The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School is a national leader in public sector psychiatry. Our mission is to provide excellent state-of-the-art and recovery-informed patient care, research, training, and community engagement in an effort to enhance the mental health of all citizens in Massachusetts and beyond. We are the largest provider of psychiatric service in Central Massachusetts, with a team of over 300 faculty and 2000 staff. We take pride in our outstanding clinical services, innovative educational and training programs, research advances, and workplace of choice. We are working to become the best integrated department of psychiatry in the nation. This collection showcases the journal articles and other publications and presentations written by faculty and researchers of the Department of Psychiatry.

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Publications from 2009

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Addressing tobacco dependence in psychiatric practice: promises and pitfalls, Tony P. George and Douglas M. Ziedonis

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MySpace or YourSpace? Using MySpace.com and other web pages in forensic evaluations of adolescents and children, Jessica L. Griffin

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Measuring principal substance of abuse in comorbid patients for clinical research, Margaret L. Griffin, Monika E. Kolodziej, and Roger D. Weiss

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Personal accounts: Jack and the clubhouse road to recovery, John Grillo

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Foreword: Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment and Treatment: New Approaches for Mental Health Professionals, Thomas Grisso

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Legal Questions about Juveniles’ Capacities, Thomas Grisso

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The impact of regionalization on reentry service outcomes for individuals with severe mental illness, Stephanie W. Hartwell, William H. Fisher, and Xiaogang Deng

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Supporting clubhouse members in their role as parents: necessary conditions for policy and practice initiatives, Beth R. Hinden, Toni Wolf, Kathleen Biebel, and Joanne Nicholson

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Policy, Funding, and Sustainability: Issues and Recommendations for Promoting Effective Transition Systems, Cheri Hoffman, Craig Anne Heflinger, Michele Athay, and Maryann Davis

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Clavulanic acid: a competitive inhibitor of beta-lactamases with novel anxiolytic-like activity and minimal side effects, Deog J. Kim, Jean A. King, Lisa Zuccarelli, Craig F. Ferris, Gary A. Koppel, Charles T. Snowdon, and Chang H. Ahn

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Cross-cultural validation of a smoking abstinence self-efficacy scale in Korean American men, Sun S. Kim, Seong-Ho Kim, and Elsie E. Gulick

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The Relationship Between Military Service Eras and Psychosocial Treatment Needs Among Homeless Veterans With a Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorder, Anna Kline, Lanora Callahan, Mark Butler, Lauren St. Hill, Miklos F. Losonczy, and David Smelson

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Under Construction: Linkages between Youth and Adult Systems after Expanding Transition Services, Nancy Koroloff, Maryann Davis, Matthew Johnsen, and Barbara E. Starrett

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Olanzapine versus placebo in adolescents with schizophrenia: a 6-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, Ludmila Kryzhanovskaya, S. Charles Schulz, Christopher McDougle, Jean A. Frazier, Ralf Dittmann, Carol Robertson-Plouch, Theresa Bauer, Wen Xu, Wei Wang, Janice Carlson, and Mauricio Tohen

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The differential diagnosis of childhood- and young adult-onset disorders that include psychosis, Margo D. Lauterbach, Aimee L. Stanislawski-Zygaj, and Sheldon Benjamin

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Competing commitments in clinical trials, Charles W. Lidz, Paul S. Appelbaum, Steven Joffe, Karen Albert, Jill Rosenbaum, and Lorna J. Simon

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The BMC ACCESS project: the development of a medically enhanced safe haven shelter, Alisa K. Lincoln, Peggy Johnson, Dennis Espejo, Sara Plachta-Elliott, Peggy Lester, Christopher Shanahan, Susan Abbott, Howard Cabral, Amber Jamanka, Jonathan Delman, and Patty Kenny

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Mapping the bilateral visual integration by EEG and fMRI, Zhongming Liu, Nanyin Zhang, Wei Chen, and Bin He

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Subcortical differences among youths with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder compared to those with bipolar disorder with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Melissa P. Lopez-Larson, Emily S. Michael, Janine E. Terry, Janis L. Breeze, Steven M. Hodge, Lena Tang, David N. Kennedy, Constance M. Moore, Nikos Makris, Verne S. Caviness Jr., and Jean A. Frazier

