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William B. Lawson's Degrees

PhD Computer Science Stanford University
Masters Electrical Engineering University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William B. Lawson is an American professor, psychiatrist and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association . Early life Lawson grew up on a farm in West Point, Virginia. Education Lawson earned his PhD in psychology from the University of New Hampshire. He then went on to earn his medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and finished a residency in adult psychiatry at Stanford University. He then finished a fellowship in psychopharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health.

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William B. Lawson's Published Works

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Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs (2013) (2011)
Genome-wide association study identifies 30 Loci Associated with Bipolar Disorder (2017) (998)
A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder (2013) (979)
Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4 (2011) (929)
Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways (2015) (676)
Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes (2017) (517)
Autism spectrum conditions: the pathophysiological basis for inattention and the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) (2013) (362)
Effectiveness and cost of olanzapine and haloperidol in the treatment of schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial. (2003) (319)
A 12-week, double-blind comparison of olanzapine vs haloperidol in the treatment of acute mania. (2003) (236)
Trauma, resilience, and recovery in a high-risk African-American population. (2008) (235)
Joint Analysis of Psychiatric Disorders Increases Accuracy of Risk Prediction for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder (2015) (206)
Trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in an African-American primary care population. (2006) (202)
Singleton deletions throughout the genome increase risk of bipolar disorder (2009) (159)
Mood Disorder Susceptibility Gene CACNA1C Modifies Mood-Related Behaviors in Mice and Interacts with Sex to Influence Behavior in Mice and Diagnosis in Humans (2010) (156)
Genome-wide association study of 40,000 individuals identifies two novel loci associated with bipolar disorder. (2016) (153)
Correlates of patterns of substance abuse among patients with schizophrenia. (1993) (125)
Depression in sickle cell disease. (2003) (122)
Race as a factor in inpatient and outpatient admissions and diagnosis. (1994) (102)
The Genetics of the Mood Disorder Spectrum: Genome-wide Association Analyses of More Than 185,000 Cases and 439,000 Controls (2018) (99)
Genetic Differences in the Immediate Transcriptome Response to Stress Predict Risk-Related Brain Function and Psychiatric Disorders (2015) (95)
Influence of patient race and ethnicity on clinical assessment in patients with affective disorders. (2012) (91)
Racial and ethnic factors in psychiatric research. (1986) (87)
Preliminary evidence of reduced combined output of dopamine and its metabolites in chronic schizophrenia. (1987) (87)
Genome-Wide Association of Bipolar Disorder Suggests an Enrichment of Replicable Associations in Regions near Genes (2011) (81)
Regional proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in schizophrenia and exploration of drug effect (1998) (80)
Mental health of African Americans and Caribbean blacks in the United States: results from the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. (2013) (74)
Serotonin polymorphisms and posttraumatic stress disorder in a trauma exposed African American population (2009) (74)
Overcoming barriers to reducing the burden of affective disorders (2002) (72)
Clinical issues in the pharmacotherapy of African-Americans. (1996) (59)
Evidence of association between brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene and bipolar disorder (2008) (57)
Polydipsia and chronic hyponatremia in schizophrenic inpatients. (1985) (51)
Race, violence, and psychopathology. (1984) (44)
Medical Mistrust, Conspiracy Beliefs & HIV-Related Behavior Among African Americans (2013) (43)
Increased urine volume in chronic schizophrenic patients (1985) (41)
Reducing Disparities in Mental Health Care: Suggestions from the Dartmouth–Howard Collaboration (2011) (38)
