A5061001915- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Sleep and related disorders
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
University of Pittsburgh
2016-2025
University of Haifa
2021
Leipzig University
2021
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
2021
University of Tübingen
2021
University of California, Berkeley
2011-2021
Florida International University
2021
Temple University
2021
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
2013-2020
Western State Hospital
2020
Objective: Alterations in reward-related brain function and phenomenological aspects of positive affect are increasingly examined the development major depressive disorder. The authors tested differences healthy depressed adolescents, direct links between mood that occurred real-world contexts. Method: Fifteen adolescents with disorder 28 no history psychiatric disorder, ages 8–17 years, completed a functional magnetic resonance imaging guessing task involving monetary reward. Participants...
Sex differences in age- and puberty-related maturation of human brain structure have been observed typically developing age-matched boys girls. Because girls mature 1–2 years earlier than boys, the present study aimed at assessing sex by studying 80 adolescent matched on sexual maturity, rather age. We evaluated pubertal influences medial temporal lobe (MTL), thalamic, caudate, cortical gray matter volumes utilizing structural magnetic resonance imaging 2 measures status: physical maturity...
Nusslock R, Almeida JRC, Forbes EE, Versace A, Frank E, LaBarbara EJ, Klein CR, Phillips ML. Waiting to win: elevated striatal and orbitofrontal cortical activity during reward anticipation in euthymic bipolar disorder adults. Bipolar Disord 2012: 14: 249–260. © 2012 The Authors. Journal compilation John Wiley & Sons A/S. Objective: may be characterized by a hypersensitivity reward‐relevant stimuli, potentially underlying the emotional lability dysregulation that characterizes illness....
Background: Although reward processing is considered an important part of affective functioning, few studies have investigated reward‐related decisions or responses in young people with disorders. Depression postulated to involve decreased activity systems. Methods: Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we examined behavioral and neural depressive disorders using a decision‐making task. The task involved choices about possible rewards involving varying magnitude probability...
This article offers a multilevel perspective on resilience to depression, with focus interactions among social and neurobehavioral systems involved in emotional reactivity regulation. We discuss models of cross-contextual mediation moderation by which the context influences or modifies effects processes at biological level, level. highlight socialization emotion regulation as candidate process contributing against depression several factors their across levels—including genetic factors,...
This study tests a model of children's emotion regulation (ER) as moderator the link between maternal depression and child internalizing problems. Participants were 78 children (ages 4 to 7), including 45 mothers with history childhood-onset (COD) 33 who had never been depressed. ER was assessed observationally during laboratory mood induction. behaviors empirically reduced into 3 categories: (a) negative focus on delay, (b) positive reward anticipation, (c) behavioral distraction. Linear...
Age-related changes in cortical thickness have been observed during adolescence, including thinning frontal and parietal cortices, thickening the lateral temporal lobes. Studies shown sex differences hormone-related brain maturation when boys girls are age-matched, however, because mature 1–2 years earlier than boys, these could be confounded by pubertal maturation. To address puberty effects directly, this study assessed testosterone-related studying 85 a narrow age range matched on sexual...
Objectives Recent research has found abnormalities in reward-related neural activation bipolar disorder (BD), during both manic and euthymic phases. However, currently depressed individuals with BD that major depressive (MDD) have yet to be directly compared. Here, we studied these groups, examining the elicited a guessing task fronto-striatal regions identified by previous studies. Methods We evaluated reward using fMRI two groups of individuals, one I (BD-I) (n = 23) MDD 40), similar...
Background: Reviews have highlighted anxious youths’ affective disturbances, specifically, elevated negative emotions and reliance on ineffective emotion regulation strategies. However, no study has examined youth’s emotional reactivity in real‐world contexts. Methods: This utilized an ecological momentary assessment approach to compare experiences of 65 youth with generalized anxiety disorder, social or phobia (ANX) age‐matched healthy controls (CON), ages 9–13 years. Results: Hierarchical...
Offspring of depressed parents are at risk for depression and recent evidence suggests that reduced positive affect (PA) may be a marker risk. We investigated whether self-reports PA fMRI-measured striatal response to reward, neural correlate PA, in adolescent youth high familial (HR) relative low (LR). Functional magnetic resonance imaging assessments were conducted with 14 HR 12 LR youth. All completed an ecological momentary assessment protocol measure natural settings self-report...