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Michael A. Young is affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily across the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with notable focus areas including Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work addresses a variety of topics such as Mental Health Research Topics, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Peripheral Artery Disease Management, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development. Additional research interests include Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases, Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases, and Occupational Health and Performance.

Among their recent papers are several interdisciplinary studies published between 2020 and 2021. These include:

  • Meta-analysis of sleep deprivation in the acute treatment of bipolar depression (2020), published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Monitoring processes in extended emotion regulation (2020), published in Cognition & Emotion
  • The Symptom Structure of Seasonal Affective Disorder: Integrating Results from Factor and Network Analyses in the Context of the Dual Vulnerability Model (2021), published in Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Genetic association of primary non-response to Anti-TNFα therapy in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Executive Functioning and Emotion Regulation Contributions to Social Interaction and Communication (2020), published in Psychological Studies

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Stanislav Henkin, Kelly J. Rohan, David J. Malenka, Niveditta Ramkumar, and James M. Flynn.

Michael A. Young's research has been disseminated notably in journals such as Circulation, with four publications, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology with three, and The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research with two. Other venues include Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica and Cognition & Emotion.

They have also contributed to book publications, including a title published by StatPearls Publishing eBooks: Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiogram (2021).

Best Publications

  • Time-related predictors of suicide in major affective disorder

    Jan Fawcett;William A. Scheftner;Louis Fogg;David C. Clark

  • Bright Light Treatment of Winter Depression: A Placebo-Controlled Trial

    Charmane I. Eastman;Michael A. Young;Louis F. Fogg;Liwen Liu

  • DSM-V and the stigma of mental illness

    Dror Ben-Zeev;Michael A. Young;Patrick W. Corrigan

  • Stable trait components of hopelessness: baseline and sensitivity to depression

    Michael A. Young;Louis F. Fogg;William Scheftner;Jan Fawcett

  • Effect of Clozapine on Human Serum Prolactin Levels

    Herbert Y. Meltzer;David J. Goode;Paul M. Schyve;Michael Young

  • Racial group differences in help-seeking behaviors

    Liat Ayalon;Michael A Young

  • Gender differences in the clinical features of unipolar major depressive disorder.

    Michael A. Young;William A. Scheftner;Jan Fawcett;Gerald L. Klerman

  • Extrapyramidal side effects and increased serum prolactin following fluoxetine, a new antidepressant.

    H. Y. Meltzer;M. Young;J. Metz;V. S. Fang

  • Retrospective recall of affect in clinically depressed individuals and controls

    Dror Ben-Zeev;Michael A. Young;Joshua W. Madsen

  • Role of REM sleep and dream affect in overnight mood regulation: a study of normal volunteers

    Rosalind Cartwright;Alice Luten;Michael Young;Patricia Mercer

  • Which environmental variables are related to the onset of seasonal affective disorder

    Michael A. Young;Patricia M. Meaden;Louis F. Fogg;Eva A. Cherin

  • The equivalence of the Child Behavior Checklist/1 1/2-5 across parent race/ethnicity, income level, and language.

    Deborah Gross;Louis Fogg;Michael Young;Alison Ridge

  • Real-time predictors of suicidal ideation: Mobile assessment of hospitalized depressed patients

    Dror Ben-Zeev;Michael A. Young;Colin A. Depp

  • Comparing Retrospective Reports to Real-Time/Real-Place Mobile Assessments in Individuals With Schizophrenia and a Nonclinical Comparison Group

    Dror Ben-Zeev;Gregory J. McHugo;Haiyi Xie;Katy Dobbins

  • The temporal onset of individual symptoms in winter depression: differentiating underlying mechanisms.

    Michael A. Young;Lucie G. Watel;Henry W. Lahmeyer;Charmane I. Eastman

  • Sex differences in the lifetime prevalence of depression: does varying the diagnostic criteria reduce the female/male ratio?

    Michael A. Young;Louis F. Fogg;William A. Scheftner;Martin B. Keller

  • Accuracy of hospitalized depressed patients' and healthy controls' retrospective symptom reports: an experience sampling study.

    Dror Ben-Zeev;Michael A. Young

  • Interactions of risk factors in predicting suicide.

    Michael A. Young;Louis Fogg;William A. Scheftner;Jan A. Fawcett

  • Evaluating diagnostic criteria: A latent class paradigm

    Michael A. Young

  • Isolation and characterization of a nuclear depressive syndrome.

    W. M. Grove;N. C. Andreasen;M. Young;J. Endicott

  • A Comparison Of Depressive Symptons In African Americans And Caucasian Americans

    Liat Ayalon;Michael A. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Fawcett
Jan Fawcett University of New Mexico
Liat Ayalon
Liat Ayalon Bar-Ilan University
Nancy C. Andreasen
Nancy C. Andreasen University of Iowa
Rosalind D. Cartwright
Rosalind D. Cartwright Rush University Medical Center
Colin A. Depp
Colin A. Depp University of California, San Diego
Gregory J. McHugo
Gregory J. McHugo Dartmouth College
Hagop S. Akiskal
Hagop S. Akiskal University of California, San Diego
Andrea C. King
Andrea C. King University of Chicago
Jean Endicott
Jean Endicott Columbia University
Stephen K. Gray
Stephen K. Gray Victoria University

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