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| W S SlutskeSummaryAffiliation: University of Missouri Country: USA Publications
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Undercontrolled temperament at age 3 predicts disordered gambling at age 32: a longitudinal study of a complete birth cohortWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
Psychol Sci 23:510-6. 2012....- Natural recovery and treatment-seeking in pathological gambling: results of two U.S. national surveysWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:297-302. 2006..The purpose of the present study was to document the rates of recovery, treatment-seeking, and natural recovery among individuals with DSM-IV pathological gambling disorder in two large and representative U.S. national surveys... - The family history method in disordered gambling research: a comparison of reports obtained from discordant twin pairsWendy S Slutske
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 13:340-6. 2010..The results of this study suggest that relying solely on family history assessments of disordered gambling and gambling involvement can lead to incorrect estimates of the strength of the family history effect... - Genetic and environmental influences on disordered gambling in men and womenWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:624-30. 2010..Women now represent nearly half of all individuals in treatment for pathological gambling (PG), but relatively little is known about the causes of PG among women or potential sex differences in the causes of PG... - Sex differences in the rates of recovery, treatment-seeking, and natural recovery in pathological gambling: results from an Australian community-based twin surveyWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States
Twin Res Hum Genet 12:425-32. 2009..These findings highlight the value in continuing to develop self-help and brief treatments for PG that will appeal to those who are unlikely to seek formal help... - Do college students drink more than their non-college-attending peers? Evidence from a population-based longitudinal female twin studyWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:530-40. 2004..These results are consistent with the conclusion that some aspect of the college experience may be an important environmental risk factor for this pattern of drinking among young adults... - Alcohol use disorders among US college students and their non-college-attending peersWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences and the Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, University of Missouri Columbia, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:321-7. 2005.... - The Australian Twin Study of Gambling (OZ-GAM): rationale, sample description, predictors of participation, and a first look at sources of individual differences in gambling involvementWendy S Slutske
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States of America
Twin Res Hum Genet 12:63-78. 2009.... - Searching for an environmental effect of parental alcoholism on offspring alcohol use disorder: a genetically informed study of children of alcoholicsWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:534-51. 2008..The results of this study suggest that the direct causal effect of being exposed to an alcoholic parent on offspring alcohol use disorder is modest at best... - Personality and problem gambling: a prospective study of a birth cohort of young adultsWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychologcal Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia 65211, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:769-75. 2005.... - Pathological gambling recovery in the absence of abstinenceWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Addiction 105:2169-75. 2010..To examine the role of abstinence from gambling versus controlled gambling in recovery from pathological gambling (PG) in a community-based survey... - The natural history of problem gambling from age 18 to 29Wendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences and Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:263-74. 2003..The present study is consistent with the limited evidence available on the natural history of problem gambling in the community in suggesting that natural recovery may be the rule rather than the exception... - Sensation seeking in females from opposite- versus same-sex twin pairs: hormone transfer or sibling imitation?Wendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Behav Genet 41:533-42. 2011.... - The genetics of antisocial behaviorW S Slutske
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Curr Psychiatry Rep 3:158-62. 2001.... - A twin study of the association between pathological gambling and antisocial personality disorderW S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 110:297-308. 2001..The antisocial behavior observed among many individuals with PG probably cannot be interpreted as being simply a consequence of the PG... - Personality and the genetic risk for alcohol dependenceWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences and Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 111:124-33. 2002.... - Disordered gambling as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the South Oaks Gambling Screen: evidence for a common etiologic structureWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, 210 McAlester Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 120:743-51. 2011..This study highlights the utility of twin studies for appraising the validity of the diagnostic nomenclature... - Genes, environment, and individual differences in alcohol expectancies among female adolescents and young adultsWendy S Slutske
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 16:308-17. 2002..The extent to which the familial similarity for positive alcohol expectancies was moderated by age, race, drinking status, and the sharing of peer groups was also examined... - The heritability of alcoholism symptoms: "indicators of genetic and environmental influence in alcohol-dependent individuals" revisitedW S Slutske
