Young Shin Kim, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Child Study Center

Research Interests

Dr. Kim’s major research efforts involve in three areas: 1) The social and psychopathological consequences of school bullying; 2) Epidemiology of childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorders; and, 3) The genetics and genetic epidemiology of childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorders.

Dr. Kim developed an interdisciplinary research team and completed a series of bullying studies in Korean elementary and middle schools. The purpose of these studies are to examine: (a) the time trend change of prevalence of bullying (either victim, perpetrator or victim-perpetrator); (b) trajectories of bullying behaviors; (c) risk factors that predict bullying behavior; and, (d) bullying as a risk factor in the development of psychopathology and suicidal ideations/behaviors. Parallel studies and anti-bullying intervention studies in US children and adolescents are under preparation.

Currently, Dr. Kim is conducting the first epidemiological study of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in South Korea. The international research team screen and assess all school-aged children (N=45,000) from Ilsan (population 513,024). Objectives include: 1) to reliably and validly ascertain the prevalence of ASD among all children born between 1995 and 2000; 2) to establish a population-based cohort of children with ASD and their families for future genetic and collaborative studies; and 3) to inform policy about treatment interventions and services. Cases are identified through the disability registry, school surveys and records and self-referrals, and subsequent diagnosis are made by employing a variety of standardized instruments: Korean versions of the Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ), the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC), Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnosis Interview-Revised (ADI-R) and the Korean Wechsler Scale.

Third area of research is to examine the roles of genes, environment and gene-environment interactions in the etiology of childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Kim completed a family-based association study to examine dopaminergic and serotonergic system genetic markers in Korean children with ADHD. Currently, a genetic epidemiological study of ASD is underway with epidemiologically-ascertained Korean ASD cohort in which the phenotype is carefully determined using state-of-the-art, standardized assessment methods and to generate hypotheses about genotypes, environments and GE interactions.

Curriculum Vitae & Links

• Download CV
• Prevalence of School Bullying in Korean Middle School Students [PDF]
• School Bullying and Suicidal Risk in Korean Middle School Students [PDF]
• School Bullying and Youth Violence [PDF]
• Family-Based Association Study of DAT1 and DRD4 Polymorphism in Korean Children with ADHD [PDF]
• The Reliability and Validity of Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime version-Korean version (K-SADS-PL-K) [PDF]
• An association study of catechol-O-methyltransferase and monoamine oxidase A polymorphisms and personality traits in Koreans [PDF]
• An interaction between the serotonin transporter promoter region and dopamine transporter polymorphisms contributes to harm avoidance and reward dependence traits in normal healthy subjects [PDF]
• A Primary Candidate Gene for Obsessive-compulsive Disorder [PDF]
• Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphism and Personality Traits in a Korean Population [PDF]
• Family-Based Association Study of the Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphisms in Korean ADHD Trios [PDF]
• Pediatrics—School Bullying and Suicidal Risk in Korean Middle School Students [PDF]

Recent Publications

• Young Shin Kim, Keun-Ah Cheon, Boong-Nyun Kim, Soon-Ah Chang, Hee- Jeong Yoo, Jae-won Kim, Soo-Churl Cho, Dong-Hyang Seo, Myeong-Ok Bae, Yu-Kyoung So, Joo-Sun Noh, Yun-Joo Koh, Keith McBurnett, Bennett Leventhal: The Reliability and Validity of Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Present and Lifetime Version – Korean Version (K-SADS-PL-K). Yonsei Medical Journal Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 81-89, 2004
• Young Shin Kim, Yun-Joo Koh, Bennett Leventhal. Prevalence of school bullying in Korean middle school students. Arch Pediatr and Adolesc Med Vol. 158, No. 8, pp737-741, 2004
• Young Shin Kim, Yun-Joo Koh, Bennett Leventhal. School Bullying and suicidal risk in Korean middle school students. Pediatrics Vol. 115, No. 2, pp357-363, 2005
• Se Joo Kim, Young Shin Kim, Nak Kyung Choi, Hyun Joo Hong, Hong Shick Lee, Chan Hyung Kim. Serotonin transporter gene polymorphism and personality traits in a Korean population. Neuropsychobiology Vol. 51, pp243-247, 2005
• Young Shin Kim, Bennett L. Leventhal, Soo-Jeong Kim, Boong-Nyun Kim, Keun-Ah Cheon, Hee-Jeong Yoo, Se-Joo, Kim, Judith Badner, Edwin H. Cook. Family-based association study of DAT1 and DRD4 polymorphism in Korean children with ADHD. Neurosci Lett Vol. 390, No. 3, pp176-181, 2005
• Soo-Jeong Kim, Judith Badner, Keun-Ah Cheon, Boong-Nyun Kim, Hee-Jeong Yoo, Se-Joo Kim, Edwin Cook Jr., Bennett L. Leventhal, Young Shin Kim. Family-based association study of the serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms in Korean ADHD trios. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet Vol. 139, No. 1, pp14-18, 2005
• James Leckman, Young Shin Kim. A “primary” candidate gene for OCD? Arch Gen Psychiatry Vol. 63, No. 7, pp717-720, 2006
• Se Joo Kim, Young Shin Kim, Shin Young Kim, Hong Shick Lee, Chan Hyung Kim. An association study of catechol-O-methyltransferase and monoamine oxidase A polymorphisms and personality traits in Korean. Neurosci Lett Vol. 401, No. 1, pp154-158, 2006
• Se Joo Kim, Young Shin Kim, Hong Shick Lee, Shin Young Kim, Chan Hyung Kim. An interaction between the serotonin transporter promoter region and dopamine transporter polymorphisms contributes to harm avoidance and reward dependence traits in normal healthy subjects. J Neural Transm Vol. 113, No. 7, pp877-886, 2006
• Young Shin Kim, Bennett L. Leventhal, Yun-Joo Koh, Alan Hubbard, W. Thomas Boyce. School bullying and youth violence: causes or consequences of psychopathology? Arch Gen Psychiatry Vol. 63, No. 9, pp1035-1041, 2006

Contact

Campus Address
Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900

E-mail
young-shin.kim@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-785-5880

Fax
203-737-5104