Michael Damingo De Bellis

Michael Damingo De Bellis
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2002
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
Affiliate of the Center for Brain Imaging and Analysis, Duke-UNC Center for Brain Imaging and Analysis, Institutes and Centers 2007
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers 2011

Contact Information

905 West Main St Suite 24D, Box 104360, Durham, NC 27701
Box 104360, Durham, NC 27710
debel002@mc.duke.edu (919) 385-0871

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- M.D., State University of New York at Brooklyn 1987
Research
Selected Grants
- Duke CTSA (KL2) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
- Duke CTSA (TL1) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
- NCANDA Research Project Site: Duke awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2022
- Biomarkers of Underage Binge Drinking in Maltreated Children. awarded by University of North Carolina - Wilmington 2016 - 2019
- A Compute Cluster for Brain Imaging and Analysis awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2017
- Pathways From Maltreatment to Substance Abuse awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2016
- Prefrontal Function in Adolescent Limited vs Life Course Persistent SUD awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2014
- Frontal Function in Adolescent Cannabis Use Disorders awarded by National Institutes of Health 2005 - 2011
- A Linux Cluster Computational Facility for Neuroimaging Research awarded by National Institutes of Health 2009 - 2010
- PTSD & Childhood Sexual Abuse: Psychobiology awarded by National Institutes of Health 2002 - 2009
- PTSD & Childhood Sexual Abuse: Psychobiology awarded by National Institutes of Health 2002 - 2008
- Child Neglect: Psychobiological Consequences awarded by National Institutes of Health 2000 - 2007
- Adolescent Alcohol Abuse, PTSD & Hippocampal Development awarded by National Institutes of Health 2002 - 2006
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Peterson, ET, Kwon, D, Luna, B, Larsen, B, Prouty, D, De Bellis, MD, Voyvodic, J, Liu, C, Li, W, Pohl, KM, Sullivan, EV, and Pfefferbaum, A. "Distribution of brain iron accrual in adolescence: Evidence from cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis." Human Brain Mapping (November 29, 2018). Full Text
  - Nooner, KB, Hooper, SR, and De Bellis, MD. "An examination of sex differences on neurocognitive functioning and behavior problems in maltreated youth." Psychological Trauma : Theory, Research, Practice and Policy 10, no. 4 (July 2018): 435-443. Full Text
  - Sun, D, Haswell, CC, Morey, RA, and De Bellis, MD. "Brain structural covariance network centrality in maltreated youth with PTSD and in maltreated youth resilient to PTSD." Development and Psychopathology (April 10, 2018): 1-15. Full Text
  - Pfefferbaum, A, Kwon, D, Brumback, T, Thompson, WK, Cummins, K, Tapert, SF, Brown, SA, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, Prouty, D, De Bellis, MD, Clark, DB, Nagel, BJ, Chu, W, Park, SH, Pohl, KM, and Sullivan, EV. "Altered Brain Developmental Trajectories in Adolescents After Initiating Drinking." The American journal of psychiatry 175, no. 4 (April 2018): 370-380. Full Text
  - Müller-Oehring, EM, Kwon, D, Nagel, BJ, Sullivan, EV, Chu, W, Rohlfing, T, Prouty, D, Nichols, BN, Poline, J-B, Tapert, SF, Brown, SA, Cummins, K, Brumback, T, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, De Bellis, MD, Voyvodic, JT, Clark, DB, Pfefferbaum, A, and Pohl, KM. "Influences of Age, Sex, and Moderate Alcohol Drinking on the Intrinsic Functional Architecture of Adolescent Brains." Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 28, no. 3 (March 2018): 1049-1063. Full Text
  - Sullivan, EV, Lane, B, Kwon, D, Meloy, MJ, Tapert, SF, Brown, SA, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, De Bellis, MD, Clark, DB, Nagel, BJ, Pohl, KM, and Pfefferbaum, A. "Structural brain anomalies in healthy adolescents in the NCANDA cohort: relation to neuropsychological test performance, sex, and ethnicity." Brain imaging and behavior 11, no. 5 (October 2017): 1302-1315. Full Text