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 23:759-69. 1999.... - Common genetic risk factors for conduct disorder and alcohol dependenceW S Slutske
Department of Psychology, University of Missouri Columbia 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 107:363-74. 1998..The results suggest that there are common genetic risk factors for CD and AD or that CD itself is an important genetically influenced risk factor for AD... - Longitudinal patterns of gambling activities and associated risk factors in college studentsAnna E Goudriaan
University of Missouri Columbia and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Columbia, MO, USA
Addiction 104:1219-32. 2009.... - Towards a molecular epidemiology of alcohol dependence: analysing the interplay of genetic and environmental risk factorsA C Heath
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Br J Psychiatry Suppl 40:s33-40. 2001..Progress in identifying genetic factors protective against alcohol dependence (AlcD) requires a paradigm shift in psychiatric epidemiology... - The genetics of addiction-a translational perspectiveA Agrawal
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
Transl Psychiatry 2:e140. 2012.... - Predictors of non-response to a questionnaire survey of a volunteer twin panel: findings from the Australian 1989 twin cohortA C Heath
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 40 N. Kingshighway, Suite One, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
Twin Res 4:73-80. 2001.... - A genetically informed study of marital instability and its association with offspring psychopathologyBrian M D'Onofrio
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:570-86. 2005..The results are consistent with a causal connection between marital instability and psychopathology in young-adult offspring... - Defining nicotine dependence for genetic research: evidence from Australian twinsChristina N Lessov
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Psychol Med 34:865-79. 2004.... - Frequency and correlates of diary-measured hangoverlike experiences in a college sampleThomas M Piasecki
Department of Psychological Sciences, 210 McAlester Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:163-9. 2010..The findings suggest that HLE is a common outcome of college drinking and attest to the feasibility of using electronic diaries to assess its episode- and person-level correlates... - Positive alcohol expectancies partially mediate the relation between delinquent behavior and alcohol use: generalizability across age, sex, and race in a cohort of 85,000 Iowa schoolchildrenMadeline H Meier
Department of Psychological Sciences, Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 21:25-34. 2007.... - Hangover frequency and risk for alcohol use disorders: evidence from a longitudinal high-risk studyThomas M Piasecki
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia and Midwest Alcholism Research Center, Columbia, MO 65211, US
J Abnorm Psychol 114:223-34. 2005..Several nonhangover drinking symptoms failed to predict later diagnoses. Taken together, the findings suggest a need for further research and theory on the role of hangover in the etiology of drinking problems... - Development and initial validation of the Hangover Symptoms Scale: prevalence and correlates of Hangover Symptoms in college studentsWendy S Slutske
Department of Psychological Sciences, Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:1442-50. 2003..In the present study, we developed and evaluated a new scale, the Hangover Symptoms Scale (HSS), to potentially fill this void... - Emotional and behavioral problems among female twins: an evaluation of the equal environments assumptionNikole J Cronk
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:829-37. 2002..To evaluate the equal environments assumption (EEA) of the twin method for mother-reported symptoms of child and adolescent emotional and behavioral problems... - Antisocial behavior and alcoholism: a behavioral genetic perspective on comorbidityI D Waldman
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 20:255-87. 2000..e., genetic and environmental influences) on comorbidity. Although not a panacea and somewhat demanding technically, behavior genetic approaches can shed new light on the comorbidity among disorders... - The role of harsh discipline in explaining sex differences in conduct disorder: a study of opposite-sex twin pairsMadeline H Meier
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 210 McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 37:653-64. 2009..A more stringent test of sex differences involves eliminating these between-family differences by studying boys and girls within the same family... - Genetic effects on alcohol dependence risk: re-evaluating the importance of psychiatric and other heritable risk factorsValerie S Knopik
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
Psychol Med 34:1519-30. 2004..Genetic influences have been shown to play a major role in determining the risk of alcohol dependence (AD) in both women and men; however, little attention has been directed to identifying the major sources of genetic variation in AD risk... - A genetically informed study of the association between harsh punishment and offspring behavioral problemsStacy K Lynch
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
J Fam Psychol 20:190-8. 2006.... - A genetically informed study of the processes underlying the association between parental marital instability and offspring adjustmentBrian M D'Onofrio
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, VA 47405, USA
Dev Psychol 42:486-99. 2006..In contrast, the increased risk for cohabitation and earlier initiation of drug use was explained by selection factors, including genetic confounds. ((c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)... - Family structure and age at menarche: a children-of-twins approachJane Mendle
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
Dev Psychol 42:533-42. 2006..These findings strongly suggest selection, and not causation, accounts for the relationship between stepfathering and early menarche... - Marital conflict and conduct problems in Children of TwinsK Paige Harden
