Published and accepted research articles in refereed journals:
Hungerford JE, Compton MT, Matter ML, Hoffstrom BG, Otey CA (1996) Inhibition of pp125FAK in cultured fibroblasts results in apoptosis. Journal of Cell Biology, 135:1383–1390.
Compton MT (2002) The association of Hygieia with Asklepios in Graeco-Roman Asklepieion medicine. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 57:312–329.
Compton MT, Kaslow NJ, Walker EF (2004) Observations on parent/family factors that may influence the duration of untreated psychosis among African American first-episode schizophrenia-spectrum patients. Schizophrenia Research, 68:373–385.
Compton MT, Furman AC, Kaslow NJ (2004) Lower negative symptom scores among cannabis-dependent patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: Preliminary evidence from an African American first-episode sample. Schizophrenia Research, 71:61–64.
Compton MT, Furman AC, Kaslow NJ (2004) Preliminary evidence of an association between childhood abuse and cannabis dependence among African American first-episode schizophrenia-spectrum disorder patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 76:311–316.
Compton MT, Thompson NJ, Kaslow NJ (2005) Social environment factors associated with suicide attempt among low-income African Americans: The protective role of family relationships and social support. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 40:175–185.
Esterberg ML, Compton MT (2005) Smoking behavior in persons with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: A qualitative investigation of the transtheoretical model. Social Science and Medicine, 61:293–303.
Compton MT, Furman AC (2005) Inverse correlations between symptom scores and spiritual well-being among African American patients with first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 193:346–349.
Compton MT, Kaslow NJ (2005) Self-reported psychotic symptoms predict impulsivity among African-American patients in an urban non-psychiatric medical setting. Psychiatry Research, 135:35–44.
Compton MT, Esterberg ML (2005) Treatment delay in first-episode nonaffective psychosis: A pilot study with African American family members and the theory of planned behavior. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 46:291–295.
Kaslow NJ, Sherry A, Bethea K, Wyckoff S, Compton MT, Grall MB, Scholl L, Price AW, Kellermann A, Thompson N, Parker R (2005) Social risk and protective factors for suicide attempts in low income African American men and women. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 35:400–412.
Compton MT, Rudisch BE, Weiss PS, West JC, Kaslow NJ (2005) Predictors of psychiatrist-reported treatment-compliance problems among patients in routine U.S. psychiatric care. Psychiatry Research, 137:29–36.
Compton MT, Weiss PS, West JC, Kaslow NJ (2005) The associations between substance use disorders, schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and Axis IV psychosocial problems. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 40:939–946.
Compton MT, Rudisch BE, Craw J, Thompson T, Owens DA (2006) Predictors of missed first appointments at community mental health centers after psychiatric hospitalization. Psychiatric Services, 57:531–537.
Esterberg ML, Compton MT (2006) Causes of schizophrenia reported by family members of urban African American hospitalized patients with schizophrenia. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 47:221–226.
Compton MT, Bercu Z, Bollini A, Walker EF (2006) Factor structure of the Neurological Evaluation Scale in a predominantly African American sample of patients with schizophrenia, unaffected relatives, and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research, 84:365–377.
Compton MT, Weiss PS, Phillips VL, West JC, Kaslow NJ (2006) Determinants of health plan membership among patients in routine U.S. psychiatric practice. Community Mental Health Journal, 42:197–204.
Compton MT, Craw J, Rudisch BE (2006) Determinants of inpatient psychiatric length of stay in an urban county hospital. Psychiatric Quarterly, 77:173–188.
Compton MT, Esterberg ML, McGee R, Kotwicki RJ, Oliva JR (2006) Crisis intervention team training: Changes in knowledge, attitudes, and stigma related to schizophrenia. Psychiatric Services, 57:1199–1202.
Compton MT, Esterberg ML, Druss BG, Walker EF, Kaslow NJ (2006) A descriptive study of pathways to care among hospitalized urban African American first-episode schizophrenia-spectrum patients. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41:566–573.
