GABOR KEITNER

MD, Queen's University School of Medicine, 1973

Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Rhode Island Hospital

444-3932

Family functioning and course of illness in mood disorders.

The Mood Disorders Program is involved in several studies at various stages of development including study design, recruitment, analysis, and report writing. The focus of the program is the examination of the biopsychosocial pathways that influence the course of a psychiatric illness in general and of an individual episode in particular. Psychiatric populations that we study include both inpatients and outpatients with major depression, bipolar disorder, chronic depression, dysthymia, double depression, and chronic mental illness. Psychosocial variables include family functioning social support, work adjustment, and other stresses and burdens. Recently our interests have expanded by studying psychosocial effects of "nonpsychiatric" illnesses on patients and their caregivers. Some of these illnesses which we are in the process of examining include stroke, dementia, HIV and prostate cancer.

Publications: 

Keitner, G.I., Ryan, C.E., Miller, I.W., Zlotnick, C., 1997. Psychosocial factors and the long-term course of major depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 44:57-67.

Keitner, G.I., Solomon, D.S., Ryan, C.E., Miller, I.W., Mallinger, A., Kupfer, D.J., Frank, E. 1996. Prodromal and residual symptoms in bipolar disorder. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 37(5): 362-367.

Keitner, G.I., Ryan, C.E., Miller, I.W., Kohn, R., Bishop, D.S., Epstein, N.B., 1995. Role of the family in recovery and major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 152: 1002-1008.

Keitner, G.I. and Miller, I.W. Combined Psychopharmacological and Psychosocial Treatment for Depression. Rhode Island Medicine. 76: 415-424, 1993.

Keitner, G.I., Miller, I.W. and Ryan, C.E. The Role of the Family in Major Depressive Illness. Psychiatric Annals. 23: 500-507, 1993.

Keitner, G. I, Ryan, C.E., Miller, I.W., Norman, W.H., 1992. Recovery and major depression: Factors associated with 12-month outcome. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149:93-99.