Beth E Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3800239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth E Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth E |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco VA Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6166-0761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Examining associations between food insecurity and disordered eating in U.S. veterans
Associations between PTSD and protective behaviors during the Covid-19 pandemic
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been linked with increased risk for hospitalization and death following COVID-19 infection, underscoring the importance of prevention in this population. Prior studies of pandemic-related behaviors in patients with PTSD have yielded mixed results. The present study used cross-sectional data from the Mind Your Heart Study to examine the association between PTSD and engagement in protective behaviors in a sa…
Cannabis legalization and changes in cannabis and tobacco/nicotine use and co-use in a national cohort of U.S. adults during 2017–2021
Cannabis legalization increases cannabis use but is not associated with changes in tobacco/nicotine use or co-use. Legalization should be coupled with public health efforts
Characteristics associated with past-year marijuana use in veterans with and without PTSD
Emotion regulation and combat severity differentiates PTSD diagnostic status among veterans
Increasing levels of combat severity differentiated veterans with current, remitted, and no history of PTSD, suggesting screening for severity of combat may be helpful. Greater habitual suppression distinguished current versus non-current PTSD status, whereas only less reappraisal distinguished non-current groups from each other. Lower suppression may be an important treatment target for veterans with moderate and high combat severity. (PsycInfo …
Causal discovery replicates symptomatic and functional interrelations of posttraumatic stress across five patient populations
Our findings suggest PTSD symptoms primarily drive depressive symptoms over time, tend to show independence from substance use symptoms, and may cascade into impairment in other domains. The results have implications for refining conceptualization of PTSD co-morbidity and can inform prognostic and treatment hypotheses about individuals experiencing PTSD symptoms along with co-occurring distress or impairment
Stress Measurement in Primary Care
OBJECTIVE: Exposure to stressors in daily life and dysregulated stress responses are associated with increased risk for a variety of chronic mental and physical health problems, including anxiety disorders, depression, asthma, heart disease, certain cancers, and autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorders. Despite this fact, stress exposure and responses are rarely assessed in the primary care setting and infrequently targeted for disease preventi…
Self-reported Changes in Cannabis Use Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic among US Adults
Cannabis use may confer high COVID-19 risk. This study examined self-reported changes in cannabis use that US adults attributed to the pandemic and factors associated with any changes. We conducted a national, cross-sectional survey among US adults in August 2020. The analytic sample included 957 past-year cannabis users (M age = 43 years old; 51% male). Weighted multinomial regression examined associations between forms and reasons of cannabis u…
The Association of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Longitudinal Change in Glomerular Filtration Rate in World Trade Center Responders
OBJECTIVE: High levels of psychological distress increase the risk of a wide range of medical diseases. In this study, we investigated the association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and kidney disease. METHODS: World Trade Center (WTC) responders were included if they had two or more measures of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). The PTSD Checklist (PCL) was used to define no PTSD (PCL < 40), "mild" PTSD (40 ≤ PCL <50), an…
Four Decades after War
State of the Art Review
The notion that psychological states can influence physical health is hardly new, and perhaps nowhere has the mind-body connection been better studied than in cardiovascular disease (CVD). Recently, large prospective epidemiologic studies and smaller basic science studies have firmly established a connection between CVD and several psychological conditions, including depression, chronic psychological stress, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), …
Metabolic Risk Factors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with indicators of poor physical health and sleep disturbance. This study investigated the relationship between PTSD and metabolic risk factors and examined the role of sleep duration in medically healthy and medication-free adults. METHODS: Participants with PTSD (n = 44, mean age = 30.6 years) and control participants free of lifetime psychiatric history (n = 50, mean age = 30.3 year…
Lifetime Trauma Exposure and Prospective Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality
OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the effect of cumulative psychological trauma on health outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease. The objective of this study was to prospectively examine the association between lifetime trauma exposure and recurrent cardiovascular events or all-cause mortality in patients with existing cardiovascular disease. METHODS: A total of 1021 men and women with cardiovascular disease were recruited in 2000 to 200…
Reproductive and Other Health Outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan Women Veterans Using VA Health Care
Eating Disorders and Psychiatric Comorbidity among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
Gender Differences in Military Sexual Trauma and Mental Health Diagnoses among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The Children's Voice
In the aftermath of World War II, adults—mainly survivors—collected thousands of hand-written testimonies from child survivors of the Holocaust. In this article, the author describes the process by which the testimonies were collected and examines the underlying sensibilities of its initiators. Further, he outlines the widespread publication of children's testimonies in the immediate postwar period and the evolution of anthologies of children's t…
Vase painters
The Distaff Side
The Art of Ancient Greece
Preface List of illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1. Ancient memories and primitive beginnings 2. Sculpture: early developments and the Archaic period (c. 650-510 BC) 3. Sculpture: the Late Archaic phase (c. 510-480 BC) 4. Sculpture: the Early Classical period (c. 480-450 BC) 5. Sculpture: the High Classical period (c. 450-400 BC) 6. Sculpture: the fourth century BC 7. Sculpture: the Hellenistic period 8. Painting: earliest developments an…
Containers of Classical Greece
The Art of Ancient Greece
Preface List of illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1. Ancient memories and primitive beginnings 2. Sculpture: early developments and the Archaic period (c. 650-510 BC) 3. Sculpture: the Late Archaic phase (c. 510-480 BC) 4. Sculpture: the Early Classical period (c. 480-450 BC) 5. Sculpture: the High Classical period (c. 450-400 BC) 6. Sculpture: the fourth century BC 7. Sculpture: the Hellenistic period 8. Painting: earliest developments an…
