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View article: Effect of Contemplative Monastic Debate Practice on Emotion Regulation and Experience
Effect of Contemplative Monastic Debate Practice on Emotion Regulation and Experience Open
In this study, we set out to examine whether monastic debate practice can help with emotion regulation and reduce the experience of negative affect. Research on traditional contemplative practices—including mindfulness, loving-kindness med…
View article: A Multi-site, longitudinal investigation of emerging adult mental health across multiple stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
A Multi-site, longitudinal investigation of emerging adult mental health across multiple stages of the COVID-19 pandemic Open
How did the COVID-19 pandemic impact mental health across different (a) pandemic stages, (b) mental-health aspects, (c) people, and (d) life circumstances? Answering these questions will identify ongoing mental health needs and could infor…
View article: Sex differences in response to violence: role of salience network expansion and connectivity on depression
Sex differences in response to violence: role of salience network expansion and connectivity on depression Open
View article: An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications Open
Adolescence is an “age of risk” for the emergence of depression. Despite its prevalence and public-health significance, there are major unanswered questions regarding the mechanisms contributing to depression’s etiology and surge in adoles…
View article: Reward Sensitivity, Pubertal Development, and Circadian Rhythms: A Window into Adolescent Risk for Depressive Symptoms
Reward Sensitivity, Pubertal Development, and Circadian Rhythms: A Window into Adolescent Risk for Depressive Symptoms Open
Pubertal maturation is linked to changes in the reward and circadian systems, which may increase vulnerability to psychopathology. Less is known about the associations between reward and circadian systems preceding onset of psychopathology…
View article: Socioeconomic status, prefrontal cortical volume, and cardiometabolic risk in early adolescence.
Socioeconomic status, prefrontal cortical volume, and cardiometabolic risk in early adolescence. Open
Findings suggest that structural variation in the dlPFC may be a pathway connecting parent education to later cardiometabolic health problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
View article: Sex differences in response to violence: Role of salience network expansion and connectivity on depression
Sex differences in response to violence: Role of salience network expansion and connectivity on depression Open
View article: Reward Processing in Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia: A Neurodevelopmental Framework
Reward Processing in Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia: A Neurodevelopmental Framework Open
Major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia involve disruptions in processing rewarding stimuli. In this review, we propose that distinct mechanistic pathways underlie these disruptions in mood disorders versus sch…
View article: Sleep regularity in adolescents: Associations with sleep, rest–activity indices, and prospective substance use and depression
Sleep regularity in adolescents: Associations with sleep, rest–activity indices, and prospective substance use and depression Open
Summary Sleep is important for adolescent development and has been linked to a variety of mental health difficulties. New research suggests that sleep irregularity may be more clinically relevant than relying on mean values. This study aim…
View article: Author Correction: Precision behavioral phenotyping as a strategy for uncovering the biological correlates of psychopathology
Author Correction: Precision behavioral phenotyping as a strategy for uncovering the biological correlates of psychopathology Open
View article: Heart rate variability as a biomarker for transdiagnostic depressive and anxiety symptom trajectory in adolescents and young adults.
Heart rate variability as a biomarker for transdiagnostic depressive and anxiety symptom trajectory in adolescents and young adults. Open
Internalizing psychopathology is associated with abnormalities in heart rate variability (HRV). Lower HRV that reflects reduced parasympathetic nervous system activity has been observed in depressive and anxiety disorders. Existing studies…
View article: The Promise and Challenges of Integrating Biological and Prevention Sciences: A Community-Engaged Model for the Next Generation of Translational Research
The Promise and Challenges of Integrating Biological and Prevention Sciences: A Community-Engaged Model for the Next Generation of Translational Research Open
Beginning with the successful sequencing of the human genome two decades ago, the possibility of developing personalized health interventions based on one’s biology has captured the imagination of researchers, medical providers, and indivi…
View article: Anhedonia is associated with overgeneralization of conditioned fear during late adolescence and early adulthood
Anhedonia is associated with overgeneralization of conditioned fear during late adolescence and early adulthood Open
Anhedonia-Apprehension disrupts Pavlovian fear acquisition and increases overgeneralization of fear. These effects may emerge during adolescence and remain into young adulthood. General Distress and Fears also contribute to overgeneralizat…
View article: Everyday discrimination and trajectories of transdiagnostic symptoms of depression and anxiety among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Everyday discrimination and trajectories of transdiagnostic symptoms of depression and anxiety among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Open
Everyday discrimination is a stressor associated with adverse mental health outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted marginalized communities and exacerbated vulnerability to worse mental health outcomes among these grou…
View article: Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective
Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective Open
Depression is a serious public health problem, and adolescence is an ‘age of risk’ for the onset of Major Depressive Disorder. Recently, we and others have proposed neuroimmune network models that highlight bidirectional communication betw…
