| Department of Psychiatry |
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| Specialty: Mood and Personality Disorders, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Neuropsyychopharmacology | |||||||||||||
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About: Dr. Coccaro received his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine in 1979. After a medical internship at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and a psychiatric residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, Dr. Coccaro joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1983. In 1989, Dr. Coccaro moved to Philadelphia to found and direct the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit at the MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine. Dr. Coccaro moved to the Pritzker School of Medicine as the Director of the Clinical Neuroscience & Psychopharmacology Research Unit in September 1999. He became Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, as well as the Ellen C. Manning Professor of Psychiatry, in 2004. Dr. Coccaro is also a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP).Dr. Coccaro has been the recipient of various awards, including the A.E. Bennett Award for Outstanding Research (1989) and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill’s Exemplary Psychiatrist Award (1992). He also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, among them International Clinical Psychopharmacology, Journal of Personality Disorders, and Aggression and Violent Behavior. In addition, he has served as the Editor for the Impulse Control and Personality Disorders Section for Current Psychiatry Reports. Dr. Coccaro has been the recipient of a number of research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Dr. Coccaro is the author or co-author of over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as over 40 book chapters. He has edited or co-edited three books, most recently, Aggression: Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment, published by Marcel Dekker. He lectures widely on topics such as mood and personality disorders and the neuroscience, neuropsychopharmacology, genetics, and treatment of impulsive aggressive behavior and Intermittent Explosive Disorder. |
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| Selected Publications: Coccaro EF, Siever LJ, Klar HM, Maurer G, Cochrane K, Mohs RC, Davis KL. Serotonergic studies in affective and personality disorder: Correlates with suicidal and impulsive aggressive behavior. Archives of General Psychiatry 46:587‑599, 1989. Coccaro EF, Silverman J, Klar HM, Horvath TB, Siever LJ. Familial correlates of reduced central serotonergic system function in patients with personality disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry 51:318-324, 1994. Coccaro EF, Kavoussi RJ, Sheline YI, Lish JD, Csernansky JG. Impulsive aggression in personality disorder: Correlates with 3H-Paroxetine binding in the platelet. Archives of General Psychiatry 53:531-536, 1996. Coccaro EF, Bergeman CS, Kavoussi RJ, Seroczynski, A. Heritability of aggression and irritability: A twin study of the Buss-Durkee aggression scales in adult male subjects. Biological Psychiatry 41:273-284, 1997. Coccaro EF, Kavoussi RJ. Fluoxetine and impulsive aggressive behavior in personality disordered subjects. Archives of General Psychiatry 54:1081-1088, 1997. Coccaro EF, Kavoussi RJ, Cooper TB, Hauger RL. Central serotonin and aggression: Inverse relationship with prolactin response to d-fenfluramine, but not with CSF 5-HIAA concentration in human subjects. American Journal of Psychiatry 154:1430-1435, 1997. Coccaro EF, Kavoussi RK, Hauger RL, Cooper TB, Ferris CF. Cerebrospinal fluid vasopressin: Correlates with aggression and serotonin function in personality disordered subjects. Archives of General Psychiatry 55:708-714, 1998. Coccaro EF, Kavoussi RJ, Berman ME, Lish JD. Intermittent explosive disorder-revised: Development, reliability, and validity of research criteria. Comprehensive Psychiatry 39:368-376, 1998. Best M, Williams JM, Coccaro EF. Evidence for a dysfunctional prefrontal circuit in patients with an impulsive aggressive disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 99:8448-8453, 2002. Kessler, RC, Coccaro EF, Fava M, Jaeger S, Jin R, Walters E. The prevalence and correlates of DSM-IV Intermittent Explosive Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry 63:669-678, 2006. |
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