A5038761665- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Meningioma and schwannoma management
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2015-2025
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
2016-2025
AID Atlanta
2018-2023
Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services
2018-2022
Klinikum Ludwigsburg
2021
Molecular Discovery (United Kingdom)
2018
Victoria University of Wellington
2018
Emory University
2006-2017
Methodist Hospital
2017
National Institutes of Health
2012-2014
Suicide rates in the United States have risen nearly 30% since 1999, and mental health conditions are one of several factors contributing to suicide. Examining state-level trends suicide multiple circumstances it can inform comprehensive state prevention planning.Trends age-adjusted among persons aged ≥10 years, by sex, across six consecutive 3-year periods (1999-2016), were assessed using data from National Vital Statistics System for 50 states District Columbia. Data Violent Death...
Homicide is one of the leading causes death for women aged ≤44 years.* In 2015, homicide caused 3,519 girls and in United States. Rates female vary by race/ethnicity (1), nearly half victims are killed a current or former male intimate partner (2). To inform violence (IPV) prevention efforts, CDC analyzed data from National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) among 10,018 ≥18 years 18 states during 2003-2014. The frequency precipitating circumstances homicides associated with without IPV...
Examine fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries among children aged 0 to 17 in the United States, including intent, demographic characteristics, trends, state-level patterns, circumstances.
Background Psychopathic traits are associated with increases in antisocial behaviors such as aggression and characterized by reduced empathy for others' distress. This suggests that psychopathic may also impair empathic pain sensitivity. However, whether affect responses to the of others versus self has not been previously assessed. Method We used whole‐brain functional magnetic resonance imaging measure neural activation 14 adolescents oppositional defiant disorder or conduct traits, well...
Objective: Amygdala dysfunction has been reported to exist in youths and adults with psychopathic traits. However, there disagreement as whether this reflects a primary emotional deficit or is secondary atypical attentional control. The authors examined the validity of contrasting predictions. Method: Participants were 15 children adolescents (ages 10–17 years) both disruptive behavior disorders traits 17 healthy comparison youths. Functional MRI was used assess response amygdala regions...
In 2016, approximately 65,000 persons died in the United States as a result of violence-related injuries. This report summarizes data from CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) regarding violent deaths 32 U.S. states for 2016. Results are reported by sex, age group, race/ethnicity, type location where injured, method injury, circumstances and other selected characteristics.
Objective Youths with disruptive behavior disorders, including conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, show major impairments in reinforcement-based decision making. However, the neural basis of these difficulties remains poorly understood. This partly reflects previous failures to differentiate responses during making feedback processing take advantage computational model-based functional MRI (fMRI). Method Participants were 38 community youths ages 10–18 (20 had 18 healthy...
We aimed to determine the frequency, characteristics, and precipitating circumstances of eviction- foreclosure-related suicides during US housing crisis, which resulted in historically high foreclosures increased evictions beginning 2006.We examined all years 2005 2010 16 states National Violent Death Reporting System, a surveillance system for violent deaths within participating that abstracts information across multiple investigative sources (e.g., law enforcement, coroners, medical...
IntroductionSeveral high-profile cases in the U.S. have drawn public attention to use of lethal force by law enforcement (LE), yet research on such fatalities is limited. Using data from a health surveillance system, this study examined characteristics and circumstances these violent deaths inform prevention.MethodsAll (N=812) resulting on-duty LE 2009 2012 17 states were using National Violent Death Reporting System data. Case narratives coded for additional incident...
We estimated the frequency and examined characteristics of intimate partner homicide related deaths in 16 US states participating National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), a state-based surveillance system.We used combination quantitative qualitative methods to analyze NVDRS data from 2003 2009. selected linked violence for analysis.Our sample comprised 4470 persons who died course 3350 violence-related incidents. Intimate partners corollary victims represented 80% 20% victims,...
More than 25 million adults in the United States have chronic pain. Chronic pain has been associated with suicidality, but previous studies primarily examined nonfatal suicidal behaviors rather suicide deaths or characteristics of such deaths.
To describe the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). This is a surveillance system for monitoring occurrence of homicides, suicides, unintentional firearm deaths, deaths undetermined intent, and from legal intervention (excluding executions) in US.This report provides information about history, scope, data variables, processes, utility, limitations, future directions NVDRS.The NVDRS currently operates 32 states, with goal expansion to all 50 District Columbia, US territories. The...
Suicide disproportionately affects American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN). The suicide rate among AI/AN has been increasing since 2003 (1), and in 2015, rates the 18 states participating National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) were 21.5 per 100,000, more than 3.5 times higher those racial/ethnic groups with lowest rates.* To study completed suicides across all ages of AI/AN, NVDRS data collected from to 2014 analyzed by comparing differences characteristics circumstances between...
In 2020, approximately 71,000 persons died of violence-related injuries in the United States. This report summarizes data from CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) on violent deaths that occurred 48 states, District Columbia, and Puerto Rico 2020. Results are reported by sex, age group, race ethnicity, method injury, type location where injury occurred, circumstances other selected characteristics.2020.NVDRS collects regarding obtained death certificates, coroner medical...
This study is the first to demonstrate that features of psychopathy can be reliably and validly detected by lay raters from "thin slices" (i.e., small samples) behavior. Brief excerpts (5 s, 10 20 s) interviews with 96 maximum-security inmates were presented in video or audio form both modalities combined. Forty used these complete assessments overall its Factor 1 2 components, various personality disorders, violence proneness, attractiveness. Thin-slice ratings correlated moderately...
Abstract OBJECTIVE To analyze data for death of veterinary professionals and students, with manner characterized as suicide or undetermined intent from 2003 through 2014. SAMPLE Death records 202 students. PROCEDURES Decedents employed veterinarians, technicians technologists, assistants laboratory animal caretakers students who died by were identified retrospective review National Violent Reporting System records. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) 95% confidence intervals calculated,...
Problem/Condition: In 2014, approximately 59,000 persons died in the United States as a result of violence-related injuries.This report summarizes data from CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) regarding violent deaths 18 U.S. states for 2014.Results are reported by sex, age group, race/ethnicity, marital status, location injury, method circumstances and other selected characteristics.Reporting Period Covered: 2014. Description System:NVDRS collects participating deaths.Data...
Compared with the general U.S. population, American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons, particularly those who are not Hispanic Latino (Hispanic) AI/AN, disproportionately affected by suicide; rates among this group consistently surpass all other racial and ethnic groups (1). Suicide non-Hispanic AI/AN persons increased nearly 20% from 2015 (20.0 per 100,000) to 2020 (23.9), compared a <1% increase overall population (13.3 13.5, respectively) Understanding characteristics of suicide is...
In the United States, unintentional injury is fourth leading cause of death among infants (i.e., children aged <1 year) and top adolescents 1-17 years; firearms are a method. Unsecured (e.g., unlocked loaded) associated with risk for childhood firearm death. Data recorded during 2003-2021 by National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) from 49 states, District Columbia, Puerto Rico were used to characterize deaths U.S. infants, children, 0-17 years (referred as in this report). NVDRS...