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Overview

Owen M. Wolkowitz is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a significant focus on Biological Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience as notable subfields.

Their research topics prominently include:

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Frequently publishing in key academic venues, Owen M. Wolkowitz has contributed multiple works to:

  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Pre-deployment risk factors for PTSD in active-duty personnel deployed to Afghanistan: a machine-learning approach for analyzing multivariate predictors (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • A DNA methylation clock associated with age-related illnesses and mortality is accelerated in men with combat PTSD (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • "GrimAge," an epigenetic predictor of mortality, is accelerated in major depressive disorder (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Abnormal levels of mitochondrial proteins in plasma neuronal extracellular vesicles in major depressive disorder (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Epigenetic biotypes of post-traumatic stress disorder in war-zone exposed veteran and active duty males (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)

Owen M. Wolkowitz collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Synthia H. Mellon
  • Rasha Hammamieh
  • Marti Jett
  • Victor I. Reus
  • Charles R. Marmar

Best Publications

  • Neurobiological and neuropsychiatric effects of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate (DHEAS).

    Nicole Maninger;Owen M. Wolkowitz;Victor I. Reus;Elissa S. Epel

  • Selective Alteration of Personality and Social Behavior by Serotonergic Intervention

    Brian Knutson;Owen M. Wolkowitz;Steve W. Cole;Theresa Chan

  • Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators

    Tonya L. Jacobs;Elissa S. Epel;Jue Lin;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • Cell Aging in Relation to Stress Arousal and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

    Elissa S. Epel;Jue Lin;Frank H. Wilhelm;Owen M. Wolkowitz

  • Double-blind treatment of major depression with dehydroepiandrosterone.

    Owen M. Wolkowitz;Victor I. Reus;Audrey Keebler;Nicola Nelson

  • Cognitive effects of corticosteroids.

    Owen M. Wolkowitz;Victor I. Reus;Victor I. Reus;Victor I. Reus;Herbert Weingartner;Herbert Weingartner;Herbert Weingartner;Karen Thompson;Karen Thompson;Karen Thompson

  • Good Stress, Bad Stress and Oxidative Stress: Insights from Anticipatory Cortisol Reactivity

    Kirstin Aschbacher;Aoife O’Donovan;Aoife O’Donovan;Owen M. Wolkowitz;Firdaus S. Dhabhar

  • Neuropsychiatric Effects of Anabolic Steroids in Male Normal Volunteers

    Tung Ping Su;Michael Pagliaro;Peter J. Schmidt;David Pickar

  • Leukocyte telomere length in major depression: correlations with chronicity, inflammation and oxidative stress--preliminary findings.

    Owen M. Wolkowitz;Synthia H. Mellon;Elissa S. Epel;Jue Lin

  • Analyses and comparisons of telomerase activity and telomere length in human T and B cells: insights for epidemiology of telomere maintenance.

    Jue Lin;Elissa Epel;Joshua Cheon;Candyce Kroenke

  • Oxidative stress, inflammation and treatment response in major depression

    Daniel Lindqvist;Daniel Lindqvist;Firdaus S. Dhabhar;S. Jill James;Christina M. Hough

  • Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) treatment of depression

    Owen M. Wolkowitz;Victor I. Reus;Eugene Roberts;Francesca Manfredi

  • Stress and Telomere Biology: A Lifespan Perspective

    Idan Shalev;Sonja Entringer;Pathik D. Wadhwa;Owen M. Wolkowitz

  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Subgenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Depressed Adolescents

    Colm G. Connolly;Jing Wu;Tiffany C. Ho;Fumiko Hoeft

  • Longitudinal Measurement of Plasma Homovanillic Acid Levels in Schizophrenic Patients: Correlation With Psychosis and Response to Neuroleptic Treatment

    David Pickar;Rodrigo Labarca;Allen R. Doran;Owen M. Wolkowitz

  • Depression gets old fast: do stress and depression accelerate cell aging?

    Owen M. Wolkowitz;Elissa S. Epel;Victor I. Reus;Synthia H. Mellon

  • Early Parental Loss and Development of Adult Psychopathology

    Alan Breier;John R. Kelsoe;Paul D. Kirwin;Stacy A. Beller

  • Psychiatric disorders and leukocyte telomere length: Underlying mechanisms linking mental illness with cellular aging.

    Daniel Lindqvist;Elissa S. Epel;Synthia H. Mellon;Brenda W. Penninx

  • Controllable and uncontrollable stress in humans: alterations in mood and neuroendocrine and psychophysiological function

    Alan Breier;Margot Albus;David Pickar;Theodore P. Zahn

  • Major depressive disorder and accelerated cellular aging: results from a large psychiatric cohort study

    J E Verhoeven;D Révész;E S Epel;J Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor I. Reus
Victor I. Reus University of California, San Francisco
Synthia H. Mellon
Synthia H. Mellon University of California, San Francisco
Elissa S. Epel
Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco
David Pickar
David Pickar National Institutes of Health
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Janine D. Flory
Janine D. Flory Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco
Charles R. Marmar
Charles R. Marmar New York University
Herbert Weingartner
Herbert Weingartner National Institutes of Health
Alec Roy
Alec Roy United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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