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Improving research and clinical interventions for maternal depression during pregnancy by Levitan, Robert D., Atkinson, Leslie, Matthews, Stephen G.

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Evidence that ‘food addiction’ is a valid phenotype of obesity by Davis, Caroline, Curtis, Claire, Levitan, Robert D., Carter, Jacqueline C., Kaplan, Allan S., Kennedy, James L.

“…► Validation for the Yale Food Addiction Scale to identify those with addictive tendencies to food. ► Obese food addicts show higher comorbidity with binge…”
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Efficacy of Bright Light Treatment, Fluoxetine, and the Combination in Patients With Nonseasonal Major Depressive Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Lam, Raymond W, Levitt, Anthony J, Levitan, Robert D, Michalak, Erin E, Cheung, Amy H, Morehouse, Rachel, Ramasubbu, Rajamannar, Yatham, Lakshmi N, Tam, Edwin M

“…Bright light therapy is an evidence-based treatment for seasonal depression, but there is limited evidence for its efficacy in nonseasonal major depressive…”
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The relationship between chronotype and treatment time of day on post-treatment depression symptom severity for depressed patients receiving cognitive behavioural therapy by Lau, Parky H., Levitan, Robert D., Quilty, Lena C., Kloiber, Stefan, Zai, Gwyneth, Laposa, Judith M.

“…Major depressive disorder (MDD) represents a serious public health problem that affects a quarter billion individuals worldwide. Consequently, there is a need…”
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‘Food addiction’ and its association with a dopaminergic multilocus genetic profile by Davis, Caroline, Loxton, Natalie J, Levitan, Robert D, Kaplan, Allan S, Carter, Jacqueline C, Kennedy, James L

“…Abstract Background Our objective was to employ a novel genetic methodology – whereby functional variants of the dopamine pathway were aggregated to reflect a…”
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Does social capital moderate the association between children's emotional overeating and parental stress? A cross-sectional study of the stress-buffering hypothesis in a sample of mother-child dyads by Mandelbaum, Jennifer, Moore, Spencer, Silveira, Patricia P., Meaney, Michael J., Levitan, Robert D., Dubé, Laurette

“…Parental stress has been shown associated with children's eating behaviors. The stress-buffering hypothesis suggests that social resources, i.e., resources…”
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Treatment-Specific Changes in Decentering Following Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Versus Antidepressant Medication or Placebo for Prevention of Depressive Relapse by Bieling, Peter J., Hawley, Lance L., Bloch, Richard T., Corcoran, Kathleen M., Levitan, Robert D., Young, L. Trevor, MacQueen, Glenda M., Segal, Zindel V.

“…Objective: To examine whether metacognitive psychological skills, acquired in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), are also present in patients…”
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Low socioeconomic status, parental stress, depression, and the buffering role of network social capital in mothers by Nagy, Emma, Moore, Spencer, Silveira, Patricia P, Meaney, Michael J, Levitan, Robert D, Dubé, Laurette

“…Pathways underlying the stress-depression relationship in mothers, and the factors that buffer this relationship are not well understood. Drawing from the…”
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The chronobiology and neurobiology of winter seasonal affective disorder by Levitan, Robert D.

“…This review summarizes research on the chronobiology and neurobiology of winter seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a recurrent subtype of depression…”
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Early Life Adversity and Polygenic Risk for High Fasting Insulin Are Associated With Childhood Impulsivity by Batra, Aashita, Chen, Lawrence M, Wang, Zihan, Parent, Carine, Pokhvisneva, Irina, Patel, Sachin, Levitan, Robert D, Meaney, Michael J, Silveira, Patricia Pelufo

“…While the co-morbidity between metabolic and psychiatric behaviors is well-established, the mechanisms are poorly understood, and exposure to early life…”
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Gene and environment interaction: Is the differential susceptibility hypothesis relevant for obesity? by Dalle Molle, Roberta, Fatemi, Hajar, Dagher, Alain, Levitan, Robert D., Silveira, Patricia P., Dubé, Laurette

“…•Genes may work by modulating the way individuals respond to environmental variation.•The differential susceptibility hypothesis was firstly observed in…”
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Increasing maternal age predicts placental protein expression critical for fetal serotonin metabolism: Potential implications for neurodevelopmental research by Levitan, Robert D., Sqapi, Maria, Post, Martin, Knight, Julia A., Lye, Stephen J., Matthews, Stephen G.

