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Beverly Nelson
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Publications - 28
Citations - 4735
Beverly Nelson is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Major depressive disorder & Growth hormone secretion. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 28 publications receiving 4637 citations. Previous affiliations of Beverly Nelson include University of Vermont & Drexel University.
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Childhood and adolescent depression: a review of the past 10 years. Part I.
Boris Birmaher,Neal D. Ryan,Douglas E. Williamson,David A. Brent,Joan Kaufman,Ronald E. Dahl,James M. Perel,Beverly Nelson +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors qualitatively review the literature of the past decade covering the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, natural course, biology, and other correlates of early-onset major depressive disorder (MDD) and dysthymic disorder (DD).
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The Clinical Picture of Major Depression in Children and Adolescents
Neal D. Ryan,Joaquim Puig-Antich,Paul J. Ambrosini,Harris Rabinovich,Delbert Robinson,Beverly Nelson,Satish Iyengar,Jan Twomey +7 more
TL;DR: Adolescents with a duration of the depressive episode of two years or greater had significantly higher rates of suicidal ideation and intent, lethality, and number of suicide attempts than youngsters with depressive episodes of shorter duration.
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Unipolar depression in adolescents: clinical outcome in adulthood.
Uma Rao,Neal D. Ryan,Boris Birmaher,Ronald E. Dahl,Douglas E. Williamson,Joan Kaufman,Radhika Rao,Beverly Nelson +7 more
TL;DR: Adolescent unipolar MDD predicts continued risk for recurrences with persistence of depressive episodes and psychosocial morbidity into adulthood as well as sustained periods of remission associated with good social adjustment.
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The corticotropin-releasing hormone challenge in depressed abused, depressed nonabused, and normal control children.
Joan Kaufman,Boris Birmaher,James M. Perel,Ronald E. Dahl,Paula Moreci,Beverly Nelson,William W. Wells,Neal D. Ryan +7 more
TL;DR: The pattern of findings of the depressed abused children experiencing ongoing adversity parallels the pattern of HPA axis dysregulation reported in animal studies of chronic stress.
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The Psychosocial Functioning and Family Environment of Depressed Adolescents
Joaquim Puig-Antich,Joaquim Puig-Antich,Joaquim Puig-Antich,Joan Kaufman,Joan Kaufman,Joan Kaufman,Neal D. Ryan,Neal D. Ryan,Neal D. Ryan,Douglas E. Williamson,Douglas E. Williamson,Douglas E. Williamson,Ronald E. Dahl,Ronald E. Dahl,Ronald E. Dahl,Ellen P. Lukens,Ellen P. Lukens,Ellen P. Lukens,George Todak,George Todak,George Todak,Paul Ambrosini,Paul Ambrosini,Paul Ambrosini,Harris Rabinovich,Harris Rabinovich,Harris Rabinovich,Beverly Nelson,Beverly Nelson,Beverly Nelson +29 more
TL;DR: Adolescents with MDD were found to have severe difficulties in all areas and adolescents with difficulties in parent-child relations were more likely than those adolescents without problems in family relations to have difficulties in peer relations and school performance.