Sleep paralysis and trauma, psychiatric symptoms and disorders in an adult African American population attending primary medical care (2008) (37)
Genetic and childhood trauma interaction effect on age of onset in bipolar disorder: An exploratory analysis. (2015) (33)
Bipolar Disorder (2002) (33)
Schizophrenic Dementia: Clinical and Computed Axial Tomography Correlates (1988) (32)
Predictors of differential response to clozapine and haloperidol (1998) (26)
The art and science of the psychopharmacotherapy of African Americans. (1996) (24)
Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder (2019) (22)
PTSD treatment of African American adults in primary care: the gap between current practice and evidence-based treatment guidelines. (2011) (21)
Resilience to meet the challenge of addiction: psychobiology and clinical considerations. (2012) (21)
Diagnosing bipolar disorder in trauma exposed primary care patients. (2007) (21)
Racial differences in antipsychotic use: Claims database analysis of Medicaid-insured patients with schizophrenia. (2015) (21)
Genome-wide association study of 40,000 individuals identifies two novel loci associated with bipolar disorder (2016) (20)
Factors associated with non-adherence to Buprenorphine-naloxone among opioid dependent African-Americans: A retrospective chart review. (2016) (18)
Effects of captopril on psychosis and disturbed water regulation. (1988) (17)
Risperidone in the Treatment of Hispanic Inpatients with Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study (2002) (14)
Genome-wide significant association between a ‘negative mood delusions' dimension in bipolar disorder and genetic variation on chromosome 3q26.1 (2012) (14)
Clinical correlates of body weight changes in schizophrenia. (1994) (14)
Polygenic risk for anxiety influences anxiety comorbidity and suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder (2020) (13)
Cross cultural psychiatry (1999) (12)
The psychiatric rehabilitation of African Americans with severe mental illness. (2010) (12)
Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment Rates of Mood Disorders among Opioid Users under Criminal Justice Supervision (2018) (12)
Sex differences in the use of healthcare services among US adults with and without a cancer diagnosis. (2018) (11)
Ziprasidone in Black Patients with Schizophrenia: Analysis of Four Short-term, Double-blind Studies (2009) (11)
Culturally adapted pharmacotherapy and the integrative formulation. (2010) (11)
The Role of Complex Emotions in Inconsistent Diagnoses of Schizophrenia (2010) (10)
The relationship between urine excretion and biogenic amines and their metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid of schizophrenic patients (1996) (9)
Clozapine in idiopathic parkinsons (1989) (9)
Mental health issues for African Americans (2003) (8)
Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment Among African Americans: Implications for the Correctional Systems (2013) (8)
Chronic mental illness and the Black family. (1986) (8)
Genetics of Comorbid Mood Disorder and Alcohol Dependence (2007) (8)
Characterisation of age and polarity at onset in bipolar disorder (2021) (7)
Detecting significant genotype–phenotype association rules in bipolar disorder: market research meets complex genetics (2018) (7)
Effects of Consultation on the Ward Atmosphere in a State Psychiatric Hospital (1987) (7)
Racial and ethnic issues affect treatment for bipolar disorder (2004) (6)
Efficient region-based test strategy uncovers genetic risk factors for functional outcome in bipolar disorder (2019) (6)
The dexamethasone suppression test as an adjunct in diagnosing depression. (1992) (4)
pros-Methylimidazoleacetic acid in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with chronic schizophrenia: relationships to ratings of symptoms, ventricular brain ratios, and rates of urine excretion. (1996) (4)
Resilience to Meet the Challenge of Addiction (2012) (4)
Fluid intake patterns in schizophrenia and normal controls (1992) (4)
Ethno-Psychopharmacology: Identifying inter-ethnic variations in psychotropic response in African Americans and other ethnic minorities (2008) (4)
Potential animal model of increased etoh intake in schizophrenia: Prenatal d-amphetamine exposure vs. pair-feeding control conditions (1993) (3)
RBC and plasma choline in neuroleptic-treated schizophrenic patients (1989) (3)
