projects & publications

Scholarly Project Presentations

 
"Sleep Dependent Emotional Memory Consolidation", Rebecca Allen, 2015 "Assessing Inter-rater Reliability in Emergency Room Psychiatric Evaluations", William Barnard, 2015
"Using Online Media to Improve Access to Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Panic Disorder", Louis Beckman, 2015 "Characterizing the Relationship Between Placebo and Nocebo Effects in a Clinical Trial", Anya Bernstein, 2015
"Perceived Stigma Within Twelve-Step Meetings Among Patients Using Suboxone", Tyler Dodds, 2015 "Assessing Executive Function in Older Adults with Treatment Resistant Major Depression", Sarah Herold, 2015
"Personal Psychotherapy for Trainees: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", Leah Morey, 2015 "Relationship Between Stigma and Trauma: Does Trauma Increase Empathy?", Vithya Rodriguez, 2015
"Developing a Training Program for Integrating Medical and Psychiatric Care", Jason Schweitzer, 2015 "Mentalizing the Therapeutic Process: How Do New Therapists Integrate Theory into Practice as they Learn?", Jessica Stern, 2015
"Confidentiality and Testamonial Privilege", Kyle Walker, 2015  
"The Unhappy Meal: Consumption of burgers, fried potatoes, and sugared soda is associated with elevated depression scores in adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005-2006"
Elizabeth Alfson, 2014
"On the Largest Global Burden of Disease: Potential Solutions to the Grand Challenge of Global Mental Health "
Jhilam Biswas, 2014
"Network Psychiatry"
Melissa Bui, 2014
"Free Will and Criminal Responsibility"
Christine Petrich, 2014
"Efficacy of the Shared Medical Visit Model for Treating Opioid Dependence with Buprenorphine"
Siu Ping Chin Feman, 2014
"Feasibility of Creating a Chief Residency at Boston Children's Hospital"
Juliana Chen, 2014
"The attitudes of Psychiatry Residency Program directors toward buprenorphine training for residents"
Tatyana Ellison, 2014
"Prevalence and Predictors of Body Focused Reptitive Disorders in Tourette Syndrome "
Erica Greenberg, 2014
"Survey of Communication Between Co-Treaters in Outpatient Psychiatric Care"
Anthony Marfeo, 2014
"Creating a Children's Book on Separation Anxiety"
Marisa Mendel, 2014
"Impulsivity as an Orphan Dimension in Eating Disorders"
Krystal Ozanick, 2014
"Brain Structure-Symptom Correlations in Psychosis"
Jaya Padmanabhan, 2014
"A Neural Circuit Framework for Somatosensory Amplification in Somatoform Disorders"
David Perez, 2014
"Adolescent Crushes: From Beatlemania to Biebermania"
Sonal Patel, 2014
"Coming Into Focus: Creating a CBT for ADD Group to Practice Focused Attention though Mindfulness and Organizational Skills"
Eva Mathews, 2014
"Psychiatrist Attitudes Toward Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: An Investigation of Informed Decision-Making and Implicit Bias"
Adam Stern, 2014
"Community Mental Health in Ayacucho Peru"
Karen Abdool, 2013
"Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia"
Yoshio Kaneko, 2013
"Skill emerging: Characteristics and experiences of faculty-to-resident oral feedback in the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program"
Katherine Ervin, 2013
"Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in the National Football League: A Forensic Psychiatry Perspective"
Caleb Korngold, 2013
"Allopregnanlone: Future Pharmacological Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?"
Katherine Goodwin, 2013
"Depression and Health-Related Outcomes in Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis"
Serena Fernandes, 2013
"A literature review of cutting behavior in young adult fiction"
Sylvia Krinsky, 2013
"Acute Metabolic Changes in Mood Stabilizer therapy"
Danielle Kushner, 2013
"Drug screens for psychiatric patients in the emergency department: evaluation and recommendations"
David Kroll, 2013