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Transforming Dissatisfaction with Services into Self-Determination: A Social Psychological Perspective on Community Program Effectiveness, Cathaleene Macias, Elliot Aronson, William A. Hargreaves, Gifford Weary, Paul J. Barreira, John Harvey, Charles F. Rodican, Leonard Bickman, and William H. Fisher

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Preference in random assignment: implications for the interpretation of randomized trials, Cathaleene Macias, Paul B. Gold, William A. Hargreaves, Elliot Aronson, Leonard Bickman, Paul J. Barreira, Danson R. Jones, Charles F. Rodican, and William H. Fisher

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Increased depressive symptoms in menopausal age women with bipolar disorder: age and gender comparison, Wendy K. Marsh, Terence A. Ketter, and Natalie L. Rasgon

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Differential Contributions of Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Regions to Visual Memory Processes, Nicole C. R. McLaughlin, Dana W. Moore, Carl E. Fulwiler, Rafeeque A. Bhadelia, and David A. Gansler

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A double-blind randomized controlled trial of olanzapine plus sertraline vs olanzapine plus placebo for psychotic depression: the study of pharmacotherapy of psychotic depression (STOP-PD), Barnett S. Meyers, Alastair J. Flint, Anthony J. Rothschild, Benoit H. Mulsant, Ellen M. Whyte, Catherine Peasley-Miklus, Eros Papademetriou, Andrew C. Leon, and Moonseong Heo

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A double-blind randomized controlled trial of olanzapine plus sertraline vs olanzapine plus placebo for psychotic depression: the study of pharmacotherapy of psychotic depression (STOP-PD), Barnett S. Meyers, Alastair J. Flint, Anthony J. Rothschild, Benoit H. Mulsant, Ellen M. Whyte, Catherine Peasley-Miklus, Eros Papademetriou, Andrew C. Leon, Moonseong Heo, Paul S. Appelbaum, Philip J. Candilis, Nancy Byatt, and Kristina M. Deligiannidis

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Hemispheric connectivity and the visual-spatial divergent-thinking component of creativity, Dana W. Moore, Rafeeque A. Bhadelia, Rebecca L. Billings, Carl E. Fulwiler, Kenneth M. Heilman, Kenneth M. J. Rood, and David A. Gansler

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The armadillo repeat-containing protein, ARMCX3, physically and functionally interacts with the developmental regulatory factor Sox10, Zhongming Mou, Andrew R. Tapper, and Paul D. Gardner

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Psychiatric symptoms among juveniles incarcerated in adult prison, Daniel C. Murrie, Craig E. Henderson, Gina M. Vincent, Jennifer L. Rockett, and Cynthia Mundt

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Why does informed consent fail? A discourse analytic approach, David E. Ness, Scott F. Kiesling, and Charles W. Lidz

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Building the evidence base for families living with parental mental illness, Joanne Nicholson

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Family options for parents with mental illnesses: a developmental, mixed methods pilot study, Joanne Nicholson, Karen Albert, Bernice Gershenson, Valerie Williams, and Kathleen Biebel

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Why not support(ed) parenting, Joanne Nicholson and William Deveney

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Religious Coping and Pain Associated With Sickle Cell Disease: Exploration of a Non-linear Model, Cara F. O’Connell-Edwards, Christopher L. Edwards, Michelle J. Pearce, Amy B. Wachholtz, Mary Wood, Malik Muhammad, Brittani Leach-Beale, Rebecca Shelby, Camela S. McDougald, M. Ojinga Harrison, Miriam Feliu, Lekisha Y. Edwards, Keith E. Whitfield, Marcellus Merritt, Chante' Wellington, Goldie Byrd, Janice C. McNeil, Henry Edmonds, and Elwood Robinson

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Capturing the ebb and flow of psychiatric symptoms with dynamical systems models, Candice L. Odgers, Edward P. Mulvey, Jennifer L. Skeem, William Gardner, Charles W. Lidz, and Carol Schubert

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Metabolic profiles of second-generation antipsychotics in early psychosis: findings from the CAFE study, Jayendra K. Patel, Peter F. Buckley, Sandra Woolson, Robert M. Hamer, Joseph P. McEvoy, Diana O. Perkins, and Jeffrey A. Lieberman

