Dwight L. Evans’s research while affiliated with University of Pennsylvania and other places

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Publications (151)


Sex, Drugs, and Social Media
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Katherine Ellison

If Your Adolescent Has Depression: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide for parents and other adults to understand and get effective help for adolescents with depression. Millions of parents have been caught off-guard by a nonnegotiable signal that they need to step in to mitigate their children’s depression. Thus, the most current scientific expertise had been combined with no-nonsense and hands-on advice from parents who have experienced a mood disorder in their children. Moreover, the scientific expertise includes the newest treatments, medications, and the latest research findings regarding depression. The book also covers the information and tools parents need to aid adolescents to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Coping With Crises

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder. The guide is primarily designed for parents and other adults in contact with teenagers with bipolar disorder. Most current scientific expertise available today has been combined with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced their children’s bipolar disorder. The scientific expertise ranges between the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder. If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder aims to provide information and tools parents need to aid teenagers to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Life After High School

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder. The guide is primarily designed for parents and other adults in contact with teenagers with bipolar disorder. Most current scientific expertise available today has been combined with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced their children’s bipolar disorder. The scientific expertise ranges between the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder. If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder aims to provide information and tools parents need to aid teenagers to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Conclusion: Where’s the Hope?

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder. The guide is primarily designed for parents and other adults in contact with teenagers with bipolar disorder. Most current scientific expertise available today has been combined with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced their children’s bipolar disorder. The scientific expertise ranges between the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder. If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder aims to provide information and tools parents need to aid teenagers to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Treatment: Psychotherapy

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Depression: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide for parents and other adults to understand and get effective help for adolescents with depression. Millions of parents have been caught off-guard by a nonnegotiable signal that they need to step in to mitigate their children’s depression. Thus, the most current scientific expertise had been combined with no-nonsense and hands-on advice from parents who have experienced a mood disorder in their children. Moreover, the scientific expertise includes the newest treatments, medications, and the latest research findings regarding depression. The book also covers the information and tools parents need to aid adolescents to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Understanding Bipolar Disorder

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder. The guide is primarily designed for parents and other adults in contact with teenagers with bipolar disorder. Most current scientific expertise available today has been combined with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced their children’s bipolar disorder. The scientific expertise ranges between the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder. If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder aims to provide information and tools parents need to aid teenagers to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Introduction: More Than Merely Moody

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Depression: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide for parents and other adults to understand and get effective help for adolescents with depression. Millions of parents have been caught off-guard by a nonnegotiable signal that they need to step in to mitigate their children’s depression. Thus, the most current scientific expertise had been combined with no-nonsense and hands-on advice from parents who have experienced a mood disorder in their children. Moreover, the scientific expertise includes the newest treatments, medications, and the latest research findings regarding depression. The book also covers the information and tools parents need to aid adolescents to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Medications for Bipolar Disorder With FDA Approval

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with bipolar disorder. The guide is primarily designed for parents and other adults in contact with teenagers with bipolar disorder. Most current scientific expertise available today has been combined with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced their children’s bipolar disorder. The scientific expertise ranges between the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on bipolar disorder. If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder aims to provide information and tools parents need to aid teenagers to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Surviving School

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Depression: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide for parents and other adults to understand and get effective help for adolescents with depression. Millions of parents have been caught off-guard by a nonnegotiable signal that they need to step in to mitigate their children’s depression. Thus, the most current scientific expertise had been combined with no-nonsense and hands-on advice from parents who have experienced a mood disorder in their children. Moreover, the scientific expertise includes the newest treatments, medications, and the latest research findings regarding depression. The book also covers the information and tools parents need to aid adolescents to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Understanding Depression

May 2023

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If Your Adolescent Has Depression: An Essential Resource for Parents provides a definitive guide for parents and other adults to understand and get effective help for adolescents with depression. Millions of parents have been caught off-guard by a nonnegotiable signal that they need to step in to mitigate their children’s depression. Thus, the most current scientific expertise had been combined with no-nonsense and hands-on advice from parents who have experienced a mood disorder in their children. Moreover, the scientific expertise includes the newest treatments, medications, and the latest research findings regarding depression. The book also covers the information and tools parents need to aid adolescents to achieve the best possible outcome in coping with their condition.


Citations (64)


... Psycological features are well-know risk factors for incident DFU both in patients with [8] and without [48][49][50] previous ulcers In fact, depressive symptoms may reduce adherence to prescribed diabetes care, impairing metabolic control [51] and lowering compliance to prescribed foot care (wound dressing, hygiene, etc.). Depression can also have several direct effects on blood pressure, catecholamine secretion [52], platelet function [52], and immune status [53]. The lack of RCTs on the effects of antidepressive pharmacological or nonpharmacological interventions did not allow any formal clinical recommendation on this point. ...

