U Rao

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Heterogeneity in EEG sleep findings in adolescent depression: unipolar versus bipolar clinical course
    Uma Rao
    Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024 1759, USA
    J Affect Disord 70:273-80. 2002
  2. ncbi Continuity of depression during the transition to adulthood: a 5-year longitudinal study of young women
    U Rao
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:908-15. 1999
  3. ncbi Relationship between ethnicity and sleep patterns in normal controls: implications for psychopathology and treatment
    U Rao
    Department of Psychiatry, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
    J Psychiatr Res 33:419-26. 1999
  4. ncbi Factors associated with the development of substance use disorder in depressed adolescents
    U Rao
    Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:1109-17. 1999
  5. ncbi REM sleep in depression is influenced by ethnicity
    R E Poland
    Department of Psychiatry, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Psychiatry Res 88:95-105. 1999
  6. ncbi Relationship between depression and substance use disorders in adolescent women during the transition to adulthood
    U Rao
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024 1759, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 39:215-22. 2000
  7. ncbi The context of depression in clinic-referred youth: neglected areas in treatment
    C Hammen
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:64-71. 1999
  8. ncbi Predictors of first onset and recurrence of major depression in young women during the 5 years following high school graduation
    S E Daley
    Department of Psychology, University of Southern California 90089 1061, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 109:525-33. 2000
  9. ncbi Comparison of long-term immunosuppression for limb transplantation using cyclosporine, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil: implications for clinical composite tissue transplantation
    N F Jones
    UCLA Hand Center, the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Plast Reconstr Surg 107:777-84. 2001
  10. ncbi The pharmacotherapy of depressive illness in adolescents: an open-label comparison of fluoxetine with imipramine-treated historical controls
    M Strober
    Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 90024 1759, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 60:164-9. 1999

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Publications17

  1. ncbi Heterogeneity in EEG sleep findings in adolescent depression: unipolar versus bipolar clinical course
    Uma 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...
  2. ncbi Continuity of depression during the transition to adulthood: a 5-year longitudinal study of young women
    U Rao
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:908-15. 1999
    ....
  3. ncbi Relationship between ethnicity and sleep patterns in normal controls: implications for psychopathology and treatment
    U Rao
    Department of Psychiatry, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
    J Psychiatr Res 33:419-26. 1999
    ....
  4. ncbi Factors associated with the development of substance use disorder in depressed adolescents
    U Rao
    Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:1109-17. 1999
    ..To document rates of substance use disorders (SUD) in adolescents with unipolar major depressive disorder and to examine demographic, clinical, and biological factors associated with the development of SUD...
  5. ncbi REM sleep in depression is influenced by ethnicity
    R E Poland
    Department of Psychiatry, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Psychiatry Res 88:95-105. 1999
    ..Because many antidepressants suppress REM sleep, the differences in baseline REM sleep observed might be related to the greater sensitivity of some ethnic-minority depressed patients to pharmacotherapy...
  6. ncbi Relationship between depression and substance use disorders in adolescent women during the transition to adulthood
    U Rao
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024 1759, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 39:215-22. 2000
    ..Furthermore, to examine concurrent and longitudinal relationships' between major depressive disorder (MDD) and SUD during this developmental transition...
  7. ncbi The context of depression in clinic-referred youth: neglected areas in treatment
    C Hammen
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:64-71. 1999
    ....
  8. ncbi Predictors of first onset and recurrence of major depression in young women during the 5 years following high school graduation
    S E Daley
    Department of Psychology, University of Southern California 90089 1061, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 109:525-33. 2000
    ..Prior lifetime MD interacted with both chronic stress and parental psychopathology to predict MD, such that first onsets, but not recurrences, were predicted by these risk variables...
  9. ncbi Comparison of long-term immunosuppression for limb transplantation using cyclosporine, tacrolimus, and mycophenolate mofetil: implications for clinical composite tissue transplantation
    N F Jones
    UCLA Hand Center, the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Plast Reconstr Surg 107:777-84. 2001
    ..Combination immunosuppression with FK-506 and RS-61443, therefore, may be required to allow composite tissue transplantation to become a predictable clinical reality in the future...
  10. ncbi The pharmacotherapy of depressive illness in adolescents: an open-label comparison of fluoxetine with imipramine-treated historical controls
    M Strober
    Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 90024 1759, USA
    J Clin Psychiatry 60:164-9. 1999
    ..This open-label, 6-week clinical trial investigated the response to fluoxetine in medication-naive adolescents hospitalized for treatment of major depression...
  11. ncbi Effect of bupropion-SR on REM sleep: relationship to antidepressant response
    Geoffrey E Ott
    Interdepartmental Training Program for Neuroscience, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 165:29-36. 2002
    ..CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that bupropion's effect on REM latency and its AD action might be linked, possibly via dopamine (D(2)) receptor-mediated effects, or by noradrenergic mechanism(s)...
  12. ncbi Effect of treatment with bupropion on EEG sleep: relationship to antidepressant response
    Geoffrey E Ott
    Interdepartmental Training Program for Neuroscience, UCLA, CA 90048, USA
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 7:275-81. 2004
    ..Differential response to treatment was associated with changes in REM activity and density, but not with REM latency. However, in contrast to many other antidepressants, REM sleep was not suppressed...
  13. ncbi REM sleep and cortisol responses to scopolamine during depression and remission in women
    Uma Rao
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390 8589, USA
    Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 7:265-74. 2004
    ..The results also suggest that the central cholinergic system(s) that regulate(s) REM sleep may be more sensitive to dysregulation than the cholinergic system(s) that control(s) nocturnal cortisol secretion...
  14. ncbi Depressive symptoms and smoking among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents
    T H Lam
    Department of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, China
    Addiction 100:1003-11. 2005
    ..These findings elucidate risk factors in Hong Kong for two important public health concerns for adolescents: smoking and depression...
  15. ncbi Epidemiology and etiology of adolescent smoking
    Ty S Schepis
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
    Curr Opin Pediatr 17:607-12. 2005
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  16. ncbi Depression and diabetes in children and adolescents
    Sunita M Stewart
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
    Curr Opin Pediatr 17:626-31. 2005
    ....
  17. ncbi Repeat suicide attempts in Hong Kong community adolescents
    Joy P S Wong
    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    Soc Sci Med 66:232-41. 2008
    ..These findings are consistent with the "crescendo" model proposing that the risk of repeat attempts is enhanced following a previous suicide attempt...