Compton MT, McKenzie Mack L, Esterberg ML, Bercu Z, Kryda AD, Quintero L, Weiss PS, Walker EF (2006) Associations between olfactory identification and verbal memory in patients with schizophrenia, first-degree relatives, and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research, 86:154–166.
Compton MT, West JC, Olfson M (2006) Prolonged duration of untreated psychosis in nonaffective first-episode psychotic disorders compared to other psychoses. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 10:264–268.
Craw J, Compton MT (2006) Characteristics associated with involuntary versus voluntary legal status at admission and discharge among psychiatric inpatients. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41:981–988.
Compton MT, Chien VH, Bollini AM (2007) Psychometric properties of the Brief Version of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire in relatives of patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research, 91:122–131.
Bollini AM, Compton MT, Esterberg ML, Rutland J, Chien VH, Walker EF (2007) Associations between schizotypal features and indicators of neurological and morphological abnormalities. Schizophrenia Research, 92:32–40.
Compton MT, Quintero L, Esterberg ML (2007) Assessing knowledge of schizophrenia: Development and psychometric properties of a brief, multiple-choice knowledge test for use across various samples. Psychiatry Research, 151:87–95.
Compton MT, Brudno J, Kryda AD, Bollini AM, Walker EF (2007) Facial measurement differences between patients with schizophrenia and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research, 93:245–252.
Compton MT, Bollini AM, McKenzie Mack L, Kryda AD, Rutland J, Weiss PS, Bercu Z, Esterberg ML, Walker EF (2007) Neurological soft signs and minor physical anomalies in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders, their first-degree biological relatives, and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research, 94:64–73.
Compton MT, Chien VH, Bollini AM, Walker EF (2007) Lack of support for the inability to taste phenylthiocarbamide as an endophenotypic marker in patients with schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives. Schizophrenia Research, 95:65–69.
Dunlop AL, Isakov AP, Compton MT, White M, Nassery H, Frank E, Glanz K (2007) Medical outreach following a remote disaster: Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. American Journal of Disaster Medicine 2:121–132.
Esterberg ML, Jones EM, Compton MT, Walker EF (2007) Nicotine consumption and schizotypy in first-degree relatives of individuals with schizophrenia and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research, 97:6–13.
Compton MT, Whicker NE, Hochman KM (2007) Alcohol and cannabis use in urban, African American, first-episode schizophrenia-spectrum patients: Associations with positive and negative symptoms. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 68:1939–1945.
Compton MT, Esterberg ML, Broussard B (2008) Causes of schizophrenia reported by urban African American lay community members. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 49:87–93.
Compton MT, Chien VH (2008) No association between psychometrically-determined schizotypy and olfactory identification ability in first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research, 100:216–223.
Esterberg ML, Compton MT, McGee R, Shim R, Hochman K (2008) Knowledge about schizophrenia and social distance toward individuals with schizophrenia: A survey among predominantly low-income, urban, African American community members. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 14:86–93.
Compton MT, Leiner AS, Bergner E, Chien VH, Franz L, Goulding SM, Trotman H (2008) Prevalence, factorial structure, and clinical correlates of first rank symptoms in urban, African-American patients with first-episode nonaffective psychosis. Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses, 2:59–69.
Chien VH, Compton MT (2008) In what ways does mode of onset (sudden/ precipitous, subacute, or gradual/insidious) impact pathways to care in young adults with first-episode nonaffective psychosis? Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2:73–79.
Bahora M, Hanafi S, Chien VH, Compton MT (2008) Preliminary evidence of effects of Crisis Intervention Team training on self-efficacy and social distance. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 35:159–167.
Compton MT, Carter T, Kryda A, Goulding SM, Kaslow NJ (2008) The impact of psychoticism on perceived hassles, depression, hostility, and hopelessness in non-psychiatric African Americans. Psychiatry Research, 159:215–225.
Leiner AS, Compton MT, Houry D, Kaslow NJ (2008) Intimate partner violence, psychological distress, and suicidality: A path model using data from African American women seeking care in an urban emergency department. Journal of Family Violence, 23:473–481.
