Academic Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Dr. David A. Brent, MD
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David Brent practices Psychiatry. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College. He over the years received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Pittsburgh Magazine", "Elected Member" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". David Brent is a published MD. He has 100 publications published. The most current publication "Religion as a Risk Factor for Suicide Attempt and Suicide Ideation Among Depressed Patients."
Publications
- Altered neural function to happy faces in adolescents with and at risk for depression.
- Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents: Moderators of Long-term Response.
- Toward the Definition of a Bipolar Prodrome: Dimensional Predictors of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in At-Risk Youths.
- Religion as a Risk Factor for Suicide Attempt and Suicide Ideation Among Depressed Patients.
- Effect of a Cognitive-Behavioral Prevention Program on Depression 6 Years After Implementation Among At-Risk Adolescents: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Impulsive aggression, delay discounting, and adolescent suicide attempts: effects of current psychotropic medication use and family history of suicidal behavior.
- New approaches to the assessment and treatment of suicidal adolescents.
- Family-based interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed preadolescents: examining efficacy and potential treatment mechanisms.
- Diagnostic Precursors to Bipolar Disorder in Offspring of Parents With Bipolar Disorder: A Longitudinal Study.
- Familial pathways to early-onset suicide attempt: a 5.6-year prospective study.
- Right superior temporal gyrus volume in adolescents with a history of suicide attempt.
- Neuropsychological deficits in past suicide attempters with varying levels of depression severity.
- The Effects of Parental Mood on Reports of Their Children's Psychopathology.
- Bipolar I and II versus unipolar depression: Clinical differences and impulsivity/aggression traits.
- Antidepressant treatment and suicide attempts and self-inflicted injury in children and adolescents.
- Collaborative care for adolescents with depression in primary care: a randomized clinical trial.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder: Results from a Pilot Randomized Trial.
- Student Assistance Program Outcomes for Students at Risk for Suicide.
- Dimensional psychopathology in preschool offspring of parents with bipolar Disorder.
- Prospective longitudinal course of aggression among adults with bipolar Disorder.
- Antidepressants increase risk of behavioural symptoms in children and adolescents with depression or anxiety.
- Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents: Longer-term Effects.
- The bidirectional relationship between body mass index and treatment outcome in adolescents with treatment-resistant depression.
- Familial transmission of parental mood Disorders: unipolar and bipolar Disorders in offspring.
- A prospective study of parentally bereaved youth, caregiver depression, and body mass index.
- Shedding light on the long shadow of childhood adversity.
- Impact of treatments for depression on comorbid anxiety, attentional, and behavioral symptoms in adolescents with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistant depr...
- The bi-directional relationship between parent-child conflict and treatment outcome in treatment-resistant adolescent depression.
- Mood lability among offspring of parents with bipolar Disorder and community controls.
- Preserved hippocampal function during learning in the context of risk in adolescent suicide attempt.
- Differential patterns of activity and functional connectivity in emotion processing neural circuitry to angry and happy faces in adolescents with and without suicide a...
- A large-scale candidate gene analysis of mood Disorders: evidence of neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor and opioid receptor signaling dysfunction.
- Cortisol Response to Social Stress in Parentally Bereaved Youth.
- A longitudinal study of nonsuicidal self-injury in offspring at high risk for mood Disorder.
- Familial and individual correlates of nonsuicidal self-injury in the offspring of mood-Disordered parents.
- Child and adolescent depression intervention overview: what works, for whom and how well?
- Adjunctive Sleep Medications and Depression Outcome in the Treatment of Serotonin-Selective Reuptake Inhibitor Resistant Depression in Adolescents Study.
- The columbia-suicide severity rating scale: initial validity and internal consistency findings from three multisite studies with adolescents and adults.
- The Next Generation of Psychological Autopsy Studies: Part I. Interview Content.
- Treatment-Resistant Depressed Youth Show a Higher Response Rate if Treatment Ends During Summer School Break.
- Interaction between tryptophan hydroxylase I polymorphisms and childhood abuse is associated with increased risk for borderline personality Disorder in adulthood.
- Dr. Sakolsky and colleagues reply.
- Treatment-resistant depression in adolescents: review and updates on clinical management.
- Grief in children and adolescents bereaved by sudden parental death.
- Suicidality and depression disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual youth: a meta-analytic review.
- Suicide Attempts and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in the Treatment of Resistant Depression in Adolescents: Findings from the TORDIA Study.
