JOAN L.
LUBY, M.D
Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Child)
Director, Early Emotional Development Program
Director, Residency Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Research Interests
1) Affective Disorders in the Preschool Period
2) Nosology and Treatment of psychiatric disorders in infants/preschoolers
3) Emotional Development and Early intervention
4) Treatment of childhood affective disorders
Specific Research Activities:
The nosology and course of preschool depression
An exploratory investigation of preschool mania
Treatment study of pediatric bipolar disorder
Double-blind placebo control study in risperidone in early onset Autistic
Spectrum Disorders
Special Populations
Psychiatrically disturbed infants and preschoolers
Preschool children with symptoms of affective disturbances
Preschool children with disruptive disorders
Key References
Luby JL, Morgan K: Characteristics of an infant/preschool psychiatric clinic
sample: Implications for clinical assessment and nosology. Infant Mental
Health Journal 1997; 8(2):209-220.
Geller B, Luby JL: Child and adolescent bipolar disorder: Review of the
past 10 years. Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry
1997; 36:1168-1176.
Luby JL, Heffelfinger A, Measelle JR, Ablow JC, Essex MJ, Dierker L, Harrington
R, Kraemer HC, Kupfer DJ: Differential performance of the MacArthur HBQ
and DISC-IV in identification of DSM-IV internalizing disorder in young
children. American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry 2002; 41(4):458-466.
Luby JL, Heffelfinger A, Mrakotsky C, Hessler MJ, Brown KM, Hildebrand T:
Preschool major depressive disorder: Preliminary validation for developmentally
modified DSM-IV criteria. Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent
Psychiatry 2002; 41(8):928-937.
Luby JL, Heffelfinger A, Mrakotsky C, Brown K, Hessler M, Wallis J, Spitznagel
E: The clinical picture of depression in preschool children. Journal of
the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry 2003; 42(3):340-348.
Luby JL, Mrakotsky C, Brown K, Hessler M, Spitznagel E: Modification of
DSM-IV criteria for depressed preschool children. American Journal of Psychiatry
2003; 160:1169-1172).
Luby JL, Heffelfinger A, Mrakotsky C, Brown K, Hessler M, Spitznagel E:
Alterations instress cortisol reactivity in depressed preschoolers relative
to psychiatric and no disorder comparison groups. Archives of General Psychiatry
2003; 60: 1248-1255).
Luby JL, Heffelfinger A, Koenig-McNaught A, Brown K, Spitznagel E: The preschool
feelings checklist: A brief and sensitive screening measure for depression
in young children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry (in press).
Luby JL, Mrakotsky CM, Heffelfinger A, Brown K, Spitznagel E: Characteristics
of depressed preschoolers with and without anhedonia: Evidence for a melancholic
depressive sub-type in young children. The American Journal of Psychiatry
(in press).