Alicia K Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia K Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia K |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8537-5156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A mixed methods analysis of community capacity to address health equity in the rural Southern U.S
Community coalitions are an effective mechanism for strengthening selected dimensions of community capacity for health equity in rural communities. Deeper engagement of those most affected by health inequities and actions toward addressing structural and policy drivers of these inequities may require the active centering of health equity from project inception. Clarity of purpose (i.e., racial/income inequities or rural/urban inequities), technic…
Poet-Bishop and Harlot Saint: Marbod of Rennes’s Life of Thais in Context
This article analyzes the twelfth-century verse life of the “harlot saint” Thais written by the bishop and auctor Marbod of Rennes, arguing that it should be understood as an intervention into a particular ecclesiastical context of Marbod’s episcopacy: the rise in penitential and eremitic or reclusive movements and the widespread presence of women, including those identified as meretrices or harlots, in these new communities. It examines the evid…
Genetic risk for hospitalization of African American patients with severe mental illness reveals HLA loci
We observed a strong association between H-SMI and a locus that has been consistently and strongly associated with SCZ in multiple studies (6p21.32-p22.1), possibly indicating an involvement of the immune system and the immune response in the development of severe transdiagnostic SMI
Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the Mysteries of the Body
Late in this provocative, provisional, and generically complex book, Cary Howie suggests that “we are all medievalists” (133). This might not sound particularly surprising as you read a review in a medievalist journal, but Howie’s meaning is far broader and more inclusive than most disciplinary descriptors. He speculatively locates the essence of medievalist practice in “temporal and ontological incompleteness:” a willingness to see ourselves as …
Blood-derived deoxyribonucleic acid methylation clusters associate with adverse social exposures and endophenotypes of stress-related psychiatric illness in a trauma-exposed cohort of women
Adverse social exposures (ASEs) such as low income, low educational attainment, and childhood/adult trauma exposure are associated with variability in brain region measurements of gray matter volume (GMV), surface area (SA), and cortical thickness (CT). These CNS morphometries are associated with stress-related psychiatric illnesses and represent endophenotypes of stress-related psychiatric illness development. Epigenetic mechanisms, such as 5-me…
Each way means loneliness—and communion’: Reading anchoritic literature with T.S. Eliot
When Anger Remains Unspoken: Anger and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging Among Stress-Exposed Black Americans
OBJECTIVE: Race-related lifetime stress exposure (LSE) including racial discrimination, trauma, and stressful life events have been shown to contribute to racial health disparities. However, little is known about associations between race-related stressors and premature biological aging that confer the risk of adverse health outcomes. Even less is known about the mechanisms through which race-related stressors may be associated with accelerated a…
Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy
Maternal psychosocial stress increases the risk of adverse birth and postnatal outcomes for the mother and child, but the role of maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events (CTE) and multi-domain psychosocial stressors for the level and rise of placental Corticotrophin-Releasing Hormone (pCRH) across pregnancy has been understudied. In a sociodemographically and racially diverse sample of 1303 women (64% Black, 36% White/others) with low-med…
Trauma, psychiatric disorders, and treatment history among pregnant African American women
Results of the current study highlight elevated levels of trauma exposure, PTSD, and depression in low-income, African American pregnant women served by this urban clinic, and demonstrate the need for better identification of trauma-related disorders and appropriate linkage to culturally responsive care especially for PTSD. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Dynamic Patterns of Threat-Associated Gene Expression in the Amygdala and Blood
Stress and trauma profoundly influence psychiatric biobehavioral outcomes. The identification of treatment and biomarker targets would be accelerated by a broad understanding of the biological responses to these events. The goal of this study was to determine genes responsive to auditory fear conditioning (FC), a well-characterized amygdala-dependent rodent model of threat-exposure, in the presence or absence of prior stress history, providing in…
A Gene-Based Analysis of Acoustic Startle Latency
Latency of the acoustic startle response is the time required from the presentation of startling auditory stimulus until the startle response is elicited and provides an index of neural processing speed. Latency is prolonged in subjects with schizophrenia compared to controls in some but not all studies and is 68-90% heritable in baseline startle trials. In order to determine the genetic association with latency as a potential inroad into genetic…
Childhood Trauma and Comt Genotype Interact to Increase Hippocampal Activation in Resilient Individuals
Both childhood trauma and a functional catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) genetic polymorphism have been associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression; however, it is still unclear whether the two interact and how this interaction relates to long-term risk or resilience. Imaging and genotype data were collected on 73 highly traumatized women. DNA extracted from saliva was used to determine COMT genotype (Val/Val, n = 38, Me…
Decoy: Documenting Experiences with Cigarettes and Other Tobacco in Young Adults
Psychographic characteristics distinguish users of different tobacco products
Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy
Maternal psychosocial stress increases the risk of adverse birth and postnatal outcomes for the mother and child, but the role of maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events (CTE) and multi-domain psychosocial stressors for the level and rise of placental Corticotrophin-Releasing Hormone (pCRH) across pregnancy has been understudied. In a sociodemographically and racially diverse sample of 1303 women (64% Black, 36% White/others) with low-med…
Each way means loneliness—and communion’: Reading anchoritic literature with T.S. Eliot
Childhood Trauma and Comt Genotype Interact to Increase Hippocampal Activation in Resilient Individuals
Both childhood trauma and a functional catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) genetic polymorphism have been associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression; however, it is still unclear whether the two interact and how this interaction relates to long-term risk or resilience. Imaging and genotype data were collected on 73 highly traumatized women. DNA extracted from saliva was used to determine COMT genotype (Val/Val, n = 38, Me…
Decoy: Documenting Experiences with Cigarettes and Other Tobacco in Young Adults
Psychographic characteristics distinguish users of different tobacco products
A Gene-Based Analysis of Acoustic Startle Latency
Latency of the acoustic startle response is the time required from the presentation of startling auditory stimulus until the startle response is elicited and provides an index of neural processing speed. Latency is prolonged in subjects with schizophrenia compared to controls in some but not all studies and is 68-90% heritable in baseline startle trials. In order to determine the genetic association with latency as a potential inroad into genetic…
Trauma, psychiatric disorders, and treatment history among pregnant African American women
Results of the current study highlight elevated levels of trauma exposure, PTSD, and depression in low-income, African American pregnant women served by this urban clinic, and demonstrate the need for better identification of trauma-related disorders and appropriate linkage to culturally responsive care especially for PTSD. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Dynamic Patterns of Threat-Associated Gene Expression in the Amygdala and Blood
Stress and trauma profoundly influence psychiatric biobehavioral outcomes. The identification of treatment and biomarker targets would be accelerated by a broad understanding of the biological responses to these events. The goal of this study was to determine genes responsive to auditory fear conditioning (FC), a well-characterized amygdala-dependent rodent model of threat-exposure, in the presence or absence of prior stress history, providing in…
Maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events, but not multi-domain psychosocial stressors, predict placental corticotrophin releasing hormone across pregnancy
Maternal psychosocial stress increases the risk of adverse birth and postnatal outcomes for the mother and child, but the role of maternal exposure to childhood traumatic events (CTE) and multi-domain psychosocial stressors for the level and rise of placental Corticotrophin-Releasing Hormone (pCRH) across pregnancy has been understudied. In a sociodemographically and racially diverse sample of 1303 women (64% Black, 36% White/others) with low-med…
When Anger Remains Unspoken: Anger and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging Among Stress-Exposed Black Americans
OBJECTIVE: Race-related lifetime stress exposure (LSE) including racial discrimination, trauma, and stressful life events have been shown to contribute to racial health disparities. However, little is known about associations between race-related stressors and premature biological aging that confer the risk of adverse health outcomes. Even less is known about the mechanisms through which race-related stressors may be associated with accelerated a…
Blood-derived deoxyribonucleic acid methylation clusters associate with adverse social exposures and endophenotypes of stress-related psychiatric illness in a trauma-exposed cohort of women
Adverse social exposures (ASEs) such as low income, low educational attainment, and childhood/adult trauma exposure are associated with variability in brain region measurements of gray matter volume (GMV), surface area (SA), and cortical thickness (CT). These CNS morphometries are associated with stress-related psychiatric illnesses and represent endophenotypes of stress-related psychiatric illness development. Epigenetic mechanisms, such as 5-me…
Each way means loneliness—and communion’: Reading anchoritic literature with T.S. Eliot
Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the Mysteries of the Body
Late in this provocative, provisional, and generically complex book, Cary Howie suggests that “we are all medievalists” (133). This might not sound particularly surprising as you read a review in a medievalist journal, but Howie’s meaning is far broader and more inclusive than most disciplinary descriptors. He speculatively locates the essence of medievalist practice in “temporal and ontological incompleteness:” a willingness to see ourselves as …
Poet-Bishop and Harlot Saint: Marbod of Rennes’s Life of Thais in Context
This article analyzes the twelfth-century verse life of the “harlot saint” Thais written by the bishop and auctor Marbod of Rennes, arguing that it should be understood as an intervention into a particular ecclesiastical context of Marbod’s episcopacy: the rise in penitential and eremitic or reclusive movements and the widespread presence of women, including those identified as meretrices or harlots, in these new communities. It examines the evid…
Genetic risk for hospitalization of African American patients with severe mental illness reveals HLA loci
We observed a strong association between H-SMI and a locus that has been consistently and strongly associated with SCZ in multiple studies (6p21.32-p22.1), possibly indicating an involvement of the immune system and the immune response in the development of severe transdiagnostic SMI
A mixed methods analysis of community capacity to address health equity in the rural Southern U.S
Community coalitions are an effective mechanism for strengthening selected dimensions of community capacity for health equity in rural communities. Deeper engagement of those most affected by health inequities and actions toward addressing structural and policy drivers of these inequities may require the active centering of health equity from project inception. Clarity of purpose (i.e., racial/income inequities or rural/urban inequities), technic…
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