LAURA
JEAN BIERUT, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interests
1)
Genetic studies of psychiatric illnesses
2)
Family Studies of alcoholism
3) Alcoholism in women
Special Populations
Alcoholism and substance abuse in women
Alcoholism and substance abuse in pregnant women
Bibliography
Heath AC, Bucholz KK, Madden PAF, Dinwiddie SH, Slutske WS, Bierut LJ, Statham DJ, Dunne MP, Whitfield JB and Martin NG. Genetic and environmental contributions to alcohol dependence risk in a national twin sample: consistency of findings in women and men. Psychological Medicine 27:1381-1396, 1997.
Nurnberger JI Jr, DePaulo JR,
Gershon ES, Reich T, Blehar MC, Edenberg HJ, Foroud T, Miller M, Bowman
E, Mayeda A, Rau NL, Smiley C, Conneally PM, McMahon F, Meyers D, Simpson
S, McInnis M, Stine OC, Detera-Wadleigh S, Goldin L, Guroff J, Maxwell E,
Kazuba D, Gejman PV, Badner J, Sanders A, Rice J, Bierut L and Goate A.
A Genomic Survey of Bipolar Illness in the NIMH Genetics Initiative Pedigrees:
A Preliminary Report. American
Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics) 74:227-237,
1997.
Madden PA, Bucholz KK, Dinwiddie
SH, Slutske WS, Bierut LJ, Statham DJ, Dunne MP, Martin NG and Heath AC.
Research Report. Nicotine withdrawal in women. Addiction 92(7):889-902, 1997.
Bierut LJ, Dinwiddie SH, Begleiter
H, Crowe RR, Hesselbrock V, Nurnberger JI, Porjesz B, Schuckit MA and Reich
T. Familial transmission of substance dependence:
Alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine, and habitual smoking. Archives of General Psychiatry
55:982-988, 1998.
Bierut LJ, Heath AC, Bucholz KK,
Dinwiddie SH, Madden PAF, Statham DJ, Dunne MP and Martin NG.
Major Depressive Disorder in a national twin sample: Different genetic and environmental contributions
for men and women. Archives
of General Psychiatry. 56:557-563, 1999.
Bierut LJ, Rice J, Edenberg H,
Goate A, Foroud T, Cloninger CR, Begleiter H, Conneally PM, Crowe RR, Hesselbrock
V, Li T-K, Nurnberger JI Jr, Porjesz B, Schuckit MA and Reich T: A family-based study of the association
of the dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2) with habitual smoking. Am J Med Genet 90:299-302, 2000.
Book Chapters
Bierut L, Reich T:
Genetics of alcoholism and drug addiction. In Genetics of Mental Disorders: Clinical Issues, Bailliere’s
Clinical Psychiatry, edited by J. Mendlewicz and G. Papadimitriou, WB Sanuders
Company, Ltd., 1996, pages 59-70.
Bierut L, Dinwiddie SH: Familial and genetic studies of comorbidity
of addictive and psychiatric disorders.
In Addiction Psychiatry:
Comprehensive Textbook, edited by NS Miller, Philadelphia, WB
Saunders Company, Ltd., 1996, pages 47-54.
Bierut L:
Anxiety disorders. In
Adult Psychiatry, edited by S. Guze, Mosby-Year Book, Inc., 1996,
pages 143-155.