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Overview

Kerry L. Jang is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine and Psychology, with notable contributions in subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Clinical Psychology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's main topics of study include opioid use disorder treatment, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, mental health treatment and access, forensic toxicology and drug analysis, digital mental health interventions, cannabis and cannabinoid research, and homelessness and social issues.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Kerry L. Jang are:

  • Prevalence of co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder and association with overdose: a linked data cohort study among residents of British Columbia, Canada (2021, Addiction)
  • Shifting drug markets in North America - a global crisis in the making? (2023, International Journal of Mental Health Systems)
  • Shifting North American drug markets and challenges for the system of care (2021, International Journal of Mental Health Systems)
  • Understanding eHealth Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Targeting Substance Use: Realist Review (2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research)
  • Impact of opioid agonist treatment on mental health in patients with opioid use disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials (2021, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)

Jang frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Michael Krausz, Fiona Choi, Jean N. Westenberg, James S.H. Wong, and Mohammadali Nikoo.

The scientist has published work in several venues repeatedly, such as The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, International Journal of Mental Health Systems, Addiction, JMIR Formative Research, and Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Kerry L. Jang has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Cambridge University Press titled The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders (2020).

Best Publications

  • Heritability of the Big Five Personality Dimensions and Their Facets: A Twin Study

    K L Jang;W J Livesley;P A Vernon

  • Phenotypic and Genetic Structure of Traits Delineating Personality Disorder

    W. John Livesley;Kerry L. Jang;Philip A. Vernon

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Twin Study

    Murray B. Stein;Kerry L. Jang;Steven Taylor;Philip A. Vernon

  • Heritability of Facet-Level Traits in a Cross-Cultural Twin Sample: Support for a Hierarchical Model of Personality

    KL Jang;RR McCrae;Alois Angleitner;Rainer Riemann

  • An international two-stage genome-wide search for schizophrenia susceptibility genes.

    H.W. Moises;L. Yang;H. Kristbjarnarson;C. Wiese

  • The heritability of attitudes: a study of twins

    James M. Olson;Philip A. Vernon;Julie Aitken Harris;Kerry L. Jang

  • Heritability of facet-level traits in a cross-cultural twin sample: support for a hierarchical model of personality.

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  • Heritability of Anxiety Sensitivity: A Twin Study

    M B Stein;K L Jang;W J Livesley

  • Genetic and environmental contributions to dimensions of personality disorder.

    W J Livesley;K L Jang;D N Jackson;P A Vernon

  • Categorical distinctions in the study of personality disorder : implications for classification

    Livesley Wj;Schroeder Ml;Jackson Dn;Jang Kl

  • Genetic and environmental influences on the covariance of facets defining the domains of the five-factor model of personality

    Kerry L. Jang;W.John Livesley;Alois Angleitner;Rainer Riemann

  • Fluid Intelligence, Crystallized Intelligence, and the Openness/Intellect Factor

    Michael C. Ashton;Kibeom Lee;Philip A. Vernon;Kerry L. Jang

  • Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study

    Karri Silventoinen;Karri Silventoinen;Aline Jelenkovic;Aline Jelenkovic;Reijo Sund;Yoon-Mi Hur

  • Heritability of personality disorder traits: a twin study.

    K. L. Jang;W. J. Livesley;P. A. Vernon;D. N. Jackson

  • The role of genes and environment on trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: A review of twin studies☆

    Tracie O. Afifi;Gordon J.G. Asmundson;Steven Taylor;Kerry L. Jang

  • Genetic and environmental influences on height from infancy to early adulthood: An individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts

    Aline Jelenkovic;Aline Jelenkovic;Reijo Sund;Yoon Mi Hur;Yoshie Yokoyama

  • GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE OF CLONINGER'S TEMPERAMENT AND CHARACTER DIMENSIONS

    Juko Ando;Atsunobu Suzuki;Shinji Yamagata;Nobuhiko Kijima

  • Insecure attachment and personality disorder: a twin study of adults

    Thomas N. Crawford;W. John Livesley;Kerry L. Jang;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Heritability of social anxiety-related concerns and personality characteristics: a twin study

    Murray B Stein;Kerry L Jang;W John Livesley

  • Substance and artifact in the higher-order factors of the Big Five.

    Robert R. McCrae;Shinji Yamagata;Kerry L. Jang;Rainer Riemann

  • Sources of structure: Genetic, environmental, and artifactual influences on the covariance of personality traits

    KL Jang;RR McCrae;WJ Livesley;Rainer Riemann

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Tuvblad
Catherine Tuvblad Örebro University
Philip A. Vernon
Philip A. Vernon University of Western Ontario
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor University of British Columbia
Margaret Gatz
Margaret Gatz University of Southern California
Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Alice M. Gregory
Alice M. Gregory Goldsmiths University of London
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Massimo Mangino
Massimo Mangino King's College London
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland

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