John Horwood

Associate Professo
rPsychological Medicine
Otago University
New Zealand

Professor Psychiatry
Biography

Research Associate Professor BA (Pure and Applied Mathematics)(Auck) BSc(Operations Research)(Cant) MSc(Statistics)(Cant)

Research Intrest

His current research interests focus on aspects of psychosocial development in adolescence and young adulthood including: the development, course and consequences of cannabis and other illicit drug use life course trajectories in antisocial behaviour the consequences of early onset psychiatric disorder for later adult functioning the psychosocial consequences of the Canterbury earthquakes and the long term functional outcomes of preterm birth and very low birthweight

List of Publications
Bagshaw, A. T. M., Horwood, L. J., Fergusson, D. M., Gemmell, N. J., & Kennedy, M. A. (2017). Microsatellite polymorphisms associated with human behavioural and psychological phenotypes including a gene-environment interaction. BMC Medical Genetics, 18, 12. doi: 10.1186/s12881-017-0374-y
Schaefer, J. D., Caspi, A., Belsky, D. W., Harrington, H., Houts, R., Horwood, L. J., … Ramrakha, S., Poulton, R., & Moffitt, T. E. (2017). Enduring mental health: Prevalence and prediction. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126(2), 212-224. doi: 10.1037/abn0000232
Culverhouse, R. C., Saccone, N. L., Horton, A. C., Ma, Y., Anstey, K. J., Banaschewski, T., … Horwood, J., … Fergusson, D. M., … Kennedy, M., … Bierut, L. J. (2017). Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression. Molecular Psychiatry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.4
Foulds, J. A., Boden, J. M., Newton-Howes, G. M., Mulder, R. T., & Horwood, L. J. (2017). The role of novelty seeking as a predictor of substance use disorder outcomes in early adulthood. Addiction. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/add.13838