Rene Luis Olvera

Summary

Affiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Validation of the Interview Module for Intermittent Explosive Disorder (M-IED) in children and adolescents: a pilot study
    R L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, TX San Antonio 78284 7792, USA
    Psychiatry Res 101:259-67. 2001
  2. ncbi Reduced medial prefrontal N-acetyl-aspartate levels in pediatric major depressive disorder: a multi-voxel in vivo(1)H spectroscopy study
    Rene Luis Olvera
    Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
    Psychiatry Res 184:71-6. 2010
  3. ncbi Assessment of personality dimensions in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder using the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory
    Rene L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 19:13-21. 2009
  4. ncbi Common genetic influences on depression, alcohol, and substance use disorders in Mexican-American families
    R L Olvera
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 156:561-8. 2011
  5. ncbi Neuropsychological deficits in adolescents with conduct disorder and comorbid bipolar disorder: a pilot study
    Rene L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78284 7793, USA
    Bipolar Disord 7:57-67. 2005
  6. ncbi Intermittent explosive disorder: epidemiology, diagnosis and management
    Rene L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78284 7792, USA
    CNS Drugs 16:517-26. 2002
  7. ncbi Suicidal ideation in Hispanic and mixed-ancestry adolescents
    R L Olvera
    University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78229 3900, USA
    Suicide Life Threat Behav 31:416-27. 2001
  8. ncbi Declarative memory impairment in pediatric bipolar disorder
    David C Glahn
    Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
    Bipolar Disord 7:546-54. 2005
  9. ncbi Blood pressure and cerebral white matter share common genetic factors in Mexican Americans
    Peter Kochunov
    University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Research Imaging Institute, San Antonio, TX 78284, USA
    Hypertension 57:330-5. 2011
  10. ncbi Whole brain and regional hyperintense white matter volume and blood pressure: overlap of genetic loci produced by bivariate, whole-genome linkage analyses
    Peter Kochunov
    Dip ABMP, Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284, USA
    Stroke 41:2137-42. 2010

Research Grants

  1. MRI Study of Impulse & Mood Disorders in Youth Offenders
    Rene Olvera; Fiscal Year: 2007

Detail Information

Publications18

  1. ncbi Validation of the Interview Module for Intermittent Explosive Disorder (M-IED) in children and adolescents: a pilot study
    R L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, TX San Antonio 78284 7792, USA
    Psychiatry Res 101:259-67. 2001
    ....
  2. ncbi Reduced medial prefrontal N-acetyl-aspartate levels in pediatric major depressive disorder: a multi-voxel in vivo(1)H spectroscopy study
    Rene Luis Olvera
    Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
    Psychiatry Res 184:71-6. 2010
    ..Pediatric patients with MDD exhibit neurochemical alterations in prefrontal cortex regions that are important in the monitoring and regulation of emotional states...
  3. ncbi Assessment of personality dimensions in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder using the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory
    Rene L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 19:13-21. 2009
    ..We compared temperament and character traits in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder (BP) and healthy control (HC) subjects...
  4. ncbi Common genetic influences on depression, alcohol, and substance use disorders in Mexican-American families
    R L Olvera
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, USA
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 156:561-8. 2011
    ....
  5. ncbi Neuropsychological deficits in adolescents with conduct disorder and comorbid bipolar disorder: a pilot study
    Rene L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78284 7793, USA
    Bipolar Disord 7:57-67. 2005
    ..We report pilot data on neuropsychological deficits in aggressive juvenile offenders with and without bipolar disorder compared with each other and healthy controls...
  6. ncbi Intermittent explosive disorder: epidemiology, diagnosis and management
    Rene L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78284 7792, USA
    CNS Drugs 16:517-26. 2002
    ..Behavioural interventions may be valuable as part of the overall treatment of IED...
  7. ncbi Suicidal ideation in Hispanic and mixed-ancestry adolescents
    R L Olvera
    University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78229 3900, USA
    Suicide Life Threat Behav 31:416-27. 2001
    ..Using multivariate analysis, Hispanic ancestry, depressive symptoms, family problems, and the use of social coping remained in the model...
  8. ncbi Declarative memory impairment in pediatric bipolar disorder
    David C Glahn
    Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
    Bipolar Disord 7:546-54. 2005
    ..However, similar impairments in juvenile-onset bipolar disorder have not been yet documented. Here, we assessed declarative memory in a large sample of clinically well-characterized children with bipolar disorder...
  9. ncbi Blood pressure and cerebral white matter share common genetic factors in Mexican Americans
    Peter Kochunov
    University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Research Imaging Institute, San Antonio, TX 78284, USA
    Hypertension 57:330-5. 2011
    ..The magnitude of this overlap appears to be influenced by phylogeny of WM development, suggesting a possible role for genotype-by-age interactions...
  10. ncbi Whole brain and regional hyperintense white matter volume and blood pressure: overlap of genetic loci produced by bivariate, whole-genome linkage analyses
    Peter Kochunov
    Dip ABMP, Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284, USA
    Stroke 41:2137-42. 2010
    ..Our aims were to localize novel quantitative trait loci acting pleiotropically on these phenotypes and to replicate previous genetic findings on whole brain HWM volume and BP measurements...
  11. ncbi Analysis of genetic variability and whole genome linkage of whole-brain, subcortical, and ependymal hyperintense white matter volume
    Peter Kochunov
    Research Imaging Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284, USA
    Stroke 40:3685-90. 2009
    ....
  12. ncbi Association of psychosis with suicidality in pediatric bipolar I, II and bipolar NOS patients
    Sheila C Caetano
    Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
    J Affect Disord 91:33-7. 2006
    ..018). CONCLUSIONS: Psychotic symptoms in pediatric BP patients are associated with suicidal ideation and plans, and psychiatric hospitalizations. Psychotic symptoms are a risk factor for suicidality amongst pediatric BP patients...
  13. ncbi Family environment patterns in families with bipolar children
    Cecilia Belardinelli
    MOOD CNS Program, Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78231, USA
    J Affect Disord 107:299-305. 2008
    ..We hypothesized that the family environment of bipolar children would show greater levels of dysfunction as measured by the Family Environment Scale (FES)...
  14. ncbi A multimodal assessment of the genetic control over working memory
    Katherine H Karlsgodt
    Department of Psychiatry, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
    J Neurosci 30:8197-202. 2010
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  15. ncbi Fronto-limbic brain abnormalities in juvenile onset bipolar disorder
    Sheila C Caetano
    Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78229, USA
    Biol Psychiatry 58:525-31. 2005
    ....
  16. ncbi Neuroimaging studies in bipolar children and adolescents
    Rene L Olvera
    Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
    Int Rev Neurobiol 62:121-46. 2004
  17. ncbi Low levels of N-acetyl aspartate in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of pediatric bipolar patients
    Rene L Olvera
    Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
    J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 17:461-73. 2007
    ....
  18. ncbi Evidence for disruption in prefrontal cortical functions in juvenile bipolar disorder
    Carrie E Bearden
    Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Bipolar Disord 9:145-59. 2007
    ..Systematic parsing of executive function processes is critical for the development of more specific models of neurobiological processes mediating disturbed cognition in youth with bipolar disorder (BPD)...

Research Grants2

  1. MRI Study of Impulse & Mood Disorders in Youth Offenders
    Rene Olvera; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..These activities are likely to result in contribution to the understanding of the neurocognitive and neurophysiology of bipolar disorder and intermittent explosive disorder in juvenile offenders. ..