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Barbara Geller, MD
Current
Position
Professor of Psychiatry
Areas of Research Interests
Programmatic investigation of child bipolar disorder by diagnostic, longitudinal (natural history), and family genetic studies. Psychopharmacological treatment studies of child mania.
Key Publications
Geller B, Zimerman B, Williams M, DelBello MP, FrazierJ, Beringer L: Phenomenology of prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar disorder: examples of elated mood, grandiose behaviors, decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts and hypersexuality. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 2002; 12:3-9.
Geller B, Tillman R, Bolhofner K, Zimerman B. Child bipolar I disorder: prospective continuity with adult bipolar I disorder; characteristics of second and third episodes; predictors of 8-year outcome. Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1125-1133, 2008
Geller B, Badner JA, Tillman R, Christian SL, Bolhofner K, Cook EH Jr: Linkage disequilibrium of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism in children with a prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar disorder phenopye. Am J Psychiatry 2004; 161:1698-1700.
Geller B, Tillman R, Craney JL, Bolhofner K: Four-year prospective outcome and natural history of mania in children with a prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar disorder phenotype. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2004; 61:459-467.
Tillman R, Geller B, Craney JL, Bolhofner K, Williams M, Zimerman B: Relationship of parent and child informants to prevalence of mania symptoms in children with prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar disorder phenotype. Am J Psychiatry 2004; 161:1278-1284.
Geller B, Tillman R, Bolhofner K, Zimerman B, Strauss NA, Kaufmann P: Controlled, blindly rated, direct interview family study of a prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar I disorder phenotype: morbid risk, age of onset, comorbidity. Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:1130-1138, 2006
Funded Research Projects
NIMH(PI):Treatment of Early Age Mania (TEAM)
NIMH(PI):Phenomenology and Course of Pediatric Bipolar Disorders