Mental Health Resources
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Resources
National Institute on Drug Abuse – NIDA
National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens – NIDA Teens, To get the facts about how drugs affect your body and your brain.
National Insitutes of Health – NIH, Turning discovery into health.
National Institutes of Mental Health – NIMH, Transforming the understanding and treatment of mental illness.
National Eating Disorders Association – NEDA, Feeding hope.
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation – To indentify causes, improve treatments and one day prevent and cure mental illness.
The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation – Cultivating the next generation of child and adolscent mental health professionals.
Publications
Diler, R. S., Pan, L. A., Segreti, A., Ladouceur, C. D., Forbes, E., Cela, S. R., … & Phillips, M. L. (2014). Differential Anterior Cingulate Activity during Response Inhibition in Depressed Adolescents with Bipolar and Unipolar Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 23(1), 10.
Healey, K. L., Morgan, J., Musselman, S. C., Olino, T. M., & Forbes, E. E. (2014). Social anhedonia and medial prefrontal response to mutual liking in late adolescents. Brain and cognition.
Morgan, J. K., Shaw, D. S., & Forbes, E. E. (2014). Maternal Depression and Warmth During Childhood Predict Age 20 Neural Response to Reward. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(1), 108-117.
Noone, D. M., Willis, T. A., Cox, J., Harkness, F., Ogilvie, J., Forbes, E., … & Gregory, A. M. (2014). Catastrophizing and Poor Sleep Quality in Early Adolescent Females. Behavioral sleep medicine, 12(1), 41-52
Spielberg, J. M., Olino, T. M., Forbes, E. E., & Dahl, R. E. (2014). Exciting Fear in Adolescence: Does Pubertal Development Alter Threat Processing?. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Wildes, J.E., Forbes, E. E., & Marcus, M. D. (2014). Advancing research on cognitive flexibility in eating disorders: The importance of distinguishing attentional set shifting and reversal learning. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Casement, M. D., Guyer, A. E., Hipwell, A. E., McAloon, R. L., Hoffman, A. M., Keenan, K. E., & Forbes, E. E. (2013). Girls challenging social experiences in early adolescence predict neural response to rewards and depressive symptoms. Developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Chase, H. W., Nusslock, R., Almeida, J. R., Forbes, E. E., LaBarbara, E. J., & Phillips, M. L. (2013). Dissociable patterns of abnormal frontal cortical activation during anticipation of an uncertain reward or loss in bipolar versus major depression. Bipolar disorders, 15(8), 839-854.
Farris, C., Akers, A. Y., Downs, J. S., & Forbes, E. E. (2013). Translational Research Applications for the Study of Adolescent Sexual Decision Making. Clinical and translational science, 6(1), 78-81.
Hasler, B. P., Sitnick, S. L., Shaw, D. S., & Forbes, E. E. (2013). An altered neural response to reward may contribute to alcohol problems among late adolescents with an evening chronotype. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 214(3), 357-364.
Morgan, J. K., Olino, T. M., McMakin, D. L., Ryan, N. D., & Forbes, E. E. (2013). Neural response to reward as a predictor of increases in depressive symptoms in adolescence. Neurobiology of disease, 52, 66-74.
Morgan, J. K., Shaw, D. S., & Forbes, E. E. (2013). Physiological and Behavioral Engagement in Social Contexts as Predictors of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms. Journal of youth and adolescence, 42(8), 1117-1127.
Mullin, B. C., Phillips, M. L., Siegle, G. J., Buysse, D. J., Forbes, E. E., & Franzen, P. L. (2013). Sleep deprivation amplifies striatal activation to monetary reward. Psychological medicine, 43(10), 2215-2225.
Olino, T. M., McMakin, D. L., Morgan, J. K., Silk, J. S., Birmaher, B., Axelson, D. A., … & Forbes, E. E. (2013). Reduced reward anticipation in youth at high-risk for unipolar depression: A preliminary study. Developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Silk, J. S., Sheeber, L., Tan, P. Z., Ladouceur, C. D., Forbes, E. E., McMakin, D. L., … & Ryan, N. D. (2013. You can do it!: The role of parental encouragement of bravery in child anxiety treatment. Journal of anxiety disorders, 27(5), 439-446.
Sweitzer, M. M., Geier, C. F., Joel, D. L., McGurrin, P., Denlinger, R. L., Forbes, E. E., & Donny, E. C. (2013). Dissociated Effects of Anticipating Smoking versus Monetary Reward in the Caudate as a Function of Smoking Abstinence. Biological psychiatry.