  - Hasler, BP, Franzen, PL, de Zambotti, M, Prouty, D, Brown, SA, Tapert, SF, Pfefferbaum, A, Pohl, KM, Sullivan, EV, De Bellis, MD, Nagel, BJ, Baker, FC, Colrain, IM, and Clark, DB. "Eveningness and Later Sleep Timing Are Associated with Greater Risk for Alcohol and Marijuana Use in Adolescence: Initial Findings from the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence Study." Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research 41, no. 6 (June 2017): 1154-1165. Full Text
  - Sege, RD, Amaya-Jackson, L, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY Committee on Child Maltreatment and Violence, and NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD TRAUMATIC STRESS, . "Clinical Considerations Related to the Behavioral Manifestations of Child Maltreatment." Pediatrics 139, no. 4 (April 2017). Full Text
  - Stave, EA, De Bellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Woolley, DP, Chang, SK, and Chen, SD. "Dimensions of Attention Associated With the Microstructure of Corona Radiata White Matter." Journal of Child Neurology 32, no. 5 (April 2017): 458-466. Full Text
  - Sullivan, EV, Brumback, T, Tapert, SF, Prouty, D, Fama, R, Thompson, WK, Brown, SA, Cummins, K, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, Clark, DB, Chung, T, De Bellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Nagel, BJ, Nichols, BN, Chu, W, Kwon, D, Pohl, KM, and Pfefferbaum, A. "Effects of prior testing lasting a full year in NCANDA adolescents: Contributions from age, sex, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, site, family history of alcohol or drug abuse, and baseline performance." Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 24 (April 2017): 72-83. Full Text
  - Clark, DB, Chung, T, Martin, CS, Hasler, BP, Fitzgerald, DH, Luna, B, Brown, SA, Tapert, SF, Brumback, T, Cummins, K, Pfefferbaum, A, Sullivan, EV, Pohl, KM, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, De Bellis, MD, Nooner, KB, and Nagel, BJ. "Adolescent Executive Dysfunction in Daily Life: Relationships to Risks, Brain Structure and Substance Use." Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 11 (January 2017): 223-. Full Text
  - Pfefferbaum, A, Rohlfing, T, Pohl, KM, Lane, B, Chu, W, Kwon, D, Nolan Nichols, B, Brown, SA, Tapert, SF, Cummins, K, Thompson, WK, Brumback, T, Meloy, MJ, Jernigan, TL, Dale, A, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, Prouty, D, De Bellis, MD, Voyvodic, JT, Clark, DB, Luna, B, Chung, T, Nagel, BJ, and Sullivan, EV. "Adolescent Development of Cortical and White Matter Structure in the NCANDA Sample: Role of Sex, Ethnicity, Puberty, and Alcohol Drinking." Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 26, no. 10 (October 2016): 4101-4121. Full Text
  - Sullivan, EV, Brumback, T, Tapert, SF, Fama, R, Prouty, D, Brown, SA, Cummins, K, Thompson, WK, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, De Bellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Clark, DB, Chung, T, Nagel, BJ, Nichols, BN, Rohlfing, T, Chu, W, Pohl, KM, and Pfefferbaum, A. "Cognitive, emotion control, and motor performance of adolescents in the NCANDA study: Contributions from alcohol consumption, age, sex, ethnicity, and family history of addiction." Neuropsychology 30, no. 4 (May 2016): 449-473. Full Text
  - Pohl, KM, Sullivan, EV, Rohlfing, T, Chu, W, Kwon, D, Nichols, BN, Zhang, Y, Brown, SA, Tapert, SF, Cummins, K, Thompson, WK, Brumback, T, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, Prouty, D, De Bellis, MD, Voyvodic, JT, Clark, DB, Schirda, C, Nagel, BJ, and Pfefferbaum, A. "Harmonizing DTI measurements across scanners to examine the development of white matter microstructure in 803 adolescents of the NCANDA study." Neuroimage 130 (April 2016): 194-213. Full Text