“…High fetal exposure to serotonin and increasing maternal age both contribute to the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders. While identifying covariates for a…”
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Maternal Prenatal Mood, Pregnancy-Specific Worries, and Early Child Psychopathology: Findings From the DREAM BIG Consortium by Szekely, Eszter, Neumann, Alexander, Sallis, Hannah, Jolicoeur-Martineau, Alexia, Verhulst, Frank C., Meaney, Michael J., Pearson, Rebecca M., Levitan, Robert D., Kennedy, James L., Lydon, John E., Steiner, Meir, Greenwood, Celia M.T., Tiemeier, Henning, Evans, Jonathan, Wazana, Ashley

“…Few studies have attempted to identify how distinct dimensions of maternal prenatal affective symptoms relate to offspring psychopathology. We defined latent…”
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Maternal major depression during early pregnancy is associated with impaired child executive functioning at 4.5 years of age by Levitan, Robert D., Atkinson, Leslie, Knight, Julia A., Hung, Rayjean J., Wade, Mark, Jenkins, Jennifer M., Bertoni, Kashtin, Wong, Jody, Murphy, Kellie E., Lye, Stephen J., Matthews, Stephen G.

“…Maternal depression is a serious condition that affects up to 1 in 7 pregnancies. Despite evidence linking maternal depression to pregnancy complications and…”
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Increased Seasonal Variation in Serotonin Transporter Binding in Seasonal Affective Disorder by Tyrer, Andrea E, Levitan, Robert D, Houle, Sylvain, Wilson, Alan A, Nobrega, José N, Meyer, Jeffrey H

“…Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is highly prevalent with rates of 1-6% and greater prevalence at more extreme latitudes; however, there are almost no direct…”
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Binge eating disorder and the dopamine D2 receptor: Genotypes and sub-phenotypes by Davis, Caroline, Levitan, Robert D., Yilmaz, Zeynep, Kaplan, Allan S., Carter, Jacqueline C., Kennedy, James L.

“…While the study of binge eating disorder (BED) has burgeoned in the past decade, an understanding of its neurobiological underpinnings is still in the early…”
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Interactions between a polygenic risk score for plasma docosahexaenoic fatty acid concentration, eating behaviour, and body composition in children by Jaramillo-Ospina, Angela, Casanello, Paola, Garmendia, María Luisa, Andersen, Ross, Levitan, Robert D., Meaney, Michael J., Silveira, Patricia Pelufo

“…Background The relationship between eating behaviour and current body weight has been described. However little is known about the effect of polyunsaturated…”
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Dopamine D4 receptor gene polymorphism (DRD4 VNTR) moderates real-world behavioural response to the food retail environment in children by Paquet, Catherine, Portella, Andre Krumel, Moore, Spencer, Ma, Yu, Dagher, Alain, Meaney, Michael J, Kennedy, James L, Levitan, Robert D, Silveira, Patricia P, Dube, Laurette

“…Evidence for the impact of the food retailing environment on food-related and obesity outcomes remains equivocal, but only a few studies have attempted to…”
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Associations between rumination, depression, and distress tolerance during CBT treatment for depression in a tertiary care setting by Patel, Alina, Daros, Alexander R., Irwin, Samantha H., Lau, Parky, Hope, Ingrid M., Perkovic, Stephen J.M., Laposa, Judith M., Husain, M. Ishrat, Levitan, Robert D., Kloiber, Stefan, Quilty, Lena C.

“…Rumination is strongly associated with depressive symptom severity and course. However, changes in rumination during outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy…”
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A Behavioral Genetic Model of the Mechanisms Underlying the Link Between Obesity and Symptoms of ADHD by Patte, Karen A., Davis, Caroline A., Levitan, Robert D., Kaplan, Allan S., Carter-Major, Jacqueline, Kennedy, James L.

“…Objective: The ADHD–obesity link has been suggested to result from a shared underlying basis of suboptimal dopamine (DA); however, this theory conflicts…”
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