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 selected journal articles and other publications and presentations written by faculty and researchers of the Department of Psychiatry.
Publications from 2009
Major Depressive Disorder, Severe with Psychotic Features, Anthony J. Rothschild
Treating Depression and Psychosis, Anthony J. Rothschild
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
Aggression in Dating Relationships Compared by Country of Origin, Antonia Seligowski and Doe West
Metformin for weight control in pediatric patients on atypical antipsychotic medication, Lauren Shin, Hallie Bregman, Janis L. Breeze, Nancy Noyes, and Jean A. Frazier
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
CADASIL with Cysteine-Sparing Notch-3 Mutation, John F. Sullivan and Sheldon Benjamin
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies in Early Onset Bipolar Disorder: An Updated Review, Janine E. Terry, Melissa P. Lopez-Larson, and Jean A. Frazier
Modeling Co-Occurring Depression and Anxiety in Patients with an Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Dissertation, Mayra Tisminetzky
Examining the Effects of Treatment and Patient Characteristics on Patient Profiles of Depression, Anxiety and Functionality after an Acute Coronary Syndrome, Mayra Tisminetzky, B. C. Bray, Ruben Miozzo, and Thomas J. McLaughlin
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
Risk/Needs Tools for Antisocial Behavior and Violence Among Youthful Populations, Gina M. Vincent, Anna M. Terry, and Shannon M. Maney
Sleep disturbance and pain in an obese residential treatment-seeking population, Amy B. Wachholtz, Martin Binsk, Ayako Suzuki, and Howard Eisenson
Lifetime Alcohol Abuse Prevalence: Role of Childhood and Adult Religion, Amy B. Wachholtz, Lisa R. Fortuna, Michelle V. Porche, and Rosalie A. Torres Stone
Criminal Responsibility of Adolescents: Youth As Junior Citizenship, Ido Weijers and Thomas Grisso
Exclusion Learning and Emergent Symbolic Category Formation in Individuals with Severe Language Impairments and Intellectual Disabilities, Krista M. Wilkinson, Celia Rosenquist, and William J. McIlvane
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
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
Compartmentalized beta subunit distribution determines characteristics and ethanol sensitivity of somatic, dendritic, and terminal large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels in the rat central nervous system, Patricia M. Wynne, Sylvie I. Puig, Gilles E. Martin, and Steven N. Treistman
Linearity of blood-oxygenation-level dependent signal at microvasculature, Nanyin Zhang, Essa Yacoub, Xiao-Hong Zhu, Kamil Ugurbil, and Wei Chen
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
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
Integration of the ATTOC 12-Steps into the UMass Tobacco-Free Initiative, Douglas M. Ziedonis, Lisa Beittel, Gregory Seward, Leon Sawh, and Sarah Baker
Co-Occurring Addiction and Psychotic Disorders, Douglas M. Ziedonis, Aurelia N. Bizamcer, Marc L. Steinberg, Stephen A. Wyatt, David Smelson, and Adrienne D. Vaiana
Psychopharmacology curriculum field test, Sidney Zisook, Richard Balon, Sheldon Benjamin, Eugene Beresin, David J. Goldberg, Michael D. Jibson, and Grace Thrall
Publications from 2008
Relational learning in children with deafness and cochlear implants, Ana Claudia Almeida-Verdu, Edson M. Huziwara, Deisy das GraCas de Souza, Julio C. de Rose, Maria Cecilia Bevilacqua, Jair Lopes Jr., Christiane O. Alves, and William J. McIlvane
Assessment and treatment of correctional inmates with ADHD, Kenneth L. Appelbaum
Book Review: "Correctional Psychiatry: Practice Guidelines and Strategies", Kenneth L. Appelbaum
Correctional Mental Health Research: Opportunities and Barriers, Kenneth L. Appelbaum
Inmates with ADHD, Kenneth L. Appelbaum
The Therapeutic Misconception, Paul S. Appelbaum and Charles W. Lidz
Change in leptin, body composition and other hormones around menarche--a visual representation, Linda G. Bandini, Aviva Must, Elena N. Naumova, Sarah E. Anderson, Sonia Caprio, Jennifer L. Spadano-Gasbarro, and William H. Dietz
Expenditures in mental illness and substance use disorders among veteran clinic users with diabetes, Ranjana Banerjea, Usha Sambamoorthi, David Smelson, and Leonard M. Pogach
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
Commentary: Client Involvement in Public Administration Research and Evaluation, Richard H. Beinecke and Jonathan Delman
Supporting Clubhouse Members in their Role as Parents, Kathleen Biebel, Betsy Hinden, and Toni Wolf
Creating the Organizational Capacity to Serve Families with Parental Mental Illness: The Implementation of Family Options, Kathleen Biebel and Katherine Woolsey
Amphetamine-induced decreases in dopamine transporter surface expression are protein kinase C-independent, Ekaterina Boudanova, Deanna M. Navaroli, and Haley E. Melikian
Dopamine transporter endocytic determinants: carboxy terminal residues critical for basal and PKC-stimulated internalization, Ekaterina Boudanova, Deanna M. Navaroli, Zachary H. Stevens, and Haley E. Melikian
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
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
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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DNA methylation changes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Caroline M. Connor and Schahram Akbarian
ADHD with comorbid oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder: discrete or nondistinct disruptive behavior disorders, Daniel F. Connor and Leonard A. Doerfler
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
Attention deficits, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and intellectual disabilities, Curtis K. Deutsch, William V. Dube, and William J. McIlvane