Troxel, W. M., Trentacosta, C. J., Forbes, E. E., & Campbell, S. B. (2013). Negative emotionality moderates associations among attachment, toddler sleep, and later problem behaviors. Journal of Family Psychology, 27(1), 127.
Nusslock R, Almeida JRC, Forbes EE, Versace A, LaBarbara EJ, Klein CR, Phillips ML. Waiting to win: Elevated striatal and orbitofrontal cortical activity during reward anticipation in euthymic bipolar adults. Bipolar Disorders. in press.
Bramen JE, Hranilovich JA, Dahl RE, Rosso C, Chen JE, Forbes EE, Toga AW, Dinov ID, Sowell ER. Sex matters during adolescence: Testosterone-related cortical thickness maturation differs between boys and girls. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(3).
Forbes EE, Dahl RE, Almeida JRC, Ferrell RE, Nimgaonkar VL, Mansour H, Sciarrillo SR, Holm SM, Rodriguez EE, Phillips ML. PER2 rs2304672 Polymorphism Moderates Circadian-Relevant Reward Circuitry Activity in Adolescents. Biol Psychiatry.2012 Mar 1;71(5):451-7.
Forbes EE, Stepp SD, Dahl RE, Ryan ND, Whalen D, Axelson DA, Birmaher B, Silk JS. Real-world affect and social context as predictors of treatment response in child and adolescent depression and anxiety: An ecological momentary assessment study. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol.2012 Feb;22(1):37-47.
Feng X, Forbes EE, Kovacs M, George CJ, Lopez-Duran NL, Fox NA, Cohn JF. Children’s depressive symptoms in relation to EEG frontal asymmetry and maternal depression. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2012 Feb;40(2):265-76.
Tan PZ, Forbes EE, Dahl RE, Ryan ND, Siegle GS, Ladouceur CD, Silk JS. Emotional reactivity and regulation in anxious and non-anxious youth: A cell-phone ecological momentary assessment study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2012 Feb;53(2):197-206.
Whittle S, Yücel M, Forbes EE, Davey CG, Harding IH, Sheeber L, Yap MBH, Allen NB. Adolescents’ depressive symptoms moderate neural responses to their mothers’ positive behavior. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2012 Jan;7(1):23-34.
Olino TM, McMakin DL, Dahl RE, Ryan ND, Silk JS, Birmaher B, Axelson DA, Forbes EE. “I won, but I’m not getting my hopes up”: Depression moderates the relationship between outcomes and reward anticipation. Psychiatry Res: Neuroimaging. 2011 Dec 30;194(3):393-5.
Cousins JC, Whalen DJ, Dahl RE, Forbes EE, Olino TM, Ryan ND, Silk JS. The bi-directional association between daytime affect and nighttime sleep in youth with anxiety and depression. J Pediatr Psychol. 2011 Oct;36(9):969-79.
Silk JS, Forbes EE, Whalen DJ, Jakubcak JL, Thompson WK, Ryan ND, Axelson DA, Birmaher B, Dahl RE. Daily emotional and social dynamics in depressed youth: A cell-phone ecological momentary assessment study. J Exp Child Psychol. 2011 Oct;110(2):241-57.
Gregory AM, Cousins JC, Forbes EE, Trubnick L, Ryan ND, Axelson DA, Birmaher B, Sadeh A, Dahl RE. Sleep items in the Child Behavior Checklist: A comparison with sleep diaries, actigraphy and polysomnography. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2011 May;50(5):499-507.
Schlund MW, Cataldo MF, Siegle GJ, Ladouceur CD, Silk JS, Forbes EE, Dahl RE, Ryan ND. Pediatric functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging: tactics for encouraging task compliance. Behav Brain Funct. 2011 May 6;7-10.
Forbes EE, Hariri AR, Phillips ML, Ryan ND, Dahl RE. Neural systems of threat processing in adolescents: role of pubertal maturation and relation to measures of negative affect. Dev Neuropsychol. 2011. May;36(4):429-52.
Bramen J, Hranilovich J, Dahl R, Forbes E, Toga A, Dinov I, Worthman C, Sowell E. Puberty influences medial temporal lobe and cortical gray matter maturation differently in boys than girls matched for sexual maturity. Cereb Cortex. 2011. Mar;21(3):636-46.
Schlund M, Siegle GJ, Ladouceur CD, Silk JS, Cataldo MF, Forbes EE, Dahl RE, Ryan ND. Nothing to fear? Neural systems supporting avoidance behavior in healthy youths. NeuroImage. 2010 Aug 15;52(2):710-9.
