U of M MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS RESEARCH GROUP 

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Dr. Brian J. Cox, Ph.D., C.Psych. 
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PZ-430 PsycHealth Centre 
771 Bannatyne Avenue 
Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3E 3N4 
(Phone) 204-787-5166 
(Fax) 204-787-4879 


Dr. Cox is a clinical research psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry where he holds the rank of Professor.  He was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Mood and Anxiety Disorders by the Government of Canada in 2001.  He is an author on more than 160 articles published in peer- reviewed Journals as well as several book chapters.  He was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association in 2000.  His work also has been recognized in the form of early career awards from the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (1999), Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (1996), Canadian Psychological Association (1997), and the University of Manitoba's Rh Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research (1995).  He obtained his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from York University in 1993.  Prior to his current appointment he was a staff psychologist at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto (1993-1994). 

Dr. Cox is also a Professor in Clinical Psychology  in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba.  He is able to directly accept and supervise new MA and PhD clinical psychology students into the program.  Students interested in doing graduate work with Dr. Cox should contact him early in planning their graduate school application.

Dr. Cox's current research program is an examination of personality traits, thinking styles, and other psychosocialfactors that may play a role in the onset, exacerbation, and offset of anxiety disorders and depression. His projects include multi-year studies into risk factors to predict mood and anxiety disorders in young adults, as well as conducting follow-up studies of treated patients to identify factors that might predict relapse or recovery. He is also working on psychological treatments, and the mechanisms by which they work, for a number of different disorders.  An emerging area of interest is in psychiatric epidemiology.  This involves the investigation of psychological individual differences, environmental factors, and their interaction, in the expression of various forms of psychopathology in community-based, representative samples. Dr. Cox and others in the research group hope to eventually plan community-based, early intervention studies for youth who may be at risk for anxiety disorders or depression.  His work is currently funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR).   He  received an infrastructure grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to develop a computer lab specifically designed for the analysis of large mental health surveys.  He is particularly interested in community mental health and psychiatric epidemiology issues in large nationally representative surveys.

Dr. Cox also holds the position of Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba.  Students interested in psychiatric epidemiology and population mental health should contact him early in their graduate school planning.

RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (in press/2007)

Katz, L.Y., Kozyrskyj, A.L., Prior, H.J., Enns, M.W., Cox, B.J., & Sareen, J. ( in press). Regulatory body warnings, antidepressants, health service utilization and outcome in children, adolescents and young adults. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 

 

Cox, B. J., Clara, I. P., Stein, M. B., & Sareen, J.  (In press).  The structure of feared social situations in individuals with a lifetime diagnosis of social anxiety disorder in two large nationally-representative mental health surveys in the United States and Canada.  Behaviour Research and Therapy.

 

Cox, B.J. (2008). Book review and commentary on, “Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness.” New England Journal of Medicine, 358, 539-540.  

 

Pagura, J., Cox, B.J., Sareen, J., & Enns, M.W. (In press). Factors associated with multiple versus single suicide attempts in the 1990-1992 and 2001-2003 National Comorbidity Surveys. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

 

Cox, B. J., Pagura, J., Sareen, J., &  Stein, M. B.. (In press). The relationship between generalized social phobia and avoidant personality disorder in a national mental health survey.  Depression and Anxiety.

 

Norton, P.., Zvolensky, M.J., Bonn-Miller, M.O., Cox, B.J., & Norton, G.R. (In press). Use of the PAQ-IV to assess nonclinical panic attacks and limited symptom panic attacks in student and community samples. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.  

 

Katz, L., Cox,,B.J., & Miller, A. (In press). Suicidal behaviour in children and adolescents:Part 2: Treatment and prevention. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.             

Cox, B.J., Taylor, S., Clara, I., Roberts, L., & Enns, M.W. (In press). Anxiety sensitivity and panic-related sympomatology in a representative community-based sample: A one-year longitudinal analysis. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. 

 

McWilliams, L., Clara, I. P., Cox, B.J., & Sareen, J. (In press). Associations between arthritis and a broad range of psychiatric disorders: Findings from a nationally representative sample. Journal of Pain.

 

Casiano, H., Cox, B.J., Waldman, J., & Sareen, J., (in press). Mental disorders and threats made toward others with weapons in the National Comorbidity Replication  Survey. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

 

Afifi , T.O., Enns, .M.W., Cox, B.J., Asmundson, G.J.G., Stein, M.B., & Sareen, J. (In press). Population attributable fractions of psychiatric disorders and suicidal ideation and attempts associated with adverse childhood experiences in the general population. American Journal of Public Health.   

 

Cox,B., Grant, B., Clara, I.,,Enns, M.W., & Sareen, J. (2007).  The fundamental structure of Axis II personality disorders assessed in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 68,1913-1920.  

 

Afifi, T.O., Cox, B.J., ten-Have, M., de Graff, R., & Sareen, J. (In press). Child abuse and health-related quality of life in adulthood. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195, 797-804. 

 

Afifi, T.O., Cox, B.J.,& Katz, L. (In press). The associations between health risk behaviours and suicidal ideation and attempts in a nationally representative sample of young adolescents. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

 

Belik, S. L., Cox, B. J., Stein, M. B., Asmundson, G. J. G., & Sareen, J (2007).   Traumatic Events and Suicidal Behavior: Results from a National Mental Health Survey.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195, 342-349.  (recipient of CIHR Brain Star award).