Heterogeneity and hypothesis testing in neuropsychiatric illness, Curtis K. Deutsch, Wesley W. Ludwig, and William J. McIlvane
Separation anxiety and panic disorder in clinically referred youth, Leonard A. Doerfler, Peter F. Toscano Jr., and Daniel F. Connor
Book Review: "Clinical Manual for the Treatment of Autism", Yael Dvir
Serotonin syndrome: a complex but easily avoidable condition, Yael Dvir and Patrick Smallwood
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
Professionals and managers with severe mental illnesses: findings from a national survey, Marsha Langer Ellison, Zlatka Russinova, Asya Lyass, and E. Sally Rogers
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
BK channel subunit composition modulates molecular tolerance to ethanol, Paula Leslie Feinberg-Zadek, Gilles E. Martin, and Steven N. Treistman
A Comparison of Exclusion and Trial-and-Error Procedures: Primary and Secondary Effects, Christiana Ferrari, Julio C. de Rose, and William J. McIlvane
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
Impact of a 16-community trial to promote judicious antibiotic use in Massachusetts, Jonathan A. Finkelstein, Susan S. Huang, Kenneth P. Kleinman, Sheryl L. Rifas-Shiman, Christopher J. Stille, James Daniel, Nancy L. Schiff, Ron Steingard, Stephen B. Soumerai, Dennis Ross-Degnan, Donald A. Goldmann, and Richard Platt
Promoting Recovery, Daniel B. Fisher
Using Criminal Justice Involvement as a Mental Health Outcome Measure: Issues in Interpretation and Measurement, William H. Fisher
Behavioral Health in Developmental Disabilities: A Comprehensive Program of Nutrition, Exercise, and Weight Reduction, Richard K. Fleming, Elise A. Stokes, Carol Curtin, Linda G. Bandini, James Gleason, Renee Scampini, Melissa C. T. Maslin, and Charles D. Hamad
The phenomenon of drug craving, Jeffrey L. Fortuna and David A. Smelson
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
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
Multicultural Academic Interest Group: Promoting Multicultural Research, Education & Services, Lisa R. Fortuna, Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Sun Kim, and Felicia Kuo
Child psychiatry: addressing emerging clinical challenges. Introduction, Jean A. Frazier
Atypical Antipsychotics in the Treatment of Early Onset Bipolar Disorder, Jean A. Frazier, Hallie Bregman, and Joseph A. Jackson
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
Commentary: is CIT today's lobotomy, Jeffrey L. Geller
Validation of an abbreviated version of the structured interview of reported symptoms in outpatient psychiatric and community settings, Debbie Green, Barry Rosenfeld, Tia Dole, Ekaterina Pivovarova, and Patricia A. Zapf
Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders, Thomas Grisso
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
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
Foundations of Forensic Mental Health Assessment, Kirk Heilbrun, Thomas Grisso, and Alan M. Goldstein
Epigenetic Determinants of Altered Gene Expression in Schizophrenia: a Dissertation, Hsien-Sung Huang
Epigenetics in the nervous system, Yan Jiang, Brett Langley, Farah D. Lubin, William Renthal, Marcelo A. Wood, Dag H. Yasui, Arvind Kumar, Eric J. Nestler, Schahram Akbarian, and Andrea C. Beckel-Mitchener
Isolation of neuronal chromatin from brain tissue, Yan Jiang, Anouch Matevossian, Hsien-Sung Huang, Juerg R. Straubhaar, and Schahram Akbarian
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
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
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
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
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
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
Evaluation of Juveniles' Competence to Stand Trial, Ivan Kruh and Thomas Grisso
Waiver of Postconviction Relief (PCR) and PCR Counsel, Kimberly A. Larson and Albert J. Grudzinskas Jr.
Right frontal mass presenting as depression with dementia, John B. Levine, Julie C. Callanan, Gregory L. Fricchione, and Sheldon Benjamin
Reversal learning set and functional equivalence in children with and without autism, Karen M. Lionello-DeNolf, William J. McIlvane, Daniela S. Canovas, Deisy das GraCas de Souza, and Romariz da Silva Barros
Imaging brain activation in nicotine-sensitized rats, Zhixin Li, Joseph R. DiFranza, Robert J. Wellman, Praveen P. Kulkarni, and Jean A. King
Meeting Students Where They Are: Educating Students with Varying Life Experiences About the Health Care Needs of Persons with Disabilities, Linda M. Long-Bellil, Julie A. Jonassen, Mai-Lan A. Rogoff, Susan V. Barrett, Candace Cassin, Darlene M. O'Connor, and Martin H. Young
The Massachusetts Family Networks Implementation Study, Susan Maciolek, Joanne Nicholson, Jodi Adams, Bernice Gershenson, Katherine Woolsey, and Brenda Warren
The Family Networks Implementation Study, Susan Maciolek, Joanne Nicholson, Nicole Dube, Jodi Adams, and Bernice Gershenson
Child and adolescent schizophrenia: pharmacological approaches, Vishal Madaan, Yael Dvir, and Daniel R. Wilson
Increased frequency of depressive episodes during the menopausal transition in women with bipolar disorder: preliminary report, Wendy K. Marsh, Amanda Templeton, Terence A. Ketter, and Natalie L. Rasgon
Identification of a BK channel auxiliary protein controlling molecular and behavioral tolerance to alcohol, Gilles E. Martin, Linzy M. Hendrickson, Krista L. Penta, Ryan M. Friesen, Andrzej Z. Pietrzykowski, Andrew R. Tapper, and Steven N. Treistman
Interleukin-4 activates large-conductance, calcium-activated potassium (BKCa) channels in human airway smooth muscle cells, Gilles E. Martin, Robert J. O'Connell, Andrzej Z. Pietrzykowski, Steven N. Treistman, Michael F. Ethier, and John M. Madison
A chromatin assay for human brain tissue, Anouch Matevossian and Schahram Akbarian
Neuronal nuclei isolation from human postmortem brain tissue, Anouch Matevossian and Schahram Akbarian