- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Health disparities and outcomes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Sleep and related disorders
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Noise Effects and Management
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
National Institute of Mental Health
2015-2023
Kaiser Permanente
2023
Child Mind Institute
2023
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
2023
New York State Office of Mental Health
2022
National Institute of Mental Health
2018-2021
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
2019-2020
RELX Group (Netherlands)
2017
Johns Hopkins University
2011-2015
University of Maryland, Baltimore
2014
The COVID-19 pandemic and its social economic consequences have had adverse impacts on physical mental health worldwide exposed all segments of the population to protracted uncertainty daily disruptions. CoRonavIruS Impact Survey (CRISIS) was developed for use as an easy implement robust questionnaire covering key domains relevant distress resilience during pandemic. Ongoing studies using CRISIS include international COVID-related ill conducted different phases follow-up cohorts...
<h3>Importance</h3> An increasing prevalence of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis and treatment has been reported in clinical settings administrative data the United States. However, there are limited on recent trends ADHD among racial/ethnic subgroups. <h3>Objective</h3> To examine trends, including associated demographic characteristics, psychiatric diagnoses, negative outcomes, incidence 7 groups during a 10-year period. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3>...
Indoor nighttime light exposure influences sleep and circadian rhythms is known to affect mood-associated brain circuits in animals. However, little about the association between levels of outdoor mental health population, especially among adolescents.To estimate associations artificial at night (ALAN) with patterns past-year disorder US adolescents.This population-based, cross-sectional study adolescents used National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement, a nationally representative...
Problematic internet use (PIU) is an increasingly worrisome issue, as youth population studies are establishing links with internalizing and externalizing problems. There a need for better understanding of psychiatric diagnostic profiles associated this well its unique contributions to impairment. Here, we leveraged the ongoing, large-scale Child Mind Institute Healthy Brain Network, transdiagnostic self-referred, community sample children adolescents (ages 5-21), examine associations...
Objective This study assessed the association of perceptions traumatic experiences during psychiatric hospitalizations and treatment participation. Methods Participants (N=395) in Suffolk County Mental Health Project, who had been admitted for first time a psychotic disorder ten years earlier, were interviewed. The authors examined associations perceived trauma distressing or coercive past with patient characteristics Results Sixty-nine percent participants reported trauma. Perceived was...
Background There is growing interest in the role of childhood adversities, including parental death and separation, etiology psychotic disorders. However, few studies have used prospectively collected data to specifically investigate separation across development, or assessed importance duration family characteristics. Method We measured three types not due death: maternal, paternal, from both parents, ages 1–15 years among a cohort 985 058 individuals born Denmark 1971–1991 followed 2011....
There are only a small number of prospective studies that have systematically evaluated standardised diagnostic criteria for mental disorder more than decade. The aim this study is to present the approximated overall and sex-specific cumulative incidence in Zurich cohort study, 18-19 years olds from canton Zurich, Switzerland, who were followed through age 50.A stratified sample 591 participants interviewed with Structured Psychopathological Interview Rating Social Consequences Psychological...
We estimated associations between school start time and adolescent weeknight bedtime, sleep duration, weekend compensatory assessed whether differ by age, sex, or urbanicity.We used a subsample of nationally representative, cross-sectional survey 7308 students aged 13 to 18 years attending 245 schools estimate time, reported principals, with bedtime duration sleep, during face-to-face interviews.Start was positively associated bedtime. Associations were nonlinear strongest for times 8:00 am...
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and its social economic consequences have had adverse impacts on physical mental health worldwide exposed all segments of the population to protracted uncertainty daily disruptions. CoRonavIruS Impact Survey (CRISIS) was developed for use as an easy implement robust questionnaire covering key domains relevant distress resilience during pandemic. In current work, we demonstrate feasibility, psychometric structure construct validity this survey. We then show that...
Identifying predictors of mental health symptoms after the initial phase pandemic may inform development targeted interventions to reduce its negative long-term consequences. In current study, we aimed simultaneously evaluate prospective influence life change stress, personal COVID-19 impact, prior health, worry about COVID-19, state-level indicators threat, and socio-demographic factors on mood anxiety in November 2020 among adults children US UK.We used a longitudinal cohort study using...
Objectives Although olfactory abnormalities are well established in schizophrenia, considerably less work has examined performance other neuropsychiatric conditions. In the current study, we odor identification, discrimination, detection threshold, and hedonic processing individuals with bipolar I disorder (n = 43; n 13 psychotic features), II 48), major depressive (MDD) 134), anxiety no mental 72) who participated a community‐based family study. Methods Best estimate DSM ‐ IV diagnoses were...
Background: Environmental noise has been linked to negative health outcomes, like poor sleep, mental health, and cardiovascular disease, likely accounts for more than 1 million disability-adjusted life years annually in Western Europe. Adolescence may be a particularly sensitive period exposure due an increased need failure meet sleep guidelines, risk first onset of some disorders. However, the potential effects living high-noise environments have not studied US adolescents, rarely European...
Background Studies have indicated that the association of urbanicity at birth and during upbringing with schizophrenia may be driven by familial factors such as genetic liability. We used a population-based nested case–control study to assess whether polygenic risk score (PRS) for was associated age 15, PRS parental history mental disorder together explained between schizophrenia. Methods Data were drawn from Danish population registries. Cases born since 1981 diagnosed 1994 2009 matched...
Introduction: Childhood adversity is gaining increasing attention as a plausible etiological factor in the development of psychotic disorders. residential mobility potential risk that has received little this context. Methods: We used registry data to estimate associations with narrow and broad schizophrenia bipolar disorder across course childhood among 1.1 million individuals born Denmark 1971–1991 followed from age 15 through 2010. assessed effect modification by sex, family history...
Understanding the mediation mechanisms by which an exposure or intervention affects outcome can provide a look into what has been called "black box" of many epidemiologic associations, thereby providing further evidence relationship and possible points intervention. Rapid methodologic developments in analyses mean that there are growing number approaches for researchers to consider, each with its own set assumptions, advantages, disadvantages. This understandably resulted some confusion...
<h3>Importance</h3> Epidemiologic evidence indicates that most of the general population will experience a mental health disorder at some point in their lives. However, few prospective population-based studies have estimated trajectories risk for disorders from young through middle adulthood to estimate proportion individuals who persistent across this age period. <h3>Objectives</h3> To describe and latent <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> A population-based, cohort study was conducted...
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people. Both mental illness and social factors are associated with suicide in adolescents, youth disorders often experience deficits, which may compound risk. The cumulative effects on suicidal ideation behaviors (SIB) adolescents have not previously been explored. Adolescents 13–18 years age (N = 6,447; 49% female, 65% non-Hispanic White) participated National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement. were interviewed to...
Although studies of adults show that pre-existing mental disorders increase risk for COVID-19 infection and severity, there is limited information about this association among youth. Mental in general as well specific types may influence the ability to comply with risk-mitigation strategies reduce transmission. Youth compliance (rated "Never," "Sometimes," "Often," or "Very often/Always") mitigation was reported by parents on CoRonavIruS Health Impact Survey (CRISIS) January 2021. The sample...
Objective: The authors examined recent trends in incidence of psychotic disorders, demographic characteristics, and comorbid psychiatric medical conditions among six racial/ethnic groups. Method: A retrospective cohort study design was used to examine the disorders across race/ethnicity groups members Kaiser Permanente Northern California from 2009 2019 (N=5,994,758). Poisson regression assess changes annual incidence, Cox proportional hazards logistic models adjusted for age sex were test...