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
Child Dev 78:1-18. 2007..Furthermore, genetic influences mediated the association between marital conflict frequency and conduct problems. These results highlight the need for quasiexperimental designs in investigations of intergenerational associations... - Risk for separation anxiety disorder among girls: paternal absence, socioeconomic disadvantage, and genetic vulnerabilityNikole J Cronk
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:237-47. 2004..Paternal absence was found to have an important influence in vulnerability for SAD, whereas the effect of socioeconomic disadvantage was less robust. Evidence for race differences in the etiology of SAD was not found... - Accuracy of mothers' retrospective reports of smoking during pregnancy: comparison with twin sister informant ratingsAndrew C Heath
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Twin Res 6:297-301. 2003..We conclude that retrospective smoking data can safely be used to identify potential associations of later child outcomes with maternal smoking during pregnancy... - The reliability and validity of the family history method for assessing pathological gambling and gambling involvementJarrod M Ellingson
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:292-9. 2010..The results of this study support the use of the FH method for studies of PG and gambling involvement. A number of potential explanations for the low sensitivity of FH reports of PG are elaborated... - A behavior genetic investigation of adolescent motherhood and offspring mental health problemsK Paige Harden
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesvile, VA 29904 4400, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:667-83. 2007..The generalizability of these results to the United States, which has a higher adolescent birth rate, is discussed... - Impulsive and callous traits are more strongly associated with delinquent behavior in higher risk neighborhoods among boys and girlsMadeline H Meier
Department of Psychological Sciences and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:377-85. 2008..Gender differences were also examined, and results were replicated in a holdout sample... - Maternal alcohol use disorder and offspring ADHD: disentangling genetic and environmental effects using a children-of-twins designValerie S Knopik
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Department of Community Health, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Psychol Med 36:1461-71. 2006.... - Contributions of parental alcoholism, prenatal substance exposure, and genetic transmission to child ADHD risk: a female twin studyValerie S Knopik
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Department of Community Health, Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Psychol Med 35:625-35. 2005..Little attention, however, has been directed to investigating the roles of genetic transmission and prenatal exposure simultaneously... - Escalation of drug use in early-onset cannabis users vs co-twin controlsMichael T Lynskey
Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
JAMA 289:427-33. 2003..Previous studies have reported that early initiation of cannabis (marijuana) use is a significant risk factor for other drug use and drug-related problems... - Age of first marijuana use and the occurrence of marijuana use disorders in Southwest California IndiansCindy L Ehlers
The Scripps Research Institute TSRI, Department of Neuropharmacology CVN 14, 10550 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Pharmacol Biochem Behav 86:290-6. 2007..These data suggest that effective environmental prevention efforts at reducing early marijuana use may be an important strategy to lower the prevalence of use disorders in this high risk population... - Age at first intoxication and alcohol use disorders in Southwest California IndiansCindy L Ehlers
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:1856-65. 2006..S. ethnic group, the relationship of age of onset of intoxication with alcohol dependence in Native American populations is relatively unknown... - Factors associated with pathological gambling at 10-year follow-up in a national sample of middle-aged menJeffrey F Scherrer
Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St Louis, MO 63106, USA
Addiction 102:970-8. 2007..Co-twin analyses accounted for familial contributions to past-year gambling problems... - Genetic and environmental contributions to pathological gambling symptoms in a 10-year follow-upHong Xian
Research Service, St Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St Louis, Missouri 63106, USA
Twin Res Hum Genet 10:174-9. 2007..This may reflect the changed social-cultural environment between 1992 and 2002, characterized by increasing access to legalized gambling... - Intergenerational transmission of childhood conduct problems: a Children of Twins StudyBrian M D'Onofrio
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 E 10th St, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:820-9. 2007..The familial nature of childhood conduct problems has been well documented, but few genetically informed studies have explicitly explored the processes through which parental conduct problems influence an offspring's behavior problems... - Research review: DSM-V conduct disorder: research needs for an evidence baseTerrie E Moffitt
Duke University, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:3-33. 2008..We outline specific research questions and study designs needed to build the lacking evidence base for or against proposed changes to DSM-V conduct disorder... - Pathways of youth gambling problem severityKen C Winters
Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 19:104-7. 2005..Findings are discussed in light of extant research on adolescent gambling that heretofore has not benefited from a developmental pathway perspective...
Research Grants
- Genetic Epidemiology of Pathological GamblingWendy Slutske; Fiscal Year: 2007....