. However, many clinicians lack clear criteria for detecting potential cases... - Methamphetamine- and trauma-induced brain injuries: comparative cellular and molecular neurobiological substratesMark S Gold
Center for Neuroproteomics and Biomarkers Research, McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
Biol Psychiatry 66:118-27. 2009.... - Response to "Comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and their association with cocaine-induced psychosis in cocaine-dependent subjects"Lisa J Merlo
Am J Addict 17:247-8; author reply 249-50. 2008 - Increased assessment and monitoring needed for patients receiving methadoneLisa J Merlo
Am J Med 121:e23; author repply e25. 2008 - Brief intervention for medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol useLisa J Merlo
Ann Intern Med 147:589-90; author reply 590. 2007