Compton MT, Frank E, Elon L, Carrera J (2008) Changes in U.S. medical students’ specialty interests over the course of medical school. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23:1095–1100.
Goulding SM, Leiner AS, Thompson NJ, Weiss PS, Kaslow NJ, Compton MT (2008) Family strengths: A potential determinant of the duration of untreated psychosis among hospitalized African-American first-episode patients. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2:162–168.
Monte RC, Goulding SM, Compton MT (2008) Premorbid functioning of patients with first-episode nonaffective psychosis: A comparison of deterioration in academic and social performance, and clinical correlates of Premorbid Adjustment Scale scores. Schizophrenia Research, 104:206–213.
Esterberg ML, Trotman HD, Brasfield JL, Compton MT, Walker EF (2008) Childhood and current autistic features in adolescents with schizotypal personality disorder. Schizophrenia Research, 104:265–273.
Compton MT, Chien VH (2008) Factors related to knowledge retention after Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers. Psychiatric Services, 59:1049–1051.
Gabalda MK, Weiss PS, Compton MT (2008) Frontal release signs among patients with schizophrenia, their first-degree biological relatives, and non-psychiatric controls. Schizophrenia Research, 106:275–280.
Hanafi S, Bahora M, Demir BN, Compton MT (2008) Incorporating Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) knowledge and skills into the daily work of police officers: A focus group study. Community Mental Health Journal, 44:427–432.
Bergner E, Leiner AS, Carter T, Franz L, Thompson NJ, Compton MT (2008) The period of untreated psychosis before treatment initiation: A qualitative study of family members’ perspectives. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 49:530–536.
Compton MT, Carrera J, Frank E (2008) Stress and depressive symptoms/dysphoria among U.S. medical students: Results from a large, nationally representative survey. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 196:891–897.
Compton MT, Chien VH, Leiner AS, Goulding SM, Weiss PS (2008) Mode of onset of psychosis and family involvement in help-seeking as determinants of duration of untreated psychosis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 43:975–982.
Esterberg ML, Goulding SM, McClure-Tone EB, Compton MT (2009) Schizotypy and nicotine, alcohol, and cannabis use in a non-psychiatric sample. Addictive Behaviors, 34:374–379.
Bedwell JS, Kamath V, Compton MT (2009) The relationship between interview-based schizotypal personality dimension scores and the continuous performance test. Schizophrenia Research, 108:158–162.
Kryda AD, Compton MT (2009) Mistrust of outreach workers and lack of confidence in available services among individuals who are chronically street homeless. Community Mental Health Journal, 45:144–150.
Compton MT, Goulding SM, Whicker NE, Mullins M, Nathan S, Ressler K (2009) An exploratory study of potential prognostic usefulness of the routinely conducted computed tomography scan in patients hospitalized for a first episode of psychosis. Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses, 3:23–30.
Compton MT, Goulding SM, Bakeman R, McClure-Tone EB (2009) Confirmation of a four-factor structure of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire among undergraduate students. Schizophrenia Research, 111:46–52.
Compton MT, Demir B, Oliva JR, Boyce T (2009) Crisis Intervention Team training and Special Weapons and Tactics callouts in an urban police department. Psychiatric Services, 60:831–833.
Compton MT, Chien VH, Bollini AM (2009) Associations between past alcohol, cannabis, and cocaine use and current schizotypy among first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia and non-psychiatric controls. Psychiatric Quarterly, 80:143–154.
Shim RS, Compton MT, Rust G, Druss BG, Kaslow NJ (2009) Race-ethnicity as a predictor of attitudes toward mental health treatment seeking. Psychiatric Services, 60:1336–1341.
Demir B, Broussard B, Goulding SM, Compton MT (2009) Beliefs about causes of schizophrenia among police officers before and after Crisis Intervention Team training. Community Mental Health Journal, 45:385–392.
