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Overview

Brenda E. Benson is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, incorporating subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics within functional brain connectivity studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, mental health research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, neuroscience and music perception, as well as memory and neural mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors of Brenda E. Benson include:

  • Daniel S. Pine
  • Anderson M. Winkler
  • Anita Harrewijn
  • Nynke A. Groenewold
  • Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam

The scientist's work has been published in several notable journals, with multiple publications in:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • JAMA Psychiatry

Notable recent papers include:

  • Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Shared and Anxiety-Specific Pediatric Psychopathology Dimensions Manifest Distributed Neural Correlates, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
  • Neural responding during uncertain threat anticipation in pediatric anxiety, 2022, International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Striatal Activity to Reward Anticipation as a Moderator of the Association Between Early Behavioral Inhibition and Changes in Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence to Adulthood, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Structural Brain Correlates of Childhood Inhibited Temperament: An ENIGMA-Anxiety Mega-analysis, 2022, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Frequency dependence of antidepressant response to left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as a function of baseline cerebral glucose metabolism

    Timothy A Kimbrell;John T Little;Robert T Dunn;Mark A Frye

  • Effects of mood and subtype on cerebral glucose metabolism in treatment-resistant bipolar disorder

    Terence A Ketter;Tim A Kimbrell;Mark S George;Robert T Dunn

  • Regional brain activity during transient self-induced anxiety and anger in healthy adults.

    Tim A Kimbrell;Mark S George;Priti I Parekh;Terence A Ketter

  • Regional cerebral glucose utilization in patients with a range of severities of unipolar depression

    Tim A Kimbrell;Terence A Ketter;Mark S George;John T Little

  • Intrinsic functional connectivity of amygdala-based networks in adolescent generalized anxiety disorder.

    Amy K. Roy;Julie L. Fudge;Clare Kelly;Justin S.A. Perry

  • Regional cerebral blood flow correlated with flashback intensity in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder

    Elizabeth A Osuch;Brenda Benson;Marilla Geraci;Daniel Podell

  • Regional cerebral metabolism associated with anxiety symptoms in affective disorder patients.

    Elizabeth A. Osuch;Terence A. Ketter;Timothy A. Kimbrell;Mark S. George

  • REPETITIVE TMS COMBINED WITH EXPOSURE THERAPY FOR PTSD: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

    Elizabeth A. Osuch;Brenda E. Benson;David A. Luckenbaugh;Marilla Geraci

  • Intensity-dependent regional cerebral blood flow during 1-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in healthy volunteers studied with H215O positron emission tomography: i. effects of primary motor cortex rTMS

    Andrew M Speer;Mark W Willis;Peter Herscovitch;Margaret Daube-Witherspoon

  • Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Una D. McCann;Timothy A. Kimbrell;Christina M. Morgan;Todd Anderson

  • Striatal functional alteration during incentive anticipation in pediatric anxiety disorders.

    Amanda E. Guyer;Victoria R. Choate;Allison Detloff;Brenda Benson

  • Age, sex and laterality effects on cerebral glucose metabolism in healthy adults.

    Mark W Willis;Terence A Ketter;Tim A Kimbrell;Mark S George

  • Neural Correlates of Reward Processing in Adolescents With a History of Inhibited Temperament

    Yair Bar-Haim;Nathan A. Fox;Brenda Benson;Amanda E. Guyer

  • Opposite effects of high and low frequency rTMS on mood in depressed patients: relationship to baseline cerebral activity on PET.

    A.M. Speer;B.E. Benson;T.K. Kimbrell;E.M. Wassermann

  • Left prefrontal-repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and regional cerebral glucose metabolism in normal volunteers.

    Timothy A Kimbrell;Timothy A Kimbrell;Robert T Dunn;Mark S George;Mark S George;Aimee L Danielson

  • Functional Brain Imaging, Limbic Function, and Affective Disorders

    Terence A. Ketter;Mark S. George;Tim A. Kimbrell;Brenda E. Benson

  • Patterns of neural connectivity during an attention bias task moderate associations between early childhood temperament and internalizing symptoms in young adulthood.

    Jillian E. Hardee;Brenda E. Benson;Yair Bar-Haim;Karin Mogg

  • Bupropion and venlafaxine responders differ in pretreatment regional cerebral metabolism in unipolar depression

    John T. Little;John T. Little;Terence A. Ketter;Terence A. Ketter;Tim A. Kimbrell;Tim A. Kimbrell;Robert T. Dunn

  • Lasting associations between early-childhood temperament and late-adolescent reward-circuitry response to peer feedback

    Amanda E. Guyer;Brenda Benson;Victoria R. Choate;Yair Bar-Haim

  • Baseline cerebral hypermetabolism associated with carbamazepine response, and hypometabolism with nimodipine response in mood disorders.

    Terence A Ketter;Tim A Kimbrell;Mark S George;Mark W Willis

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Terence A. Ketter
Terence A. Ketter Stanford University
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Koraly Pérez-Edgar Pennsylvania State University
Amanda E. Guyer
Amanda E. Guyer University of California, Davis
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Eric E. Nelson
Eric E. Nelson The Ohio State University
Yair Bar-Haim
Yair Bar-Haim Tel Aviv University
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health

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