Presentations and Publications
PTSD-related Studies
For copies of any PTSD-related publication below, pleaes contact the Early Life Stress Research Program.
PHENOMOLOGY
Kletter H, Weems CF, Carrion VG. (2009) Guilt and posttraumatic stress symptoms in child victims of interpersonal violence. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 14: 71-83.
Taylor, L. K., Weems, C. F., Costa, N. M., & Carrión, V. G. (2009). Loss and the experience of emotional distress in childhood. Journal of Loss and Trauma 14:1-16.
Weems, C. F., Watts, S. E., Marsee, M. A., Taylor, L. K., Costa, N. M., Cannon, M. F., Carrion, V. G., & Piña, A. A..(2008) The psychosocial impact of Hurricane Katrina: Contextual differences in psychological symptoms, social support, and discrimination. Behaviour Research and Therapy 45: 2295-2306.
Plattner B, Karnik N, Jo B, Hall RE, Schallauer A, Carrion VG, Feucht M, Steiner H.(2007): State and trait emotions in delinquents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development 38: 155-169.
Saltzman KM, Weems CF, & Carrion VG. IQ and posttraumatic stress symptoms in children exposed to interpersonal violence. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2006 Spring;36(3):261-72.
Weaver TL, Chard KM, Mechanic MB, Etzel JC. 2004. Self-injurious behaviors, PTSD arousal, and general health complaints within a treatment-seeking sample of sexually abused women. J Interpers Violence 19:558–575
Steiner H, Carrion V.G., Koopman C. Dissociative Symptoms in PTSD: Diagnosis and Treatment (2003): Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America:12 (2): 231-249.
Weems C.F, Saltzman K., Reiss, A.L., Carrion V.G., (2003): A prospective test of the association between hyperarousal and emotional numbing in youth with a history of traumatic stress. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 32 (1): 166-171.
Carrion V.G., Weems C.F., Ray R.D., Reiss A.L., (2002): Towards an empirical definition of pediatric PTSD: The phenomenology of PTSD symptoms in youth. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 41: 166-173.
Carrion V.G., Steiner H. (2000): Trauma and dissociation in delinquent adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 39: (3) 353-359.
Vrana S, Lauterbach D (1994), Prevalence of traumatic events and post-traumattic psycholoical symptoms in a nonclinical sample of college students. J Traumatic Stress 77: 289-302
PHYSIOLOGY
Weems CF, Carrion VG. (2009) Diurnal Salivary Cortisol in Youth: Clarifying the Nature of Post Traumatic Stress Dysregulation. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Advanced Access.
Weems CF, Carrion VG. The association between PTSD symptoms and salivary cortisol in youth: The role of the time since the trauma (2008) Journal of Traumatic Stress 20: 903-907.
Steiner H, Saxena K, Carrion VG, Khanzode LA, Silverman M, Chang K. (2007): Divalproex sodium for the treatment of PTSD and Conduct disordered youth: a pilot randomized controlled clinical trial. Child Psychiatry and Human Development 38: 183-193.
Koopman, C., Carrion, V., Butler, L., Sudhaker, S., Palmer, L., & Steiner, H. (2004): Relationships of dissociation and childhood abuse and neglect with heart rate in delinquent adolescents. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 17 (1): 47-54.
Carrion V.G., Weems C.F., Ray R.D., Glaser, B.,Hessl D.,Reiss A.L., (2002) Diurnal salivary cortisol in pediatric PTSD. Biological Psychiatry 51 (7):575-582
BRAIN STRUCTURE
Carrion VG, Weems CF, Reiss AL (2007): Stress predicts brain changes in children: A Pilot Longitudinal Study on Youth stress, PTSD and the hippocampus. Pediatrics 119:509-516.
Richert K, Carrion VG, Reiss AL (2006): Regional Differences of the Prefrontal Cortex in Pediatric PTSD: An MRI Study. Depression and Anxiety 23, 17-25.
Carrion V.G., Weems C.F., Eliez S., Patwardan A.J., Brown W., Ray R.D., Reiss A.L. (2001): Attenuation of frontal asymmetry in pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder. Biological Psychiatry 50: 943-951.
BRAIN FUNCTION
Carrion VG, Garrett AS, Menon V, Weems CF, Reiss AL. (2008) Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Brain Function During a Response-Inhibition Task: An fMRI Study in Youth. Depression and Anxiety 25:514-526.
Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety
Moore, P.S., Garcia, A., Gonzalez, A., Brice, C., & Huffman, L. (2005, April). Physiological arousal in parent-child interaction paradigms commonly used in anxiety research. Poster presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL. 
Transition to Parenting Project
Huffman, L.C., Kerivan, A. Ablow, J., & Feldman, S.S. (2001, May). Anxiety and physiological reactivity to cry stimuli in a community sample of primiparous women. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
Marks, A.K., Ablow, J., Feldman, S.S., & Huffman, L.C. (2001, September). Dyadic heart rate patterns during mother-infant book reading at 9-months post-partum. Psychophysiology, 38 (Supplement 1).
Marks, A. S. K., Ablow, J. A., Feldman, S. S., & Huffman, L. C. (2002). Mothers and infants reading books together: Heart rate and skin temperature patterns. Paper presented at the Reach Out and Read National Conference, Boston, MA.
Marks, A.K., Ablow, J.A., Feldman, S. S., & Huffman, L.C. (2003, April). Predicting Maternal Ratings of Infant Temperament from Mothers' Prenatal Psychological and Physiological Attributes. Poster Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Gaylor, E.E., Marks, A.K., Huffman, L.C. (2005, April). Psychophysiological and temperament correlates of sleep difficulties in 9-month-old infants. Poster presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
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