The Children's Voice
In the aftermath of World War II, adults—mainly survivors—collected thousands of hand-written testimonies from child survivors of the Holocaust. In this article, the author describes the process by which the testimonies were collected and examines the underlying sensibilities of its initiators. Further, he outlines the widespread publication of children's testimonies in the immediate postwar period and the evolution of anthologies of children's t…
Containers of Classical Greece
The Distaff Side
Containers of Classical Greece
The Art of Ancient Greece
Preface List of illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1. Ancient memories and primitive beginnings 2. Sculpture: early developments and the Archaic period (c. 650-510 BC) 3. Sculpture: the Late Archaic phase (c. 510-480 BC) 4. Sculpture: the Early Classical period (c. 480-450 BC) 5. Sculpture: the High Classical period (c. 450-400 BC) 6. Sculpture: the fourth century BC 7. Sculpture: the Hellenistic period 8. Painting: earliest developments an…
The Distaff Side
Vase painters
The Children's Voice
In the aftermath of World War II, adults—mainly survivors—collected thousands of hand-written testimonies from child survivors of the Holocaust. In this article, the author describes the process by which the testimonies were collected and examines the underlying sensibilities of its initiators. Further, he outlines the widespread publication of children's testimonies in the immediate postwar period and the evolution of anthologies of children's t…
Gender Differences in Military Sexual Trauma and Mental Health Diagnoses among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Reproductive and Other Health Outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan Women Veterans Using VA Health Care
Eating Disorders and Psychiatric Comorbidity among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
Lifetime Trauma Exposure and Prospective Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality
OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the effect of cumulative psychological trauma on health outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease. The objective of this study was to prospectively examine the association between lifetime trauma exposure and recurrent cardiovascular events or all-cause mortality in patients with existing cardiovascular disease. METHODS: A total of 1021 men and women with cardiovascular disease were recruited in 2000 to 200…
State of the Art Review
The notion that psychological states can influence physical health is hardly new, and perhaps nowhere has the mind-body connection been better studied than in cardiovascular disease (CVD). Recently, large prospective epidemiologic studies and smaller basic science studies have firmly established a connection between CVD and several psychological conditions, including depression, chronic psychological stress, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), …
Metabolic Risk Factors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with indicators of poor physical health and sleep disturbance. This study investigated the relationship between PTSD and metabolic risk factors and examined the role of sleep duration in medically healthy and medication-free adults. METHODS: Participants with PTSD (n = 44, mean age = 30.6 years) and control participants free of lifetime psychiatric history (n = 50, mean age = 30.3 year…
Four Decades after War
The Association of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Longitudinal Change in Glomerular Filtration Rate in World Trade Center Responders
OBJECTIVE: High levels of psychological distress increase the risk of a wide range of medical diseases. In this study, we investigated the association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and kidney disease. METHODS: World Trade Center (WTC) responders were included if they had two or more measures of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). The PTSD Checklist (PCL) was used to define no PTSD (PCL < 40), "mild" PTSD (40 ≤ PCL <50), an…
Stress Measurement in Primary Care
OBJECTIVE: Exposure to stressors in daily life and dysregulated stress responses are associated with increased risk for a variety of chronic mental and physical health problems, including anxiety disorders, depression, asthma, heart disease, certain cancers, and autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorders. Despite this fact, stress exposure and responses are rarely assessed in the primary care setting and infrequently targeted for disease preventi…
Self-reported Changes in Cannabis Use Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic among US Adults
Cannabis use may confer high COVID-19 risk. This study examined self-reported changes in cannabis use that US adults attributed to the pandemic and factors associated with any changes. We conducted a national, cross-sectional survey among US adults in August 2020. The analytic sample included 957 past-year cannabis users (M age = 43 years old; 51% male). Weighted multinomial regression examined associations between forms and reasons of cannabis u…
Characteristics associated with past-year marijuana use in veterans with and without PTSD
Emotion regulation and combat severity differentiates PTSD diagnostic status among veterans
Increasing levels of combat severity differentiated veterans with current, remitted, and no history of PTSD, suggesting screening for severity of combat may be helpful. Greater habitual suppression distinguished current versus non-current PTSD status, whereas only less reappraisal distinguished non-current groups from each other. Lower suppression may be an important treatment target for veterans with moderate and high combat severity. (PsycInfo …
Causal discovery replicates symptomatic and functional interrelations of posttraumatic stress across five patient populations
Our findings suggest PTSD symptoms primarily drive depressive symptoms over time, tend to show independence from substance use symptoms, and may cascade into impairment in other domains. The results have implications for refining conceptualization of PTSD co-morbidity and can inform prognostic and treatment hypotheses about individuals experiencing PTSD symptoms along with co-occurring distress or impairment
Cannabis legalization and changes in cannabis and tobacco/nicotine use and co-use in a national cohort of U.S. adults during 2017–2021
Cannabis legalization increases cannabis use but is not associated with changes in tobacco/nicotine use or co-use. Legalization should be coupled with public health efforts
Associations between PTSD and protective behaviors during the Covid-19 pandemic
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been linked with increased risk for hospitalization and death following COVID-19 infection, underscoring the importance of prevention in this population. Prior studies of pandemic-related behaviors in patients with PTSD have yielded mixed results. The present study used cross-sectional data from the Mind Your Heart Study to examine the association between PTSD and engagement in protective behaviors in a sa…
Examining associations between food insecurity and disordered eating in U.S. veterans
Psychiatry (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (7 works) · Anxiety (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Disease (5 works) · History (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works)