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Overview

Theodore Jacob is affiliated with the Veterans Health Administration in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of medicine, with a focus on subfields including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, education, epidemiology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their work covers a range of main topics, notably:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Jacob has contributed to research published in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • BMC Psychology

Among their recent papers are:

  • Genetic architecture of reciprocal social behavior in toddlers: Implications for heterogeneity in the early origins of autism spectrum disorder, 2020, Development and Psychopathology
  • Transitions in alcohol use over time: a survival analysis, 2020, BMC Psychology

These publications address topics such as early behavioral patterns related to autism spectrum disorders and patterns in alcohol consumption over time.

Jacob's collaborative work frequently involves several coauthors, with the most frequent being:

  • Jon Randolph Haber
  • Natasha Marrus
  • Julia D. Grant
  • Brooke Harris-Olenak
  • Jordan Albright

Best Publications

  • The role of childhood risk factors in initiation of alcohol use and progression to alcohol dependence

    Carolyn E Sartor;Michael T Lynskey;Andrew C Heath;Theodore Jacob

  • Parent-Child Interaction Among Depressed Fathers and Mothers: Impact on Child Functioning

    Theodore Jacob;Sheri L. Johnson

  • A twin study of genetic and environmental influences on suicidality in men.

    Q. Fu;Andrew C. Heath;K. K. Bucholz;E. C. Nelson

  • Shared genetic risk of major depression, alcohol dependence, and marijuana dependence: contribution of antisocial personality disorder in men.

    Qiang Fu;Andrew C. Heath;Kathleen K. Bucholz;Elliot Nelson

  • Maternal alcohol use disorder and offspring ADHD: disentangling genetic and environmental effects using a children-of-twins design.

    Valerie S. Knopik;Andrew C. Heath;Theodore Jacob;Wendy S. Slutske

  • Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Family Violence

    Kenneth E. Leonard;Theodore Jacob

  • Influences of marital conflict on child adjustment: review of theory and research.

    Daniel M. Zimet;Theodore Jacob

  • The effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring outcomes

    Arpana Agrawal;Jeffrey F Scherrer;Jeffrey F Scherrer;Julia D Grant;Carolyn E Sartor

  • Family Interaction and Psychopathology

    Theodore Jacob

  • Genetic and Environmental Effects on Offspring Alcoholism: New Insights Using an Offspring-of-Twins Design

    Theodore Jacob;Brian Waterman;Andrew Heath;William True

  • Marital interactions of depressed men and women.

    Sheri L. Johnson;Theodore Jacob

  • Psychosocial functioning in children of alcoholic fathers, depressed fathers and control fathers.

    Theodore Jacob;Kenneth Leonard

  • Parenting influences on the development of alcohol abuse and dependence.

    Theodore Jacob;Sheri Johnson

  • Parent-Child Interactions in Families with Alcoholic Fathers.

    Theodore Jacob;Gloria L. Krahn;Kenneth Leonard

  • Marital interactions of alcoholic couples: comparison with depressed and nondistressed couples.

    Theodore Jacob;Gloria L. Krahn

  • Alcoholic-spouse interaction as a function of alcoholism subtype and alcohol consumption interaction.

    Theodore Jacob;Kenneth E. Leonard

  • The association between cannabis abuse and dependence and childhood physical and sexual abuse: Evidence from an offspring of twins design

    Alexis E. Duncan;Carolyn E. Sartor;Carolyn E. Sartor;Jeffrey F. Scherrer;Jeffrey F. Scherrer;Julia D. Grant

  • A Comparison of Marital Interaction Patterns Between Couples in Which the Husband Does or Does Not Have Alzheimer's Disease

    Dolores Gallagher-Thompson;Dolores Gallagher-Thompson;Pamela G. Dal Canto;Pamela G. Dal Canto;Theodore Jacob;Larry W. Thompson;Larry W. Thompson

  • Assortative mating among men and women alcoholics.

    Theodore Jacob;Deborah A. Bremer

  • Cognitive Status of Sons of Alcoholic Men

    Ralph E. Tarter;Theodore Jacob;Deborah A. Bremer

  • Children of alcoholics: A critical appraisal of theory and research: K. Sher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992

    Theodore Jacob

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathleen K. Bucholz
Kathleen K. Bucholz Washington University in St. Louis
Hong Xian
Hong Xian Saint Louis University
Julia D. Grant
Julia D. Grant Washington University in St. Louis
Carolyn E. Sartor
Carolyn E. Sartor Yale University
Andrew C. Heath
Andrew C. Heath Washington University in St. Louis
Pamela A. F. Madden
Pamela A. F. Madden Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel M. Blonigen
Daniel M. Blonigen VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Arpana Agrawal
Arpana Agrawal Washington University in St. Louis
Kenneth E. Leonard
Kenneth E. Leonard University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Sheri L. Johnson
Sheri L. Johnson University of California, Berkeley

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