  - Morey, RA, Haswell, CC, Hooper, SR, and De Bellis, MD. "Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex Volumes Differ in Maltreated Youth with and without Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Neuropsychopharmacology : Official Publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 41, no. 3 (February 2016): 791-801. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Brown, SA, Brumback, T, Tomlinson, K, Cummins, K, Thompson, WK, Nagel, BJ, De Bellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Clark, DB, Chung, T, Hasler, BP, Colrain, IM, Baker, FC, Prouty, D, Pfefferbaum, A, Sullivan, EV, Pohl, KM, Rohlfing, T, Nichols, BN, Chu, W, and Tapert, SF. "The National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA): A Multisite Study of Adolescent Development and Substance Use." Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 76, no. 6 (November 2015): 895-908. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Chen, SD, Provenzale, JM, Boyd, BD, Glessner, CE, MacFall, JR, Payne, ME, Rybczynski, R, and Woolley, DP. "Posterior structural brain volumes differ in maltreated youth with and without chronic posttraumatic stress disorder." Development and Psychopathology 27, no. 4 Pt 2 (November 2015): 1555-1576. Full Text
  - Urger, SE, De Bellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Woolley, DP, Chen, SD, and Provenzale, J. "The superior longitudinal fasciculus in typically developing children and adolescents: diffusion tensor imaging and neuropsychological correlates." Journal of Child Neurology 30, no. 1 (January 2015): 9-20. Full Text
  - Li, W, Wu, B, Batrachenko, A, Bancroft-Wu, V, Morey, RA, Shashi, V, Langkammer, C, De Bellis, MD, Ropele, S, Song, AW, and Liu, C. "Differential developmental trajectories of magnetic susceptibility in human brain gray and white matter over the lifespan." Human Brain Mapping 35, no. 6 (June 2014): 2698-2713. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - Crozier, JC, Wang, L, Huettel, SA, and De Bellis, MD. "Neural correlates of cognitive and affective processing in maltreated youth with posttraumatic stress symptoms: does gender matter?." Development and Psychopathology 26, no. 2 (May 2014): 491-513. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, and Zisk, A. "The biological effects of childhood trauma." Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 23, no. 2 (April 2014): 185-vii. (Review) Full Text
  - Hooper, SR, Woolley, D, and De Bellis, MD. "Intellectual, neurocognitive, and academic achievement in abstinent adolescents with cannabis use disorder." Psychopharmacology 231, no. 8 (April 2014): 1467-1477. Full Text
  - Bellis, MDD, and Zisk, A. "The Biological Effects of Childhood Trauma." Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 23, no. 2 (2014): 185-222. Full Text
  - Hooper, SR, Woolley, D, and De Bellis, MD. "Intellectual, neurocognitive, and academic achievement in abstinent adolescents with cannabis use disorder." Psychopharmacology 231, no. 8 (January 1, 2014): 1467-1477. Full Text
  - Li, W, Wu, B, Batrachenko, A, Bancroft-Wu, V, Morey, RA, Shashi, V, Langkammer, C, De Bellis, MD, Ropele, S, Song, AW, and Liu, C. "Differential developmental trajectories of magnetic susceptibility in human brain gray and white matter over the lifespan." Human Brain Mapping 35, no. 6 (January 1, 2014): 2698-2713. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Wang, L, Bergman, SR, Yaxley, RH, Hooper, SR, and Huettel, SA. "Neural mechanisms of risky decision-making and reward response in adolescent onset cannabis use disorder." Drug and Alcohol Dependence 133, no. 1 (November 2013): 134-145. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Woolley, DP, and Hooper, SR. "Neuropsychological findings in pediatric maltreatment: relationship of PTSD, dissociative symptoms, and abuse/neglect indices to neurocognitive outcomes." Child Maltreatment 18, no. 3 (August 2013): 171-183. Full Text
  - Urger, E, Debellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Woolley, DP, Chen, S, and Provenzale, JM. "Influence of analysis technique on measurement of diffusion tensor imaging parameters." Ajr. American Journal of Roentgenology 200, no. 5 (May 2013): W510-W517. Full Text
  - Bellis, MDD, Wang, L, Bergman, SR, Yaxley, RH, Hooper, SR, and Huettel, SA. "Neural mechanisms of risky decision-making and reward response in adolescent onset cannabis use disorder." Drug and Alcohol Dependence 133, no. 1 (2013): 134-145. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, and Hooper, SR. "Neural substrates for processing task-irrelevant emotional distracters in maltreated adolescents with depressive disorders: a pilot study." Journal of Traumatic Stress 25, no. 2 (April 2012): 198-202. Full Text