View article: Transdiagnostic symptom of depression and anxiety associated with reduced gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex
Transdiagnostic symptom of depression and anxiety associated with reduced gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex Open
View article: Neuroimmune mechanisms connecting violence with internalizing symptoms: A high‐dimensional multimodal mediation analysis
Neuroimmune mechanisms connecting violence with internalizing symptoms: A high‐dimensional multimodal mediation analysis Open
Violence exposure is associated with worsening anxiety and depression symptoms among adolescents. Mechanistically, social defeat stress models in mice indicate that violence increases peripherally derived macrophages in threat appraisal re…
View article: Major stress in early childhood strengthens the association between peripheral inflammatory activity and corticostriatal responsivity to reward
Major stress in early childhood strengthens the association between peripheral inflammatory activity and corticostriatal responsivity to reward Open
View article: Longitudinal associations among adult attachment orientations, emotion regulation tendencies, and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms in young adults
Longitudinal associations among adult attachment orientations, emotion regulation tendencies, and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms in young adults Open
Adult attachment orientations can influence emotion regulation. Such influence on the tendency to employ two strategies, cognitive reappraisal (which aims to modify emotional experiences) and expressive suppression (which inhibits emotiona…
View article: Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and neural responses to reward
Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and neural responses to reward Open
A growing literature links socioeconomic disadvantage and adversity to brain function, including disruptions in reward processing. Less research has examined exposure to community violence (ECV) as a specific adversity related to differenc…
View article: Broadening the scope: Multiple functional connectivity networks underlying threat conditioning and extinction
Broadening the scope: Multiple functional connectivity networks underlying threat conditioning and extinction Open
Threat learning processes are thought to be foundational to anxiety and fear-related disorders. However, the study of these processes in the human brain has largely focused on specific brain regions, owing partly to the ease of translating…
View article: Anhedonia is Associated with Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear during Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood
Anhedonia is Associated with Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear during Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood Open
BACKGROUND: Pavlovian fear paradigms involve learning to associate cues with threat or safety. Aberrances in Pavlovian fear learning correlate with psychopathology and are especially prominent among individuals with anxiety disorders. This…
View article: Anhedonia is Associated with Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear during Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood
Anhedonia is Associated with Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear during Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood Open
BACKGROUND: Pavlovian fear paradigms involve learning to associate cues with threat or safety. Aberrances in Pavlovian fear learning correlate with psychopathology and are especially prominent among individuals with anxiety disorders. This…
View article: Clinical high risk for psychosis syndrome is associated with reduced neural responding to unpleasant images.
Clinical high risk for psychosis syndrome is associated with reduced neural responding to unpleasant images. Open
Deficits in emotion processing are core features of psychotic disorders. Electrophysiology research in schizophrenia suggests deficits in sustained engagement with emotional content (indexed by the late positive potential [LPP]) may contri…
View article: Understanding Resilience in Emerging Adults: An International, Multi-Site Study
Understanding Resilience in Emerging Adults: An International, Multi-Site Study Open
Emerging adulthood is characterized by marked increases in vulnerability to psychiatric illness. As such, understanding how risk and protective factors function to promote, or impede, resilience during early adulthood is critical. This pre…
View article: Bipolar Spectrum Risk and Social Network Dimensions in Emerging Adults: Two Social Sides?
Bipolar Spectrum Risk and Social Network Dimensions in Emerging Adults: Two Social Sides? Open
Bipolar spectrum disorders (BSDs) encompass severe and chronic mood disorders associated with social functioning difficulties. However, little work has examined more nuanced aspects of social functioning in BSDs. The present investigation …
View article: Broadening the scope: Multiple functional connectivity networks underlying threat and safety signaling
Broadening the scope: Multiple functional connectivity networks underlying threat and safety signaling Open
Introduction Threat learning and extinction processes are thought to be foundational to anxiety and fear-related disorders. However, the study of these processes in the human brain has largely focused on a priori regions of interest, owing…
View article: Circadian, Reward, and Emotion Systems in Teens prospective longitudinal study: protocol overview of an integrative reward-circadian rhythm model of first onset of bipolar spectrum disorder in adolescence
Circadian, Reward, and Emotion Systems in Teens prospective longitudinal study: protocol overview of an integrative reward-circadian rhythm model of first onset of bipolar spectrum disorder in adolescence Open
View article: A meta-analysis and systematic review of single vs. multimodal neuroimaging techniques in the classification of psychosis
A meta-analysis and systematic review of single vs. multimodal neuroimaging techniques in the classification of psychosis Open
View article: Insights from personalized models of brain and behavior for identifying biomarkers in psychiatry
Insights from personalized models of brain and behavior for identifying biomarkers in psychiatry Open