Table 1.

Cohort details.

Primary investigator/university	Sample size	Recruitment	Diagnostic interviews	Longitudinal follow-up
Dawson University of Washington	117 Mothers and their infant offspring	Community recruitment of mothers	Mothers=SCID Offspring=DISC-P	5 years, 4 assessments: offspring age 24 months, 3.5 years, 4.5 years, and 6.5 years
Gotlib Stanford University	Overall sample of 200 offspring, varies by measure	Clinic and community recruitment focused on adolescent girls but accomplished by advertisements directed towards mothers	Mothers=SCID Daughters=K-SADS-PL	Every 18 months through offspring age 21–22
Kovacs University of Pittsburgh	Up to 219 offspring depending on measure	Clinic and community recruitment of parents with depression	Parents=SCID Offspring=K-SADS-PL and K-SADS-YA	Annually through age 7
Kutcher Dalhousie University	83 offspring	Clinic and community recruitment of parents with offspring	Mothers=SCID Daughters=K-SADS-PL	5 years, every 6 months
Garber Vanderbilt University	240 mothers and their offspring, smaller cohort in EEG study (see Table 3)	Schools—letters sent to parents	Parents=SCID Adolescents = K-SADS-E	Annually for at least 2 years
Weissman Yale University & Columbia University	182 offspring in 2nd generation, 137 in 3rd generation	Clinic and community recruitment of adults with offspring	Both parents and offspring: SADS Lifetime Version	6 waves across 30 years: baseline (wave 1), 2 year (wave 2), 10 year (wave 3), 17 year (wave 4), 20 year (wave 5), 30 year (wave 6)

Note: DISC=Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children; KSADS=various versions of the Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia; SADS=Schedule or Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia; SCID=Structured Clinical Interview.