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Amygdala and nucleus accumbens activation to emotional facial expressions in children and adolescents at risk for major depressionChristopher S Monk
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:90-8. 2008..This study compares amygdala and nucleus accumbens activation in children and adolescents at high and low risk for major depression under varying attentional and emotional conditions...
Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation to masked angry faces in children and adolescents with generalized anxiety disorderChristopher S Monk
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1043, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:568-76. 2008..Disturbed interactions between these structures may underlie pediatric anxiety. To date, no study has selectively examined responses to briefly presented threats in GAD or in pediatric anxiety...- Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation and attentional bias in response to angry faces in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorderChristopher S Monk
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 2000 East Hall, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:1091-7. 2006.... 
The development of emotion-related neural circuitry in health and psychopathologyChristopher S Monk
Department of Psychology and the Center for Human Growth and Development, 2000 East Hall, 530 Church Street, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1043, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:1231-50. 2008....- Abnormalities of intrinsic functional connectivity in autism spectrum disordersChristopher S Monk
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor MI 48109, USA
Neuroimage 47:764-72. 2009..These findings indicate that ASD subjects show altered intrinsic connectivity within the default network, and connectivity between these structures is associated with specific ASD symptoms... - Neural circuitry of emotional face processing in autism spectrum disordersChristopher S Monk
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich 48109, USA
J Psychiatry Neurosci 35:105-14. 2010..Specifically, the cognitive domain of attention influences group differences in brain activation. We investigated brain function abnormalities in participants with ASD using a task that monitored attention bias to emotional faces... - A preliminary investigation of neural correlates of treatment in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorderJulie Maslowsky
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1043, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 20:105-11. 2010..Two effective forms of treatment are cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). This pilot study examined changes in brain function following each type of treatment in GAD... - Relationship between trait anxiety, prefrontal cortex, and attention bias to angry faces in children and adolescentsEva H Telzer
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Biol Psychol 79:216-22. 2008..e. angry-incongruent versus angry-congruent trials). Trait anxiety was also positively associated with right ventrolateral PFC activation on trials with face stimuli (vesus baseline), irrespective of their emotional content... - Neural activation to emotional faces in adolescents with autism spectrum disordersShih Jen Weng
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA Neuroscience Program, University of Michigan, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:296-305. 2011.... - The impact of serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR) genotype on the development of resting-state functional connectivity in children and adolescents: a preliminary reportJillian Lee Wiggins
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Neuroimage 59:2760-70. 2012..This preliminary report expands our understanding of the genetic influences on the development of large-scale brain connectivity and lays down the foundation for future research and replication of the results with a larger sample... - Alterations of resting state functional connectivity in the default network in adolescents with autism spectrum disordersShih Jen Weng
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Brain Res 1313:202-14. 2010..The findings also show that weaker connectivity within the default network is associated with specific impairments in ASD... - Neural and behavioral responses to threatening emotion faces in children as a function of the short allele of the serotonin transporter geneMoriah E Thomason
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Biol Psychol 85:38-44. 2010..These results indicate that in children and adolescents, s-allele carriers can be distinguished from l-allele homozygotes on the basis of hypervigilant behavioral and neural processing of negative material... - Recognition of facial emotions among maltreated children with high rates of post-traumatic stress disorderCarrie L Masten
Department of Psychology, University of California, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Child Abuse Negl 32:139-53. 2008..However, research has provided little evidence indicating how high rates of PTSD might relate to maltreated children's processing of emotions... - fMRI predictors of treatment outcome in pediatric anxiety disordersErin B McClure
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, P O Box 5010, Atlanta, GA 30302 5010, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 191:97-105. 2007..Interest has emerged in this phenomenon as a possible biological marker for individuals who are likely to benefit from tailored treatment approaches... - Using a self-organizing map algorithm to detect age-related changes in functional connectivity during rest in autism spectrum disordersJillian Lee Wiggins
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Brain Res 1380:187-97. 2011..These findings indicate that SOM is a complementary method for calculating connectivity in a clinical population. Additionally, adolescents with ASD have a different developmental trajectory of the default network compared to controls... - Amygdala habituation and prefrontal functional connectivity in youth with autism spectrum disordersJohnna R Swartz
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 52:84-93. 2013.... - Resting state cortico-cerebellar functional connectivity networks: a comparison of anatomical and self-organizing map approachesJessica A Bernard
