Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry has been at the forefront of psychiatric care for decades. Members of our faculty were among the first to champion the medical model of psychiatry and view psychiatric dysfunction as an interaction between genes and environment.

The department and its faculty continue to be in the vanguard of both the study and treatment of mental illness.

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John Nicholas Constantino, MD

Specialty Areas
Child Psychiatry
Autism

Areas of Clinical Interest
Disorders of social development in children (infancy through early adulthood) including autism, abnormally aggressive behavior, personality disorder, and psychiatric complications of neurodevelopmental disorders.

This physician provides professional consultation only.

Major or Recent Publications/Awards
 
Honors and Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2002 - 2009 (Best Doctors, Inc)
Gubernatorial Appointment to the Mental Health Commission, State of Missouri. The Mental Health Commission is a 7-member panel appointed by the Governor of the State of Missouri to advise the Director of the Department of Mental Health on all phases of Departmental practice, 2003-2007
Child Advocate of the year, St. Louis Area Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2007
Guardian Angel Award, Family Support Network, St. Louis, Missouri
Distinguished Service Teaching Award (Clinical Teacher of the Year), Washington University School of Medicine, 2003

Editorial Responsibilities
Peer Reviewer
American Journal of Psychiatry
Archives of General Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry
Comprehensive Psychiatry
Cerebral Cortex
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry & Allied Disciplines

Reviewer
Archives of General Psychiatry
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Selected Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts

Constantino JN, Abbacchi AM, LaVesser PD, Reed H, Givens L, Chiang L, Gray T, Gross M, Zhang Y, Todd RD.  Developmental course of autistic social impairment in males. Developmental and Psychopathology, 2009 21(1):127-138.

Constantino JN, LaVesser PD, Zhang Y, Abbacchi AM, Gray T, Todd RD: Rapid quantitative assessment of autistic social impairment by classroom teachers. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2007 Dec;46(12):1668-1676.

Duvall JA, Lu A, Cantor RM, Todd RD, Geschwind DH, Constantino JN. A Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis of Social Responsiveness in Multiplex Autism Families. American Journal of Psychiatry2007;164(4):656-62.

Constantino JN, Chackes LM, Wartner UG, Gross M, Brophy SL, Vitale J, Heath AC. Mental representations of attachment in identical female twins with and without conduct problems. Child Psychiatry and Human Development 2006; 37(1):65-72.

Constantino JN, Lajonchere C, Lutz M, Gray T, Abbacchi A, McKenna K, Singh D and Todd RD. Autistic social impairment in the siblings of children with pervasive developmental disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry 2006; 163(2):1-3.

Constantino JN and Todd RD: Autistic traits in the general population: A twin study. Archives of General Psychiatry 2003; 60:524-530.

Constantino JN, Hashemi N, Solis E, Alon T, Haley S, McClure S, Nordlicht N, Constantino MA, Elmen J and Carlson VK:  Supplementation of urban home visitation with a series of group meetings for parents and infants: results of a “real-world” randomized, controlled trial. Child Abuse & Neglect  2001;25:1571-1581.
   
Clarke RA, Murphy DL and Constantino JN: Serotonin and externalizing behavior in young children. Psychiatry Research, 1999; 86:29-40.

Invited Publications

Constantino JN, Mattison RE: Adolescent issues, Adult Psychiatry, second edition, Rubin E and Zorumski C (editors) Blackwell Publishing, Random House, Inc. New York, NY, 2005 p. 364-373.

Constantino, JN, Miles JH & Todd RD (2005). Autism: New insights into causes and treatment. Pediatric Update 26, #4 (Cassette recording series for continuing medical education for U.S. pediatricians), New York:Medical Information Systems, Inc.

Constantino JN & Gruber CP (2005). The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) Manual. Los Angeles: Western Psychological Services.

Constantino JN, Hashemi N, Solis E, Alon T, Haley S, McClure S, Nordlicht N, Constantino MA, Elmen J, Carlson VK. Supplementation of urban home visitation with a series of group meetings for parents and infants: results of a "real-world" randomized, controlled trial. Child Abuse Negl 2001; Dec;25(12):1571-81

Constantino JN, Todd RD. Genetic structure of reciprocal social behavior.
Am J Psychiatry 2000; Dec;157(12):2043-5


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John Nicholas Constantino, MD