Goulding SM, McClure-Tone E, Compton MT (2009) Associations between multiple dimensions of schizotypy and sociodemographic variables in a nonpsychiatric sample of young adults. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197:786–789.
Goulding SM, Broussard B, Demir B, Compton MT (2009) An exploration of the factor structure and development of potentially useful subscales of etiological beliefs about schizophrenia in a general population sample. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 44:925–933.
Compton MT, Ramsay CE, Shim RS, Goulding SM, Gordon TL, Weiss PS, Druss B (2009) Health services determinants of the duration of untreated psychosis among African-American first-episode patients. Psychiatric Services, 60:1489–1494.
Compton MT, Kelley ME, Ramsay CE, Pringle M, Goulding SM, Esterberg ML, Stewart T, Walker EF (2009) Association of pre-onset cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use with the age at onset of prodrome and age at onset of psychosis in first-episode patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 166:1251–1257.
Compton MT, Goulding SM, Bakeman R, McClure-Tone EB (2009) An examination of the factorial structure of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief (SPQ-B) among undergraduate students. Schizophrenia Research, 115:286–289.
Compton MT, Goulding SM, Gordon TL, Weiss PS, Kaslow NJ (2009) Family-level predictors and correlates of the duration of untreated psychosis in African American first-episode patients. Schizophrenia Research, 115:338–345.
Stewart T, Goulding SM, Pringle M, Esterberg ML, Compton MT (2010) A descriptive study of nicotine, alcohol, and cannabis use in urban, socially-disadvantaged, predominantly African-American patients with first-episode nonaffective psychosis. Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses, 3:217–225.
Goulding SM, Chien VH, Compton MT (2010) Prevalence and correlates of school drop-out prior to initial treatment of nonaffective psychosis: Further evidence suggesting a need for supported education. Schizophrenia Research, 116:228–233.
Franz L, Carter T, Leiner AS, Bergner E, Thompson NJ, Compton MT (2010) Stigma and treatment delay in first-episode psychosis: A grounded theory study. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 4:47–56.
Druss BG, von Esenwein SA, Compton MT, Rask KJ, Zhao L, Parker RM (2010) A randomized trial of medical care management for community mental health settings: The Primary Care Access, Referral, and Evaluation (PCARE) Study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 167:151–159.
Wingo AP, Baldessarini RJ, Compton MT, Harvey PD (2010) Correlates of recovery of social functioning in types I and II bipolar disorder patients. Psychiatry Research, 177:131–134.
Goulding SM, Franz L, Bergner E, Compton MT (2010) Social functioning in urban, predominantly African American, socially disadvantaged patients with first-episode nonaffective psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 119:95–100.
McGriff JA, Broussard B, Demir Neubert BN, Thompson NJ, Compton MT (2010) Implementing a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) police presence in a large international airport setting.Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, 10:153–165.
Walker EF, Brennan PA, Esterberg M, Brasfield J, Pearce B, Compton MT (2010) Longitudinal changes in cortisol secretion and conversion to psychosis in at-risk youth. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119:401–408.
Gabalda MK, Compton MT (2010) Dermatoglyphic indices and minor physical anomalies in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders, their first-degree biological relatives, and non psychiatric controls. Psychiatry Research, 178:255–259.
Esterberg ML, Trotman HD, Holtzman C, Compton MT, Walker EF (2010) The impact of a family history of psychosis on age-at-onset and positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia: A meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Research, 120:121–130.
Kotwicki RJ, Compton MT (2010) Key features of a unique community psychiatry fellowship: The Emory University Fellowship in Community Psychiatry/Public Health. Community Mental Health Journal, 46:403–408.
Oliva JR, Compton MT (2010) What do police officers value in the classroom? A qualitative study of the classroom social environment in law enforcement education. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 33:321–338..
Compton MT, Goulding SM, Walker EF (2010) Characteristics of the retrospectively assessed prodromal period in hospitalized patients with first-episode nonaffective psychosis: Findings from a socially disadvantaged, low-income, predominantly African American population. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (in press).