 

Bernstein, A., Zvolensky, M.J., Norton, P.J., Schmidt, N.B., Taylor, S., Forsyth, J.P., Lewis, S.F., Feldner, M., Leen-Feldner, E.W.,  Stewart, S.H., & Cox, B.J. (In press). Taxometric and factor analytic models of anxiety sensitivity: Integrating approaches to latent structural research. Psychological Assessment.  

           

Bolton, J., Cox., B. J., Afifi, T. O., Enns, M. W., Bienvenu, O. J., & Sareen, J. (in press). Anxiety Disorders and risk for suicide attempts: Findings from the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Follow-Up Study. Depression and Anxiety.

 

Clara, I.P., Cox, B.J., & Enns, M.W. (In press). Self-critical perfectionism in clinical depression. Journal of Personality Assessment.

 

Sareen, J., Cox, B.J., Afifi, T.O., Stein, M.B., Belik, S.L., Meadows, G., & Asmundson, G.J.G.  (2007). Prevalence of mental disorders and perceived need for mental health care in a large representative sample of military personnel.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 843-852.

 

Sareen, J., Cox, B.J., Stein, M.B., Afifi, T.O., Fleet, C., & Asmundson, G.J.G. (2007).  Comorbidity, disability, and suicidal behavior associated with posttraumatic stress disorder in a large community sample.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 242-248.

 

Sareen, J., Jagdeo, A., Cox, B. J., ten-Have, M., Clara, I. P., de Graff, R., Belik, S-L., & Stein, M. B.  (2007). Perceived barriers toward mental health service utilization: A comparison of the United States, Ontario and the Netherlands. Psychiatric Services, 58, 357-364.

 

Sareen, J., Cox, B. J., Afifi, T. O., Clara, I., & Yu, B. N.  (In press).  Perceived need for mental health treatment in a nationally representative Canadian sample.  Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 50, 447-455.

 

Sareen, J., Cox, B. J., Clara, I., & Asmundson, G. J.  (In press).  The relationship between anxiety disorders and physical disorders in the U.S. National Comorbidity Survey.  Depression and Anxiety, 21, 193-202.

 

Taylor, S., Zvolensky, M. J., Cox, B. J., Deacon, B., Heimberg, R. G., Ledley, D. R., Abramowitz, J. S., Holaway, R. M., Sandin, B., Stewart, S. H., Coles, M., Eng, W., Daly, E. S., Arrindell, W. A., Bouvard, M., & Cardenas, S. J.  (2007).  Robust dimensions of anxiety sensitivity: Development and initial validation of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3.  Psychological Assessment, 19(2), 176-188.

 

Wang, J.L., Afifi, T.O., Cox, B. J.,  & Sareen, J.  (2007).  Work/family conflict and mental disorders in the United States: Findings from the National Comorbidity Replication Survey.  American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 50, 143-149.

RESEARCH GRANTS

2007-2008. Cox, B.J. Depression in relation to problem gambling. A community-based study.  Ruth Hurd Memorial Fund.  ($5,000). Cox, B.J. Held.

 

2006-2008: Longitudinal study of psychological determinants of trauma-related emotional distress in a representative, community-based sample.  Social Sciences and Health Research Council.  ($117,826).  Cox, B.J., Asmundson, G. J. G., Enns, M. W., & Sareen, J.  Held.

2006-2008: “Psychosocial determinants of anxiety disorders and depression in the 10-year follow-up of the National Comorbidity Survey.”  Canadian Institutes of Health Research. ($101,212).  Cox, B.J., Enns, M.W., & Sareen, J.  Held.

2006-2011: Canada Research Chair in Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Salary, benefits and other research support. $100,000 per year/ 5 years.

2006-2010: "The social environment and the health of First Nations women and men."  Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  ($419,745).  Elias B, Cox BJ, Mignone J, O’Neil JD, & Sareen J.   Held.

2006 - 2007: "Antidepressant prescribing to children and adolescents in Manitoba: The impact of Health Canada Warnings."  ($34,815).  Katz, L., Kozyrski, A., Sareen, J., Cox, B. J., & Enns, M. W.  Held.

2005-2008. “Mental health sequelae of peacekeeping operations and correlates of perceived need for mental health treatment  in a large population-based sample of Canadian forces personnel.” Sareen, J., Asmundson,  GJ.G., Cox BJ, & Stein MB.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research. ($75,000). Held.

2003-2008: Understanding risk factors, co-morbidity, and global health issues in PTSD: laying foundation for early identification in at-risk populations and improving preventive and treatment strategies for all Canadians.   Asmundson, G.,  Cox, B. J.,  et al.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  ($1,100,000).  Held.

2005-2006: “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 1.2: Prevalence, Comorbidity and Quality of Care.” Sareen, J., & Cox, B. ($35,000).Health Sciences Centre Research Foundation. Held.

2003-2006: “Population-Based Approaches to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.” Canadian Institutes of Health Research, New Emerging Team Sub-Grant. ($135,000). Cox, B. Held.

2001-2006: Canada Research Chair in Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Salary, benefits and other research support. $100,000 per year/ 5 years (renewable).

2004-2005: "Two population-based mental health studies using the Canadian Community Health Survey (Cycle 1.2): social phobia and problem gambling."  Cox, B.J., Ladouceur, R., Stein, M., Walker, J, & Yu, B.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  ($40,000) Held.

2003-2005: "Psychosocial investigations in anxiety disorders and depression using a nationally representative sample."  Cox, B. J., Enns, M. W., & Sareen, J.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  ($116,000).  Held.

2002-2005: "Longitudinal Study of Psychological Vulnerabilities to Emotional Distress in Representative, Community-Based Samples." Cox, B., Enns, M., & Taylor, S. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. ($97,221). Held.