Browsing by Author "Ursano, Robert J."

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    • Barriers to Initiating and Continuing Mental Health Treatment Among Soldiers in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Naifeh, James A.; Colpe, Lisa J.; Aliaga, Pablo A.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Stein, Murray B.; Ursano, Robert J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Nock, Matthew K.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald (AMSUS, 2016)
      U.S. Army soldiers with mental disorders report a variety of barriers to initiating and continuing treatment. Improved understanding of these barriers can help direct mental health services to soldiers in need. A representative ...

    • Clinical reappraisal of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Screening Scales (CIDI-SC) in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Kessler, Ronald; Santiago, Patcho N.; Colpe, Lisa J.; Dempsey, Catherine L.; First, Michael B.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Stein, Murray B.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Gruber, Michael; Naifeh, James A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Ursano, Robert J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
      A clinical reappraisal study was carried out in conjunction with the Army STARRS All-Army Study (AAS) to evaluate concordance of DSM-IV diagnoses based on the Composite International Diagnostic Interview screening scales ...

    • Design of the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Kessler, Ronald; Colpe, Lisa J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Gebler, Nancy; Naifeh, James A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Stein, Murray B.; Ursano, Robert J.; Heeringa, Steven G. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
      The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) is a multi-component epidemiological and neurobiological study designed to generate actionable evidence-based recommendations to reduce U.S. Army ...

    • Exposure to Hurricane-Related Stressors and Mental Illness after Hurricane Katrina 

      Kessler, Ronald; Gruber, Michael; McNally, Richard; Petukhova, Maria; Ursano, Robert J.; King, Lynda A.; King, Daniel W.; Jones, Russell T.; Brewin, Chris R.; Galea, Sandro (American Medical Association, 2006)
      Context: Uncertainty exists about the prevalence, severity, and correlates of mental disorders among people exposed to Hurricane Katrina. Objective: To estimate the prevalence and associations between DSM-IV anxiety-mood ...

    • Field procedures in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Heeringa, Steven G.; Gebler, Nancy; Colpe, Lisa J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Hwang, Irving; Kessler, Ronald; Naifeh, James A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Stein, Murray B.; Ursano, Robert J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
      The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) is a multi-component epidemiological and neurobiological study of unprecedented size and complexity designed to generate actionable evidence-based ...

    • Genome-wide Association Studies of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in 2 Cohorts of US Army Soldiers 

      Stein, Murray B.; Chen, Chia-Yen; Ursano, Robert J.; Cai, Tianxi; Gelernter, Joel; Heeringa, Steven G.; Jain, Sonia; Jensen, Kevin P.; Maihofer, Adam X.; Mitchell, Colter; Nievergelt, Caroline M.; Nock, Matthew K.; Neale, Benjamin Michael; Polimanti, Renato; Ripke, Stephan; Sun, Xiaoying; Thomas, Michael; Wang, Qian; Ware, Erin B.; Borja, Susan; Kessler, Ronald; Smoller, Jordan W; undefined, undefined (American Medical Association (AMA), 2016)
      Importance Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent, serious public health concern, particularly in the military. The identification of genetic risk factors for PTSD may provide important insights into the ...

    • Genome-wide study of risk tolerance and risky behaviors reveals shared genetic influences 

