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J. Posada-Villa
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 38
Citations - 4235
J. Posada-Villa is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Prevalence of mental disorders. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 38 publications receiving 3278 citations. Previous affiliations of J. Posada-Villa include Utrecht University & Centre for Mental Health.
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Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative RESEARCH REPORT
Ronald C. Kessler,Matthias C. Angermeyer,James C. Anthony,Ron de Graaf,Isabelle Gasquet,Giovanni de Girolamo,Semyon Gluzman,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Norito Kawakami,Aimee N. Karam,Daphna Levinson,Mark A. Oakley,J. Posada-Villa,Dan J. Stein,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Sing Lee,Steven G. Heeringa,Beth-Ellen Pennell,Patricia A. Berglund,Michael J. Gruber,Maria Petukhova,Somnath Chatterji +22 more
TL;DR: As many mental disorders begin in childhood or adolescents, interventions aimed at early detection and treatment might help reduce the persistence or severity of primary disorders and prevent the subsequent onset of secondary disorders.
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Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys
K.C. Kessler,Katie A. McLaughlin,J. Greif-Green,Michaela Gruber,Nancy A. Sampson,Alan M. Zaslavsky,A. Aguilar-Gaxiola,A. Obaid-Alhamzawi,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,C. Benjet,Evelyn J. Bromet,Somnath Chatterji,G. de Girolamo,K. Kemyttenaere,John Fayyad,S. Florescu,Gilad Gal,Oye Gureje,J.M. Haro,Chiyi Hu,Elie G. Karam,Norito Kawakami,Sing Lee,J P Lépine,J. Ormel,J. Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Adley Tsang,T. B. Üstün,Svetlozar Vassilev,Maria Carmen Viana,David R. Williams +32 more
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The prevalence and effects of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the performance of workers : results from the WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative
R. de Graaf,Ronald C. Kessler,John Fayyad,M. ten Have,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Guilherme Borges,Koen Demyttenaere,Isabelle Gasquet,G. de Girolamo,J.M. Haro,Robert Jin,Elie G. Karam,Johan Ormel,J. Posada-Villa +14 more
TL;DR: ADHD is a relatively common condition among working people in the countries studied and is associated with high work impairment in these countries, which suggests that ADHD would be a good candidate for targeted workplace screening and treatment programs.
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Anxious and non-anxious major depressive disorder in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.
Ronald C. Kessler,Nancy A. Sampson,Patricia A. Berglund,Michaela Gruber,Ali Al-Hamzawi,Laura Helena Andrade,Brendan Bunting,Koen Demyttenaere,Silvia Florescu,G. de Girolamo,Oye Gureje,Yaping He,Chiyi Hu,Yueqin Huang,Elie Karam,Viviane Kovess-Masfety,Sing Lee,Daphna Levinson,M. E. Medina Mora,Jacek Moskalewicz,Yukako Nakamura,F. Navarro-Mateu,M. A. Oakley Browne,M. Piazza,J. Posada-Villa,Tim Slade,M. ten Have,Yolanda Torres,Gemma Vilagut,Miguel Xavier,Zahari Zarkov,Victoria Shahly,Marsha A. Wilcox +32 more
TL;DR: Women and previously married people had consistently elevated rates of lifetime and 12-month MDD as well as comorbid anxiety disorders, which raises complex questions about the relative importance of temporally primary anxiety disorders as risk markers v. causal risk factors for subsequent MDD onset and persistence.
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Mental/physical co-morbidity and its relationship with disability: Results from the World Mental Health Surveys
Kate M. Scott,M Von Korff,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Evelyn J. Bromet,John Fayyad,G. de Girolamo,Koen Demyttenaere,Isabelle Gasquet,Oye Gureje,J.M. Haro,Yanling He,Ronald C. Kessler,Daphna Levinson,M. E. Medina Mora,M. A. Oakley Browne,Johan Ormel,J. Posada-Villa,Makoto Watanabe,David R. Williams +19 more
TL;DR: This first cross-national study of the joint effect of mental and physical conditions on the probability of severe disability finds that co-morbidity exerts modest synergistic effects.