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Warren D. Taylor, M.D., MHSc, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Investigator in the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine, was one of several authors of the recently published article "Effects of early life stress on depression, cognitive performance, and brain morphology." The article appears in the journal Psychological Medicine. Click here to view the abstract.

Warren D. Taylor, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has two publications in recent print. An editorial titled "Moderators of remission in late-life depression: Where do we go next?" appears in JAMA Psychiatry as of Mar. 9, 2016.

Lawrence S. Gaines, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, will soon be published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. His paper is titled "Association between affective-cognitive symptoms of depression and exacerbation of Crohn's Disease." Affective-cognitive symptoms of depression predicted subsequent Crohn's disease activity and hospitalization rate, suggesting a temporal relationship.

Warren Taylor, M.D., MHSc, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, served as lead author on a paper titled "APOE ε4 associated with preserved executive function performance and maintenance of temporal and cingulate brain volumes in younger adults" in the journal Brain Imaging & Behavior.  According to the abstract, the APOE ε4 allele is associated with cognitive deficits and brain atrophy in older adults, but studies in younger adults are mixed.  The ε4 allele benefits younger adults

A new report released recently by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that almost 8 percent of Americans over age 12 have moderate to severe depression. The report, based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics, found depression is most prevalent among middle-age women aged 40 to 59 years old. In every age group, women were found to have the higher rate of depression than men. Teenage boys aged 12 to 17 and men over age 60 had the lowest rates of depression.