Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Research Program

Research output

Research output per year 2017 2021 2023

• 27 Article
• 1 Letter
• 1 Review article

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2023

  Dysfunction in differential reward-punishment responsiveness in conduct disorder relates to severity of callous-unemotional traits but not irritability

  Zhang, R., Aloi, J., Bajaj, S., Bashford-Largo, J., Lukoff, J., Schwartz, A., Elowsky, J., Dobbertin, M., Blair, K. S. & Blair, R. J. R., Apr 1 2023, In: Psychological medicine. 53, 5, p. 1870-1880 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Conduct Disorder 100%
  • Striatum 18%
  • Decision-Making 18%
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 9%
  • Frontal Lobe 9%
  11 Scopus citations

• Volume of subcortical brain regions in social anxiety disorder: mega-analytic results from 37 samples in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group

  Groenewold, N. A., Bas-Hoogendam, J. M., Amod, A. R., Laansma, M. A., Van Velzen, L. S., Aghajani, M., Hilbert, K., Oh, H., Salas, R., Jackowski, A. P., Pan, P. M., Salum, G. A., Blair, J. R., Blair, K. S., Hirsch, J., Pantazatos, S. P., Schneier, F. R., Talati, A., Roelofs, K. & Volman, I. & 79 others, Blanco-Hinojo, L., Cardoner, N., Pujol, J., Beesdo-Baum, K., Ching, C. R. K., Thomopoulos, S. I., Jansen, A., Kircher, T., Krug, A., Nenadić, I., Stein, F., Dannlowski, U., Grotegerd, D., Lemke, H., Meinert, S., Winter, A., Erb, M., Kreifelts, B., Gong, Q., Lui, S., Zhu, F., Mwangi, B., Soares, J. C., Wu, M. J., Bayram, A., Canli, M., Tükel, R., Westenberg, P. M., Heeren, A., Cremers, H. R., Hofmann, D., Straube, T., Doruyter, A. G. G., Lochner, C., Peterburs, J., Van Tol, M. J., Gur, R. E., Kaczkurkin, A. N., Larsen, B., Satterthwaite, T. D., Filippi, C. A., Gold, A. L., Harrewijn, A., Zugman, A., Bülow, R., Grabe, H. J., Völzke, H., Wittfeld, K., Böhnlein, J., Dohm, K., Kugel, H., Schrammen, E., Zwanzger, P., Leehr, E. J., Sindermann, L., Ball, T. M., Fonzo, G. A., Paulus, M. P., Simmons, A., Stein, M. B., Klumpp, H., Phan, K. L., Furmark, T., Månsson, K. N. T., Manzouri, A., Avery, S. N., Blackford, J. U., Clauss, J. A., Feola, B., Harper, J. C., Sylvester, C. M., Lueken, U., Veltman, D. J., Winkler, A. M., Jahanshad, N., Pine, D. S., Thompson, P. M., Stein, D. J. & Van der Wee, N. J. A., Mar 2023, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 28, 3, p. 1079-1089 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Mega 100%
  • Social Anxiety Disorder 100%
  • Analytic Results 100%
  • Subcortical Brain Structures 100%
  • Putamen 25%
  11 Scopus citations
• 2022

  Different forms of childhood maltreatment have different impacts on the neural systems involved in the representation of reinforcement value

  Blair, K. S., Aloi, J., Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Elowsky, J., Lukoff, J., Vogel, S., Carollo, E., Schwartz, A., Pope, K., Bajaj, S., Tottenham, N., Dobbertin, M. & Blair, R. J., Feb 2022, In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 53, 101051.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Neural Systems 100%
  • Reinforcement Value 100%
  • Childhood Maltreatment 100%
  • Reinforcement Processing 100%
  • Neural System 100%
  11 Scopus citations

• Reduced cortical volume of the default mode network in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder

  Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Mathur, A., Elowsky, J., Schwartz, A., Dobbertin, M., Blair, R. J. R., Blair, K. S. & Bajaj, S., Jun 2022, In: Depression and Anxiety. 39, 6, p. 485-495 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder 100%
  • Default Mode Network 100%
  • Hippocampus 9%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging 9%
  • Brain Network 9%
  8 Scopus citations

• Threat-of-shock decreases emotional interference on affective stroop performance in healthy controls and anxiety patients

  Lago, T. R., Blair, K. S., Alvarez, G., Thongdarong, A., Blair, J. R., Ernst, M. & Grillon, C., May 2022, In: European Journal of Neuroscience. 55, 9-10, p. 2519-2528 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Patient with Anxiety Disorder 100%
  • Impaired Concentration 50%
  • Control Threat 50%
  6 Scopus citations
• 2021

  Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorder Symptom Severity, Conduct Disorder, and Callous-Unemotional Traits and Impairment in Expression Recognition

  Blair, R. J. R., Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Mathur, A., Schwartz, A., Elowsky, J., Tyler, P., Hammond, C. J., Filbey, F. M., Dobbertin, M., Bajaj, S. & Blair, K. S., Sep 20 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12, 714189.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Conduct Disorder 100%
  • Cannabis 100%
  • Alcohol Use Disorder 80%
  • Emotion Expression 40%
  • Cognitive Risk Factors 28%
  6 Scopus citations

• Alcohol Use Disorder and Cannabis Use Disorder Symptomatology in Adolescents and Aggression: Associations With Recruitment of Neural Regions Implicated in Retaliation

  Blair, R. J. R., Bajaj, S., Sherer, N., Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Aloi, J., Hammond, C., Lukoff, J., Schwartz, A., Elowsky, J., Tyler, P., Filbey, F. M., Dobbertin, M. & Blair, K. S., May 2021, In: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 6, 5, p. 536-544 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Aggression 100%
  • Symptomatology 100%
  • Alcohol Use Disorder 100%
  • Cannabis Use 100%
  • Disease 100%
  10 Scopus citations

• Alcohol use disorder and cannabis use disorder symptomatology in adolescents is associated with dysfunction in neural processing of future events

  Aloi, J., Blair, K. S., Meffert, H., White, S. F., Hwang, S., Tyler, P. M., Crum, K. I., Thornton, L. C., Mobley, A., Killanin, A. D., Filbey, F. M., Pope, K. & Blair, R. J., Jan 2021, In: Addiction Biology. 26, 1, e12885.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Cannabis 100%
  • Decision-Making 42%
  • Comparative Optimism 16%
  • Atypical Functions 16%
  • Neural System 14%
  9 Scopus citations

• Callous-Unemotional Traits Moderate the Relationship Between Irritability and Threatening Responding

  Zhang, R., Bashford-Largo, J., Lukoff, J., Elowsky, J., Carollo, E., Schwartz, A., Dobbertin, M., Bajaj, S., Blair, K. S., Leibenluft, E. & Blair, R. J. R., Nov 16 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12, 617052.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Adolescents 100%
  • Conduct Disorder 100%
  • Empathy 50%
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 50%
  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex 50%
  4 Scopus citations

• Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group

  Harrewijn, A., Cardinale, E. M., Groenewold, N. A., Bas-Hoogendam, J. M., Aghajani, M., Hilbert, K., Cardoner, N., Porta-Casteràs, D., Gosnell, S., Salas, R., Jackowski, A. P., Pan, P. M., Salum, G. A., Blair, K. S., Blair, J. R., Hammoud, M. Z., Milad, M. R., Burkhouse, K. L., Phan, K. L. & Schroeder, H. K. & 74 others, Strawn, J. R., Beesdo-Baum, K., Jahanshad, N., Thomopoulos, S. I., Buckner, R., Nielsen, J. A., Smoller, J. W., Soares, J. C., Mwangi, B., Wu, M. J., Zunta-Soares, G. B., Assaf, M., Diefenbach, G. J., Brambilla, P., Maggioni, E., Hofmann, D., Straube, T., Andreescu, C., Berta, R., Tamburo, E., Price, R. B., Manfro, G. G., Agosta, F., Canu, E., Cividini, C., Filippi, M., Kostić, M., Munjiza Jovanovic, A., Alberton, B. A. V., Benson, B., Freitag, G. F., Filippi, C. A., Gold, A. L., Leibenluft, E., Ringlein, G. V., Werwath, K. E., Zwiebel, H., Zugman, A., Grabe, H. J., Van der Auwera, S., Wittfeld, K., Völzke, H., Bülow, R., Balderston, N. L., Ernst, M., Grillon, C., Mujica-Parodi, L. R., van Nieuwenhuizen, H., Critchley, H. D., Makovac, E., Mancini, M., Meeten, F., Ottaviani, C., Ball, T. M., Fonzo, G. A., Paulus, M. P., Stein, M. B., Gur, R. E., Gur, R. C., Kaczkurkin, A. N., Larsen, B., Satterthwaite, T. D., Harper, J., Myers, M., Perino, M. T., Sylvester, C. M., Yu, Q., Lueken, U., Veltman, D. J., Thompson, P. M., Stein, D. J., Van der Wee, N. J. A., Winkler, A. M. & Pine, D. S., Dec 2021, In: Translational Psychiatry. 11, 1, 502.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder 100%
  • Nonoxynol-9 20%
  • Diencephalon 10%
  • Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging 10%
  • Dependent Variable 10%
  28 Scopus citations

• Individual associations of adolescent alcohol use disorder versus cannabis use disorder symptoms in neural prediction error signaling and the response to novelty