Adjunctive clonazepam in the treatment of chronic schizophrenia. (1991) (3)
Effects of divalproex on disruptive behavior of jail inmates (2008) (3)
Housing Experiences among Opioid-Dependent, Criminal Justice-Involved Individuals in Washington, D.C. (2018) (3)
The spectrum of bipolar disorder (2004) (2)
Violence Prevention in African American Youth (2002) (2)
Comorbid Substance Abuse Affects Treatment for Bipolar Disorder (2004) (2)
How Americans’ View of Black Men Affects Mental Health Care (2013) (2)
Willingness to Seek Help for Depression in Young African American Adults: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study (2020) (2)
A Concise Guide to Understanding Suicide: Ethnicity (2014) (2)
The Same Result. (2019) (1)
Movement disorders in schizophrenic substance abusers (1994) (1)
Characterization of Age and Polarity at Onset in Bipolar Disorder (2021) (1)
Craving and Depression in Opiate Dependent Mentally Ill African Americans Receiving Buprenorphine/Naloxone and Group CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) (2017) (1)
Alcohol and Substance Abuse in African Americans (2010) (1)
Psycho-biology: Some Consequences of the Biological Foundation of Behavior. (1976) (1)
NEUROBIOLOGY OF HYPONATREMIA IN SCHIZOPHRENIA (1992) (1)
Lessons from clozapine. (1991) (1)
Cocaine and alcohol use in schizophrenia (1993) (1)
M3 Checklist and SF-12 Correlation Study (2015) (1)
Family studies of co-occurring bipolar disorder and substance abuse (2000) (1)
The one hundredth and tenth anniversary. (2018) (1)
Applying polygenic risk scoring for psychiatric disorders to a large family with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder (2018) (0)
Racial disparities in diagnosis in patients presenting to emergency rooms: Persisting problem of misdiagnosis? (2014) (0)
Health Conditions among Opioid-Dependent Individuals under Community Supervision (2012) (0)
Editor's Note. (2016) (0)
Racial and Ethnic Minority Mental Health Advocacy: Strategies for Addressing Racism (2018) (0)
Alcohol and substance abuse patterns in schizophrenia (2003) (0)
349. Racial issues in bipolar disorder (1998) (0)
Disparities, Fake News, or Just not the Whole Story. (2018) (0)
Editors’ Note (2021) (0)
The Need for Basic Science: An Editorial. (2017) (0)
Race and treatment of schizophrenic veterans (1993) (0)
Neuroendocrine determinants of disturbed water regulation in schizophrenia (1991) (0)
Living an Ecumenical Marriage (1986) (0)
Polydipsia, hyponatremia, and smoking in schizophrenia (1989) (0)
Diagnosis of Blacks in a state system (1991) (0)
What is Health Equity? (2018) (0)
Is depression in women different (2007) (0)
Schizophrenic dementia: Racial issues (1994) (0)
The need for leaders. (2018) (0)
Violence Research. (2017) (0)
Half Full or Half Empty. (2006) (0)
Visiting Black Patients: Racial Disparities in Security Standby Requests. (2018) (0)
Polydipsia, hyponatremia, and smoking in schizophrenia polydipsia, hyponatremia, and continine levels in schizophrenia (1989) (0)
From the Interim Editor. (2014) (0)
The REAL Disparities. (2016) (0)
How to expose scientific racism? (2019) (0)
From the Editor in Chief. (2015) (0)
773 Race and movement disorder in drug abusing schizophrenia (1997) (0)
Willingness to Seek Help for Depression in Young African American Adults: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study (Preprint) (2019) (0)
Ketamine Findings Are Significant (2006) (0)
Editors Note Focusing on Violence in the African American Community. (2017) (0)
MentalHealthofAfricanAmericansandCaribbeanBlacks intheUnitedStates:ResultsFromtheNational EpidemiologicalSurveyonAlcoholandRelatedConditions (2013) (0)
From the Editor in Chief. (2015) (0)
Aging and psychiatric issues in African Americans (2017) (0)
Race and substance abuse in schizophrenia (1995) (0)
Maintaining the legacy. (2018) (0)
The author replies (1986) (0)
TraumaExposure, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder andDepression inanAfrican-American Primary CarePopulation (2006) (0)
Being an MD is not protective. (2019) (0)
The relationship between urine excretion and biogenic amines and their metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid of schizophrenic patients (Schizophrenia Research 19 (1996) 171–176) (1996) (0)
Moderation of buprenorphine therapy for cocaine dependence efficacy by variation of the Prodynorphin gene (2022) (0)
Sachindra Nath Pradhan (2009) (0)

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