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA
Front Neuroanat 6:31. 2012..Additionally, driving the analyses from the cerebellum is key to determining the complete picture of functional connectivity within the structure... - A developmental examination of amygdala response to facial expressionsAmanda E Guyer
National Institutes of Health NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:1565-82. 2008.... - Attention bias to threat faces in children with bipolar disorder and comorbid lifetime anxiety disordersMelissa A Brotman
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:819-21. 2007..Although comorbid anxiety disorders are common in children with bipolar disorder (BD), it is unclear how this comorbidity impacts the pathophysiology of the illness... - Adolescent immaturity in attention-related brain engagement to emotional facial expressionsChristopher S Monk
Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience and Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Neuroimage 20:420-8. 2003..These findings suggest that adults show greater modulation of activity in relevant brain structures based on attentional demands, whereas adolescents exhibit greater modulation based on emotional content... - A neuroimaging method for the study of threat in adolescentsChristopher S Monk
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Dev Psychobiol 43:359-66. 2003..Those who reported increased fear showed right amygdala activation during the threat condition and left amygdala activation in the safe condition. These procedures offer a promising tool for studying youth with anxiety disorders... - A developmental examination of gender differences in brain engagement during evaluation of threatErin B McClure
Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:1047-55. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that there are gender differences in patterns of neural responses to emotional faces that are not fully apparent until adulthood... - Experience-dependent plasticity for attention to threat: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in humansChristopher S Monk
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Biol Psychiatry 56:607-10. 2004..Examination of plasticity of attention bias with individuals at risk for anxiety disorders may reveal how threatening stimuli come to be categorized differently in this population over time... - Attention bias to threat in maltreated children: implications for vulnerability to stress-related psychopathologyDaniel S Pine
Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health Intramurral Research Program, Bethesda, MD 20817 2670, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:291-6. 2005..They tested the hypothesis that attention bias to threatening facial photographs is associated with maltreatment and PTSD... - Amygdala and nucleus accumbens in responses to receipt and omission of gains in adults and adolescentsMonique Ernst
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 15K North Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Neuroimage 25:1279-91. 2005..These developmental differences, if replicated, may have important implications for the development of early-onset disorders of emotion and motivation... - Emotion recognition deficits in pediatric anxiety disorders: implications for amygdala researchJosh Easter
Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2670, USA
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 15:563-70. 2005..CONCLUSION: As this study was conducted in a sample undergoing a neuroimaging investigation of amygdala integrity, future analyses will examine associations among amygdala function, clinical anxiety, and face-recognition abilities... - Increased amygdala activity during successful memory encoding in adolescent major depressive disorder: An FMRI studyRoxann Roberson-Nay
Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:966-73. 2006..This study tests the hypothesis that adolescent MDD is associated with abnormal amygdala activity during evocative-face viewing... - Striatal functional alteration in adolescents characterized by early childhood behavioral inhibitionAmanda E Guyer
Emotional Development and Affective Neuroscience Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Neurosci 26:6399-405. 2006.... - Abnormal attention modulation of fear circuit function in pediatric generalized anxiety disorderErin B McClure
Emotional Development and Affective Neuroscience Branch, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:97-106. 2007..However, in pediatric anxiety, no research has examined attention modulation of neural response to threat cues... - The effects of hydrocortisone on cognitive and neural function: a behavioral and event-related potential investigationChristopher S Monk
Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health NIH, 15K North Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Neuropsychopharmacology 26:505-19. 2002..ERPs and behavioral performance were not affected in the attention and working memory tasks. These findings are consistent with reports indicating that glucocorticoids affect explicit memory and hippocampal function... - Choice selection and reward anticipation: an fMRI studyMonique Ernst
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 15K North Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 2670, USA
Neuropsychologia 42:1585-97. 2004.... - Developmental differences in neuronal engagement during implicit encoding of emotional faces: an event-related fMRI studyEric E Nelson
Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1381, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:1015-24. 2003..Prior studies document strong interactions between emotional and mnemonic processes. These interactions have been shown to vary across development and psychopathology, particularly mood and anxiety disorders... - Human hippocampal activation in the delayed matching- and nonmatching-to-sample memory tasks: an event-related functional MRI approachChristopher S Monk
Institute of Child Development and Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Behav Neurosci 116:716-21. 2002..These findings are consistent with the work from human patients and animal studies, indicating hippocampal involvement in the DMS and DNMS tasks...
Research Grants
- Adolescent Social Phobia and Neurophysiological FunctionChristopher Monk; Fiscal Year: 2006..The long-term goal is to identify neurobiological and behavioral events that underlie the development of childhood anxiety disorders. ..