Stephanie M. Gorka

ORCID: 0000-0002-0021-3423
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Research Areas
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
2021-2025

Institute for Behavioral Medicine
2020-2025

The Ohio State University
2020-2024

University of Michigan
2024

VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
2024

University of Illinois Chicago
2011-2020

Roosevelt University
2015-2019

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2013-2014

University of Chicago
2014

Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
2014

Heightened sensitivity to threat and reduced reward are potential mechanisms of dysfunction in anxiety depressive disorders, respectively.However, few studies have simultaneously examined whether these unique or common disorders.In this study, predictable unpredictable (measured by startle response during anticipation) frontal electroencephalographic [EEG] asymmetry were assessed 4 groups (N = 191): those with (1) panic disorder (PD) without a lifetime history depression, (2) major...

10.1037/a0030747 article EN Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2012-11-13

Heightened reactivity to uncertain threat (U-threat) is an important individual difference factor that may characterize fear-based internalizing psychopathologies (IPs) and distinguish them from distress/misery IPs. To date, however, the majority of existing research examining U-threat has been within individuals with panic disorder major depressive (MDD) no prior study directly tested this hypothesis across multiple The current therefore explored whether heightened a psychophysiological...

10.1037/abn0000233 article EN other-oa Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2016-11-17

Empirical evidence and theory implicate the role of distress tolerance in relationship between negative affect alcohol use. However, limited research has been conducted to explore these relationships. As such, purpose this study was examine whether moderates current depressive symptoms problematic use a community sample adults. Participants included 150 adults, primarily female, recruited from local community. Problematic measured using Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) total...

10.1037/a0026386 article EN Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 2011-11-28

A heightened sensitivity to unpredictable aversiveness is a key component of several anxiety disorders. Neuroimaging studies have shown that the anterior region insula cortex (AIC) plays central role in anticipation aversiveness. The present study extended these findings by examining AIC temporal unpredictability (i.e. not knowing when stimulus will occur), particularly critical aspect as it increases contextual and vigilance, given danger could happen ‘at any time’. Nineteen healthy...

10.1097/wnr.0000000000000144 article EN Neuroreport 2014-03-10

Two emotional/motivational constructs that have been posited to underlie anxiety and depressive disorders are heightened sensitivity threat reduced reward, respectively. It is unclear, though, whether these only epiphenomena or also connote risk for (and relatedly, they separate disorders). Using family history of psychopathology as an indicator risk, the present study examined biomarkers (startle potentiation) reward (frontal EEG asymmetry) were associated with similar different familial...

10.1037/a0033982 article EN Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2013-08-01

Reward positivity (RewP), a neurophysiologic index of reward responsivity, is consistently reduced in participants with depression and, to lesser extent, anxiety. It remains unknown, however, whether RewP can be altered as psychiatric symptoms change treatment. The current study addressed this question by examining differences within patients before and after 12 weeks treatment selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) or cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). We also examined the utility...

10.4088/jcp.17m11836 article EN The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2018-06-11

Background: Discovery of modifiable factors influencing subjective withdrawal experience might advance opioid use disorder (OUD) research and precision treatment. This study explores one factor – catastrophizing a negative cognitive emotional orientation toward characterized by excessive fear, worry or inability to divert attention from symptoms.

10.1080/00952990.2023.2298257 article EN cc-by-nc The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 2024-03-19

Background Cancer-related symptoms have negative impacts on the health outcomes of adults with cancer. Thus, it is critical to identify who might be at risk. Intolerance uncertainty (IU) could major contributor for cancer-related symptoms; however, this relationship understudied in context Objective The purpose scoping review was map literature that has investigated IU and its link symptoms. Methods This used framework proposed by Arksey O’Malley PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items...

10.1097/ncc.0000000000001462 article EN Cancer Nursing 2025-02-03

Alcohol consumption tends to increase from childhood adolescence, and risk factors at the individual, family, environmental level (multilevel, multidomain factors), as well changes in brain structure function, have been associated with likelihood of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD) or binge drinking later life. Most studies focused on limited subsets multilevel neuroimaging factors, typically emphasizing initiation, drinking, AUD cross-sectional designs rather than exploring...

10.1101/2025.03.12.25323356 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2025-03-14

Article Abstract Objective: Side effects to antidepressant medication can affect the efficacy of treatment, but few predictors foretell who experiences side and which they experience. This secondary data analysis examined whether depressed patients with comorbid panic disorder were more likely experience than those without disorder. The study also greater burden predicted a poorer treatment course for To examine specificity these effects, analyses 2 other anxiety disorders—social phobia...

10.4088/jcp.15m10370 article EN The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2017-01-03
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