  - Xie, Y, Chen, YA, and De Bellis, MD. "The relationship of age, gender, and IQ with the brainstem and thalamus in healthy children and adolescents: a magnetic resonance imaging volumetric study." J Child Neurol 27, no. 3 (March 2012): 325-331. Full Text Link to Item
  - Crozier, JC, Van Voorhees, EE, Hooper, SR, and De Bellis, MD. "Effects of abuse and neglect on brain development." (December 1, 2011): 516-525. (Chapter) Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Spratt, EG, and Hooper, SR. "Neurodevelopmental biology associated with childhood sexual abuse." Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 20, no. 5 (September 2011): 548-587. (Review) Full Text
  - Moon, W-J, Provenzale, JM, Sarikaya, B, Ihn, YK, Morlese, J, Chen, S, and DeBellis, MD. "Diffusion-tensor imaging assessment of white matter maturation in childhood and adolescence." Ajr. American Journal of Roentgenology 197, no. 3 (September 2011): 704-712. Full Text
  - Holt, RL, Provenzale, JM, Veerapandiyan, A, Moon, W-J, De Bellis, MD, Leonard, S, Gallentine, WB, Grant, GA, Egger, H, Song, AW, and Mikati, MA. "Structural connectivity of the frontal lobe in children with drug-resistant partial epilepsy." Epilepsy Behav 21, no. 1 (May 2011): 65-70. Full Text Link to Item
  - Yaxley, RH, Van Voorhees, EE, Bergman, S, Hooper, SR, Huettel, SA, and De Bellis, MD. "Behavioral risk elicits selective activation of the executive system in adolescents: clinical implications. (Published online)" Front Psychiatry 2 (2011): 68-. Full Text Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Woolley, DP, and Shenk, CE. "Demographic, maltreatment, and neurobiological correlates of PTSD symptoms in children and adolescents." Journal of Pediatric Psychology 35, no. 5 (June 2010): 570-577. Full Text Open Access Copy
  - De Bellis, MD. "Commentary." Formative Experiences: the Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology (January 1, 2010): 390-397. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD. "The neurobiology of child neglect." (January 1, 2010): 123-132. (Chapter) Full Text
  - DE Bellis, MD, Hooper, SR, Spratt, EG, and Woolley, DP. "Neuropsychological findings in childhood neglect and their relationships to pediatric PTSD." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : Jins 15, no. 6 (November 2009): 868-878. Full Text
  - MacMillan, HL, Georgiades, K, Duku, EK, Shea, A, Steiner, M, Niec, A, Tanaka, M, Gensey, S, Spree, S, Vella, E, Walsh, CA, De Bellis, MD, Van der Meulen, J, Boyle, MH, and Schmidt, LA. "Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: results of the youth mood project." Biological Psychiatry 66, no. 1 (July 2009): 62-68. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Van Voorhees, E, Hooper, SR, Gibler, N, Nelson, L, Hege, SG, Payne, ME, and MacFall, J. "Diffusion tensor measures of the corpus callosum in adolescents with adolescent onset alcohol use disorders." Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research 32, no. 3 (March 2008): 395-404. Full Text
  - Wang, L, Huettel, S, and De Bellis, MD. "Neural substrates for processing task-irrelevant sad images in adolescents." Developmental Science 11, no. 1 (January 2008): 23-32. Full Text
  - Thomas, LA, De Bellis, MD, Graham, R, and LaBar, KS. "Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence." Developmental Science 10, no. 5 (September 2007): 547-558. Full Text
  - Watts-English, T, Fortson, BL, Gibler, N, Hooper, SR, and De Bellis, MD. "The psychobiology of maltreatment in childhood." Journal of Social Issues 62, no. 4 (December 1, 2006): 717-736. (Review) Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, and Kuchibhatla, M. "Cerebellar volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder." Biological Psychiatry 60, no. 7 (October 2006): 697-703. Full Text
