Matthew C. Morris

ORCID: 0000-0003-1670-4080
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Research Areas
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Historical and Literary Analyses
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Historical and Literary Studies
  • Renaissance Literature and Culture
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2023-2025

University of Mississippi Medical Center
2019-2025

Vanderbilt University
2008-2024

State Street (United States)
2019-2023

Jackson Memorial Hospital
2020-2023

Center for Innovation
2023

University of Mississippi
2022

MedStar Health
2020

Atlantic General Hospital
2020

University of Alabama
2020

Article Abstract Objective: To evaluate the effects of medications used in treatment adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on blood pressure and pulse. Method: Subjects were those DSM-III-R-/DSM-IV-diagnosed ADHD enrolled placebo-controlled studies 5 different for ADHD. Cardiovascular data from these both stimulants (methylphenidate, amphetamine compounds, pemoline) nonstimulants (bupropion, desipramine) reanalyzed baseline-to-endpoint active-treatment or placebo heart...

10.4088/jcp.v66n0215 article EN The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2005-02-15

This longitudinal study investigated the stress autonomy, sensitization, and depression vulnerability hypotheses in adolescents across 6 years (i.e., Grades through 12). Participants were 240 children (Time 1 mean age = 11.86, SD 0.57) who varied risk for on basis of their mother's history mood disorders. All analyses conducted as multilevel models to account nesting data. Results consistent with sensitization hypothesis. The within-subject relation levels depressive symptoms strengthened...

10.1037/a0019036 article EN Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2010-05-01

For most patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP), the cause is "nonspecific," meaning there no clear association between and identifiable pathology of spine or associated tissues. Laypersons providers alike are less inclined to help, feel sympathy, dislike more, suspect deception, attribute lower severity whose does not have an objective basis in tissue pathology. Because these stigmatizing responses from others, cLBP may that their particularly unjust unfair. These pain-related injustice...

10.1093/pm/pnaa095 article EN Pain Medicine 2020-03-10

Child maltreatment is a major public health problem. Although rates vary over time and are influenced by neighborhood characteristics, the unique effects of crime disadvantage on risk not well understood. This study utilized Bayesian spatiotemporal approach to examine factors for substantiated child abuse neglect 9-year period across zip codes in Davidson County, TN. Risk sexual physical decreased from 2008 2016. In contrast, increased 2011 2014, followed rapid decrease risk. Whereas higher...

10.1177/1077559518814364 article EN Child Maltreatment 2018-11-22

Objective: Despite its common onset in preschool years, few studies have examined the characteristics of bipolar disorder (BPD) preschoolers. This study reports on clinical characteristics, psychiatric comorbidity, and functioning preschoolers identified with BPD who were referred to a pediatric clinic. Methods: Structured interviews assessing lifetime psychopathology by Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (third edition, revised) criteria completed parents about their children...

10.1089/104454603322724887 article EN Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 2003-12-01

This prospective study investigated a cognitive diathesis-stress model of depression in adolescents across the transition from 6th to 7th grade using individual, additive, weakest link, and keystone approaches operationalizing vulnerability. Participants were 240 young (mean age = 11.87 years, SD 0.57) who differed risk for mood disorders based on their mother's history depression. Results hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated some support diatheses. In particular, link...

10.1037/a0013741 article EN Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2008-11-01

Individuals with functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) report experiencing trauma more often than healthy controls, but little is known regarding psychophysical correlates. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that adolescents and young adults FGIDs since childhood a history (n = 38) would exhibit heightened temporal summation thermal pain stimuli, an index central sensitization, greater clinical symptoms compared patients no 95) controls 135). Participants completed...

10.1007/s12160-015-9712-5 article EN Annals of Behavioral Medicine 2015-05-13

This study examined cortisol and affective reactivity to a psychosocial stress task in 102 young adults who varied risk for depression (56 remitted depressed, 46 never depressed). Participants were randomly assigned either (i.e., social-evaluative threat) or control no condition. For never-depressed individuals, responses significantly greater the compared Moreover, than remitted-depressed individuals with history of depression, did not differ between conditions. Negative also was higher but...

10.1002/da.22125 article EN Depression and Anxiety 2013-04-19

Identifying risk factors early in the course of depression has important implications for prevention, given that likelihood recurrence increases with each successive episode.

10.1080/10615806.2014.925545 article EN Anxiety Stress & Coping 2014-05-28

Objectives This prospective study investigated whether within‐individual relations between depression vulnerability factors (childhood trauma, dysfunctional attitudes, maladaptive coping) and depressive symptom trajectories varied as a function of the number prior major episodes (MDEs) experienced in their lifetime. Design Participants were 68 young adults who with regard to history depression; 32 remitted depressed 36 never depressed. Methods Depressive symptoms disorders assessed using...

10.1111/bjc.12038 article EN British Journal of Clinical Psychology 2013-12-27

This study compared cortisol responses to a standardized psychosocial stressor during major depressive episode (MDE) and again remission in adolescents young adults. Twenty-six individuals with no personal or family history of psychiatric disorder (NC) 24 diagnosis (MDD) at Time 1 participated the study. The MDD group showed robust their index after recovery. In contrast, NC habituation repeated stressor, as evident flatter response profile 2. Within group, net peak first stress test was...

10.3109/10253890.2013.857398 article EN Stress 2013-10-22

Abstract Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is associated with enhanced responsiveness. Although impaired conditioned modulation (CPM) characterizes adults a variety of chronic conditions, relatively little known about CPM in youth FAP. This study assessed to evoked thermal 140 (ages 10-17), 63 whom had FAP and 77 were healthy controls. Multilevel models demonstrated weaker effects than youth, as evident slower within-person decreases ratings during the conditioning phase. Weaker greater...

10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000660 article EN Pain 2016-07-06
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