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Overview

Alexander Sumich is affiliated with Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within Psychology and Neuroscience, with a notable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. They also contribute to fields such as Psychiatry and Mental Health, as well as Social Psychology.

Their work covers a diverse range of topics including EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Mental Health Research Topics, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes. Further areas of focus involve Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, and the intersection of Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, and Sexual Offending.

Sumich has published extensively in several venues, frequently contributing to the following journals and publication platforms:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Sensors
  • Forensic Science International Mind and Law
  • Schizophrenia

Some of their recent publications include:

  • What has social neuroscience learned from hyperscanning studies of spoken communication? A systematic review (2020) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • The mental health benefits of community helping during crisis: Coordinated helping, community identification and sense of unity during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) in Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • EEG microstates: Functional significance and short-term test-retest reliability (2022) in Neuroimage Reports
  • Gaming disorder and internet addiction: A systematic review of resting-state EEG studies (2020) in Addictive Behaviors
  • The Dark Empath: Characterising dark traits in the presence of empathy (2020) in Personality and Individual Differences

Collaboration forms an important aspect of their research, demonstrated by frequent co-authorship with several researchers including Nadja Heym, Nikola Kasabov, Maryam Doborjeh, Zohreh Doborjeh, and Preethi Premkumar.

Best Publications

  • Facial symmetry and the perception of Beauty

    Gillian Rhodes;Fiona Proffitt;Jonathon M. Grady;Alex Sumich

  • ARE AVERAGE FACIAL CONFIGURATIONS ATTRACTIVE ONLY BECAUSE OF THEIR SYMMETRY

    Gillian Rhodes;Alex Sumich;Graham Byatt

  • Problematic Mobile Phone Use and Addiction Across Generations: the Roles of Psychopathological Symptoms and Smartphone Use

    Daria J. Kuss;Eiman Kanjo;Mark Crook-Rumsey;Fraenze Kibowski

  • Meditation Awareness Training (MAT) for Psychological Well-Being in a Sub-Clinical Sample of University Students: A Controlled Pilot Study

    William Van Gordon;Edo Shonin;Alex Sumich;Eva C. Sundin

  • Features of Structural brain abnormality detected in first-episode psychosis

    Dominic Fannon;Xavier Chitnis;Victor Doku;Lakshika Tennakoon

  • Unreality symptoms and volumetric measures of Heschl's gyrus and planum temporal in first-episode psychosis.

    Alex Sumich;Xavier A. Chitnis;Dominic G. Fannon;Séamus O’Ceallaigh

  • Temporal lobe abnormalities in first-episode psychosis.

    Alex Sumich;Xavier A. Chitnis;Dominic G. Fannon;Séamus O’Ceallaigh

  • What Has Social Neuroscience Learned From Hyperscanning Studies of Spoken Communication? A Systematic Review

    Brent A. Kelsen;Alexander Sumich;Nikola Kasabov;Sophie H.Y. Liang

  • Smooth pursuit and antisaccade eye movements in siblings discordant for schizophrenia

    Ulrich Ettinger;Veena Kumari;Trevor J. Crawford;Philip J. Corr

  • A Systematic Review of the Co-occurrence of Gaming Disorder and Other Potentially Addictive Behaviors

    Tyrone L. Burleigh;Mark D. Griffiths;Alex Sumich;Vasileios Stavropoulos

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Thalamus in First-Episode Psychosis

    Ulrich Ettinger;Xavier A. Chitnis;Veena Kumari;Dominic G. Fannon

  • Neural changes following cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis: a longitudinal study.

    Veena Kumari;Veena Kumari;Dominic Fannon;Emmanuelle R Peters;Emmanuelle R Peters;Dominic H Ffytche

  • Disruption of Frontal Theta Coherence by Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol is Associated with Positive Psychotic Symptoms

    Paul D Morrison;Judith Nottage;James M Stone;James M Stone;Sagnik Bhattacharyya

  • The mental health benefits of community helping during crisis: Coordinated helping, community identification and sense of unity during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Mhairi Bowe;Juliet R H Wakefield;Blerina Kellezi;Clifford Stevenson

  • Selective deficit of hippocampal N-acetylaspartate in antipsychotic-naive patients with schizophrenia.

    Dominic Fannon;Andrew Simmons;Lakshika Tennakoon;Seamus O’Céallaigh

  • Neural and behavioural responses to threat in men with a history of serious violence and schizophrenia or antisocial personality disorder

    Veena Kumari;Veena Kumari;Mrigendra Das;Pamela Jane Taylor;Ian Barkataki

  • Spiking Neural Network Modelling Approach Reveals How Mindfulness Training Rewires the Brain.

    Zohreh Doborjeh;Maryam Doborjeh;Tamasin Taylor;Nikola Kasabov

  • Lower anterior cingulate volume in seriously violent men with antisocial personality disorder or schizophrenia and a history of childhood abuse

    Veena Kumari;Shahir Uddin;Preethi Premkumar;Susan Young

  • Fronto-temporal alterations within the first 200 ms during an attentional task distinguish major depression, non-clinical participants with depressed mood and healthy controls: a potential biomarker?

    Andrew. H. Kemp;Patrick J. Hopkinson;Patrick J. Hopkinson;Daniel F. Hermens;Daniel F. Hermens;Donald L. Rowe

  • Empathy at the heart of darkness: empathy deficits that bind the Dark Triad and those that mediate indirect relational aggression

    Nadja Heym;Jennifer Firth;Fraenze Kibowski;Alexander Sumich;Alexander Sumich

  • Cognitive functioning in siblings discordant for schizophrenia.

    C Hughes;Veena Kumari;M Das;E Zachariah

Frequent Co-Authors

Veena Kumari
Veena Kumari Brunel University London
Pamela J. Taylor
Pamela J. Taylor Cardiff University
Ulrich Ettinger
Ulrich Ettinger University of Bonn
Elizabeth Kuipers
Elizabeth Kuipers King's College London
James M. Stone
James M. Stone Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Richard J. Siegert
Richard J. Siegert Auckland University of Technology
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams Stanford University
Evian Gordon
Evian Gordon University of Sydney
Daniel F. Hermens
Daniel F. Hermens University of the Sunshine Coast
Daria J. Kuss
Daria J. Kuss Nottingham Trent University

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