Carol Prescott Professor Contact Information Office: SGM 934 Phone: (213)740-2314 E-mail: cprescot@usc.edu LINKS Curriculum Vitae

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments

• Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2000-2005  
• Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1992-2000  

PostDoctoral Appointments

• Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1991-1992   

Publications

Book

• Kendler, K. S., Prescott, C. A. (2006). Genes, Environment and Psychopathology: Understanding the Causes of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. Boston, MA: Genes, Environment and Psychopathology: Understanding the Causes of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders./Guilford Press.

Journal Article

• Kendler, K. S., Schmitt, J. E., Aggen, S. H., Prescott, C. A. (2007). Genetic and Environmental Influences on Alcohol, Caffeine, Cannabis, and Nicotine Use From Early Adolescence To Middle Adulthood. Archives of General Psychiatry.
• Kendler, K. S., Jacobson, K. C., Gardner, C. O., Gillespie, N., Aggen, S. A., Prescott, C. A. (2007). Creating a social world: A developmental twin study of peer-group deviance. Archives of General Psychiatry. Vol. 64 (8), pp. 958-965.
• Prescott, C. A., Kuhn, J. W., Pedersen, N. L. (2007). Twin pair resemblance for psychiatric hospitalization in the Swedish Twin Registry: a 32-year follow-up study of 29,602 twin pairs. Behavior Genetics. Vol. 37 (4), pp. 547-558.
• Gillespie, N. A., Kendler, K. S., Prescott, C. A., Aggen, S. H., Gardner, C. O., Jacobson, K., Neale, M. C. (2007). Longitudinal modeling of genetic and environmental influences on self-reported availability of psychoactive substances: alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine and stimulants. Psychological Medicine. Vol. 37 (7), pp. 947-959.
• Gillespie, N. A., Neale, M. C., Prescott, C. A., Aggen, S. H., Kendler, K. S. (2007). Factor and item-response analysis DSM-IV criteria for abuse of and dependence on cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, sedatives, stimulants and opioids. Addiction. Vol. 102 (6), pp. 920-930.
• Kuo, P., Neale, M. C., Riley, B. P., Patterson, D. G., Walsh, D., Prescott, C. A., Kendler, K. S. (2007). A genome-wide linkage analysis for the personality trait neuroticism in the Irish affected sib-pair study of alcohol dependence. Am J Med Genet B (Neuropsychiatric Genetics). Vol. 144 (4), pp. 463-468.
• Kendler, K. S., Myers, J. M., Prescott, C. A. (2007). The specificity of genetic and environmental risk factors for symptoms of cannabis, cocaine, alcohol, caffeine and nicotine dependence. Archives of General Psychiatry.
• Spotts, E. L., Prescott, C. A., Kendler, K. S. (2006). Examining the origins of gender differences in marital quality: A behavior genetic analysis. J Fam Psychol. Vol. 20 (4), pp. 605-613.
• Kendler, K. S., Kuo, P., Webb, B. T., Kalsi, G., Neale, M. C., Sullivan, P. F., Walsh, D., Patterson, D. G., Riley, B. P., Prescott, C. A. (2006). A joint genome-wide linkage analysis of symptoms of alcohol dependence and conduct disorder. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research/Blackwell Publishing. Vol. 30 (12), pp. 1972-1977.
• Kuo, P., Neale, M. C., Riley, B. P., Webb, B. T., Sullivan, P. F., Patterson, D. G., van den Oord, E. J., Walsh, D., Kendler, K. S., Prescott, C. A. (2006). Identification of susceptibility loci for alcohol-related traits in the Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of Alcohol Dependence. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research/Blackwell Publishing. Vol. 30 (11), pp. 1807-1816.
• Riley, B. P., Kalsi, G., Kuo, P., Vladimirov, V., Thiselton, D. L., Vittum, J., Wormley, B., Grotewiel, M. S., Patterson, D. G., Sullivan, P. F., van den Oord, E. J., Walsh, D., Kendler, K. S., Prescott, C. A. (2006). Alcohol dependence is associated with the ZNF699 gene, a human locus related to Drosophila hangover, in the Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of Alcohol Dependence (IASPSAD) sample. Molecular Psychiatry/Nature Publishing Group. Vol. 11 (11), pp. 1025-1031.
• Kuo, P., Gardner, C. O., Kendler, K. S., Prescott, C. A. (2006). The temporal relationship of the onsets of alcohol dependence and major depression: Using a genetically informative study design. Psychological Medicine/Cambridge University Press. Vol. 36 (8), pp. 1153-1162.
• Crabbe, J. C., Metten, P., Ponomarev, I., Prescott, C. A., Wahlsten, D. (2006). Effects of genetic and procedural variation on measurement of alcohol sensitivity in mouse inbred strains. Behavior Genetics/Kluwer Academic Press. Vol. 36, pp. 536-552.
• Prescott, C. A., Madden, P. A., Stallings, M. C. (2006). Challenges in genetic studies of the etiology of substance use and substance use disorders. Behavior Genetics/Kluwer Academic Press. Vol. 36 (4), pp. 473-482.
