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Overview

Emil F. Coccaro is affiliated with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions in the subfields of clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, health, and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism.

They have published extensively on topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, suicide and self-harm studies, bullying, victimization, and aggression, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, stress responses and cortisol, child abuse and trauma, and broader mental health research topics.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • The Overt Aggression Scale Modified (OAS-M) for clinical trials targeting impulsive aggression and intermittent explosive disorder: Validity, reliability, and correlates (2020), Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Emotional Regulation and Diabetes Distress in Adults With Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes (2020), Diabetes Care
  • Defining the p-factor: an empirical test of five leading theories (2022), Psychological Medicine
  • Gender Differences in the Relationship between Anger and Aggressive Behavior (2021), Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • History of childhood abuse and alcohol use disorder: Relationship with intermittent explosive disorder and intoxicated aggression frequency (2020), Journal of Psychiatric Research

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Mitchell E. Berman
  • Michael S. McCloskey
  • Matthew A. Timmins
  • Royce Lee
  • Stephanie M. Gorka

Emil F. Coccaro has published numerous articles in a variety of academic journals, with a concentration in:

  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging

Best Publications

  • Serotonergic Studies in Patients with Affective and Personality Disorders: Correlates with Suicidal and Impulsive Aggressive Behavior

    Emil F. Coccaro;Larry J. Siever;Howard M. Klar;Gail Maurer

  • Amygdala and orbitofrontal reactivity to social threat in individuals with impulsive aggression.

    Emil F. Coccaro;Michael S. McCloskey;Daniel A. Fitzgerald;K. Luan Phan

  • Fluoxetine and Impulsive Aggressive Behavior in Personality-Disordered Subjects

    Emil F. Coccaro;Richard J. Kavoussi

  • Central serotonin and impulsive aggression.

    Emil F. Coccaro

  • Assessment of life history of aggression: development and psychometric characteristics

    Emil F. Coccaro;Mitchell E. Berman;Richard J. Kavoussi

  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Vasopressin Levels: Correlates With Aggression and Serotonin Function in Personality-Disordered Subjects

    Emil F. Coccaro;Richard J. Kavoussi;Richard L. Hauger;Thomas B. Cooper

  • The prevalence and correlates of DSM-IV intermittent explosive disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

    Ronald C. Kessler;Emil F. Coccaro;Maurizio Fava;Savina Jaeger

  • Evidence for a dysfunctional prefrontal circuit in patients with an impulsive aggressive disorder

    Mary Best;J. Michael Williams;Emil F. Coccaro

  • Divalproex in the Treatment of Impulsive Aggression: Efficacy in Cluster B Personality Disorders

    Eric Hollander;Katherine A Tracy;Katherine A Tracy;Alan C Swann;Emil F Coccaro

  • An open trial of sertraline in personality disordered patients with impulsive aggression.

    Richard J. Kavoussi;Jennifer Liu;Emil F. Coccaro

  • A POPULATION-SPECIFIC HTR2B STOP CODON PREDISPOSES TO SEVERE IMPULSIVITY

    Laura Bevilacqua;Stephane Doly;Jaakko Kaprio;Jaakko Kaprio;Qiaoping Yuan

  • Heritability of aggression and irritability: A twin study of the buss—durkee aggression scales in adult male subjects

    Emil F. Coccaro;C.S. Bergeman;Richard J. Kavoussi;A.D. Seroczynski

  • Impulsive aggression and central serotonergic system function in humans: an example of a dimensional brain-behavior relationship.

    E. F. Coccaro

  • Proactive, reactive, and romantic relational aggression in adulthood: measurement, predictive validity, gender differences, and association with Intermittent Explosive Disorder.

    Dianna Murray-Close;Jamie M. Ostrov;David A. Nelson;Nicki R. Crick

  • Corticolimbic function in impulsive aggressive behavior.

    Emil F. Coccaro;Chandra Sekhar Sripada;Rachel N. Yanowitch;K. Luan Phan

  • Etiology of the impulsivity/aggression relationship: genes or environment?

    Alesha D Seroczynski;C.S Bergeman;Emil F Coccaro

  • Identifying differences in biased affective information processing in major depression

    Jackie K. Gollan;Heather T. Pane;Michael S. McCloskey;Emil F. Coccaro

  • Preliminary evidence of white matter abnormality in the uncinate fasciculus in generalized social anxiety disorder.

    K. Luan Phan;Anton Orlichenko;Erin Boyd;Mike Angstadt

  • D4 Dopamine-Receptor (DRD4) Alleles and Novelty Seeking in Substance-Dependent, Personality-Disorder, and Control Subjects

    J. Gelernter;H. Kranzler;E. Coccaro;L. Siever

  • Impulsive Aggression in Personality Disorder Correlates With Tritiated Paroxetine Binding in the Platelet

    Emil F. Coccaro;Richard J. Kavoussi;Yvette I. Sheline;Jennifer D. Lish

Frequent Co-Authors

Royce Lee
Royce Lee University of Chicago
Larry J. Siever
Larry J. Siever Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael McCloskey
Michael McCloskey Johns Hopkins University
Mitchell E. Berman
Mitchell E. Berman Mississippi State University
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Kenneth L. Davis
Kenneth L. Davis Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Richard L. Hauger
Richard L. Hauger University of California, San Diego
Thomas B. Cooper
Thomas B. Cooper Columbia University
Jeremy M. Silverman
Jeremy M. Silverman Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Antonia S. New
Antonia S. New Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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