  Aloi, J., Crum, K. I., Blair, K. S., Zhang, R., Bashford-Largo, J., Bajaj, S., Schwartz, A., Carollo, E., Hwang, S., Leiker, E., Filbey, F. M., Averbeck, B. B., Dobbertin, M. & Blair, R. J. R., Apr 2021, In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 48, 100944.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Cannabis 100%
  • Reward Prediction Error 100%
  • Neural Prediction 100%
  • Decision-Making 60%
  • Prefrontal Cortex 40%
  12 Scopus citations

• Interaction of irritability and anxiety on emotional responding and emotion regulation: A functional MRI study

  Crum, K. I., Hwang, S., Blair, K. S., Aloi, J. M., Meffert, H., White, S. F., Tyler, P. M., Leibenluft, E., Pope, K. & Blair, R. J. R., Dec 25 2021, In: Psychological medicine. 51, 16, p. 2778-2788 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Emotion Regulation 100%
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 100%
  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex 100%
  • Prefrontal Cortex 66%
  • Emotional Disorder 66%
  14 Scopus citations

• Network-wise surface-based morphometric insight into the cortical neural circuitry underlying irritability in adolescents

  Bajaj, S., Blair, K. S., Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Mathur, A., Schwartz, A., Elowsky, J., Dobbertin, M., Hwang, S., Leibenluft, E. & Blair, R. J. R., Dec 2021, In: Translational Psychiatry. 11, 1, 581.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Amygdala 100%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging 50%
  • Default Mode Network 50%
  • Female Self 28%
  • Structural Severity 14%
  3 Scopus citations

• Reduced neural differentiation of rewards and punishment during passive avoidance learning in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder

  Bashford-Largo, J., Aloi, J., Zhang, R., Bajaj, S., Carollo, E., Elowsky, J., Schwartz, A., Dobbertin, M., Blair, R. J. R. & Blair, K. S., Aug 2021, In: Depression and Anxiety. 38, 8, p. 794-803 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Neural Differentiation 100%
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder 100%
  • Passive Avoidance Learning 100%
  • Typically Developing 28%
  • Approach-avoidance 28%
  9 Scopus citations

• Reduced neural responsiveness to looming stimuli is associated with increased aggression

  Blair, R. J., Zhang, R. U., Bashford-Largo, J., Bajaj, S., Mathur, A., Ringle, J., Schwartz, A., Elowsky, J., Dobbertin, M., Blair, K. S. & Tyler, P. M., Oct 1 2021, In: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience. 16, 10, p. 1091-1099 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 100%
  • Amygdala 100%
  • Inferior Frontal Gyrus 100%
  • Face 100%
  • Inferior Parietal Lobule 100%
  4 Scopus citations

• Reduced top-down attentional control in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder

  Bashford-Largo, J., Aloi, J., Lukoff, J., Johnson, K., White, S. F., Dobbertin, M., Blair, R. J. & Blair, K. S., Feb 2021, In: Brain and Behavior. 11, 2, e01994.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder 100%
  • Top-down Control 100%
  • Response Control 37%
  • Anxiety Disorders 25%
  • Cognitive Control 25%
  7 Scopus citations
• 2020

  Alcohol Use Disorder, But Not Cannabis Use Disorder, Symptomatology in Adolescents Is Associated With Reduced Differential Responsiveness to Reward Versus Punishment Feedback During Instrumental Learning

  Aloi, J., Blair, K. S., Crum, K. I., Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Lukoff, J., Carollo, E., White, S. F., Hwang, S., Filbey, F. M., Dobbertin, M. & Blair, R. J. R., Jun 2020, In: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 5, 6, p. 610-618 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cannabis 100%
  • Illegal Substances 16%
  • Parietal Cortex 14%
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 14%
  • Striatum 14%
  16 Scopus citations

• Sexual Abuse in Adolescents Is Associated With Atypically Increased Responsiveness Within Regions Implicated in Self-Referential and Emotional Processing to Approaching Animate Threats

  Blair, K. S., Bashford-Largo, J., Shah, N., Lukoff, J., Elowsky, J., Vogel, S., Emmert, A., Zhang, R., Dobbertin, M., Pollak, S. & Blair, J. R., Jun 16 2020, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11, 345.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Adolescents 100%
  • Emotional Processing 100%
  • Self-Referential Processing 100%
  • Face 100%
  • Posterior Cingulate 66%
  3 Scopus citations

• Temporal Discounting Impulsivity and Its Association with Conduct Disorder and Irritability