Forbes EE, Hariri AR, Phillips ML, Ryan ND, Dahl RE. Neural systems of threat processing in adolescents: role of pubertal maturation and relation to measures of negative affect. Dev Neuropsychol. 2011. May;36(4):429-52.
Bramen J, Hranilovich J, Dahl R, Forbes E, Toga A, Dinov I, Worthman C, Sowell E. Puberty influences medial temporal lobe and cortical gray matter maturation differently in boys than girls matched for sexual maturity. Cereb Cortex. 2011. Mar;21(3):636-46.
Schlund M, Siegle GJ, Ladouceur CD, Silk JS, Cataldo MF, Forbes EE, Dahl RE, Ryan ND. Nothing to fear? Neural systems supporting avoidance behavior in healthy youths. NeuroImage. 2010 Aug 15;52(2):710-9.
Forbes EE, Olino TM, Ryan ND, Birmaher B, Axelson D, Moyles DL, Dahl RE. Reward-related brain function as a predictor of treatment response in adolescents with major depressive disorder. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2010 Mar;10(1):107-18
Forbes EE, Ryan ND, Phillips ML, Manuck SB, Worthman CM, Moyles DL, Tarr JA, Sciarrillo SR, Dahl RE. Healthy adolescents’ neural response to reward: Associations with puberty, positive affect, and depressive symptoms. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010 Feb;49:162-72.
Holm SM, Forbes EE, Ryan ND, Phillips ML, Tarr JA, Dahl RE. Reward-related brain function and sleep in pre/early pubertal and mid/late pubertal adolescents. J Adolesc Health. 2009 Oct;45(4):326-34.
Forbes EE, Hariri AR, Martin SL, Silk JS, Moyles DL, Fisher PM, Brown SM, Ryan ND, Birmaher B, Axelson DA, Dahl RE. Altered striatal activation predicting real-world positive affect in adolescent major depressive disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 2009 Jan;166(1):64-73.
Forbes EE, Brown SM, Kimak M, Ferrell RE, Manuck SB, Hariri AR. Genetic variation in components of dopamine neurotransmission impacts ventral striatal reactivity associated with impulsivity. Mol Psychiatry. 2009 Jan;14(1):60-70.
Liu X, Forbes EE, Ryan ND, Rofey D, Hannon TS, Dahl RE. Rapid eye movement sleep in relation to overweight in children and adolescents. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008 Aug;65(8):924-32.
Whalen DJ, Silk JS, Semel M, Forbes EE, Ryan ND, Axelson DA, Birmaher B, Dahl RE. Caffeine consumption, sleep, and affect in the natural environments of depressed youth and healthy controls. J Pediatr Psychol. 2008 May;33(4):358-67.
Forbes EE, Shaw DS, Silk JS, Feng X, Cohn JF, Fox NA, Kovacs M. Children’s affect expression and frontal EEG asymmetry: transactional associations with mothers’ depressive symptoms. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2008 Feb;36(2):207-21.
Forbes EE, Bertocci MA, Gregory AM, Ryan ND, Axelson DA, Birmaher B, Dahl RE. Objective sleep in pediatric anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 Feb;47(2):148-55.
Dillman Carpentier F, Brown JD, Bertocci M, Silk JS, Forbes EE, Dahl RE. Sad kids, sad media? Applying mood management theory to depressed adolescents’ use of media. Media Psychol. 2008 Jan;11(1): 143-166.
Silk JS, Dahl RE, Ryan ND, Forbes EE, Axelson DA, Birmaher B, Siegle GJ. Pupillary reactivity to emotional information in child and adolescent depression: links to clinical and ecological measures. Am J Psychiatry. 2007 Dec;164(12):1873-80.
Manuck SB, Brown SM, Forbes EE, Hariri AR. Temporal stability of individual differences in amygdala reactivity. Am J Psychiatry. 2007 Oct;164(10):1613-4.
Silk JS, Vanderbilt-Adriance E, Shaw DS, Forbes EE, Whalen DJ, Ryan ND, Dahl RE. Resilience among children and adolescents at risk for depression: Mediation and moderation across social and neurobiological contexts. Dev Psychopathol. 2007 Summer;19(3):841-65.
Forbes EE, Shaw DS, Dahl RE. Alterations in reward-related decision making in boys with recent and future depression. Biol Psychiatry. 2007 Mar 1;61(5):633-9.
Forbes EE, May JC, Siegle GJ, Ladouceur CD, Ryan ND, Carter CS, Birmaher B, Axelson DA, Dahl RE. Reward-related decision-making in pediatric major depressive disorder: an fMRI study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2006 Oct;47(10):1031-40.