  - Tupler, LA, and De Bellis, MD. "Segmented hippocampal volume in children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder." Biological Psychiatry 59, no. 6 (March 2006): 523-529. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, and Van Dillen, T. "Childhood post-traumatic stress disorder: an overview." Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 14, no. 4 (October 2005): 745-ix. (Review) Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Narasimhan, A, Thatcher, DL, Keshavan, MS, Soloff, P, and Clark, DB. "Prefrontal cortex, thalamus, and cerebellar volumes in adolescents and young adults with adolescent-onset alcohol use disorders and comorbid mental disorders." Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research 29, no. 9 (September 2005): 1590-1600. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD. "The psychobiology of neglect." Child Maltreat 10, no. 2 (May 2005): 150-172. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Gold, PW, Wong, M-L, Goldstein, DS, Gold, HK, Ronsaville, DS, Esler, M, Alesci, S, Masood, A, Licinio, J, Jr, TDG, Perini, G, DeBellis, MD, Holmes, C, Vgontzas, AN, Charney, DS, Chrousos, GP, McCann, SM, and Kling, MA. "Cardiac implications of increased arterial entry and reversible 24-h central and peripheral norepinephrine levels in melancholia." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102, no. 23 (2005): 8303-8308. Full Text
  - Thomas, LA, and De Bellis, MD. "Pituitary volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder." Biological Psychiatry 55, no. 7 (April 2004): 752-758. Full Text
  - Diwadkar, VA, DeBellis, MD, Sweeney, JA, Pettegrew, JW, and Keshavan, MS. "Abnormalities in MRI-measured signal intensity in the corpus callosum in schizophrenia." Schizophrenia Research 67, no. 2-3 (2004): 277-282. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, and Thomas, LA. "Biologic findings of post-traumatic stress disorder and child maltreatment." Current Psychiatry Reports 5, no. 2 (June 2003): 108-117. (Review) Full Text
  - Clark, DB, De Bellis, MD, Lynch, KG, Cornelius, JR, and Martin, CS. "Physical and sexual abuse, depression and alcohol use disorders in adolescents: onsets and outcomes." Drug and Alcohol Dependence 69, no. 1 (January 2003): 51-60. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, and Keshavan, MS. "Sex differences in brain maturation in maltreatment-related pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder." Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 27, no. 1-2 (January 2003): 103-117. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Keshavan, MS, Shifflett, H, Iyengar, S, Beers, SR, Hall, J, and Moritz, G. "Brain structures in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder: a sociodemographically matched study." Biological Psychiatry 52, no. 11 (December 2002): 1066-1078. Full Text
  - Keshavan, MS, Dick, E, Mankowski, I, Harenski, K, Montrose, DM, Diwadkar, V, and DeBellis, M. "Decreased left amygdala and hippocampal volumes in young offspring at risk for schizophrenia." Schizophrenia Research 58, no. 2-3 (December 2002): 173-183. Full Text
  - Beers, SR, and De Bellis, MD. "Outcomes of child abuse." Neurosurgery Clinics of North America 13, no. 2 (April 2002): 235-241. (Review) Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Keshavan, MS, Frustaci, K, Shifflett, H, Iyengar, S, Beers, SR, and Hall, J. "Superior temporal gyrus volumes in maltreated children and adolescents with PTSD." Biological Psychiatry 51, no. 7 (April 2002): 544-552. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Keshavan, MS, Shifflett, H, Iyengar, S, Dahl, RE, Axelson, DA, Birmaher, B, Hall, J, Moritz, G, and Ryan, ND. "Superior temporal gyrus volumes in pediatric generalized anxiety disorder." Biological Psychiatry 51, no. 7 (April 2002): 553-562. Full Text
  - Beers, SR, and De Bellis, MD. "Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder." The American Journal of Psychiatry 159, no. 3 (March 2002): 483-486. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD. "Developmental traumatology: a contributory mechanism for alcohol and substance use disorders." Psychoneuroendocrinology 27, no. 1-2 (January 2002): 155-170. (Review) Full Text
  - Keshavan, MS, Diwadkar, VA, DeBellis, M, Dick, E, Kotwal, R, Rosenberg, DR, Sweeney, JA, Minshew, N, and Pettegrew, JW. "Development of the corpus callosum in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood." Life Sciences 70, no. 16 (2002): 1909-1922. Full Text
