Current Work:
Michael Lyons is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Boston
University and a Lecturer on Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School.
Twin Studies:
Dr. Lyons has used twins in three studies of drug abuse with grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, biologic markers for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and is currently the principal investigator on a study looking at vulnerability to alcoholism with a grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Education: BA, C.W. Post College; MS, Columbia University; MA, PhD, University of Louisville.
Clinical Psychology Program Faculty Profiles
Dr. Lyons' profile from the Boston University psychology department. The Community Epidemiology Work Group-- Publications, June 1998
The contribution from Dr. Lyons' group, "Drug Abuse: Genes and Environment," is listed last under the Special Reports section.
Contribution of Emotionally Traumatic Events and Inheritance to the Report of Current Physical Health Problems in 4042 Vietnam Era Veteran Twin Pairs
From the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. Co-occurrence of Abuse of Different Drugs in Men: The Role of Drug-Specific and Shared Vulnerabilities
An abstract from Archives of General Psychiatry.Long-Term Reliability and Validity of Alcoholism Diagnoses and Symptoms in a Large National Telephone Interview Survey
An abstract from the journal ALCOHOLISM: Clinical and Experimental Research, the contribution from Dr. Lyons' group is listed first. Papers co-authored with Dr. Seth Eisen of Washington University School of Medicine.
Abstract numbers 4 (first author), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 (first author) and 12.
A Registry-Based Twin Study of Depression in Men
An abstract from Archives of General Psychiatry. A Twin Study of Self-reported Criminal Behavior
From a book published by The Novartis Foundation, the abstract of Dr. Lyons' article is listed third. Twin Study of Vulnerability to Alcoholism
From the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, this briefly describes one of Dr. Lyons' on-going projects.
The Vietnam Era Twin Study
This is a brief description of the Vietnam Era Twin Registry, of which Dr. Lyons wasone of the creators.
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