Shim RS, Compton MT (2010) Pilot testing and preliminary evaluation of a suicide prevention training program for emergency department personnel. Community Mental Health Journal (in press).
Compton MT, Demir Neubert BN, Broussard B, McGriff JA, Morgan R, Oliva JR (2010) Use of force preferences and perceived effectiveness of actions among Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) police officers and non-CIT officers in an escalating psychiatric crisis involving a subject with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin (in press).
Compton MT, Gordon TL, Goulding SM, Esterberg ML, Carter T, Leiner AS, Weiss PS, Druss B, Walker EF, Kaslow NJ (2010) Patient-level predictors and clinical correlates of duration of untreated psychosis in an urban, predominantly African American, first-episode sample. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (in press).
Broussard B, McGriff JA, Demir Neubert BN, D’Orio B, Compton MT (2010) Characteristics of patients referred to psychiatric emergency services by Crisis Intervention Team police officers. Community Mental Health Journal (in press).
Ramsay CE, Abedi GR, Marson JD, Compton MT (2010) Overview and initial validation of two detailed, multidimensional, retrospective measures of substance use: The Lifetime Substance Use Recall (LSUR) and Longitudinal Substance Use Recall for 12 Weeks (LSUR-12) Instruments. Journal of Psychiatric Research (in press).
Ramsay CE, Goulding SM, Broussard B, Cristofaro SL, Abedi GR, Compton MT (2010) From handcuffs to hallucinations: Prevalence and psychosocial correlates of prior incarceration in an urban, predominantly African American sample of hospitalized patients with first-episode psychosis. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (in press).
Compton MT, Gordon TL, Weiss PS, Walker EF (2010) The “doses” of initial, untreated hallucinations and delusions: A proof-of-concept study of enhanced predictors of first-episode symptomatology and functioning relative to duration of untreated psychosis. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (in press).
Broussard B, Goulding SM, Talley CL, Compton MT (2010) Beliefs about causes of schizophrenia among urban African American community members. Psychiatric Quarterly (in press).
Thompson NJ, Reisinger Walker E, Obolensky NA, Winning A, Barmon C, DiIorio CK, Compton MT (2010) Distance delivery of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: Project UPLIFT. Epilepsy and Behavior (in press).
Trotman HD, Kirkpatrick B, Compton MT (2010) Impaired insight in patients with newly diagnosed nonaffective psychotic disorders with and without deficit features. Schizophrenia Research (in press).
Manuscripts submitted:
Broussard B, Goulding SM, Talley CL, Compton MT (2009) Desire for social distance and stigma toward individuals with schizophrenia among urban African American community members.
Simmons CM, Weiss PS, West JC, Compton MT (2009) Axis IV psychosocial problems among patients with psychotic or mood disorders with a cannabis use disorder comorbidity.
Compton MT, Weinschenk KN, Goulding SM, Bedwell JS, Kamath V, McClure-Tone EB (2009) Schizotypy in young adults: Associations with empathy, theory of mind, psychological distress, and mental health treatment-seeking.
Walker EF, Compton MT, Esterberg ML, Shapiro D, Brasfield J, Larsen M (2009) The relation of COMT Val158Met genotype with behavioral problems and prodromal symptoms of psychosis in at-risk youth: Potential interactions with stimulant medication.
Marshall-Lee ED, Aholt EC, Compton MT (2009) Insight in first-episode psychosis: Self-report and researcher-rated perspectives and clinical correlates.
Ramsay C, Reisinger E, Ramsay R, Compton MT, Thompson N (2009) An exploration of perceptions of possible depression prevention services for caregivers of elderly or chronically ill adults in rural Georgia.
Ramsay CE, Broussard B, Goulding SM, Cristofaro S, Hall D, Kaslow NJ, Killackey E, Penn D, Compton MT (2009) Life and treatment goals of individuals hospitalized for first-episode nonaffective psychosis: Opportunities for recovery-oriented tailoring of early psychosocial interventions.
