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Alexander J. Millner

Alexander J. Millner

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Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
8163
World Ranking
9074
National Ranking
4812

Overview

Alexander J. Millner is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and medicine, with a specific focus on clinical and experimental cognitive psychology. Their work addresses various subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, and applied psychology.

Their main research topics involve suicide and self-harm studies, mental health research topics, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health treatment and access, traumatic brain injury research, and digital mental health interventions.

Frequent publication venues for Millner include Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Psychological Assessment, Clinical Psychological Science, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, and PsycTESTS Dataset.

Alexander J. Millner has collaborated often with researchers such as Matthew K. Nock, Evan M. Kleiman, Rebecca G. Fortgang, Kate H. Bentley, and Shirley B. Wang.

Selected recent papers by the researcher include:

  • Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview-Revised: Development, reliability, and validity. (2020, Psychological Assessment)
  • Advancing the Understanding of Suicide: The Need for Formal Theory and Rigorous Descriptive Research. (2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
  • Prediction of Suicide Attempts Using Clinician Assessment, Patient Self-report, and Electronic Health Records. (2022, JAMA Network Open)
  • Inconsistencies in self-reports of suicidal ideation and attempts across assessment methods. (2021, Psychological Assessment)
  • A Pilot Study Using Frequent Inpatient Assessments of Suicidal Thinking to Predict Short-Term Postdischarge Suicidal Behavior. (2021, JAMA Network Open)

Best Publications

  • Identifying highly influential nodes in the complicated grief network.

    Donald J. Robinaugh;Alexander J. Millner;Richard J. McNally

  • Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation.

    Nim Tottenham;Todd A. Hare;Brian T. Quinn;Thomas W. McCarry

  • Network analysis of depression and anxiety symptom relationships in a psychiatric sample.

    Courtney Beard;Alex J. Millner;Marie J. C. Forgeard;Eiko I. Fried

  • Elevated amygdala response to faces following early deprivation

    N. Tottenham;T.A. Hare;A. Millner;T. Gilhooly

  • Elevated amygdala response to faces and gaze aversion in autism spectrum disorder

    Nim Tottenham;Margaret E. Hertzig;Kristen Gillespie-Lynch;Tara Gilhooly

  • Frontostriatal Connectivity and Its Role in Cognitive Control in Parent-Child Dyads With ADHD

    B.J. Casey;Jeffery N. Epstein;B.A. Jason Buhle;Conor Liston

  • Single-Item Measurement of Suicidal Behaviors: Validity and Consequences of Misclassification

    Alexander J. Millner;Michael D. Lee;Matthew K. Nock

  • Risk factors for the transition from suicide ideation to suicide attempt: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).

    Matthew K Nock;Alexander J Millner;Thomas E Joiner;Peter M Gutierrez

  • Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview-Revised: Development, reliability, and validity.

    Kathryn R Fox;Julia A Harris;Shirley B Wang;Alexander J Millner

  • Prediction of Suicide Attempts Using Clinician Assessment, Patient Self-report, and Electronic Health Records

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  • Describing and Measuring the Pathway to Suicide Attempts: A Preliminary Study

    Alexander J. Millner;Michael D. Lee;Matthew K. Nock

  • Identifying differences between depressed adolescent suicide ideators and attempters

    Randy P. Auerbach;Alexander J. Millner;Jeremy G. Stewart;Erika C. Esposito

  • Advancing the Understanding of Suicide: The Need for Formal Theory and Rigorous Descriptive Research.

    Alexander J. Millner;Donald J. Robinaugh;Matthew K. Nock

  • Incentives Boost Model-Based Control Across a Range of Severity on Several Psychiatric Constructs

    Edward H. Patzelt;Wouter Kool;Alexander J. Millner;Samuel J. Gershman

  • The dynamics of social support among suicide attempters: A smartphone-based daily diary study.

    Daniel D.L. Coppersmith;Evan M. Kleiman;Catherine R. Glenn;Alexander J. Millner

  • Advancing the Network Theory of Mental Disorders: A Computational Model of Panic Disorder

    Robinaugh D;Haslbeck Jmb;Waldorp L;Kossakowski Jj

  • Inconsistencies in self-reports of suicidal ideation and attempts across assessment methods.

    Charlene A Deming;Julia A Harris;Franckie Castro-Ramirez;Jeffrey J Glenn

  • Examining the role of sex in self-injurious thoughts and behaviors.

    Kathryn Rebecca Fox;Alexander J Millner;Cora Emily Mukerji;Matthew K. Nock

  • A Pilot Study Using Frequent Inpatient Assessments of Suicidal Thinking to Predict Short-Term Postdischarge Suicidal Behavior.

    Shirley B Wang;Daniel D L Coppersmith;Evan M Kleiman;Kate H Bentley

  • Are there sensitive periods when child maltreatment substantially elevates suicide risk? Results from a nationally representative sample of adolescents.

    Stephanie H. Gomez;Jenny Tse;Yan Wang;Brianna Turner

  • Are suicidal thoughts reinforcing? A preliminary real-time monitoring study on the potential affect regulation function of suicidal thinking.

    Evan M. Kleiman;Daniel D.L. Coppersmith;Alexander J. Millner;Peter J. Franz

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Evan M. Kleiman
Evan M. Kleiman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Catherine R. Glenn
Catherine R. Glenn Old Dominion University
Kate H. Bentley
Kate H. Bentley Massachusetts General Hospital
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Robert J. Ursano
Robert J. Ursano Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Kathryn R. Fox
Kathryn R. Fox University of Denver
Samuel J. Gershman
Samuel J. Gershman Harvard University
Bethany A. Teachman
Bethany A. Teachman University of Virginia
Randy P. Auerbach
Randy P. Auerbach Columbia University

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