  Blair, R. J. R., Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Lukoff, J., Elowsky, J. S., Leibenluft, E., Hwang, S., Dobbertin, M. & Blair, K. S., Nov 2020, In: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 30, 9, p. 542-548 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Impulsivity 100%
  • Conduct Disorder 100%
  • Temporal Discounting 100%
  • Delay Discounting 72%
  • Adolescents 63%
  9 Scopus citations

• Worry and insomnia as risk factors for depression during initial stages of COVID-19 pandemic in India

  Bajaj, S., Blair, K. S., Schwartz, A., Dobbertin, M. & Blair, J. R. R., Dec 2020, In: PloS one. 15, 12 December, e0243527.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Depression 100%
  • Mental Health 100%
  • Pandemic Situation 66%
  • Public Health 50%
  • Multiple Regression Analysis 50%
  24 Scopus citations
• 2019

  Alcohol use disorder and cannabis use disorder symptomatology in adolescents are differentially related to dysfunction in brain regions supporting face processing

  Leiker, E. K., Meffert, H., Thornton, L. C., Taylor, B. K., Aloi, J., Abdel-Rahim, H., Shah, N., Tyler, P. M., White, S. F., Blair, K. S., Filbey, F., Pope, K., Dobbertin, M. & Blair, R. J. R., Oct 30 2019, In: Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging. 292, p. 62-71 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Lingual Gyrus 100%
  21 Scopus citations

• Association of different types of childhood maltreatment with emotional responding and response control among youths

  Blair, K. S., Aloi, J., Crum, K., Meffert, H., White, S. F., Taylor, B. K., Leiker, E. K., Thornton, L. C., Tyler, P. M., Shah, N., Johnson, K., Abdel-Rahim, H., Lukoff, J., Dobbertin, M., Pope, K., Pollak, S. & Blair, R. J., May 2019, In: JAMA Network Open. 2, 5, e194604.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Postcentral Gyrus 100%
  • Gyri 100%
  • Pediatric Trauma 100%
  • Maltreatment 100%
  • Childhood Maltreatment 100%
  39 Scopus citations

• Differential dysfunctions related to alcohol and cannabis use disorder symptoms in reward and error-processing neuro-circuitries in adolescents

  Aloi, J., Meffert, H., White, S. F., Blair, K. S., Hwang, S., Tyler, P. M., Thornton, L. C., Crum, K. I., Adams, K. O., Killanin, A. D., Filbey, F., Pope, K. & Blair, R. J. R., Apr 2019, In: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 36, 100618.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Error Processing 100%
  • Cannabis 100%
  • CUDIT 50%
  • Neural System 33%
  • Cannabis Addiction 33%
  22 Scopus citations

• Threat Responsiveness as a Function of Cannabis and Alcohol Use Disorder Severity

  Blair, R. J. R., White, S. F., Tyler, P. M., Johnson, K., Lukoff, J., Thornton, L. C., Leiker, E. K., Filbey, F., Dobbertin, M. & Blair, K. S., Aug 1 2019, In: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 29, 7, p. 526-534 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cannabis 100%
  • Alcohol Use Disorder Severity 100%
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 33%
  • Amygdala 11%
  • Face 11%
  19 Scopus citations
• 2018

  Adolescents show differential dysfunctions related to Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorder severity in emotion and executive attention neuro-circuitries

  Aloi, J., Blair, K., Crum, K. I., Meffert, H., White, S. F., Tyler, P. M., Thornton, L. C., Mobley, A. M., Killanin, A. D., Adams, K. O., Filbey, F., Pope, K. & Blair, R. J., Jan 1 2018, In: NeuroImage: Clinical. 19, p. 782-792 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Alcohol Use Disorder 100%
  • Cannabis Use 100%
  • Executive Attention 100%
  • Disorder Severity 100%
  • Neurocircuitry 100%
  46 Scopus citations
• 2017

  Prediction error representation in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder during passive avoidance

  White, S. F., Geraci, M., Lewis, E., Leshin, J., Teng, C., Averbeck, B., Meffert, H., Ernst, M., Blair, R. J., Grillon, C. & Blair, K., Feb 1 2017, In: American Journal of Psychiatry. 174, 2, p. 110-117 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder 100%
  • Decision-Making 75%
  • Putamen 12%
  • Lentiform Nucleus 12%
  • Ventral Striatum 12%
  48 Scopus citations

• Reduced optimism and a heightened neural response to everyday worries are specific to generalized anxiety disorder, and not seen in social anxiety

  Blair, K. S., Otero, M., Teng, C., Geraci, M., Ernst, M., Blair, R. J. R., Pine, D. S. & Grillon, C., Jul 1 2017, In: Psychological medicine. 47, 10, p. 1806-1815 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Neural Response 100%
  • Social Anxiety 100%
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder 100%
  • Nerve Potential 100%
  • Social Anxiety Disorder 50%
  16 Scopus citations