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Anthony C. Ruocco

Anthony C. Ruocco

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
4745
World Ranking
9915
National Ranking
688

Overview

Anthony C. Ruocco is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has an active research profile in psychology and medicine, with particular concentration in clinical psychology and psychiatry. Their publication record reflects a focus on psychopathology, mental health disorders, and related therapeutic approaches.

The scientist has contributed extensively in the following main fields of study:

  • Psychology (78 publications)
  • Medicine (36 publications)

Within these fields, they specialize in several subfields, including:

  • Clinical Psychology (53 publications)
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health (21 publications)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience (16 publications)
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (13 publications)
  • Social Psychology (8 publications)

The key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (48 publications)
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (18 publications)
  • Mental Health Research Topics (16 publications)
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (14 publications)
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (12 publications)
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (10 publications)
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (10 publications)

Frequently, Anthony C. Ruocco has published in these venues:

  • Biological Psychiatry (9 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry (4 publications)
  • Psychological Medicine (3 publications)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders (2 publications)
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment (2 publications)

Their recent works include:

  • "Neurobiology and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: progress toward ontogenetically informed and clinically useful nosology," 2020, Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
  • "GABAergic signaling in alcohol use disorder and withdrawal: pathological involvement and therapeutic potential," 2023, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • "Suicide risk detection using artificial intelligence: the promise of creating a benchmark dataset for research on the detection of suicide risk," 2023, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Facial Emotion Perception in Borderline Personality Disorder: Differential Neural Activation to Ambiguous and Threatening Expressions and Links to Impairments in Self and Interpersonal Functioning," 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Acute effect of physical exercise on negative affect in borderline personality disorder: A pilot study," 2022, Clinical Psychology in Europe

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Jacob W. Koudys (9 co-authored works)
  • Lena C. Quilty (8 co-authored works)
  • Andy Lee (8 co-authored works)
  • Orly Lipsitz (7 co-authored works)
  • Yuliya S. Nikolova (6 co-authored works)

Best Publications

  • Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS): An Emerging Neuroimaging Technology with Important Applications for the Study of Brain Disorders

    Farzin Irani;Steven M. Platek;Scott Bunce;Anthony C. Ruocco

  • The neuropsychology of borderline personality disorder: a meta-analysis and review.

    Anthony C. Ruocco

  • Facial emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder

    A. R. Daros;K. K. Zakzanis;A. C. Ruocco

  • Neural correlates of negative emotionality in borderline personality disorder: an activation-likelihood-estimation meta-analysis.

    Anthony C. Ruocco;Sathya Amirthavasagam;Lois W. Choi-Kain;Shelley F. McMain

  • Amygdala and hippocampal volume reductions as candidate endophenotypes for borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis of magnetic resonance imaging studies

    Anthony C. Ruocco;Anthony C. Ruocco;Sathya Amirthavasagam;Konstantine K. Zakzanis

  • Dual-modality monitoring in a classification task: The effects of bilingualism and ageing

    Ellen Bialystok;Fergus I M Craik;Anthony C Ruocco

  • Reduced Levels of Vasopressin and Reduced Behavioral Modulation of Oxytocin in Psychotic Disorders

    Leah H. Rubin;C. Sue Carter;Jeffrey R. Bishop;Hossein Pournajafi-Nazarloo

  • Six Years of Research on the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Initiative: A Systematic Review.

    Dean Carcone;Anthony C. Ruocco

  • A Neurobiological Model of Borderline Personality Disorder: Systematic and Integrative Review.

    Anthony C. Ruocco;Dean Carcone

  • Medial prefrontal cortex hyperactivation during social exclusion in borderline personality disorder.

    Anthony C. Ruocco;John D. Medaglia;Jennifer R. Tinker;Hasan Ayaz

  • Do executive functioning deficits underpin binge eating disorder? A comparison of overweight women with and without binge eating pathology

    Stephanie M. Manasse;Evan M. Forman;Anthony C. Ruocco;Meghan L. Butryn

  • Emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and psychotic bipolar disorder: Findings from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) study.

    Anthony C. Ruocco;James L. Reilly;Leah H. Rubin;Alex R. Daros

  • Facial Emotion Recognition in First-Episode Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder with Psychosis

    Alexander R. Daros;Anthony C. Ruocco;James L. Reilly;Margret S.H. Harris

  • Executive functioning in overweight individuals with and without loss-of-control eating

    Stephanie M. Manasse;Adrienne S. Juarascio;Evan M. Forman;Laura A. Berner

  • Delineating the contributions of sustained attention and working memory to individual differences in mindfulness

    Anthony C. Ruocco;Elif Direkoglu

  • Sex and Diagnosis-Specific Associations Between DNA Methylation of the Oxytocin Receptor Gene With Emotion Processing and Temporal-Limbic and Prefrontal Brain Volumes in Psychotic Disorders

    Leah H. Rubin;Jessica J. Connelly;James L. Reilly;C. Sue Carter

  • Differentiating functions of the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex in motor response inhibition.

    Achala H. Rodrigo;Stefano I. Di Domenico;Hasan Ayaz;Sean Gulrajani

  • Perceptual biases in facial emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder.

    Alexander R. Daros;Amanda A. Uliaszek;Anthony C. Ruocco

  • The independent and interacting effects of hedonic hunger and executive function on binge eating

    Stephanie M. Manasse;Hallie M. Espel;Evan M. Forman;Anthony C. Ruocco

  • Slowing down and taking a second look: Inhibitory deficits associated with binge eating are not food-specific.

    Stephanie M. Manasse;Stephanie P. Goldstein;Emily Wyckoff;Evan M. Forman

  • Distinguishing between neuropsychological malingering and exaggerated psychiatric symptoms in a neuropsychological setting.

    Anthony C. Ruocco;Thomas Swirsky-Sacchetti;Douglas L. Chute;Steven Mandel

Frequent Co-Authors

Shelley McMain
Shelley McMain Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Evan M. Forman
Evan M. Forman Drexel University
John A. Sweeney
John A. Sweeney University of Cincinnati
James L. Reilly
James L. Reilly Northwestern University
Meghan L. Butryn
Meghan L. Butryn Drexel University
Adrienne S. Juarascio
Adrienne S. Juarascio Drexel University
Steven M. Platek
Steven M. Platek Georgia Gwinnett College
Konstantine K. Zakzanis
Konstantine K. Zakzanis University of Toronto
Carol A. Tamminga
Carol A. Tamminga The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
James D. Herbert
James D. Herbert University of New England

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