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M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez
Researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Publications - 121
Citations - 3329
M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez is an academic researcher from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Borderline personality disorder. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 106 publications receiving 2829 citations. Previous affiliations of M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez include Mount Sinai Hospital & Complutense University of Madrid.
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New perspectives in glutamate and anxiety.
Carlos Riaza Bermudo-Soriano,M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez,Concepción Vaquero-Lorenzo,Concepción Vaquero-Lorenzo,Enrique Baca-García,Enrique Baca-García +5 more
TL;DR: It is established that glutamate neurotransmission and polyaminergic system play a fundamental role in the onset of anxiety-related disorders and may open the way for new drugs that may help to treat these conditions.
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Diagnostic stability of psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.
Enrique Baca-García,M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez,Ignacio Basurte-Villamor,Antonio L. Fernandez Del Moral,Miguel Ángel Jiménez-Arriero,Jose L. Gonzalez de Rivera,Jerónimo Saiz-Ruiz,Maria A. Oquendo +7 more
TL;DR: The temporal consistency of mental disorders was poor, ranging from 29% for specific personality disorders to 70% for schizophrenia, with stability greatest for in- patient diagnoses and least for out-patient diagnoses.
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Estimating Risk for Suicide Attempt: Are we Asking the Right Questions? Passive Suicidal Ideation as a Marker for Suicidal Behavior
Enrique Baca-García,M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez,Maria A. Oquendo,Katherine M. Keyes,Deborah S. Hasin,Bridget F. Grant,Carlos Blanco +6 more
TL;DR: Querying individuals on desire for death has the same value as assessing suicidal ideation to examine risk for suicide attempt, and suggests that desire fordeath should be included as a potential clinical marker of suicidality in clinical assessments.
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Empathy and alexithymia in borderline personality disorder: clinical and laboratory measures.
Antonia S. New,aan het Marije Rot,Luis H. Ripoll,M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez,Sophie A. Lazarus,E. Zipursky,Shauna R. Weinstein,Harold W. Koenigsberg,Erin A. Hazlett,Marianne Goodman,Larry J. Siever +10 more
TL;DR: Group differences in empathy in relation to interpersonal function are explored, and responses to emotional pictures are measured with a computer task in which subjects focused either on the experience of the individual in the picture or the subject's own imagined experience.
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Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in the United States: 1991-1992 and 2001-2002
Enrique Baca-García,M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez,Katherine M. Keyes,Maria A. Oquendo,Deborah S. Hasin,Bridget F. Grant,Carlos Blanco +6 more
TL;DR: The lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts remained unchanged in the United States between 1991–1992 and 2001–2002, and specific groups, namely 18- to 24- year-old white and black women, 25- to 44-year-oldwhite women and 45- to 64-year,old Native American men were identified as being at high risk for suicide attempts.