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Overview

Bruce N. Cuthbert is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions in experimental and cognitive psychology, biological psychiatry, psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's recent scholarly output encompasses several topics including mental health research, tryptophan and brain disorders, schizophrenia research and treatment, congenital heart defects research, functional brain connectivity studies, stress responses and cortisol, and broader mental health and psychiatry themes.

Key recent papers authored by this scientist include:

  • Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential, 2022, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • The role of RDoC in future classification of mental disorders, 2020, Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
  • Evolving Concepts of the Schizophrenia Spectrum: A Research Domain Criteria Perspective, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Other influential papers related to the field but not authored solely by Cuthbert include "Revisiting the seven pillars of RDoC" (2022, BMC Medicine) and "Development and environment in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Domain Criteria" (2022, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science).

The scientist frequently collaborates with several other researchers. Notable frequent coauthors are Nicholas Massa, Erica Duncan, Opal Ousley, Elaine F. Walker, and Joseph F. Cubells.

Bruce N. Cuthbert has published repeatedly in several prominent venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • BMC Medicine
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Research domain criteria (RDoC): toward a new classification framework for research on mental disorders

    Thomas R Insel;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Marjorie A. Garvey;Robert K. Heinssen

  • Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC

    Bruce N Cuthbert;Thomas R Insel

  • Emotion, attention, and the startle reflex.

    Peter J. Lang;Margaret M. Bradley;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Emotion and motivation I: defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing.

    Margaret M. Bradley;Maurizio Codispoti;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Peter J. Lang

  • Brain potentials in affective picture processing: Covariation with autonomic arousal and affective report

    Bruce N. Cuthbert;Harald Thomas Schupp;Margaret M. Bradley;Niels Birbaumer

  • Motivated attention : affect, activation, and action

    Peter J. Lang;Margaret M. Bradley;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Affective picture processing : The late positive potential is modulated by motivational relevance

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Margaret M. Bradley;John T. Cacioppo

  • The RDoC framework: facilitating transition from ICD/DSM to dimensional approaches that integrate neuroscience and psychopathology.

    Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Committee report: Guidelines for human startle eyeblink electromyographic studies.

    Terry D. Blumenthal;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Diane L. Filion;Steven Hackley

  • Emotion, motivation, and anxiety: brain mechanisms and psychophysiology

    Peter J. Lang;Margaret M. Bradley;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Emotional arousal and activation of the visual cortex: An fMRI analysis

    Peter J. Lang;Margaret M. Bradley;Jeffrey R. Fitzsimmons;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Brain disorders? Precisely

    Thomas R. Insel;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Developing constructs for psychopathology research: research domain criteria.

    Charles A. Sanislow;Daniel S. Pine;Kevin J. Quinn;Michael J. Kozak

  • Reenvisioning Clinical Science: Unifying the Discipline to Improve the Public Health

    Lisa S. Onken;Kathleen M. Carroll;Varda Shoham;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Research Domain Criteria: cognitive systems, neural circuits, and dimensions of behavior.

    Sarah E Morris;Bruce N Cuthbert

  • The NIMH Research Domain Criteria Initiative: Background, Issues, and Pragmatics.

    Michael J. Kozak;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Three Approaches to Understanding and Classifying Mental Disorder: ICD-11, DSM-5, and the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC):

    Lee Anna Clark;Bruce Cuthbert;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;William E. Narrow

  • Brain processes in emotional perception: Motivated attention

    Harald Thomas Schupp;Harald Thomas Schupp;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Margaret M. Bradley;Charles H. Hillman

  • Probing picture perception : Activation and emotion

    Bruce N. Cuthbert;Margaret M. Bradley;Peter J. Lang

  • Emotion in the criminal psychopath: Fear image processing.

    Christopher J. Patrick;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Peter J. Lang

  • Startle Reflex Modification: Emotion or Attention?

    Margaret M. Bradley;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Peter J. Lang

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret M. Bradley
Margaret M. Bradley University of Florida
Harald T. Schupp
Harald T. Schupp University of Konstanz
Robert Heinssen
Robert Heinssen National Institutes of Health
Alfons O. Hamm
Alfons O. Hamm University of Greifswald
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University
Charles H. Hillman
Charles H. Hillman Northeastern University
Scott R. Vrana
Scott R. Vrana Virginia Commonwealth University
Daniel W. McNeil
Daniel W. McNeil West Virginia University
Robert F. Simons
Robert F. Simons University of Delaware
Dana B. Barr
Dana B. Barr Emory University

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