• Prescott, C. A., Sullivan, P. F., Kuo, P., Webb, B. T., Vittum, J., Patterson, D. G., Thiselton, D. L., Myers, J. M., Devitt, M., Halberstadt, L. J., Robinson, V. P., Neale, M. C., van den Oord, E. J., Walsh, D., Riley, B. P., Kendler, K. S. (2006). Genomewide linkage study in the Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of Alcohol Dependence: Evidence for a susceptibility region for symptoms of alcohol dependence on chromosome 4. Molecular Psychiatry/Nature Publishing Group. Vol. 11, pp. 603-611.
• Hettema, J. M., Neale, M. C., Myers, J. M., Prescott, C. A., Kendler, K. S. (2006). A population-based twin study of the relationship between neuroticism and internalizing disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry/American Psychiatric Association. Vol. 163, pp. 857-864.
• Hettema, J. M., Kuhn, J., Prescott, C. A., Kendler, K. S. (2006). The impact of generalized anxiety disorder and stressful life events on risk for major depressive episodes. Psychological Medicine/Cambridge University Press. Vol. 36, pp. 789-795.
• Kendler, K. S., Gardner, C. O., Prescott, C. A. (2006). Toward a comprehensive developmental model for major depression in men. American Journal of Psychiatry/American Psychiatric Association. Vol. 163, pp. 115-124.
• Prescott, C. A., Sullivan, P. F., Myers, J. M., Patterson, D. G., Devitt, M., Halberstadt, L. J., Walsh, D., Kendler, K. S. (2005). The Irish Affected Sib Pair Study of Alcohol Dependence. Study methodology and validation of diagnosis by interview and family history. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research/Blackwell Publishing. Vol. 29 (3), pp. 417-429.
• Furberg, H., Sullivan, P. F., Maes, H. H., Prescott, C. A., Lerman, C., Bulik, C., Kendler, K. S. (2005). The types of regular cigarette smokers: A latent class analysis. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Vol. 7, pp. 351-360.
• Hettema, J. M., Prescott, C. A., Myers, J. M., Neale, M. C., Kendler, K. S. (2005). The structure of genetic and environmental risk factors for anxiety disorders in men and women. Archives of General Psychiatry/American Medical Association. Vol. 62, pp. 182-189.
• Kendler, K. S., Kuhn, J., Vittum, J., Prescott, C. A., Riley, B. P. (2005). The interaction of stressful life events and a serotonin transporter polymorphism in the prediction of episodes of major depression: A replication. Archives of General Psychiatry/American Medical Association. Vol. 62, pp. 529-535.
• Kendler, K. S., Gardner, C. O., Jacobson, K. C., Prescott, C. A., Neale, M. C. (2005). Genetic and environmental influences on illicit drug use and tobacco use across birth cohorts. Psychological Medicine/Cambridge University Press. Vol. 35, pp. 1349-1356.
• Kendler, K. S., Myers, J. M., Prescott, C. A. (2005). Sex differences in the relationship between social support and risk for major depression: A longitudinal study of opposite-sex twin pairs. American Journal of Psychiatry/American Psychiatric Association. Vol. 162, pp. 250-256.
• Khan, A., Jacobson, K. C., Gardner, C. O., Prescott, C. A., Kendler, K. S. (2005). Personality and comorbidity of common psychiatric disorders. British Journal of Psychiatry/The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Vol. 186, pp. 190-196.
• Agrawal, A., Neale, M. C., Jacobson, K. C., Prescott, C. A., Kendler, K. S. (2005). Illicit drug use and abuse/dependence: Modeling of the two-stage conditional relationship. Addictive Behaviors/Elsevier. Vol. 30, pp. 1043-1048.
• Schmitt, J. E., Prescott, C. A., Gardner, C. O., Neale, M. C., Kendler, K. S. (2005). The differential heritability of regular tobacco use based on method of administration. Twin Research and Human Genetics/International Society for Twin Studies. Vol. 8, pp. 60-62.
• Prescott, C. A. (2004). Childhood sexual abuse, stressful life events, and risk for major depression in women. Psychological Medicine. Vol. 34 (8), pp. 1475-1482.
• Kendler, K. S., Thornton, L. M., Prescott, C. A. (2001). Gender differences in the rates of exposure to stressful life events and sensitivity to depressogenic effects. American Journal of Psychiatry/American Psychiatric Association. Vol. 158 (4), pp. 587-593.

Honors and Awards

• Fulker Award, Behavior Genetics Association, 2007-  
• USC Center for Excellence in Research, Faculty Fellow, 2007-  
• Theodore Reich Young Investigator Award, International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, 2004  

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments

• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology, USC, 2007-  

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards

• Review Editor, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2003-2007