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Overview

Anna Rose Childress is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on brain function related to substance use and cognitive processes.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these overarching fields, their notable subfields of study encompass:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Neurology

Childress's work concentrates on specific research topics such as:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study

Among their recent papers are:

  • A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus, 2022, published in Nature Protocols
  • Sustained brain response to repeated drug cues is associated with poor drug-use outcomes, 2021, published in Addiction Biology
  • Parameter Space and Potential for Biomarker Development in 25 Years of fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity, 2024, published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • The role of withdrawal in mesocorticolimbic drug cue reactivity in opioid use disorder, 2020, published in Addiction Biology
  • Multivariate pattern analysis links drug use severity to distributed cortical hypoactivity during emotional inhibitory control in opioid use disorder, 2021, published in NeuroImage Clinical

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Paul S. Regier
  • Daniel D. Langleben
  • Zhenhao Shi
  • Corinde E. Wiers
  • Reagan R. Wetherill

Childress has published multiple times in specific venues, reflecting their research focus areas. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Addiction Biology
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • Nature Protocols

Best Publications

  • Limbic Activation During Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving

    Anna Rose Childress;P. David Mozley;William McElgin;Josh Fitzgerald

  • Cocaine cues and dopamine in dorsal striatum: mechanism of craving in cocaine addiction.

    Nora D Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Frank Telang;Joanna S Fowler

  • Conditioning factors in drug abuse: can they explain compulsion?:

    Charles P. O'Brien;Anna Rose Childress;Ronald Ehrman;Steven J. Robbins

  • Decreased gray matter concentration in the insular, orbitofrontal, cingulate, and temporal cortices of cocaine patients

    Teresa R Franklin;Paul D Acton;Joseph A Maldjian;Jason D Gray

  • The neurocircuitry of impaired insight in drug addiction

    Rita Z. Goldstein;A.D. (Bud) Craig;Antoine Bechara;Hugh Garavan;Hugh Garavan

  • Classical conditioning in drug-dependent humans.

    Charles P. O'brien;Anna Rose Childress;A. Thomas McLELLAN;Ronald Ehrman

  • Brain activity during simulated deception: an event-related functional magnetic resonance study.

    Daniel D. Langleben;Lee Schroeder;Joseph A. Maldjian;Ruben C. Gur

  • Conditioned responses to cocaine-related stimuli in cocaine abuse patients.

    Ronald N. Ehrman;Steven J. Robbins;Anna Rose Childress;Charles P. O'Brien

  • Brain metabolic changes during cigarette craving.

    Arthur L. Brody;Mark A. Mandelkern;Edythe D. London;Anna Rose Childress

  • Empirical optimization of ASL data analysis using an ASL data processing toolbox: ASLtbx.

    Ze Wang;Geoffrey K. Aguirre;Hengyi Rao;Jiongjiong Wang

  • Cue reactivity and cue reactivity interventions in drug dependence

    A R Childress;A V Hole;R N Ehrman;S J Robbins

  • Telling truth from lie in individual subjects with fast event‐related fMRI

    Daniel D. Langleben;James W. Loughead;Warren B. Bilker;Kosha Ruparel

  • Integrating systematic cue exposure with standard treatment in recovering drug dependent patients

    Charles P. O'Brien;Anna Rose Childress;Thomas McLellan;Ronald Ehrman

  • Limbic Activation to Cigarette Smoking Cues Independent of Nicotine Withdrawal: A Perfusion fMRI Study

    Teresa R Franklin;Ze wang;Jiongjiong Wang;Nathan Sciortino

  • Prelude to Passion: Limbic Activation by “Unseen” Drug and Sexual Cues

    Anna Rose Childress;Ronald N. Ehrman;Ronald N. Ehrman;Ze Wang;Ze Wang;Yin Li;Yin Li

  • Comparing levels of cocaine cue reactivity in male and female outpatients.

    Steven J Robbins;Steven J Robbins;Steven J Robbins;Ronald N Ehrman;Ronald N Ehrman;Anna Rose Childress;Anna Rose Childress;Charles P O'Brien;Charles P O'Brien

  • Cue Reactivity in Addictive Behaviors: Theoretical and Treatment Implications

    Damaris J. Rohsenow;Anna Rose Childress;Peter M. Monti;Raymond S. Niaura

  • Three decision-making tasks in cocaine-dependent patients: do they measure the same construct?

    John Monterosso;Ronald Ehrman;Kimberly L. Napier;Charles P. O'Brien

  • Abstinent Opiate Abusers Exhibit Conditioned Craving, Conditioned Withdrawal and Reductions in both through Extinction

    Anna Rose Childress;A. Thomas McLELLAN;Charles P. O'brien

  • Dopamine increases in striatum do not elicit craving in cocaine abusers unless they are coupled with cocaine cues.

    Nora D. Volkow;Gene-Jack Wang;Frank Telang;Joanna S. Fowler

  • Can induced moods trigger drug-related responses in opiate abuse patients? ☆

    Anna Rose Childress;Ronald Ehrman;A.Thomas McLellan;James MacRae

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Thomas McLellan
A. Thomas McLellan University of Pennsylvania
Nora D. Volkow
Nora D. Volkow National Institutes of Health
Kevin G. Lynch
Kevin G. Lynch University of Pennsylvania
James Loughead
James Loughead University of Pennsylvania
Arthur I. Alterman
Arthur I. Alterman University of Pennsylvania
David C.S. Roberts
David C.S. Roberts Wake Forest University
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Michael R. Lowe
Michael R. Lowe Drexel University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Joanna S. Fowler
Joanna S. Fowler Brookhaven National Laboratory

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