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Prevention of foot ulcers recurrence in patients with diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials for the development of the italian guidelines for the treatment of diabetic foot syndrome
Depression and cardiac disease
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  • January 1998

... Workplaces are important components of the wider culture; given the amount of time and energies individuals are investing at work every day and throughout life, their impact is substantial. Schools, like most modern workplaces, are complex dynamic systems in which many interconnecting factors influence the wellbeing of both students and staff (Kern et al., 2017). ...

Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders : What We Know and What We Don't Know. A Research Agenda for Improving the Mental Health of Our Youth
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Daniel Romer

... Aprepitant is a substance P/ NK1R antagonist, approved for treatment of chemotherapyinduced nausea and vomiting. Use of aprepitant by PWH on cART resulted in a decline in levels of substance P and IL-6 [64]. ...

Effect of aprepitant on kynurenine to tryptophan ratio in cART treated and cART naïve adults living with HIV
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Medicine

... In the present study, although D9 "Thoughts of death" had the lowest centrality, similar to previous studies [43,61], it is a diagnostic symptom of depression [62]. It is directly related to most of the anxiety and depressive symptoms [63,64], so it is important to identify the warning signs and risk factors associated with suicidal ideation. In our study, "suicidal thoughts" exhibited the lowest mean and standard deviation, which may have diminished the value of EI [43]. ...

Number of opioid overdoses and depression as a predictor of suicidal thoughts
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  • July 2021

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

... [17][18][19][20][21] Indeed, people with OUD are at an increased risk of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia, 22 as well as severe mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders. 23,24 Consequently, Medicaid enrollees with OUD may be acutely affected by monthly prescription drug caps. However, no prior studies have examined the relationship between monthly drug caps on Medicaid-covered prescriptions for MOUD. ...

HIV Infection and Depression Among Opiate Users in a US Epicenter of the Opioid Epidemic

AIDS and Behavior

... Excessive worrying is a common trans-diagnostic sign in mental illness that impairs cardiac autonomic balance through activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system (Hu et al., 2019). It has been hypothesized that autonomic imbalance links depression and anxiety with an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality risk Nemeroff et al., 1998). The immune system is activated with increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines in anxious and depressive mood states predisposing patients to develop artery stiffness and peripheral arterial hypertension (Sala et al., 2009). ...

Depression and cardiac disease
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  • January 1998

Depression and Anxiety

... Kern et al. 2015;Seligman et al. Linkins 2009;White and Waters 2015), and a growing number of interventions and curricula are being developed that potentially support and build these characteristics (Kern et al. 2016). However, it is unknown the extent to which developing positive personal characteristics will have the same benefit as those seen in correlational research. ...

The Positive Perspective on Youth Development Chapter: (p. 543) The Positive Perspective on Youth Development Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.) The Positive Perspective on Youth Development

... However, the DSM-5 recognizes Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) as a condition, which can be defined as "the persistent and recurrent use of the Internet to engage in games, often with other players". It has been reported that IGD may also be labelled as "Internet Use Disorder", "Internet Addiction", or "Gaming Addiction" [11]. Furthermore, the recent confirmation by the World Health Organization (WHO) of IGD in the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) represents a significant milestone in addressing IA [12]. ...

Internet Addiction Chapter: (p. 585) Internet Addiction Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)

... Coverage of behavioral health services under CHIP plays an important role in financing vital services. Many behavioral health problems emerge early in life (Costello et al. 2003), and treatment at this early stage of disease can be particularly effective (Evans et al. 2005). Further, low-income children covered by CHIP have higher rates of behavioral health problems than privately insured or uninsured children (Brach et al. 2003; Howell 2004), yet their families have limited resources to absorb the cost of services not covered by insurance. ...

Prevention of Substance Use Disorders Chapter: (p. 459) Prevention of Substance Use Disorders Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)

... substance in many parts of the world, and that for example most adults in the United States have used it at some time as part of a social gathering or source of relaxation (Cooper et al., 2015). Alcohol is a sedative which means that it can reduce anxiety and make one feel relaxed (Wenk et al., 2017). For some, it can also produce euphoric effects, all of which can be attractive to adolescents. ...

The Neurobiology, Characteristics, and Prevalence of Substance Use Chapter: (p. 371) The Neurobiology, Characteristics, and Prevalence of Substance Use Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)