Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Department of Psychiatry

Selected Recent Publications

Robert C. Abrams, M.D.
George S. Alexopoulos, M.D.
William Apfeldorf, M.D.
Martha L. Bruce, Ph.D.
Scott Campbell, M.D.
Mary Charlson, M.D.
Balkrishna Kalayam, M.D.
Dimitri Kiosses, Ph.D.
Barnett S. Meyers, M.D.
Glen Milstein, Ph.D.
Patrick Raue, Ph.D.
Jo Anne Sirey, Ph.D.
Wilfred van Gorp, Ph.D.
Pamela Williams-Russo, M.D.
Robert C. Young, M.D.

Selected Recent Publications

Robert C. Abrams, M.D.
Abrams RC, Spielman LA, Alexopoulos GS; Klausner E:  Personality disorder symptoms and functioning in elderly depressed patients.  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 6: 24-30, 1998 .

Abrams RC, Rosendahl E, Card C, Alexopoulos GS:  Personality disorder correlates of late and early onset geriatric depression. J Am Geriat. Soc 42:1-5, 1994.

Abrams RC, Young RC Alexopoulos GS Holt JH:  Neuroticism may be associated with history of depression in the elderly. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 6:483-488, 1991.

George S. Alexopoulos, M.D.
Alexopoulos GS, Meyers BS, Young RC, Hull J, Kakuma T:  Executive dysfunction and risk for relapse and recurrence of geriatric depression.  Arch Gen Psychiatry, in press.

Alexopoulos GS, Bruce ML, Silbersweig D, Kalayam B, Stern E: Vascular depression: A new view of late-onset depression. Dialogues Clin Neurosci 1:69-80, 1999.

Alexopoulos GS, Bruce ML, Hull J, Sirey, J, Kakuma T:  Clinical determinants of suicidal ideation and behavior in geriatric depression.  Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:1048-1053, 1999.

Kinderman SS, Kalayam B, Brown GG, Burdick KE, Alexopoulos GS:  Executive functions and P300 latency in elderly depressed patients and control subjects.  Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 8:57-65, 2000

Jeste DV, Alexopoulos GS, Bartels SJ, Cummings JL, Gallo JJ, Gottlieb GL, Halpain MC, Palmer BW, Patterson TL, Reynolds CF, Lebowitz BD:  Consensus statement on the upcoming crisis in geriatric mental health.  Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:848-853, 1999.

Klausner EJ, Alexopoulos GS:  The future of psychosocial treatments in the elderly.  Psychiatric Services.  Psychiatric Services 1999, 50:1198-1204.

Alexopoulos GS: Psychiatric disorders in late life: Mood disorders. Kaplan HI, Sadock BJ, eds.  In Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/VI, Seventh edition. Maryland: Williams & Wilkins,  New York, 2000, pp. 3060-3068.

Apfeldorf W, Alexopoulos GS:  Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy.  Hazzard WR, ed. In Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, McGaw-Hill, 1999, pp 195-212.

Lockwood KA, Alexopoulos GS, van Gorp WG:  Heterogeneity of neuropsychological deficits in older adults with major depression.  Heterogeneity of of neuropychology deficits in older adults with major depression. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 13: 239-240, 1999.

Lockwood KA, van Gorp WG, Alexopoulos GS: Assessing depression severity and neuropsychological function:  Methodological issues.  The Clinical Neuropsychologist 1999.

Lockwood KA, van Gorp WG, Alexopoulos GS:  Neuropsychological function and disability status in depressed older adults.  The Clinical Neuropsychologist 1999.

William Apfeldorf, M.D.
Apfeldorf W, Alexopoulos GS:  Psychopharmacologic interventions in late life major depression.  In:.  Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Focus on Psychopharmacologic Interventions in Late Life. Edited by: Ira Katz, David Oslin, M. Powell Lawton.  New York: Springer Pub Co., (2000), pp 195-212.

Martha L. Bruce, Ph.D.
Whisman MA, Bruce ML.  Marital distress and incidence of major depressive episode in a community sample.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology 108; 1999.

Knäuper B, Cannell CF, Schwarz N, Bruce ML, Kessler RC.  Improving accuracy of major depression age of onset reports in the U.S. National Comorbidity Survey. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 8:39-48; 1999.

Desai M, Bruce ML, Kasl S. Major depression and stage of breast cancer diagnosis.  International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine., 29:29-45, 1999.

Bruce ML, Pearson JL. Designing an intervention to prevent suicide: PROSPECT (Prevention of Suicide in Primary Care Elderly: Collaborative Trial), Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience,1:100-112, 1999.

Alexopoulos GS, Bruce ML, Kalayum B, Silbersweig D., Stern E.  Vascular depression: a new view  of late life depression, Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 1:68-80, 1999.

Mazure CM, Raghavan C, Maciejewski P, Jacobs SC, Bruce ML.  Cognitive personality characteristics as predictors of unipolar major depression. Cognitive‑Therapy and Research, in press.

Bruce ML.  Editorial: Depression and disability, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 7:1-4, 1999.

Bruce ML: Mental illness as a psychiatric disorder.  In Aneshensel CS, Phelan JC (Ed). Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health, Plenum Publishersr: New York, 1999, 37-56.

Bruce ML: Depression and Disability.  In Williamson GM, Parmelee PA, Shaffer DR.  (Ed).  Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Practice, Plenum Press: New York, in press.

