MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS RESEARCH GROUP 

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Jitender Sareen, B.Sc., M.D., FRCPC*
CIHR New Investigator 2006-2011
Director of Anxiety Services
PZ-430 PsycHealth Centre
771 Bannatyne Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3E 3N4
(Phone) 204-787-7078
(Fax) 204-787-4879
(e-mail) sareen@cc.umanitoba.ca
*denotes Medical Corporation



Dr. Sareen is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. He is the Director of Research, and Anxiety Services in Department of Psychiatry.  He has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications during the last five years with a focus on epidemiologic studies in anxiety disorders, and mental health service utilization. He has received awards for excellence in teaching, and research, and acquired grants to support his research from local and national agencies.  Current areas of research include trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and Aboriginal suicide prevention.


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Wang JL, Afifi TO*, Cox BJ, Sareen J. (2007). Work/Family Conflict and Mental Disorders in the United States: Findings from the National Comorbidity Survey. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 50:143-149.

Sareen J, Campbell DW*, Leslie WD, Malisza K, Stein MB, Paulus MP, Kravetsky LB*, Kjernisted KD, Walker J, Reiss JP. (2007). Striatal Function in Social Phobia: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Biological Psychiatry, 61:396-404.

Belik SL*, Cox BJ, Stein MB, Asmundson GJG, Sareen J. (2007). Traumatic Events and Suicidal Behavior: Results from a National Mental Health Survey. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195:342-349.

Sareen J, Jagdeo A*, Cox BJ, ten Have M, Clara I*, de Graaf R, Belik SL*, Stein MB. (2007). Perceived Barriers Towards Mental Health Service Utilization: A Comparison of the United States, Ontario and the Netherlands. Psychiatric Services, 58:357-364.

Sareen J, Cox BJ, Stein MB, Afifi TO*, Fleet C*, Asmundson GJ.  (2007). Comorbidity, Disability and Suicidality Associated with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Large Community Sample.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 69:242-248.

Sareen J, Cox BJ, Afifi TO*, Stein MB, Belik SL*, Meadows G, Asmundson GJG. (2007). Combat and Peacekeeping Operations in Relation to Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Perceived Need for Mental Health Care: Findings from a Large Representative Sample of Military Personnel. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64:843-852.

Campbell DW*, Sareen J, Paulus MP, Goldin PR, Stein MB, Reiss JP. (2007). Altered Timing in the Neural Response to Emotional Faces in Generalized Social Phobia.  Biological Psychiatry, 62:455-463.

Bolton J, Cox BJ, Afifi TO*, Enns MW, Bienvenu OJ, Sareen J.  Anxiety Disorders and Risk for Suicide Attempts: Findings from the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Follow-Up Study. (In Press: Depression and Anxiety).

Afifi TO*, Enns MW, Cox BJ, Stein MB, Asmundson GJG, Sareen J. Population Attributable Fractions of Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Ideation and Attempts. (In Press: American Journal of Public Health).

Afifi TO*, Enns MW, Cox BJ, de Graaf R, ten Have M, Sareen J. Child Abuse and Health Related Quality of Life in Adulthood. (In Press: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease).

Cox BJ, Sareen J, Enns MW, Clara I*, Grant BF. The Fundamental Structure of Axiss II Personality Disorders Assessed in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. (In Press: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry).

Stein MB, Goin MK, Pollack MH, Roy-Byrne P, Sareen J, Simon NM, & Campbell-Sills L.  Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Panic Disorder, Second Edition. (In Press: American Journal of Psychiatry).

Ruscio AM, Brown TA, Chiu WT, Sareen J, Stein MB, Kessler RC. Social Fears and Social Phobia in the United States: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. (In Press: Psychological Medicine).

McWilliams LA, Clara I*, Murphy PDJ, Cox BJ, Sareen J.  Associations Between Arthritis and a Broad Range of Psychiatric Disorders: Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample. (In Press: Journal of Pain).

Rasic D*, Belik SL*, Bolton JM, Chochinov HM, Sareen J. Cancer, Mental Disorders, and Suicide in a Large Community Sample. (In Press: Psychoncology).

Casiano H*, Belik SL*, Cox BJ, Waldman J, Sareen J.  Mental Disorders and Threats towards others with Weapons in the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication. (In Press: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease).

