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Overview

Brady D. Nelson is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a strong focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas of study include psychiatry and mental health as well as social psychology.

Nelson's work encompasses several main topics, including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other major themes in their research involve child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, neural and behavioral psychology studies, the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, stress responses and cortisol, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Frequent publication venues for Nelson include:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Journal of American College Health
  • Psychophysiology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Nelson are:

  • Neural response to monetary and social feedback demonstrates differential associations with depression and social anxiety, 2021, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Increases in depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research, 2022, Psychological Medicine
  • Trajectories of depression, anxiety and pandemic experiences; A longitudinal study of youth in New York during the Spring-Summer of 2020, 2021, Psychiatry Research
  • Gender differences in anxiety: The mediating role of sensitivity to unpredictable threat, 2020, International Journal of Psychophysiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nelson include Greg Hajcak, Daniel N. Klein, Rachel A. Ferry, Aline K. Szenczy, and Roman Kotov.

Best Publications

  • Increases in depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Mariah T. Hawes;Aline K. Szenczy;Daniel N. Klein;Greg Hajcak

  • Blunted Neural Response to Rewards as a Prospective Predictor of the Development of Depression in Adolescent Girls

    Brady D. Nelson;Greg Perlman;Daniel N. Klein;Roman Kotov

  • Amygdala-prefrontal coupling underlies individual differences in emotion regulation.

    Hyejeen Lee;Aaron S. Heller;Carien M. van Reekum;Brady Nelson

  • A psychophysiological investigation of threat and reward sensitivity in individuals with panic disorder and/or major depressive disorder.

    Stewart A. Shankman;Brady D. Nelson;Casey Sarapas;E. Jenna Robison-Andrew

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research

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  • Does intolerance of uncertainty predict anticipatory startle responses to uncertain threat

    Brady D. Nelson;Stewart A. Shankman

  • Biomarkers of threat and reward sensitivity demonstrate unique associations with risk for psychopathology.

    Brady D. Nelson;Sarah Kate McGowan;Casey Sarapas;E. Jenna Robison-Andrew

  • Trajectories of depression, anxiety and pandemic experiences; A longitudinal study of youth in New York during the Spring-Summer of 2020.

    Mariah T. Hawes;Aline K. Szenczy;Thomas M. Olino;Brady D. Nelson

  • Familial risk for distress and fear disorders and emotional reactivity in adolescence: an event-related potential investigation.

    Brady D. Nelson;Greg Perlman;Greg Hajcak;Daniel N. Klein

  • Anterior insula responds to temporally unpredictable aversiveness: an fMRI study.

    Stewart A. Shankman;Stephanie M. Gorka;Brady D. Nelson;Daniel A. Fitzgerald

  • Internal Consistency of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Electroencephalography Measures of Reward in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence

    Katherine R. Luking;Brady D. Nelson;Zachary P. Infantolino;Colin L. Sauder

  • In an uncertain world, errors are more aversive: evidence from the error-related negativity.

    Felicia Jackson;Brady D. Nelson;Greg Hajcak Proudfit

  • Personality and emotional processing: A relationship between extraversion and the late positive potential in adolescence.

    Brittany C. Speed;Brady D. Nelson;Greg Perlman;Daniel N. Klein

  • Depression risk and electrocortical reactivity during self-referential emotional processing in 8 to 14 year-old girls.

    Brittany C Speed;Brady D Nelson;Randy P Auerbach;Daniel N Klein

  • A neural biomarker, the error-related negativity, predicts the first onset of generalized anxiety disorder in a large sample of adolescent females.

    Alexandria Meyer;Brady Nelson;Greg Perlman;Daniel N. Klein

  • Does physical anhedonia play a role in depression? A 20-year longitudinal study

    Stewart A. Shankman;Brady D. Nelson;Martin Harrow;Robert Faull

  • Event-related potentials to acoustic startle probes during the anticipation of predictable and unpredictable threat.

    Brady D. Nelson;Greg Hajcak;Stewart A. Shankman

  • Intolerance of uncertainty and startle potentiation in relation to different threat reinforcement rates

    Brian Chin;Brady D. Nelson;Felicia Jackson;Greg Hajcak

  • Gender differences in anxiety: The mediating role of sensitivity to unpredictable threat

    Kreshnik Burani;Brady D. Nelson

  • The uncertainty of errors: Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with error-related brain activity

    Felicia Jackson;Brady D. Nelson;Greg Hajcak

  • An Event-Related Potential Investigation of Fear Generalization and Intolerance of Uncertainty.

    Brady D. Nelson;Anna Weinberg;Joe Pawluk;Magda Gawlowska

  • A comparison of the electrocortical response to monetary and social reward.

    Amanda Distefano;Felicia Jackson;Amanda R Levinson;Zachary P Infantolino

  • Neural Response to Rewards, Stress and Sleep Interact to Prospectively Predict Depressive Symptoms in Adolescent Girls.

    Kreshnik Burani;Julia Klawohn;Amanda R Levinson;Daniel N Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg Hajcak
Greg Hajcak Santa Clara University
Stewart A. Shankman
Stewart A. Shankman Northwestern University
Daniel N. Klein
Daniel N. Klein Stony Brook University
Roman Kotov
Roman Kotov Stony Brook University
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Thomas M. Olino
Thomas M. Olino Temple University
Nader Amir
Nader Amir San Diego State University
Daniel A. Fitzgerald
Daniel A. Fitzgerald University of Illinois at Chicago
Kristin Bernard
Kristin Bernard Stony Brook University
Evelyn J. Bromet
Evelyn J. Bromet Stony Brook University

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