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Clinical Manual for Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychotic Depression, Anthony J. Rothschild

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Major Depressive Disorder, Severe with Psychotic Features, Anthony J. Rothschild

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Treating Depression and Psychosis, Anthony J. Rothschild

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Assessing Rates and Predictors of Tachyphylaxis During the Prevention of Recurrent Episodes of Depression With Venlafaxine ER for Two Years (PREVENT) Study, Anthony J. Rothschild, Boadie W. Dunlop, David L. Dunner, Edward S. Friedman, Alan J. Gelenberg, Peter Holland, James H. Kocsis, Susan G. Kornstein, Richard C. Shelton, Madhukar H. Trivedi, John M. Zajecka, Corey Goldstein, Michael E. Thase, Ronald D. Pedersen, and Martin B. Keller

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Sex Offenders: Identification, Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Legal Issues, Fabian M. Saleh, Albert J. Grudzinskas Jr., John M. Bradford, and Daniel J. Brodsky

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Aggression in Dating Relationships Compared by Country of Origin, Antonia Seligowski and Doe West

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Metformin for weight control in pediatric patients on atypical antipsychotic medication, Lauren Shin, Hallie Bregman, Janis L. Breeze, Nancy Noyes, and Jean A. Frazier

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Association between antidepressant half-life and the risk of suicidal ideation or behavior among children and adolescents: confirmatory analysis and research implications, Eric G. Smith

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Association between consistent purchase of anticonvulsants or lithium and suicide risk: a longitudinal cohort study from Denmark, 1995-2001, Eric G. Smith, Lars Sondergard, Ana Garcia Lopez, Per Kragh Andersen, and Lars Vedel Kessing

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CADASIL with Cysteine-Sparing Notch-3 Mutation, John F. Sullivan and Sheldon Benjamin

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies in Early Onset Bipolar Disorder: An Updated Review, Janine E. Terry, Melissa P. Lopez-Larson, and Jean A. Frazier

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A pilot study of early childhood mental health consultation for children with behavioral problems in preschool, Carole C. Upshur, Melodie Wenz-Gross, and George W. Reed

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The Use of Actuarial Risk Assessment Instruments in Sex Offenders, Gina M. Vincent, Shannon M. Maney, and Stephen D. Hart

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Risk/Needs Tools for Antisocial Behavior and Violence Among Youthful Populations, Gina M. Vincent, Anna M. Terry, and Shannon M. Maney

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Sleep disturbance and pain in an obese residential treatment-seeking population, Amy B. Wachholtz, Martin Binsk, Ayako Suzuki, and Howard Eisenson

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Criminal Responsibility of Adolescents: Youth As Junior Citizenship, Ido Weijers and Thomas Grisso

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A Wellness Approach to Addressing Tobacco in Mental Health Settings: Learning About Healthy Living, Jill M. Williams, Douglas M. Ziedonis, Betty Vreeland, Nancy Speelman-Edwards, Michelle R. Zechner, Mark T. Williams, Raquel Rahim, Linda Karimi, Margaret Molnar, and Robert Eilers

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Psychological distress as a barrier to preventive healthcare among U.S. women, Whitney P. Witt, Robert S. Kahn, Lisa R. Fortuna, Jonathan P. Winickoff, Karen Kuhlthau, Paul A. Pirraglia, and Timothy G. Ferris

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Linearity of blood-oxygenation-level dependent signal at microvasculature, Nanyin Zhang, Essa Yacoub, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Kamil Ugurbil, and Wei Chen

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New insights into central roles of cerebral oxygen metabolism in the resting and stimulus-evoked brain, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Nanyin Zhang, Yi Zhang, Kamil Ugurbil, and Wei Chen