Ratcliffe G*, Enns MW, Belik SL*, Sareen J. Chronic Pain Conditions and Suicidal Behavior. An Epidemiological Perspective. (In Press: Clinical Journal of Pain.)

Mota N*, Cox BJ, Enns MW, Calhoun L, Sareen J.  The Relationship Between Mental Disorders, Quality of Life, and Pregnancy: Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample.  (In Press: Journal of Affective Disorders.)

Alessi-Severini S, Biscontri RG, Collins D, Kozyrskyj A, Sareen J, Enns MW.  Utilization and Costs of Antipsychotic Agents: A Canadian Population-Based Study, 1996-2006.  (In Press:  Psychiatric Services)

Campbell DW, Sareen J, Stein MB, Kravetsky LB, Paulus MP, Hassard ST, Reiss JP. Happy But Not So Approachable: The Social Judgements of Individuals with Generalized Social Phobia Compared to Healthy Participants. (In Press: Depression and Anxiety.)

Cox BJ, Pagura J, Stein MB, Sareen J.  The Relationship Between Generalized Social Phobia and Avoidant Personality Disorder in a National Mental Health Survey. (In Press: Depression and Anxiety.)

Cox BJ, Clara I, Sareen J, Stein MB. The Structure of Feared Social Situations Among Individuals with a Lifetime Diagnosis of Social Anxiety Disorder in Two Independent Nationally-Representative Mental Health Surveys. Behavior Research Therapy.  (In Press: Behaviour Research and Therapy)

Katz LY, Kozyrskyj AL, Prior HJ, Enns MW, Cox BJ, Sareen J. Regulatory Body Warnings, Antidepressants, Health Service Utilization and Outcome in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults. (In Press: Canadian Medical Association Journal)

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

Sala T, Cox BJ, Sareen J. (In Press). Anxiety Disorders and Physical Illness Comorbidity: An Overview. In M Zvolensky & J Smits (Eds). Springer, New York.

Afifi TO*, Cox BJ, & Sareen J.  (In Press).  Anxiety Disorders in Canada.  In: D. Streiner and J. Cairney (Eds.).  Mental Disorders in Canada:  An Epidemiological Perspective.  University of Toronto Press.  Toronto, Ontario.

Belik SL, Sareen J, Stein MB. Anxiety Disorders and Medical Comorbidity (Chapter 45). In MM Antony & MB Stein (Eds), Handbook of Anxiety and the Anxiety Disorders. Oxford University Press, New York. (In Press).

Sareen J, Stein MB: Quality of Life in Social Anxiety Disorder. In MH Pollack, NM Simson, MW Otto (Eds.): Social Anxiety Disorder: Research and Practice. New York: Professional Publishing Group, 2003, pp 79-102.

Sareen J, Stein MB: Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders in the New Millennium.  In DL Dunner, JF Rosenbaum (Eds.): Psychiatric Clinics of North America Annual of Drug Therapy. Philadelphia, PA, W.B. Saunders Co., 2000, pp 173-186.

 

RESEARCH GRANTS

Sareen J, Elias B, Katz L, O’Neil J, Cox BJ, Enns MW, Cook C.  From Risk Factors to Culturally-Sensitive Interventions: A Programmatic Approach to Aboriginal Suicide. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 2007-2012. $ 1,222,141.                                                                 

Wang J, Patten S, Smailes E, Fick G, Sareen J.  A Population-Based Longitudinal Study of Work and Health. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. 2007-2011. $572,410.

Bolton JM, Sareen J, Cox BJ. Use of Alcohol and Drugs to Self-Medicate Affective and Anxiety Disorders in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Health Sciences Centre Foundation. 2007-2008. $30,745.

Cox BJ, Enns MW, Sareen J. 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. 2006-2008.

Cox BJ, Sareen J, Enns MW, Asmundson GJG. Longitudinal Study of Psychosocial Determinants of Trauma-Related Emotional Distress in a Representative Community-Based Sample. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $118,000. 2006-2008.

Sareen J. Mental Health Sequelae of Peacekeeping Operations and Correlates of Perceived Need for Mental Health Services in a Large Population-Based Survey of Canadian Military Personnel.  Canadian Institutes of Health Research.  New Investigator Award: $250,000. 2006-2011.

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