  - Gonzalez-Heydrich, J, Steingard, RJ, Putnam, FW, De Bellis, MD, Beardslee, W, and Kohane, IS. "Corticotropin releasing hormone increases apparent potency of adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulation of cortisol secretion." Med Hypotheses 57, no. 5 (November 2001): 544-548. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD, Hall, J, Boring, AM, Frustaci, K, and Moritz, G. "A pilot longitudinal study of hippocampal volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder." Biol Psychiatry 50, no. 4 (August 15, 2001): 305-309. Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD, Broussard, ER, Herring, DJ, Wexler, S, Moritz, G, and Benitez, JG. "Psychiatric co-morbidity in caregivers and children involved in maltreatment: a pilot research study with policy implications." Child Abuse Negl 25, no. 7 (July 2001): 923-944. Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD, Keshavan, MS, Beers, SR, Hall, J, Frustaci, K, Masalehdan, A, Noll, J, and Boring, AM. "Sex differences in brain maturation during childhood and adolescence." Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 11, no. 6 (June 2001): 552-557. Full Text
  - Hill, SY, De Bellis, MD, Keshavan, MS, Lowers, L, Shen, S, Hall, J, and Pitts, T. "Right amygdala volume in adolescent and young adult offspring from families at high risk for developing alcoholism." Biol Psychiatry 49, no. 11 (June 1, 2001): 894-905. Link to Item
  - Tae, WS, and Hong, SB. "Boundary of amygdala and hippocampus." The American Journal of Psychiatry 158, no. 5 (May 2001): 820-821. (Letter) Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Keshavan, MS, and Harenski, KA. "Anterior cingulate N-acetylaspartate/creatine ratios during clonidine treatment in a maltreated child with posttraumatic stress disorder." J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 11, no. 3 (2001): 311-316. Full Text Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD. "Developmental traumatology: the psychobiological development of maltreated children and its implications for research, treatment, and policy." Development and Psychopathology 13, no. 3 (January 2001): 539-564. (Review)
  - De Bellis, MD, Casey, BJ, Dahl, RE, Birmaher, B, Williamson, DE, Thomas, KM, Axelson, DA, Frustaci, K, Boring, AM, Hall, J, and Ryan, ND. "A pilot study of amygdala volumes in pediatric generalized anxiety disorder." Biological Psychiatry 48, no. 1 (July 2000): 51-57. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Keshavan, MS, Spencer, S, and Hall, J. "N-Acetylaspartate concentration in the anterior cingulate of maltreated children and adolescents with PTSD." The American Journal of Psychiatry 157, no. 7 (July 2000): 1175-1177. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Clark, DB, Beers, SR, Soloff, PH, Boring, AM, Hall, J, Kersh, A, and Keshavan, MS. "Hippocampal volume in adolescent-onset alcohol use disorders." The American Journal of Psychiatry 157, no. 5 (May 2000): 737-744. Full Text
  - Wong, M-L, Kling, MA, Munson, PJ, Listwak, S, Licinio, J, Prolo, P, Karp, B, McCutcheon, IE, Jr, TDG, DeBellis, MD, Rice, KC, Goldstein, DS, Veldhuis, JD, Chrousos, GP, Oldfield, EH, McCann, SM, and Gold, PW. "Pronounced and sustained central hypernoradrenergic function in major depression with melancholic features: Relation to hypercortisolism and corticotropin-releasing hormone." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97, no. 1 (2000): 325-330. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Keshavan, MS, Clark, DB, Casey, BJ, Giedd, JN, Boring, AM, Frustaci, K, and Ryan, ND. "Developmental traumatology part II: Brain development." Biological Psychiatry 45, no. 10 (May 15, 1999): 1271-1284. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Baum, AS, Birmaher, B, Keshavan, MS, Eccard, CH, Boring, AM, Jenkins, FJ, and Ryan, ND. "A.E. Bennett Research Award. Developmental traumatology. Part I: Biological stress systems." Biological Psychiatry 45, no. 10 (May 1999): 1259-1270. (Review) Full Text
  - Altemus, M, Jacobson, KR, Debellis, M, Kling, M, Pigott, T, Murphy, DL, and Gold, PW. "Normal CSF oxytocin and NPY levels in OCD." Biological Psychiatry 45, no. 7 (1999): 931-933. Full Text
  - Chadwick, DL, Kirschner, RH, Reece, RM, Ricci, LR, Alexander, R, Amaya, M, Bays, JA, Bechtel, K, Beltran-Coker, R, Berkowitz, CD, and al, E. "Shaken baby syndrome - A forensic pediatric response [2]." Pediatrics 101, no. 2 (1998): 321-323. Full Text