"Wellness from Within: Resident-Led Wellness Initiatives in the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency"
Hannah Larsen, 2013
"Basal ganglia volume, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Schizotypy in the Offspring of Patients with Schizophrenia"
Fredrick Crow, 2013
"Emerging from Shame: Sexual Identity, Countertransference, and Self Disclosure in a Long-term Psychotherapy"
Joshua Leo, 2013
"Regulate and Gain Emotional (RAGE) Control: An outpatient study utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy combined with active biofeedback for the treatment of anger and aggression in children and adolescents"
Carrie Vaudreuil, 2013
"Skill emerging: Characteristics and experiences of faculty-to-resident oral feedback in the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program"
Seth Sherman, 2013
"Issues in the therapeutic alliance and patient-doctor boundaries""
Jacob Freedman, 2013
"Assessing the development of infants with intrauterine growth retardation"
Alana Nagle, 2012
"History of Psychotherapy in the Soviet Union"
Olga Hewett, 2012
"Analyzing a Case Series of Torsades de Pointes Occuring During Escitalopram Treatment"
Nicholas Gelormini, 2012
"Instituting Journal Clubs for General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy"
Brandon Gimbel, 2012
"Real-time neurofeedback using rtfMRI to investigate cravings in nicotine addiction"
Jessica Harder, 2012
"A Case of "Voluntary" Intubation and Exploration of Countertransference Hate"
Siobhan O'Herron, 2012
"Using Cognitive Processing Therapy for Patients Dually Diagnosed with PTSD and Substance Use Disorder"
Kort Ulicny, 2012
"Reviewing the Hypothesized Mechanisms of NDMA-Receptor Autoantibody Encephalitis"
Shannon Delaney, 2012
"The Crisis in Mental Health Care: A Preliminary Study of Access to Psychiatric Care in Boston"
Andrew Linsenmeyer, 2012
"Screening for Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy"
Lindsay Merrill, 2012
"Multivariate Prediction of Emerging Psychosis in Adolescents at High Risk for Schizoprenia"
Jai Shah, 2012
"Improving Memory Consolidation and Task Related Dream Recall through Music"
Samata Sharma, 2012
"A literature review and discussion of the neuroscience and social science of divided attention"
Diane Stevens, 2012
"Can People with Nonsevere Major Depression Benefit from Antidepressant Medication?"
Jessica Stewart, 2012
"Does Older Age Predict Complications from Alcohol Withdrawal in Patients at a General Medical Hospital?"
Jeremy Doniger, 2011
"Masochism Expressed as Spiritual Beliefs: A Case Study"
Rachela Elias, 2011
"Winnicott in the Digital Age: Television Characters, Video Game Heroes, and the Pursuit of a Self-Sustaining Transitional Object."
Sean Kerrigan, 2011
"Mental Health and Boston's Transgender Population"
Brad Lewis, 2011
"Proust, Love, and Anxiety: Object Relations and the Self in Remembrance of Things Past"
Kara Lichtman, 2011
"Links between Childhood Physical Abuse and Adult Intimate Partner Aggression"
Eleni Maneta, 2011
"Extreme Emotional Disturbance, Heat of Passion, and Provocation: A Jurisprudent Science Perspective"
Ryan Marin, 2011
"Inadequacy of the Categorical Approach of the DSM for Diagnosing Demale Inmates with Borderline Personality Disorder and/or PTSD"
Aderonke Oguntoye, 2011
"Clinical Challenge Case for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry"
Shreya Raj, 2011
"Psychiatric Evaluations and the Americans with Disabilities Act"
Urrooj Rehman, 2011
"The Female Adolescent in Cyberspace: Bullying and Victimization Revealed"
Zoe Selhi, 2011
"Childhood Environment as a Predictor of Perceived Health Status in Late Life"
Sejal Shah, 2011
"Surviving Aortic Dissection: Does Life Go On?"
Janet Shu, 2011
"Catatonia: A Frozen Condition? A Proposed Treatment Algorithm Based on Case Studies and Literature Review"
Andrew Kim and Amber Yoder, 2011
 

