Elaine F. Walker, Ph.D.

Selected Recent Publications

Cannon, T.D., Cadenhead, K. Cornblatt, B., Woods, S.W. Addington, J., Walker, E., Seidman, L. J., Perkins, D., Tsuang, M., McGlashan, T., Heinssen, R. (2008) Prediction of Psychosis in Youth at High Clinical Risk: A Multisite Longitudinal Study in North America. Archives of General Psychiatry. 65(1):28-37.

Compton MT. Bollini AM. McKenzie Mack L. Kryda AD. Rutland J.  Weiss PS. Bercu Z. Esterberg ML. Walker EF. (2007) Neurological soft signs and minor physical anomalies in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders, their first-degree biological relatives, and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research. 94(1-3):64-73.

Mittal, VA. Tessner KD. Walker EF. (2007) Elevated social Internet use and schizotypal personality disorder in adolescents. Schizophrenia Research. 94(1-3):50-57.

Mittal, VA. Neumann C. Saczawa M. Walker EF. (2008)Longitudinal progression of movement abnormalities in relation to psychotic symptoms in adolescents at high risk of schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry. 65(2):165-71.

 Mittal, VA. Saczawa, M & Walker, E. (2008) Prenatal exposure to viral infection and conversion among adolescents at high-risk for psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia Research, 99: 375-376.

Walker, E., Mittal, V., & Tessner, K (2008) Stress and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis in the developmental course of schizophrenia. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. Vol. 4: 189-216.

Walker, Elaine; Mittal, Vijay; Tessner, Kevin; Trotman, Hanan. Schizophrenia and the psychotic spectrum. Craighead, W. Edward (Ed); Miklowitz, David J (Ed); Craighead, Linda W (Ed). (2008). Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. (pp. 402-434). xiv, 704 pp. Hoboken, NJ, US: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Walker, Elaine; Bollini, Annie; Hochman, Karen; Kestler, Lisa; Mittal, Vijay A. Schizophrenia. Maddux, James E (Ed); Winstead, Barbara A (Ed). (2008). Psychopathology: Foundations for a contemporary understanding (2nd ed.). (pp. 199-222). New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.           

Walder, D. Mittal , V., Trotman, H .McMillan, A. Walker, E. (2008) Neurocognition and conversion to psychosis in adolescents at high-risk. Schizophrenia Research,  101,Issue 1-3, 161-168.

Ostiguy, C.S., Ellenbogen, M.A., Linnen, A., Walker, E.F., Hammen, C., & Hodgins, S. (2009). Chronic stress and stressful life events in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 114, 74-84.

Mittal V. A. and Walker, E.F. (2009) Movement Abnormalities: A Putative Biomarker of Risk for Psychosis.  In Michael  S. Ritsner (Ed.) The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric,Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes. 239-258.

Compton M. T. & Walker, E.F. (2009) Physical Manifestations of Neurodevelopmental Disruption: Are Minor Physical Anomalies Part of the Syndrome of Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia Bulletin vol. 35 no. 2 pp. 425–436.

Compton M.T., Goulding S. M., Ramsay C.E., Addington J., Corcoran C.,Walker E. F. (2008) Early detection and intervention for psychosis: perspectives from North America. Clinical Neuropsychiatry, Vol. 5 (6), 263-272.

King, S., Mancini-Marïe, A., Brunet, A., Walker, E. F., Meaney, M.J., Laplante, D.P. (2009)  Prenatal maternal  stress from a natural disaster predicts dermatoglyphic asymmetry in humans.  Development & Psychopathology, 21: 343-353.

Esterberg ML, Trotman, H, Tessner, K, Mittal, V, Larson, M, Walker, EF (2008). Childhood and current autistic features in individuals with schizotypal personality disorder.  Schizophrenia Research. 104(1-3), 265-273.

Compton, M., Goulding, S & Walker, E (In press) Characteristics of the Retrospectively Assessed Prodromal Period in Hospitalized Patients with First-Episode Nonaffective Psychosis: Findings from a Socially Disadvantaged, Low-Income, Predominantly African American Population. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Brennan, P, Walker, E.F. et al., (2008) Maternal Depression and Infant Cortisol: Influence of timing, comorbidity and treatment. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(10):1099-107.

Woods S.W, Addington J, Cadenhead K.S, Cannon T.D, Cornblatt B.A., Heinssen R., Perkins D.O., Seidman L.J., Tsuang M.T., Walker E.F., McGlashan T.H. (In press) Validity of the prodromal risk syndrome for first psychosis: Findings from North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin.  

Rocker, K. Ousley, O. Walker, E. Cubells, J. (2009) Performance on the Modified Card Sorting Test and its Relation to Psychopathology in Adolescents and Young Adults with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome" Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 53(7):665-76.

Compton, M., Walker, E. et al., (2009) Relations of Pre-Onset Cannabis, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use with the Age at Onset of Prodrome and Age at Onset of Psychosis in First-Episode Patients. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 166(11):1251-7. 

Walker, E. et al. (2009) The relation of antipsychotic and antidepressant medication with baseline symptoms and symptom progression: A naturalistic study of the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Sample. Schizophrenia Research. 115(1):50-7.

Woods SW. Addington J. Cadenhead KS. Cannon TD. Cornblatt BA. Heinssen R. Perkins DO. Seidman LJ. Tsuang MT. Walker EF. McGlashan TH. (2009) Validity of the prodromal risk syndrome for first psychosis: findings from the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 35(5):894-908.

Tessner, K., Mittal, V & Walker, E (In press) Longitudinal study of stressful life events and daily stressors among adolescents at high risk for psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Walker, E., Brennan, P., Esterberg, M. & Brasfield, J (In press) Longitudinal changes in cortisol secretion and conversion to psychosis in at-risk youth. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.