Scott Campbell, M.D.
Campbell SS:  Intrinsic disruption of normal sleep  and circadian patterns.  In: Regulation of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, edited by F.W.  Turek and P.C. Zee  New York, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 465-486, 1999.

Campbell SS, Murphy PJ, van den Heuval CJ, Roberts ML and Stauble TN:  Etiology and treatment of intrinisc circadian rhythm sleep disorders. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 3(3): 179-200 1999.

Campbell SS and Murphy PJ:  Circadian clock resetting in humans by extraocular light exposure.  In: Biological Effects of Light 1998, edited by MF Holick and EG Jung Boston, Kluwar Academic Publishers, 389-395, 1999.

Jones CR, Campbell SS, Zone SE, Cooper F, DeSano A, Murphy PJ, Jones B, Czajkowski L and Ptacek LJ:  Familial advanced sleep-phase syndrome: A short period circadian rhythm variant in humans.  Nature Medicine, 5(9): 1062-1065, 1999.

Murphy PJ, Rogers NL and Campbell SS:  Age differences in the spontaneous termination of sleep.  J Sleep Research, 2000 (in press).

Mary Charlson, M.D.
Pirraglia PA, Peterson JC, Williams-Russo P, Gorkin L, Charlson ME.  Depressive Symptomatology in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients.  Intl J Geriat Psychiatry 1999; 14:  668-680.

Luber MP, Hollenberg JP, Williams-Russo PG, DiDomenico TH, Meyers BS, Alexopoulos GS, Charlson ME.  Diagnosis, Treatment, Comorbidity, and Resource Utilization of Depressed Patients in a General Medical Practice.  Intl J Psychiatry in Med.  In Press.

Balkrishna Kalayam, M.D.
Kalayam B, Alexopoulos GS: Prefrontal dysfunction and treatment response in geriatric depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry; 1999; 56:713-718.

Dimitri Kiosses, Ph.D.
Kiosses DN, Alexopoulos GS, Murphy C. Symptoms of striatofrontal dysfunction contribute to disability in geriatric depression. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry (in press).

Barnett S. Meyers, M.D.
Meyers BS:  Depression and Dementia: Comorbidities, Identification, and Treatment.  Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurology 11:201-205, 1998

Meyers BS, Bruce ML:   The Depression-Dementia Conundrum: Integrating Clinical and Epidemiologic Perspectives.  Archives of General Psychiatry 55:1082-1083, 1998

Glen Milstein, Ph.D.
Milstein G, Sims E, Liggins L: Community outreach by a mental health center: a dialogue with clergy.  The Community Psychologist 1999, 31:49-51

Milstein G, Midlarsky E, Link B, Raue P., Bruce ML: The initiation of co-professional consultation: categorical distinctions made by rabbis and psychologists in response to diverse presenting problems with religious content. J Nerv Ment Dis, (in press).

Patrick Raue, Ph.D.
Perlick DA, Clarkin JF, Sirey J, Raue PJ, Greenfield S, Streuning E, Rosenheck RA:  Burden experienced by caregivers of persons with Bipolar Affective Disorder.  Br J Psychiatry 1999, 175: 56-62.

Perlick DA, Rosenheck RA, Clarkin JF, Sirey J, Raue PJ:  Symptom predictors of inpatient service use among Bipolar Affective Disorder patients.  Psychiatric Services 1999, 50: 806-812.

Sirey J, Meyers BS, Bruce ML, Alexopoulos GS, Perlick DA, Raue PJ:  Predictors of antidepressant prescription and early use among depressed outpatients.  American Journal of Psychiatry 1999, 156: 690-696.

Jo Anne Sirey, Ph.D.
Sirey, J, Meyers, BS, Bruce, ML, Alexopoulos, GS, Perlick, DA & Raue, P: Predictors of Antidepressant Prescription and Early Use Among Depressed Outpatients. Amer J Psychiatry, 156:690-696, 1999.

Perlick DA, Clarkin JF, Sirey J, Raue PJ, Greenfield S, Streuning E, Rosenheck RA:  Burden experienced by caregivers of persons with Bipolar Affective Disorder.  Br J Psychiatry 1999, 175: 56-62.

Perlick DA, Rosenheck RA, Clarkin JF, Sirey J, Raue PJ:  Symptom predictors of inpatient service use among Bipolar Affective Disorder patients.  Psychiatric Services 1999, 50: 806-812.

Sirey, J, Bruce, ML, Raue, P, Perlick, DA, Alexopoulos, GS & Meyers, BS. Psychological barriers in young and older outpatients with depression: Predictors of treatment discontinuation, Am J Psychiatry under review.

Wilfred van Gorp, Ph.D.
van Gorp, W.G., Altshuler, L., Theberge, D.C., Mintz, J., (in press).  Declarative and Procedural Memory in Bipolar Disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 46, 525-531.

van Gorp, W.G.,  Wilkens, J.N., Hinkin, C.H., Moore, L.H., Hull, J., Horner, M.D., Plotkin, D., (1999).  Declarative and Procedural Memory Functioning in Abstinent Cocaine Abusers. Archives of General Psychiatry, 85-89, 1999.

Kalechstein, A., van Gorp, W. and Rapport, L.  (1998)  Variability in clinical classification of raw test scores across normative data sets. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 12, 339-347.

Pachana, N.A., Drake, E., van Gorp, W.G., Sorensen, D. (1999). Similarities of neuropsychological presentation in two cases of Capgras Syndrome with comorbid depression.  New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 28, 55-60.

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