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Donald W. Black is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research spans several fields of study, mainly focusing on psychology and medicine, with particular expertise in clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. Their scholarly work also extends to genetics, philosophy, and cognitive neuroscience.

The primary topics Donald W. Black addresses in their publications include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments

Donald W. Black has contributed multiple research papers to prominent journals. Some of the recent publications include:

  • "Bipolar Disorder and Suicide: a Review," 2020, Current Psychiatry Reports
  • "A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts," 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia," 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Compulsive shopping: A review and update," 2022, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Genome-wide association study of pediatric obsessive-compulsive traits: shared genetic risk between traits and disorder," 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Tim B. Bigdeli
  • Srdjan Djurovic
  • Stephan Ripke
  • Farooq Amin
  • Elizabeth Bevilacqua

Donald W. Black has published in a variety of scientific venues, with several works appearing in:

  • Annals of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Current Psychiatry
  • Journal of Gambling Studies
  • Current Psychiatry Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has authored books published by Oxford University Press and American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks. Notable titles include "Bad Boys, Bad Men 3rd edition" and "Bad Boys to Bad Men," both published in 2021, as well as "Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

    Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Common variants on chromosome 6p22.1 are associated with schizophrenia

    Jianxin Shi;Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Alan R. Sanders

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Identification of loci associated with schizophrenia by genome-wide association and follow-up

    Michael C. O'Donovan;Nicholas Craddock;Nadine Norton;Hywel Williams

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • Internet addiction: definition, assessment, epidemiology and clinical management.

    Martha Shaw;Donald W. Black

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Revealing the complex genetic architecture of obsessive-compulsive disorder using meta-analysis

    Paul D. Arnold;Kathleen D. Askland;Cristina Barlassina;Laura Bellodi

  • Suicidal behavior in borderline personality disorder: prevalence, risk factors, prediction, and prevention.

    Donald W. Black;Nancee Blum;Bruce Pfohl;Nancy Hale

  • A Collaborative Survey of 80 Mutations in the BRCA1 Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Gene: Implications for Presymptomatic Testing and Screening

    Donna Shattuck Eidens;Melody Mcclure;Jacques Simard;Fernand Labrie

  • The prediction of suicide: Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of a multivariate model applied to suicide among 1906 patients with affective disorders.

    Rise B. Goldstein;Donald W. Black;Amelia Nasrallah;George Winokur

  • Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) for Outpatients With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial and 1-Year Follow-Up

    M.S.W. Nancee Blum;P.A.C. Don St. John;Bruce Pfohl;Scott Stuart

  • Characteristics of 36 subjects reporting compulsive sexual behavior.

    D. W. Black;L. L. D. Kehrberg;D. L. Flumerfelt;S. S. Schlosser

  • Copy number variants in schizophrenia: confirmation of five previous findings and new evidence for 3q29 microdeletions and VIPR2 duplications.

    Douglas F. Levinson;Jubao Duan;Sang Oh;Kai Wang

  • No significant association of 14 candidate genes with schizophrenia in a large European ancestry sample: Implications for psychiatric genetics

    Alan R. Sanders;Jubao Duan;Douglas F. Levinson;Jianxin Shi

  • Clinical Features and Psychiatric Comorbidity of Subjects With Pathological Gambling Behavior

    Donald W. Black;Trent Moyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan J. Mowry
Bryan J. Mowry University of Queensland
Jeff Allen
Jeff Allen University of Iowa
Alan R. Sanders
Alan R. Sanders NorthShore University HealthSystem
Jubao Duan
Jubao Duan University of Chicago
Danielle Posthuma
Danielle Posthuma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pablo V. Gejman
Pablo V. Gejman NorthShore University HealthSystem
Jeremy M. Silverman
Jeremy M. Silverman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
George Winokur
George Winokur University of Iowa
Douglas F. Levinson
Douglas F. Levinson Stanford University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

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