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Overview

Robert J. Ursano is affiliated with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a specialized emphasis on clinical psychology. Additionally, their work spans several subfields including general health professions, experimental and cognitive psychology, emergency medicine, and genetics.

They have contributed to multiple topics within mental health research, notably:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Murray B. Stein (71 coauthored papers)
  • Carol S. Fullerton (63 coauthored papers)
  • Ronald C. Kessler (61 coauthored papers)
  • James A. Naifeh (37 coauthored papers)
  • Nancy A. Sampson (29 coauthored papers)

Ursano's work has appeared in various publication venues with multiple contributions to the following:

  • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (25 publications)
  • Psychiatry (23 publications)
  • Psychological Medicine (12 publications)
  • JAMA Network Open (9 publications)
  • Military Medicine (7 publications)

Their recent selected papers include:

  • "Public responses to the novel 2019 coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Japan: Mental health consequences and target populations," 2020, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
  • "Ecological Disasters and Mental Health: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions," 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry," 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of PTSD across 10 military and civilian cohorts identifies methylation changes in AHRR," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference," 2024, Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Public responses to the novel 2019 coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Japan: Mental health consequences and target populations.

    Jun Shigemura;Robert J. Ursano;Joshua C. Morganstein;Mie Kurosawa

  • Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence

    Stevan E. Hobfoll;Patricia Watson;Carl C. Bell;Richard A. Bryant

  • The impact of a military air disaster on the health of assistance workers. A prospective study

    Paul T. Bartone;Robert J. Ursano;Kathleen M. Wright;Larry H. Ingraham

  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • What is an anxiety disorder

    Michelle G. Craske;Scott L. Rauch;Scott L. Rauch;Robert Ursano;Jason Prenoveau

  • Exposure to Hurricane-Related Stressors and Mental Illness After Hurricane Katrina

    Sandro Galea;Chris R. Brewin;Michael Gruber;Russell T. Jones

  • Effective Treatments for PTSD

    Robert J. Ursano

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • Trends in mental illness and suicidality after Hurricane Katrina

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sandro Galea;Michael J. Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

  • A systematic review of PTSD prevalence and trajectories in DSM-5 defined trauma exposed populations: intentional and non-intentional traumatic events.

    Patcho N. Santiago;Robert J. Ursano;Christine L. Gray;Robert S. Pynoos

  • Acute Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Depression in Disaster or Rescue Workers

    Carol S. Fullerton;Robert J. Ursano;Leming Wang

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in battle-injured soldiers.

    Thomas A Grieger;Stephen J Cozza;Robert J Ursano;Charles Hoge

  • Largest GWAS of PTSD (N=20 070) yields genetic overlap with schizophrenia and sex differences in heritability

    L. E. Duncan;A. Ratanatharathorn;A. E. Aiello;L. M. Almli

  • Predicting Suicides After Psychiatric Hospitalization in US Army Soldiers: The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)

    Ronald Kessler;Christopher H. Warner;Christopher Ivany;Maria Petukhova

  • Suicide Among Soldiers: A Review of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors

    Matthew K. Nock;Charlene Ann Deming;Carol S. Fullerton;Stephen Edward Gilman

  • Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Behavior Among Soldiers: Results From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)

    Matthew K. Nock;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein;Steven G. Heeringa;Robert J. Ursano

  • A guide to guidelines for the treatment of PTSD and related conditions

    David Forbes;Mark Creamer;Jonathan Ian Bisson;Judith A. Cohen

  • First Responders: Mental Health Consequences of Natural and Human-Made Disasters for Public Health and Public Safety Workers*

    David M. Benedek;Carol Fullerton;Robert J. Ursano

  • Predictors of Suicide and Accident Death in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS): Results From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)

    Michael Schoenbaum;Ronald Kessler;Stephen Edward Gilman;Lisa J. Colpe

  • The Army study to assess risk and resilience in servicemembers (Army STARRS).

    Robert J. Ursano;Lisa J. Colpe;Steven G. Heeringa;Ronald C. Kessler

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol S. Fullerton
Carol S. Fullerton Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Steven G. Heeringa
Steven G. Heeringa University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nancy A. Sampson
Nancy A. Sampson Harvard University
Chia-Yen Chen
Chia-Yen Chen Harvard University
Jordan W. Smoller
Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University
Alan M. Zaslavsky
Alan M. Zaslavsky Harvard University
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University

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