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2025

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111
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381
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Overview

Charles R. Marmar is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research extensively covers multiple disciplines within medicine and neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology and related subfields. The scientist's publication record demonstrates significant involvement in the study of mental health, neural mechanisms, and psychological disorders.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these broader fields, the key subfields of study encompass:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Epidemiology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

Marmar's research addresses a variety of important topics, with the following areas being most prominent:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

The scientist has published in several notable venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • JAMA
  • American Journal of Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Marti Jett (24 coauthored publications)
  • Rasha Hammamieh (23)
  • Aarti Gautam (18)
  • Synthia H. Mellon (18)
  • Owen M. Wolkowitz (18)

Some recent papers associated with their work include:

  • "Identification of psychiatric disorder subtypes from functional connectivity patterns in resting-state electroencephalography," 2020, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • "First-line Psychotherapies for Military-Related PTSD," 2020, JAMA
  • "Mental Health Disorders Related to COVID-19-Related Deaths," 2020, JAMA
  • "A validated predictive algorithm of post-traumatic stress course following emergency department admission after a traumatic stressor," 2020, Nature Medicine
  • "Pre-deployment risk factors for PTSD in active-duty personnel deployed to Afghanistan: a machine-learning approach for analyzing multivariate predictors," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Trauma and the Vietnam war generation: Report of findings from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study.

    Richard A. Kulka;William E. Schlenger;John A. Fairbank;Richard L. Hough

  • Bringing the War Back Home: Mental Health Disorders Among 103 788 US Veterans Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan Seen at Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities

    Karen H. Seal;Daniel Bertenthal;Christian R. Miner;Saunak Sen

  • Trends and risk factors for mental health diagnoses among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans using Department of Veterans Affairs health care, 2002-2008

    Karen H. Seal;Thomas J. Metzler;Kristian S. Gima;Daniel Bertenthal

  • Problems in families of male Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.

    B. K. Jordan;C. R. Marmar;John A. Fairbank;W. E. Schlenger

  • Psychotherapy for Military-Related PTSD: A Review of Randomized Clinical Trials.

    Maria M. Steenkamp;Brett T. Litz;Charles W. Hoge;Charles R. Marmar

  • Peritraumatic dissociation and posttraumatic stress in male Vietnam theater veterans.

    Marmar Cr;Weiss Ds;Schlenger We;Fairbank Ja

  • Rescuers at risk: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis of the worldwide current prevalence and correlates of PTSD in rescue workers

    William Berger;William Berger;Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho;Ivan Figueira;Carla Marques-Portella

  • Cannabidiol as a Potential Treatment for Anxiety Disorders

    Esther M. Blessing;Maria M. Steenkamp;Jorge Manzanares;Jorge Manzanares;Charles R. Marmar

  • The Peritraumatic Distress Inventory: A Proposed Measure of PTSD Criterion A2

    Alain Brunet;Daniel S. Weiss;Thomas J. Metzler;Suzanne R. Best

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and functioning and quality of life outcomes in a nationally representative sample of male Vietnam veterans.

    Douglas F. Zatzick;Charles R. Marmar;Daniel S. Weiss;Warren S. Browner

  • Immediate treatment with propranolol decreases posttraumatic stress disorder two months after trauma

    Guillaume Vaiva;François Ducrocq;Karine Jezequel;Benoit Averland

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk of dementia among US veterans.

    Kristine C. Yaffe;Eric Vittinghoff;Karla Lindquist;Deborah Barnes

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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  • Sleep disturbances in the Vietnam generation: findings from a nationally representative sample of male Vietnam veterans.

    Thomas C. Neylan;Charles R. Marmar;Thomas J. Metzler;Daniel S. Weiss

  • Predictors of posttraumatic stress in police and other first responders.

    Charles R. Marmar;Charles R. Marmar;Shannon E. McCASLIN;Shannon E. McCASLIN;Thomas J. Metzler;Thomas J. Metzler;Suzanne Best

  • VA Mental Health Services Utilization in Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans in the First Year of Receiving New Mental Health Diagnoses

    Karen H. Seal;Shira Maguen;Beth Cohen;Kristian S. Gima

  • The Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire.

    Charles R. Marmar;Daniel S. Weiss;Thomas J. Metzler

  • A meta-analysis of cortisol response to challenge in human aging: importance of gender.

    Christian Otte;Stacey Hart;Stacey Hart;Thomas C. Neylan;Thomas C. Neylan;Charles R. Marmar;Charles R. Marmar

  • The impact of reported direct and indirect killing on mental health symptoms in Iraq war veterans.

    Shira Maguen;Barbara A. Lucenko;Mark A. Reger;Gregory A. Gahm

  • Routine occupational stress and psychological distress in police

    Akiva M. Liberman;Suzanne R. Best;Thomas J. Metzler;Jeffrey A. Fagan

  • The prevalence of lifetime and partial post-traumatic stress disorder in vietnam theater veterans

    Daniel S. Weiss;Charles R. Marmar;William E. Schlenger;John A. Fairbank

  • Characteristics of emergency services personnel related to peritraumatic dissociation during critical incident exposure.

    Charles R. Marmar;Daniel S. Weiss;Thomas J. Metzler;Kevin Delucchi

  • Impact of Event Scale--Revised

    Daniel S. Weiss;Charles R. Marmar

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas C. Neylan
Thomas C. Neylan University of California, San Francisco
Thomas J. Metzler
Thomas J. Metzler Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Daniel S. Weiss
Daniel S. Weiss University of California, San Francisco
Janine D. Flory
Janine D. Flory Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Synthia H. Mellon
Synthia H. Mellon University of California, San Francisco
Christian Otte
Christian Otte Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Shira Maguen
Shira Maguen University of California, San Francisco
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Richard A. Bryant
Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales

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