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Research Interests

Dr. Miller is Director of the Psychosocial Research Program at Butler Hospital and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. He has expertise in a number of areas including mood disorders and suicidality, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and clinical trials and multi-site studies. He has been continuously funded by NIH for over 25 years for his work on developing and implementing interventions for patients with severe mood disorders. He has been principal investigator of four major clinical trials utilizing cognitive-behavioral treatments, as well as investigator on seven other trials of CBT, including several multi-site CBT trials.

Selected Publications

Miller, I., Keitner, G., Ryan, C. Uebelacker, L., Johnson, S., & Solomon, D. (2008). Family Treatment for Bipolar

     Disorder: Family Impairment by Treatment Interactions. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69, 732- 740

Miller, I., Keitner, G., Ryan, C., Solomon, D., Cardemil, E., & Beevers, C. (2005). Treatment matching in the post-

     hospital care of depressed inpatients. American Journal of Psychiatry.162, 2131-2138

Miller, I., Solomon, D., Ryan, C. & Keitner, G. (2004). Does adjunctive family therapy enhance recovery from

     bipolar I mood episodes? Journal of Affective Disorder2, 82, 431-436.

Miller, I.W., Norman, W.H., Keitner, G. I., Bishop, S.B., & Dow, M.G. (1989). Cognitive behavioral treatment of

     depressed inpatients. Behavior Therapy, 20, 25-47

Miller, I.W., Norman, W.H., & Keitner, G.I. (1989). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of depressed inpatients: 6 and

     12 month follow-up. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 1274-1279.

LaFrance, W.C., Keitner, G., Papandonatos, G., Blum, A., Machan, J., Ryan, C. & Miller, I. (in press). Pilot

     Pharmacological Randomized Controlled Trial for Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures, Neurology

LaFrance, C., Miller, I., Ryan, C., Blum, A., Solomon, D., Kelly, J., & Keitner, G. (2009), Cognitive Behavioral

     Therapy for Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures. Epilepsy & Behavior, 14, 591-596.

Detwiler-Bedell, J., Friedman, M., Leventhal, H., Miller, I., Leventhal, E. (2008). Integrating co-morbid depression

     and chronic physical disease management: Identifying and resolving failures in self- regulation. Clinical

     Psychology Review, 28, 1426-14446.

Solomon, D., Keitner, G., Ryan, C., Kelly, J., & Miller, I. (2008). Preventing Recurrence of Bipolar I Mood

     Episodes and Hospitalizations: Family Psychotherapy plus Pharmacotherapy versus Pharmacotherapy Alone.

     Bipolar Disorders, 10, 798-805.

Stein, M., Anderson, B., Solomon, D., Herman, D., Brown. R., Ramsey, S. & Miller, I. (2005) Reductions in

     injection-related HIV risk behaviors among depressed active drug users. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol

     Abuse, 31, 417-432

Beevers, C. & Miller, I. (2005). Unlinking negative cognition and symptoms of depression: Evidence of a specific

     treatment effect for cognitive therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,, 73, 68- 77

Stein, M., Solomon, D. Herman, D., Anderson, B. & Miller, I. (2004). Pharmacotherapy plus psychotherapy for

     treatment of depression in active injection drug users. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61, 152- 159

Friedman, M., Detweiler-Bedell, J., Leventhal, H., Home, R., Keitner, G., & Miller, I. (2004) Combined

     psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Clinical Psychology

     Research and Practice 11, 47-68.

Brown, R.A., Kahler, C., Niaura, R., Abrams, D., Sales, S., Ramsey, S., Goldstein, M., Burgess, E., & Miller, I.W.

     (2002) Cognitive-behavioral treatment for depression in smoking cessation. Journal of Consulting and Clinical

     Psychology, 69, 471-480

Miller, I.W., Norman, W. & Keitner, G.I. (1999). Combined treatment for patients with “Double Depression.”

     Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics,, 68, 180-185..