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Predictors of outcome for short-term medically supervised opioid withdrawal during a randomized, multicenter trial of buprenorphine-naloxone and clonidine in the NIDA clinical trials network drug and alcohol dependence, Douglas M. Ziedonis, Leslie Amass, Marc Steinberg, George Woody, Jonathan Krejci, Jeffrey J. Annon, Allan J. Cohen, Nancy Waite-O'Brien, Susan M. Stine, Dennis McCarty, Malcolm S. Reid, Lawrence S. Brown, Robert Maslansky, Theresa Winhusen, Dean Babcock, Greg Brigham, Joan Muir, Deborah Orr, Betty J. Buchan, Terry Horton, and Walter Ling

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Co-Occurring Addiction and Psychotic Disorders, Douglas M. Ziedonis, Aurelia N. Bizamcer, Marc L. Steinberg, Stephen A. Wyatt, David Smelson, and Adrienne D. Vaiana

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Psychopharmacology curriculum field test, Sidney Zisook, Richard Balon, Sheldon Benjamin, Eugene Beresin, David J. Goldberg, Michael D. Jibson, and Grace Thrall

Publications from 2008

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Assessment and treatment of correctional inmates with ADHD, Kenneth L. Appelbaum

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Book Review: "Correctional Psychiatry: Practice Guidelines and Strategies", Kenneth L. Appelbaum

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Correctional Mental Health Research: Opportunities and Barriers, Kenneth L. Appelbaum

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Inmates with ADHD, Kenneth L. Appelbaum

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The Therapeutic Misconception, Paul S. Appelbaum and Charles W. Lidz

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Expenditures in mental illness and substance use disorders among veteran clinic users with diabetes, Ranjana Banerjea, Usha Sambamoorthi, David Smelson, and Leonard M. Pogach

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Changes in self-reported sleep duration predict mood changes in bipolar disorder, Michael Bauer, Tasha Glenn, Peter C. Whybrow, Paul Grof, Natalie L. Rasgon, Martin Alda, Wendy K. Marsh, Kemal Sagduyu, Rita Schmid, and Mazda Adli

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Commentary: Client Involvement in Public Administration Research and Evaluation, Richard H. Beinecke and Jonathan Delman

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Emergency department initiated treatments for tobacco (EDITT): a pilot study, Edwin D. Boudreaux, Brigitte M. Baumann, Jeneva Perry, Donald Marks, Susanna Francies, Carlos A. Camargo, and Douglas M. Ziedonis

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A direct comparison of research decision-making capacity: schizophrenia/schizoaffective, medically ill, and non-ill subjects, Philip J. Candilis, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Cynthia M. A. Geppert, Charles W. Lidz, and Paul S. Appelbaum

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Mood and Anxiety Symptoms in Psychiatric Inpatients with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Depression, Lauren Charlot, Curtis K. Deutsch, Aranya Albert, Anne Hunt, Daniel F. Connor, and William J. McIlvane

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ADHD with comorbid oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder: discrete or nondistinct disruptive behavior disorders, Daniel F. Connor and Leonard A. Doerfler

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The Influence of Psychosocial Maturity on Adolescent Offenders' Delinquent Behavior, Keith R. Cruise, Krissie Fernandez, Wendy K. McCoy, Laura S. Guy, Lori H. Colwell, and Tanisha R. Douglas

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Separation anxiety and panic disorder in clinically referred youth, Leonard A. Doerfler, Peter F. Toscano Jr., and Daniel F. Connor

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Book Review: "Clinical Manual for the Treatment of Autism", Yael Dvir

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Serotonin syndrome: a complex but easily avoidable condition, Yael Dvir and Patrick Smallwood

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Evaluation of the 40 Hours per Month Work Requirement for MassHealth’s CommonHealth Working Program, Marsha Langer Ellison, Leslie Olin, Lobat Hashemi, and Mihail D. Samnaliev

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Professionals and managers with severe mental illnesses: findings from a national survey, Marsha Langer Ellison, Zlatka Russinova, Asya Lyass, and E. Sally Rogers

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How Do Employment Outcomes of Medicaid Buy-In Participants Vary Based on Prior Medicaid Coverage? An Example from Massachusetts, Marsha Langer Ellison, Mihail D. Samnaliev, Alexis D. Henry, Jody Schimmel Beauchamp, Annette Shea, and Jay S. Himmelstein

