Selected Recent Publications

Schwartz PJ. A ‘clock for all seasons’ in the human suprachiasmatic nucleus determines individual suicide risk. Front Neurosci 2024, in press.

Schwartz PJ. Freud’s 1926 conjecture is confirmed: evidence from the dorsal periaqueductal gray in mice that human defense against internal instinctual threat evolved from animal motor defense against external predatory threat. Front Psychol, 2024(15)14278116.

Schwartz PJ. Revision of Drive Theory: a commentary on Solms’s “Revision of Drive Theory. J Am Psychoanalytic Assn, 2022 70(6):1157-1167.

Schwartz PJ. Chris Cornell, the Black Hole Sun, and the Seasonality of Suicide. Neuropsychobiology 2019;78:38-47.

Schwartz PJ. The phylogenetic legacy of Freud’s totem proto-God. Int J Psychoanal. 2016; 97:187-188.

Schwartz PJ. Can the season of birth risk factor for schizophrenia be prevented by bright light treatment for the second trimester mother around the winter solstice? Med Hypotheses 2014;83:809-815.

Schwartz PJ. Bipolar depression. N Engl J Med. 2011, 364:1581.

Schwartz PJ, Erk SD. Regulation of central dopamine-2 receptor sensitivity by a proportional control thermostat in humans. Psychiatry Res. 2004;127:19-26

Schwartz PJ, Rosenthal NE, Wehr TA. Serotonin 1A receptors, melatonin, and the proportional control thermostat in patients with winter depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1998;55:897-903

Schwartz PJ, Brown C, Wehr TA, Rosenthal NE. Winter seasonal affective disorder: a follow-up study of the first 59 patients of the NIMH seasonal studies program. Am J Psychiatry. 1996;153:1028-1036