Selected Posters and Presentations, 2014-2015

Selected Publications, 2014-2015

Cannon, W. “Correlates of Insight in Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective, and Psychotic Bipolar I Disorders.”  Presented at Harvard Psychiatry Research Day 2015.
 
Armontrout J, Shah S. “Life or Limb: Family as decisionmakers for a psychotic patient with life-threatening gangrene." Psychosomatics 2015, in press. 
 
Chen J, Vijapura S, Papakostas G, Parkin S, Kim D, Cusin C, Baer L, Clain A,
Fava M, Mischoulon D. "Association between physician beliefs regarding
assigned treatment and clin ical response: Re-analysis of data from the
Hypericum Depression Trial Study Group" presented at American Society of
Clinical Psychopharmacology 2014 Annual Meeting. 
 
Chan S; Torous J; Landon H; Yellowlees. Towards a framework for evaluating mobile mental health apps. Journal of Telemedicine and E-Health. In press
 
Scarella T, Nelligan J, Roberts J, Boland R.  “Effect of Call Structure on Resident Burn-Out, Resident-Perceived Quality of patient care, and quality of life”. Presented at Harvard Psychiatry Research Day 2015.
 
Chen J, Vijapura S, Papakostas G, Parkin S, Kim D, Cusin C, Baer L, Clain A,Fava M, Mischoulon D. Association between physician beliefs regarding
assigned treatment and clinical response: Re-analysis of data from the
Hypericum Depression Trial Study Group. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2015,
Feb;13:23-9. 
Steele I, Thrower N, Saleh F. “Understanding Suicide Across the Lifespan- A North American Perspective of Suicide Risk Factors”. Presented at 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry, Vienna, Austria. 
 
Haller C; Torous J; Lizanno P, Padmanabhan J; Keshavan M; Recent Advances in Understanding Schizophrenia;  F1000Prime Rep2014, 6:57 
Twark C, Losi K, Farrell H, Bloomingdale K, and Coconcea C. The Revised BIDMC Electroconvulsive Therapy Protocol. Poster presented at: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Silverman Symposium for Health Care Quality and Safety; 2015 April 9, Boston, MA
 

 
McCall C, Winkelman JW. The Use of Hypnotics to Treat Sleep Problems in the Elderly. Psychiatric Annals. 2015 July 7;45(7):342-347
Vijapura S, Laferton J, Mintz D, Kaptchuk T, Wolfe D. “Psychiatrists' attitudes
towards non-pharmacologic factors within the context of antidepressant
pharmacotherapy” presented at Harvard Psychiatry Research Day 2015.
Rashed E, Lizano P, Dai H, Thomas A, Suzuki C, Depre C, Qiu H. Heat shock protein 22 (Hsp22) regulates oxidative phosphorylation upon its mitochondrial translocation with the inducible nitric oxide synthase in mammalian heart. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 6;10(3) Cited Pubmed: 25746286
  Scarella TM, Laferton JA, Ahern DK, Fallon BA, Barsky A. The relationship of hypochondriasis to anxiety, depressive, and somatoform disorders. Psychosomatics 2015. In press. 
O’Connor R, MD, Torous J, MD, Franzen J, MD, Robert Kitts, MD, Robert Boland MD Use of Electronic Resources in Learning and Teaching by Psychiatry Residents. 2015 American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Canada, May 2015 Scarella, T. “Anxiety and Related Disorders” and “Substance Abuse and Dependence”. In First Aid for the Neurology Boards, 2015. 
Vijapura, S: Ethical Perspectives on Psychiatric Profiling
Session at 168th Annual American Psychiatric Association Meeting
Co-panelists: Paul Applebaum M.D., Jerold Post M.D., John Martin-Joy M.D.

 
Suzuki J, Dekker MA, Valenti ES, Arbelo Cruz FA, Correa AM, Poklis JL, Poklis A. Toxicities associated with NBOMe ingestion-a novel class of potent hallucinogens. Psychosomatics 2015 Mar-Apr; 56(2): 129-39.
Torous, J: 2015 Digital Psychiatry for the Geriatric Psychiatrists Single Presentation American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Meeting Conference Session. Torous J; Stern A; Padmanabhan J; Keshavan M; Perez D. A proposed solution to integrating cognitive-affective neuroscience and neuropsychiatry in psychiatry residency training: The time is now. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. August 2015. Online ahead of print
Twark C. Maximize Your Athletic Performance with Mindfulness. Seminar presented at: Tri-Mania Summit and Expo; 2015 March 28; Boston, MA. Retrieved from http://tri-mania.com/boston/seminars/
 
Torous J; Franzen J; O’Connor R; Kitts R; Keshavan M; Boland R. Psychiatry Residents’ Use of Educational Websites: A Pilot Survey Study. Academic Psychiatry. Online First as of June 2015
   
   
Does older age predict complications from alcohol withdrawal in patients at a general medical hospital?
Does older age predict complications from alcohol
withdrawal in patients at a general medical hospital?
Extreme emotional disturbance (EED), heat of passion, and provocation: A jurisprudent science perspective
Extreme emotional disturbance (EED), heat of passion, and provocation: A jurisprudent science perspective
Childhood Environment as a Predictor of Perceived Health Status in Late Life
Childhood Environment as a Predictor of Perceived
Health Status in Late Life
Commentary: Inadequacy if the Categorical Approach of the DSM for Diagnosing Female Inmates with Borderline Personality Disorder and/or PSTD
Commentary: Inadequacy of the Categorical Approach of the DSM for Diagnosing Female Inmates with Borderline Personality Disorder and/or PSTD