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The Collaborative Lithium Trials (CoLT): specific aims, methods, and implementation, Robert L. Findling, Jean A. Frazier, Vivian Kafantaris, Robert Kowatch, Jon McClellan, Mani Pavuluri, Linmarie Sikich, Stefanie A. Hlastala, Stephen R. Hooper, Christine A. Demeter, Denise Bedoya, Bernard Brownstein, and Perdita Taylor-Zapata

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Promoting Recovery, Daniel B. Fisher

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The phenomenon of drug craving, Jeffrey L. Fortuna and David A. Smelson

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Disparities in Child and Adolescent Psychoactive Medication Prescription Practices by Race and Ethnicity, Lisa R. Fortuna, Carl E. Fulwiler, Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Lisa M. Smith, and Kathleen Biebel

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Political violence, psychosocial trauma, and the context of mental health services use among immigrant Latinos in the United States, Lisa R. Fortuna, Michelle V. Porche, and Margarita Alegria

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Child psychiatry: addressing emerging clinical challenges. Introduction, Jean A. Frazier

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Atypical Antipsychotics in the Treatment of Early Onset Bipolar Disorder, Jean A. Frazier, Hallie Bregman, and Joseph A. Jackson

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Diagnostic and sex effects on limbic volumes in early-onset bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, Jean A. Frazier, Steven M. Hodge, Janis L. Breeze, Anthony J. Giuliano, Janine E. Terry, Constance M. Moore, David N. Kennedy, Melissa P. Lopez-Larson, Verne S. Caviness Jr., Larry J. Seidman, Benjamin Zablotsky, and Nikos Makris

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Commentary: is CIT today's lobotomy, Jeffrey L. Geller

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Polypharmacy prevalence rates in the treatment of unipolar depression in an outpatient clinic, Anna Glezer, Nancy Byatt, Richard Cook, and Anthony J. Rothschild

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Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders, Thomas Grisso

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Correspondence between self-report and interview-based assessments of antisocial personality disorder, Laura S. Guy, Norman G. Poythress, Kevin S. Douglas, Jennifer L. Skeem, and John F. Edens

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The relationship of personal assistance service utilization to other Medicaid payments among working-age adults with disabilities, Lobat Hashemi, Alexis D. Henry, Marsha Langer Ellison, Steven M. Banks, Raymond E. Glazier, and Jay S. Himmelstein

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Foundations of Forensic Mental Health Assessment, Kirk Heilbrun, Thomas Grisso, and Alan M. Goldstein

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When Parents with Severe Mental Illness Lose Contact with Their Children: Are Psychiatric Symptoms or Substance Use to Blame, Danson Jones, Rosemarie Lillianne Macias, Paul B. Gold, Paul J. Barreira, and William H. Fisher

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Does major depressive disorder with somatic delusions constitute a distinct subtype of major depressive disorder with psychotic features, Taafoi S. Kamara, Ellen M. Whyte, Benoit H. Mulsant, Catherine Peasley-Miklus, Anthony J. Rothschild, Alastair J. Flint, Moonseong Heo, Eros Papademetriou, Erin R. Mathis, and Barnett S. Meyers

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Effectiveness of lamotrigine in bipolar disorder in a clinical setting, Terence A. Ketter, John O. Brooks, Jennifer C. Hoblyn, Laurel M. Champion, Jennifer Y. Nam, Jennifer L. Culver, Wendy K. Marsh, and Julie C. Bonner

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Psychometric properties of the alcohol use disorders identification test: a Korean version, Sun S. Kim, Elsie E. Gulick, Kyoung A. Nam, and Seong-Ho Kim

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Tobacco use and dependence in Asian American and Pacific Islander adolescents: a review of the literature, Sun S. Kim, Douglas M. Ziedonis, and Kevin Chen

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Assessment of depressive symptom severity among patients with co-occurring bipolar disorder and substance dependence, Monika E. Kolodziej, Margaret L. Griffin, Rachel Bender, and Roger D. Weiss

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Evaluation of Juveniles' Competence to Stand Trial, Ivan Kruh and Thomas Grisso

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Competency to Be Sentenced, Kimberly A. Larson and M. P. Griffin

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Waiver of Postconviction Relief (PCR) and PCR Counsel, Kimberly A. Larson and Albert J. Grudzinskas Jr.