Department of Psychiatry Faculty

Education

Research Interests

My general area of research, personality and psychopathology, grew out of my clinical work with severe personality disorders and related psychopathology. Central goals of my work are to understand the relations of mental disorders that often co-occur (co-morbidity) and to develop better ways to understand and describe the key features of these mental disorders. The specific focus of my work is borderline psychopathology.

To accomplish my research goals, my work has drawn on psychometric and multivariate statistical approaches applied to diagnostic data including the DSM and measures of personality traits, developmental experiences, mood, and anxiety. Building on these efforts, my current emphasis takes a component process approach to study cognition and emotion in mental disorders and uses neuroimaging to compare patterns of brain activity associated with cognition in different diagnostic subgroups. It is hoped that these efforts will improve diagnosis by identifying treatment targets more specific than those based on descriptive methods, ultimately suggesting new directions for assessing and treating borderline personality and related disorders.

Current studies in the Cognitive-Affective-Personality-Science Lab examine the shared and specific components of BPD and PTSD.

Publications of Note

Sanislow, C. A. & McGlashan, T. H. (1998). Treatment outcome of personality disorders. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 43, 237-250.

Sanislow, C. A. , Grilo, C. M., & McGlashan, T. H. (2000). Factor Analysis of the DSM-III-R Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria in Psychiatric Inpatients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 1629-1633.

Sanislow, C. A. , Morey, L. C., Grilo, C. M., Gunderson, J. G., Shea, M. T., Skodol, A. E., Stout, R. L., Zanarini, M. C. & McGlashan, T. H. (2002). Confirmatory factor analysis of DSM-IV schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders: Findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders. Acta Psychiatrica Scandanavica, 105, 28-36.

Sanislow, C. A. , Grilo, C. M., Morey, L. C., Bender, D. S., Skodol, A. E., Gunderson, J. G., Shea, M. T., Stout, R. L., Zanarini, M. C., & McGlashan, T. H. (2002). Confirmatory Factor analysis of the DSM-IV borderline personality disorder criteria. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 284-290.

Donegan, N. H., Sanislow, C. A., Blumberg, H. P., Fulbright, R. K., Lacadie, C., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J. C., Olson, I. R., McGlashan, T. H., & Wexler, B. E. (2003). Amygdala hyper-reactivity in borderline personality disorder: implications for hypervigilance and emotional dysregulation. Biological Psychiatry, 54, 1284-1293.

Sanislow, C. A. , Chapman, J., McGlashan, T. H. (2003). Establishing Mental Health Crisis Intervention Services In Short-Term Juvenile Detention Centers. Psychiatric Services, 54, 107.

Sanislow, C. A. , Grilo, C. M., Fehon, D. C., Axelrod, S., & McGlashan, T. H. (2003). Correlates of suicide risk in juvenile detainees and adolescent inpatients. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 234-240.

Skodol, A. E., Shea, M. T., McGlashan, T. H., Gunderson, J. G., Morey, L. C., Sanislow, C. A., Bender, D. S., Grilo, C. M., Zanarini, M. C., Yen, S., Pagano, M. E., Stout, R. L. (2005). The Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS): overview and implications. Journal of Personality Disorders, 19, 487-504

McGlashan, T. H., Grilo, C. M., Sanislow, C. A., Ralevski, E., Morey, L. C., Gunderson, J. G., Skodol, A. E., Shea, M. T., Zanarini, M. C., Bender, D. S., Stout, R. L., Yen, S., & Pagano, M. E. (2005). Two-year prevalence and stability of individual criteria for schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 883-889.

Johnson, M. K., Raye, C. L., Mitchell, K. J., Greene, E. J., Cunningham, W. A., & Sanislow, C. A. (2005). Using fMRI to investigate a component process of reflection: prefrontal correlates of refreshing a just activated representation. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 339-361.

Johnson, M. K., Mitchell, K. J., Raye, C. L., McGuire, J. T. & Sanislow, C. A. (in press). Mental rubbernecking to negative information depends on task context. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

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