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Overview

Robin P. Corley is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in the intersections of genetics, epidemiology, and substance abuse treatment.

The main fields of study for Corley encompass:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within psychology, their work mainly focuses on the following subfields:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Genetics
  • Pharmacology

Corley has contributed extensively to research topics including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis of over 1 million subjects identifies loci underlying multiple substance use disorders, 2023, Nature Mental Health
  • Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Baseline brain function in the preadolescents of the ABCD Study, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in Corley's work include:

  • John K. Hewitt
  • Chandra A. Reynolds
  • Sally J. Wadsworth
  • Christian J. Hopfer
  • Michael C. Stallings

The most common publication venues for their research are:

  • Behavior Genetics
  • Innovation in Aging
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Susan E. Young;John C. DeFries

  • Not All Executive Functions Are Related to Intelligence

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Robin P. Corley;Susan E. Young

  • The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood

    Claire M. A. Haworth;M. J. Wright;M. Luciano;N. G. Martin

  • Genetic and environmental influences on behavioral disinhibition.

    Susan E. Young;Michael C. Stallings;Robin P. Corley;Kenneth S. Krauter

  • Behavioral disinhibition: liability for externalizing spectrum disorders and its genetic and environmental relation to response inhibition across adolescence.

    Susan E. Young;Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Erik G. Willcutt

  • A simple genetic basis for a complex psychological trait in laboratory mice

    Jonathan Flint;Robin Corley;John C. DeFries;David W. Fulker

  • Substance use, abuse and dependence in adolescence: prevalence, symptom profiles and correlates

    S.E Young;R.P Corley;M.C Stallings;S.H Rhee

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Substance Initiation, Use, and Problem Use in Adolescents

    Soo Hyun Rhee;John K. Hewitt;Susan E. Young;Robin P. Corley

  • Temperament, emotion, and cognition at fourteen months: the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study.

    Robert N. Emde;Robert Plomin;JoAnn Robinson;Robin Corley

  • Developmental epidemiology of drug use and abuse in adolescence and young adulthood: Evidence of generalized risk.

    Rohan H. Palmer;S. E. Young;C. J. Hopfer;R. P. Corley

  • Genetic Change and Continuity from Fourteen to Twenty Months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study

    Robert Plomin;Jerome Kagan;Robert N. Emde;J. Steven Reznick

  • A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder

    Emma C Johnson;Ditte Demontis;Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson;Raymond K Walters

  • Stability and Change in Executive Function Abilities from Late Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin Study.

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Lee J. Altamirano;Robin P. Corley

  • The heritability of inhibited and uninhibited behavior: A twin study.

    JoAnn L. Robinson;Jerome Kagan;J. Steven Reznick;Robin Corley

  • Greater Attention Problems During Childhood Predict Poorer Executive Functioning in Late Adolescence

    Naomi P. Friedman;Brett C. Haberstick;Erik G. Willcutt;Akira Miyake

  • Nature, Nurture, and Cognitive Development from 1 to 16 Years: A Parent-Offspring Adoption Study

    Robert Plomin;David W. Fulker;Robin Corley;John C DeFries

  • 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

  • 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

  • Childhood Maltreatment, Subsequent Antisocial Behavior, and the Role of Monoamine Oxidase A Genotype

    David Huizinga;Brett C. Haberstick;Andrew Smolen;Scott Menard

  • Temperament, emotion, and cognition at fourteen months

    R N Emde;Robert Plomin;J A Robinson;R Corley

  • Nurture trumps nature in a longitudinal survey of salivary bacterial communities in twins from early adolescence to early adulthood.

    Simone S. Stahringer;Jose C. Clemente;Robin P. Corley;John Hewitt

Frequent Co-Authors

John K. Hewitt
John K. Hewitt University of Colorado Boulder
Soo Hyun Rhee
Soo Hyun Rhee University of Colorado Boulder
Michael C. Stallings
Michael C. Stallings University of Colorado Boulder
John C. DeFries
John C. DeFries University of Colorado Boulder
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Sally J. Wadsworth
Sally J. Wadsworth University of Colorado Boulder
Matt McGue
Matt McGue University of Minnesota
Meike Bartels
Meike Bartels Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dorret I. Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Stefan Samuelsson
Stefan Samuelsson Linköping University

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