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Stephen E. Gilman is affiliated with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The scientist's work centers on several key topics including:

  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care

Stephen E. Gilman has contributed to multiple research papers published in established venues. Recent publications include:

  • "Trajectories of Maternal Postpartum Depressive Symptoms," 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • "Impact of prenatal maternal cytokine exposure on sex differences in brain circuitry regulating stress in offspring 45 years later," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Adverse childhood experiences and premature mortality through mid-adulthood: A five-decade prospective study," 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
  • "Associations of types of green space across the life-course with blood pressure and body mass index," 2020, Environmental Research
  • "Optimism and Social Support Predict Healthier Adult Behaviors Despite Socially Disadvantaged Childhoods," 2020, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Frequent publication venues for Stephen E. Gilman's work include:

  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • PEDIATRICS
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • JAMA Network Open

The scientist often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Jing Yu
  • Denise L. Haynie
  • Rajeshwari Sundaram
  • Pablo Vidal-Ribas
  • Theemeshni Govender

Best Publications

  • Race/ethnic differences in exposure to traumatic events, development of post-traumatic stress disorder, and treatment-seeking for post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States.

    Andrea L. Roberts;Stephen E. Gilman;Joshua Breslau;Naomi Breslau

  • Eating behaviours and attitudes following prolonged exposure to television among ethnic Fijian adolescent girls.

    Anne E. Becker;Rebecca A. Burwell;David B. Herzog;Paul Hamburg

  • Risk of psychiatric disorders among individuals reporting same-sex sexual partners in the National Comorbidity Survey.

    Stephen E. Gilman;Susan D. Cochran;Vickie M. Mays;Michael Hughes

  • Childhood adversity, adult stressful life events, and risk of past-year psychiatric disorder: a test of the stress sensitization hypothesis in a population-based sample of adults

    Katie A. McLaughlin;Kerith J. Conron;Karestan C. Koenen;Stephen E. Gilman

  • Socioeconomic status in childhood and the lifetime risk of major depression

    Stephen E Gilman;Ichiro Kawachi;Garrett M Fitzmaurice;Stephen L Buka

  • Parental Smoking and Adolescent Smoking Initiation: An Intergenerational Perspective on Tobacco Control

    Stephen E. Gilman;Richard Rende;Julie Boergers;Julie Boergers;David B. Abrams

  • Socio-economic status, family disruption and residential stability in childhood: Relation to onset, recurrence and remission of major depression.

    Stephen E. Gilman;I. Kawachi;G. M. Fitzmaurice;S. L. Buka

  • 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

  • Socioeconomic status over the life course and stages of cigarette use: initiation, regular use, and cessation

    Stephen E. Gilman;D. B. Abrams;S. L. Buka

  • Sierra Leone's former child soldiers: a follow-up study of psychosocial adjustment and community reintegration.

    Theresa Stichick Betancourt;Ivelina Ivanova Borisova;Timothy Philip Williams;Robert Thomas Brennan

  • Poverty, food insecurity, and the behavior for childhood internalizing and externalizing disorders.

    Natalie Slopen;Garrett Fitzmaurice;David R. Williams;Stephen E. Gilman

  • A longitudinal study of the order of onset of alcohol dependence and major depression.

    Stephen E Gilman;Henry David Abraham

  • An autosomal genomic screen for autism. Collaborative linkage study of autism.

    Barrett S;Beck Jc;Bernier R;Bisson E

  • 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

  • An autosomal genomic screen for autism

    Stacey Barrett;John C. Beck;Raphael Bernier;Erica Bisson

  • Life Course Approaches to the Causes of Health Disparities.

    Nancy L. Jones;Stephen E. Gilman;Tina L. Cheng;Stacy S. Drury

  • Past horrors, present struggles: the role of stigma in the association between war experiences and psychosocial adjustment among former child soldiers in Sierra Leone.

    Theresa Stichick Betancourt;Jessica Agnew-Blais;Stephen Edward Gilman;David Williams

  • Sierra Leone's former child soldiers: a longitudinal study of risk, protective factors, and mental health

    Theresa Stichick Betancourt;Robert Thomas Brennan;Julia Rubin-Smith;Garrett M. Fitzmaurice

  • Sex differences in recent first-onset depression in an epidemiological sample of adolescents

    Joshua Breslau;Stephen E. Gilman;Bradley D. Stein;Teague Ruder

  • Educational attainment and cigarette smoking: a causal association?

    Stephen E Gilman;Laurie T Martin;David B Abrams;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Sexual orientation in a U.S. national sample of twin and nontwin sibling pairs.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Laura M. Thornton;Stephen E. Gilman;Ronald C. Kessler

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua Breslau
Joshua Breslau RAND Corporation
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice Harvard University
Laura D. Kubzansky
Laura D. Kubzansky Harvard University
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Denise L. Haynie
Denise L. Haynie National Institutes of Health
Robert J. Ursano
Robert J. Ursano Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Carol S. Fullerton
Carol S. Fullerton Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Risë B. Goldstein
Risë B. Goldstein National Institutes of Health
Ruth H. Striegel-Moore
Ruth H. Striegel-Moore Wesleyan University

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