- Preventing youth suicide: time to ask how.
- Dissociable patterns of neural activity during response inhibition in depressed adolescents with and without suicidal behavior.
- Long-term outcome of adolescent depression initially resistant to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment: a follow-up study of the TORDIA sample.
- Impact of physical and sexual abuse on treatment response in the Treatment of Resistant Depression in Adolescent Study (TORDIA).
- Moral or religious objections to suicide may protect against suicidal behavior in bipolar Disorder.
- Antidepressant exposure as a predictor of clinical outcomes in the Treatment of Resistant Depression in Adolescents (TORDIA) study.
- Protecting families from harm.
- The Family Bereavement Program reduces problematic grief in parentally bereaved youths.
- Health risk behaviors in parentally bereaved youth.
- Psychiatric morbidity, violent crime, and suicide among children and adolescents exposed to parental death.
- Clinical, demographic, and familial correlates of bipolar spectrum Disorders among offspring of parents with bipolar Disorder.
- Service use for mental Disorders and unmet need: results from the Israel Survey on Mental Health Among Adolescents.
- Effect of exposure to suicidal behavior on suicide attempt in a high-risk sample of offspring of depressed parents.
- Substance use and the treatment of resistant depression in adolescents.
- Effective components of TORDIA cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescent depression: preliminary findings.
- The Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters study (TASA): predictors of suicidal events in an open treatment trial.
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (CBT-SP): treatment model, feasibility, and acceptability.
- Depressive symptoms and clinical status during the Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters (TASA) Study.
- Medicalize depression, not sadness.
- Prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents: a randomized controlled trial.
- Candidate endophenotypes for genetic studies of suicidal behavior.
- Predictors of spontaneous and systematically assessed suicidal adverse events in the treatment of SSRI-resistant depression in adolescents (TORDIA) study.
- The impact of parental suicide on child and adolescent offspring.
- The tryptophan hydroxylase-1 A218C polymorphism is associated with diagnosis, but not suicidal behavior, in borderline personality Disorder.
- Treatment of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistant depression in adolescents: predictors and moderators of treatment response.
- Conflict of interest-- an issue for every psychiatrist.
- The treatment of SSRI-resistant depression in adolescents (TORDIA): in search of the best next step.
- Placebo response in randomized controlled trials of antidepressants for pediatric Major depressive disorder.
- Pediatric depression: is there evidence to improve evidence-based treatments?
- Brief interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed mothers whose children are receiving psychiatric treatment.
- Family-focused treatment for adolescents with bipolar Disorder: results of a 2-year randomized trial.
- Depressed patients with co-occurring alcohol use Disorders: a unique patient population.
- Completed suicide in childhood.
- Familial transmission of suicidal behavior.
- Antecedents and sequelae of sudden parental death in offspring and surviving caregivers.
- Sleep disturbance preceding completed suicide in adolescents.
- Frequency of provider contact after FDA advisory on risk of pediatric suicidality with SSRIs.
- Familial pathways to early-onset suicidal behavior: familial and individual antecedents of suicidal behavior.
- Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents with bipolar Disorder: a 1-year open trial.
- Decline in treatment of pediatric depression after FDA advisory on risk of suicidality with SSRIs.
- Clinical response and risk for reported suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in pediatric antidepressant treatment: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
- Delinquent accounts: does delinquency account for suicidal behavior?
- Physical and emotional health of mothers of youth with functional abdominal pain.
- Familial pathways to suicidal behavior--understanding and preventing suicide among adolescents.
- Steady-state clinical pharmacokinetics of bupropion extended-release in youths.
- Glad for what TADS adds, but many TADS grads still sad.
- Treatment-resistant depression in adolescents: recognition and management.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in youth.
- Depressive disorders in childhood and adolescence: an overview: epidemiology, clinical manifestation and risk factors.
- Association of a triallelic serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism with stressful life events and severity of depression.
- Screens and doors: the management of adolescent depression in primary care.
- Acute antidepressant response and plasma levels of bupropion and metabolites in a pediatric-aged sample: an exploratory study.
- Is the medication bottle for pediatric and adolescent depression half-full or half-empty?
Schools
Thomas Jefferson University
Conditions Treated
- Major Depressive Disorder
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Community Blue PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medical Mutual of Ohio
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Pittsburgh Magazine
- Elected Member
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
University of Colorado -
Jefferson Medical College
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
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