      Karlsson Linner, Richard; Biroli, Pietro; Kong, Edward; Meddens, S. Fleur W.; Wedow, Robbee; Fontana, Mark Alan; Lebreton, Mael; Abdellaoui, Abdel; Hammerschlag, Anke R.; Nivard, Michel G.; Okbay, Aysu; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Timshel, Pascal N.; Tino, Stephen P.; Trzaskowski, Maciej; de Vlaming, Ronald; Zund, Christian L.; Bao, Yanchun; Buzdugan, Laura; Caplin, Ann H.; Chen, Chia-Yen; Eibich, Peter; Fontanillas, Pierre; Joshi, Peter K.; Karhunen, Ville; Kleinman, Aaron; Levin, Remy Z.; Lill, Christina M.; Meddens, Gerardus A.; Muntane, Gerard; Sanchez-Roige, Sandra; Gonzalez, Juan Ramon; van Rooij, Frank J.; Taskesen, Erdogan; Wu, Yang; Zhang, Futao; Auton, Adam; Boardman, Jason D.; Clark, David W.; Conlin, Andrew; Dolan, Conor C.; Fischbacher, Urs; Groenen, Patrick J. F.; Harris, Kathleen Mullan; Hasler, Gregor; Hofman, Albert; Ikram, Mohammad A.; Jain, Sonia; Karlsson, Robert; MacKillop, James; Mannikko, Minna; Morcillo-Suarez, Carlos; McQueen, Matthew B.; Schmidt, Klaus M.; Smart, Melissa C.; Sutter, Matthias; Thurik, A. Roy; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; White, Jon; de Wit, Harriet; Yang, Jian; Bertram, Lars; Boomsma, Dorret; Esko, Tonu; Fehr, Ernst; Hinds, David A.; Johannesson, Magnus; Kumari, Meena; Laibson, David; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Meyer, Michelle N.; Navarro, Arcadi; Palmer, Abraham A.; Pers, Tune H.; Posthuma, Danielle; Schunk, Daniel; Stein, Murray B.; Svento, Rauli; Tiemeier, Henning; Timmers, Paul R. H. J.; Turley, Patrick; Ursano, Robert J.; Wagner, Gert G.; Wilson, James F.; Gratten, Jacob; Lee, James J.; Cesarini, David; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Koellinger, Philipp D.; Beauchamp, Jonathan P. (Springer-Nature, 2017)
      Risk tolerance is an important variable in the behavioral and social sciences and one of the most studied phenotypes in social science genetics, but few genetic variants have so far been found to robustly associate with ...

    • Lifetime Prevalence of Dsm-Iv Mental Disorders Among New Soldiers in the U.S. Army: Results From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Rosellini, Anthony; Heeringa, Steven G.; Stein, Murray B.; Ursano, Robert J.; Chiu, Wai Tat; Colpe, Lisa J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Hwang, Irving; Naifeh, James A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Petukhova, Maria; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
      Background The prevalence of 30-day mental disorders with retrospectively-reported early onsets is significantly higher in the U.S. Army than among socio-demographically matched civilians. This difference could reflect ...

    • Measurement of latent cognitive abilities involved in concept identification learning 

      Thomas, Michael L.; Brown, Gregory G.; Gur, Ruben C.; Moore, Tyler M.; Patt, Virginie M.; Nock, Matthew K.; Naifeh, James A.; Heeringa, Steven; Ursano, Robert J.; Stein, Murray B. (Informa UK Limited, 2015)
      Introduction We used cognitive and psychometric modeling techniques to evaluate the construct validity and measurement precision of latent cognitive abilities measured by a test of concept identification learning: the ...

    • Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Pre-enlistment Suicidal Behavior Among New Soldiers in the U.S. Army: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Nock, Matthew K.; Ursano, Robert J.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Stein, Murray B.; Jain, Sonia; Raman, Rema; Sun, Xiaoying; Chiu, Wai Tat; Colpe, Lisa J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Hwang, Irving; Naifeh, James A.; Rosellini, Anthony; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      We examined the associations between mental disorders and suicidal behavior (ideation, plans, and attempts) among new soldiers using data from the New Soldier Study (NSS) component of the Army Study to Assess Risk and ...

    • Parallel psychometric and cognitive modeling analyses of the Penn Face Memory Test in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers 

      Thomas, Michael L.; Brown, Gregory G.; Gur, Ruben C.; Hansen, John A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Heeringa, Steven; Ursano, Robert J.; Stein, Murray B. (Informa UK Limited, 2013)
      Objective The psychometric properties of the Penn Face Memory Test (PFMT; Gur et al., 1997) were investigated in a large sample (4,236 participants) of U.S. Army Soldiers undergoing computerized neurocognitive testing. ...

    • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Community Collective Efficacy following the 2004 Florida Hurricanes 

      Ursano, Robert J.; McKibben, Jodi B. A.; Reissman, Dori B.; Liu, Xian; Wang, Leming; Sampson, Robert J.; Fullerton, Carol S. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      There is a paucity of research investigating the relationship of community-level characteristics such as collective efficacy and posttraumatic stress following disasters. We examine the association of collective efficacy ...