  - Newcorn, JH, Schulz, K, Harrison, M, Debellis, MD, Udarbe, J, and Halperin, JM. "α2 adrenergic agonists: Neurochemistry, efficacy, and clinical guidelines for use in children." Pediatric Clinics of North America 45, no. 5 (1998): 1099-1122. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Baum, AS, Birmaher, B, and Ryan, ND. "Urinary catecholamine excretion in childhood overanxious and posttraumatic stress disorders." Ann N Y Acad Sci 821 (June 21, 1997): 451-455. Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD, Dahl, RE, Perel, JM, Birmaher, B, al-Shabbout, M, Williamson, DE, Nelson, B, and Ryan, ND. "Nocturnal ACTH, cortisol, growth hormone, and prolactin secretion in prepubertal depression." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 35, no. 9 (September 1996): 1130-1138. Full Text Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD, Burke, L, Trickett, PK, and Putnam, FW. "Antinuclear antibodies and thyroid function in sexually abused girls." J Trauma Stress 9, no. 2 (April 1996): 369-378. Link to Item
  - Dorn, LD, Burgess, ES, Susman, EJ, Eye, AV, Debellis, MD, Gold, PW, and Chrousos, GP. "Response to oCRH in depressed and nondepressed adolescents: Does gender make a difference?." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 35, no. 6 (1996): 764-773. Full Text
  - Kling, MA. "Diurnal variation of cerebrospinal fluid immunoreactive corticotropin- releasing hormone levels in healthy volunteers [published erratum appears in J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1994 Dec;79(6):1762]." Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 79, no. 1 (July 1, 1994): 233-239. Full Text
  - De Bellis, MD, Lefter, L, Trickett, PK, and Putnam, FW. "Urinary catecholamine excretion in sexually abused girls." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 33, no. 3 (March 1994): 320-327. Full Text Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD, Chrousos, GP, Dorn, LD, Burke, L, Helmers, K, Kling, MA, Trickett, PK, and Putnam, FW. "Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation in sexually abused girls." The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 78, no. 2 (February 1994): 249-255. Full Text
  - de Bellis, MD, Chrousos, GP, Dorn, LD, Burke, L, Helmers, K, Kling, MA, Trickett, PK, and Putman, FW. "Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation in sexually abused girls." Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey 49, no. 7 (January 1, 1994): 487-490.
  - De Bellis, MD, Geracioti, TD, Altemus, M, and Kling, MA. "Cerebrospinal fluid monoamine metabolites in fluoxetine-treated patients with major depression and in healthy volunteers." Biol Psychiatry 33, no. 8-9 (April 15, 1993): 636-641. Link to Item
  - De Bellis, MD, Gold, PW, Geracioti, TD, Listwak, SJ, and Kling, MA. "Association of fluoxetine treatment with reductions in CSF concentrations of corticotropin-releasing hormone and arginine vasopressin in patients with major depression." Am J Psychiatry 150, no. 4 (April 1993): 656-657. Full Text Link to Item
  - Kling, MA, Demitrack, MA, Jr, HJW, Kalogeras, KT, Listwak, SJ, DeBellis, MD, Chrousos, GP, Gold, PW, and Brandt, HA. "Effects of the glucocorticoid antagonist RU 486 on pituitary-adrenal function in patients with anorexia nervosa and healthy volunteers: Enhancement of plasma ACTH and cortisol secretion in underweight patients." Neuroendocrinology 57, no. 6 (1993): 1082-1091.
  - Kling, MA, Smith, MA, Glowa, JR, Pluznik, D, Demas, J, DeBellis, MD, Gold, PW, and Schulkin, J. "Facilitation of cocaine kindling by glucocorticoids in rats." Brain Research 629, no. 1 (1993): 163-166.
  - Hauser, P, Devinsky, O, De Bellis, M, Theodore, WH, and Post, RM. "Benzodiazepine withdrawal delirium with catatonic features. Occurrence in patients with partial seizure disorders." Archives of Neurology 46, no. 6 (June 1989): 696-699. Full Text
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  - Tervo-Clemmens, B, Quach, A, Luna, B, Foran, W, Chung, T, De Bellis, MD, and Clark, DB. "Neural correlates of rewarded response inhibition in youth at risk for problematic alcohol use." November 3, 2017. Full Text

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