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 brain
physiology, and behavioral observation perspectives. Her theoretical
interest has been in
conceptualizing
the role of emotion self-regulation as a vulnerability factor for early
onset
depression.
Leadership Positions and Honors
 MERIT
Award (Method to Extend Research in Time), by NIMH, 1989
Member,
Science Panel for the 1993 Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts,
 Humanities,
and Sciences. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Office of the Governor,
1993
Finalist,
Beatrice Cummings Mayer Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry
(for article on "Suicidal Behaviors and Childhood-Onset Depressive Disorders:
A
Longitudinal Investigation"), 1993
Member,
Science Panel for the 1994 Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts,
Humanities,
and Sciences. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Office of the Governor,1994
Emanual
Miller Memorial Lecturer, Annual Meeting of the Association for Child Psychology
and
Psychiatry; Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK, 1994
Visiting
Professor, Cornell Medical Center, The New York Hospital and the
Westchester
Division, New York, NY, USA, 1995
Visiting
Professor, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University, Szeged, Hungary, 1997
Elected
Fellow, American Psychological Society, 1998
Among
the most “Highly Cited” (top 1.5%) researchers in the field of Psychology/Psychiatry
for
the period 1981-1999 (Institute for Scientific Information, www.highlycited.com),
2003
Member,
National Advisory Council, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration
(SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), 2004
Representative Publications
Kovacs
M, Akiskal HS, Gatsonis C, Parrone PL: Childhood-onset dysthymic disorder:
Clinical
features and prospective naturalistic outcome. Arch Gen Psychiatry
51:365-374, 1994.
Kovacs
M, Drash A, Mukerji P, Iyengar S: Biomedical and psychiatric risk factors
for
retinopathy
among children with insulin-dependent diabetes. Diabetes Care 18:1592-1599,
1995.
Kovacs
M, Devlin B, Pollock M, Richards C, Mukerji P: A controlled family history
study of
childhood-onset
depressive disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry 54:613-623, 1997.
Kovacs
M, Obrosky S, Sherrill JT: Developmental changes in the phenomenology of
depression
in girls and young women from childhood onward. J Affect Disorders 74:33-48,
2003.
Forbes
EE, Miller A, Cohn JF, Fox NA, Kovacs M: Affect-modulated startle in adults
with
childhood-onset
depression: Relations to bipolar course and number of lifetime depressive
episodes.
Psychiatry Res 134:11-25, 2005.
Strauss
J, Barr CL, George CJ, Devlin B, Vetró Á, Kiss E, Baji I,
King N, Shaikh S,
Lanktree
M, Kovacs M, Kennedy JL, the International Consortium for Childhood-Onset
Mood
Disorders.
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor variants are associated with childhood-onset
mood
disorder:
confirmation in a Hungarian sample. Molec Psychiatry 10:861-867, 2005.
Forbes
EE, Shaw DS, Fox NA, Cohn JF, Silk JS, Kovacs M: Maternal depression, child
frontal
asymmetry,
and child affective behavior as factors in child behavior problems. J Child
Psychol
Psychiatry
Allied Disciplines 47:79-87, 2006.
Silk
J, Shaw D, Skuban EM, Oland AA, Kovacs M: Emotion regulation strategies
in offspring of
childhood-onset
depressed mothers. J Child Psychol Psychiatry Allied Disciplines 47:69-78,
2006
Kovacs
M, Sherrill J, George CJ, Pollock M, Tumuluru RV, Ho V: Contextual emotion-regulation
therapy
for childhood depression: Description and pilot testing of a new intervention.
J Am Acad
Child
Adolesc Psychiatry 45:892-903, 2006.
Pérez-Edgar
K, Fox NA, Cohn JF, Kovacs M: Behavioral and electrophysiological markers
of
selective
attention in children of parents with a history of depression. Biol Psychiatry
60:1131-1138,
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