    • Predicting Suicides After Psychiatric Hospitalization in US Army Soldiers 

      Kessler, Ronald; Warner, Christopher H.; Ivany, Christopher; Petukhova, Maria; Rose, Sherri; Bromet, Evelyn J.; Brown, Millard; Cai, Tianxi; Colpe, Lisa J.; Cox, Kenneth L.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Gruber, Michael; Heeringa, Steven G.; Lewandowski-Romps, Lisa; Li, Junlong; Millikan-Bell, Amy M.; Naifeh, James A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Rosellini, Anthony Joseph; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Stein, Murray B.; Wessely, Simon; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Ursano, Robert J. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2015)
      IMPORTANCE: The US Army experienced a sharp increase in soldier suicides beginning in 2004. Administrative data reveal that among those at highest risk are soldiers in the 12 months after inpatient treatment of a psychiatric ...

    • Predictors of Suicide and Accident Death in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Schoenbaum, Michael; Kessler, Ronald; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Colpe, Lisa J.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Stein, Murray B.; Ursano, Robert J.; Cox, Kenneth L. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2014)
      IMPORTANCE—The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members (Army STARRS) is a multicomponent study designed to generate actionable recommendations to reduce Army suicides and increase knowledge of risk and ...

    • Prevalence and correlates of suicidal behavior among new soldiers in the US Army: results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Ursano, Robert J.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Stein, Murray B.; Jain, Sonia; Raman, Rema; Sun, Xiaoying; Chiu, Wai Tat; Colpe, Lisa J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Hwang, Irving; Naifeh, James A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Rosellini, Anthony; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
      Background The prevalence of suicide among U.S. Army soldiers has risen dramatically in recent years. Prior studies suggest that most soldiers with suicidal behaviors (i.e., ideation, plans, and attempts) had first ...

    • Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Behavior Among Soldiers 

      Nock, Matthew K.; Stein, Murray B.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Ursano, Robert J.; Colpe, Lisa J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Hwang, Irving; Naifeh, James A.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald (American Medical Association (AMA), 2014)
      Importance The suicide rate among US Army soldiers has increased substantially in recent years. Objectives To estimate the lifetime prevalence and sociodemographic, Army career, and psychiatric predictors of suicidal ...

    • Prospective Longitudinal Evaluation of the Effect of Deployment-Acquired Traumatic Brain Injury on Posttraumatic Stress and Related Disorders: Results From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Stein, Murray B.; Kessler, Ronald; Heeringa, Steven G.; Jain, Sonia; Campbell-Sills, Laura; Colpe, Lisa J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Nock, Matthew K.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Sun, Xiaoying; Thomas, Michael L.; Ursano, Robert J. (American Psychiatric Publishing, 2015)
      Objective Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for deleterious mental health and functional outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the strength and specificity of the ...

    • Prospective risk factors for post-deployment heavy drinking and alcohol or substance use disorder among US Army soldiers 

      Campbell-Sills, Laura; Ursano, Robert J.; Kessler, Ronald; Sun, Xiaoying; Heeringa, Steven G.; Nock, Matthew K.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Jain, Sonia; Stein, Murray B. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017)
      Background: Investigations of drinking behavior across military deployment cycles are scarce, and few prospective studies have examined risk factors for post-deployment alcohol misuse. Methods: Prevalence of alcohol misuse ...

    • Response bias, weighting adjustments, and design effects in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) 

      Kessler, Ronald; Heeringa, Steven G.; Colpe, Lisa J.; Fullerton, Carol S.; Gebler, Nancy; Hwang, Irving; Naifeh, James A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, Michael; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Stein, Murray B.; Ursano, Robert J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
      The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) is a multi-component epidemiological and neurobiological study designed to generate actionable recommendations to reduce U.S. Army suicides and ...

    • Suicide Among Soldiers: A Review of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors 

      Nock, Matthew K.; Deming, Charlene Ann; Fullerton, Carol S.; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Goldenberg, Matthew; Kessler, Ronald; McCarroll, James E.; McLaughlin, Katie Anne; Peterson, Christopher; Schoenbaum, Michael; Stanley, Barbara; Ursano, Robert J. (Guilford Publications, 2013)
      Suicide is difficult to predict and prevent and remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Although soldiers historically have had a suicide rate well below that of the general population, the suicide rate among members ...