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Christine I. Hooker

Christine I. Hooker

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
4945
World Ranking
9569
National Ranking
5059

Overview

Christine I. Hooker is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Their research primarily engages with psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, radiology and imaging, and social psychology.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, including schizophrenia research and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, as well as areas touching on anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Christine I. Hooker has published in multiple prominent academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on psychosis risk, social cognition training, and brain morphometry. Notable works include:

  • Association of Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures With Psychosis Onset in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis (2021), JAMA Psychiatry
  • Online Social Cognition Training in Schizophrenia: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Multi-Site Clinical Trial (2020), Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Normative Modeling of Brain Morphometry in Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (2023), JAMA Psychiatry
  • Neuroanatomical heterogeneity and homogeneity in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis (2022), Translational Psychiatry
  • Social cognition training improves recognition of distinct facial emotions and decreases misattribution errors in healthy individuals (2022), Frontiers in Psychiatry

Collaboration forms a significant part of their research approach. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kristen M. Haut
  • Mor Nahum
  • Daniel H. Mathalon
  • Rebecca A. Hayes
  • Dorte Nordholm

Christine I. Hooker's scholarly output intersects diverse disciplines and methodologies that reflect comprehensive research into schizophrenia, mental health, and neuroimaging. Their studies address both clinical risk factors and intervention strategies, employing various imaging modalities and cognitive training protocols to understand and influence psychiatric health outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Emotion processing and its relationship to social functioning in schizophrenia patients

    Christine Hooker;Sohee Park

  • Mentalizing about emotion and its relationship to empathy

    Christine I. Hooker;Sara C. Verosky;Laura T. Germine;Robert T. Knight

  • Brain networks for analyzing eye gaze

    Christine I Hooker;Ken A Paller;Darren R Gitelman;Todd B Parrish

  • Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy

    Christine I. Hooker;Sara C. Verosky;Laura T. Germine;Robert T. Knight

  • The neural basis of theory of mind and its relationship to social functioning and social anhedonia in individuals with schizophrenia

    David Dodell-Feder;Laura M. Tully;Sarah Hope Lincoln;Christine I. Hooker

  • The influence of personality on neural mechanisms of observational fear and reward learning.

    Christine I. Hooker;Sara C. Verosky;Asako Miyakawa;Robert T. Knight

  • Using Fiction to Assess Mental State Understanding: A New Task for Assessing Theory of Mind in Adults

    David Dodell-Feder;Sarah Hope Lincoln;Joseph P. Coulson;Christine I. Hooker

  • Theory of mind skills are related to gray matter volume in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia.

    Christine I. Hooker;Lori Bruce;Sarah Hope Lincoln;Melissa Fisher;Melissa Fisher

  • You must be looking at me: the nature of gaze perception in schizophrenia patients.

    Christine Hooker;Sohee Park

  • Amygdala Response to Facial Expressions Reflects Emotional Learning

    Christine I. Hooker;Laura T. Germine;Robert T. Knight;Mark D’Esposito

  • The role of lateral orbitofrontal cortex in the inhibitory control of emotion

    Christine I. Hooker;Robert T. Knight

  • Association of Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures With Psychosis Onset in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis: An ENIGMA Working Group Mega-analysis.

    Maria Jalbrzikowski;Rebecca A. Hayes;Stephen J. Wood;Dorte Nordholm

  • Social anhedonia is associated with neural abnormalities during face emotion processing.

    Laura T. Germine;Lúcia Garrido;Lori M. Bruce;Christine Hooker

  • A novel, online social cognitive training program for young adults with schizophrenia: A pilot study

    Mor Nahum;Melissa Fisher;Rachel Loewy;Gina Poelke;Gina Poelke

  • Neural activity during emotion recognition after combined cognitive plus social cognitive training in schizophrenia

    Christine I. Hooker;Lori Bruce;Melissa Fisher;Melissa Fisher;Sara C. Verosky

  • Psychosis-proneness and the rubber hand illusion of body ownership.

    Laura Germine;Taylor Leigh Benson;Francesca Cohen;Christine I’Lee Hooker

  • Distinct associations of insula and cingulate volume with the cognitive and affective dimensions of alexithymia

    Katharina Sophia Goerlich-Dobre;Lori Bruce;Lori Bruce;Sander Martens;Andreas Aleman

  • Impoverished counterfactual thinking is associated with schizophrenia.

    Christine Hooker;Neal J. Roese;Sohee Park

  • Social impairment in schizophrenia: New approaches for treating a persistent problem

    David Dodell-Feder;Laura M. Tully;Christine I. Hooker

  • Face emotion recognition is related to individual differences in psychosis-proneness

    Laura Thi Germine;Christine Hooker

Frequent Co-Authors

Sohee Park
Sohee Park Vanderbilt University
Anett Gyurak
Anett Gyurak Stanford University
Lynn E. DeLisi
Lynn E. DeLisi Harvard Medical School
Ozlem Ayduk
Ozlem Ayduk University of California, Berkeley
Stewart A. Shankman
Stewart A. Shankman Northwestern University
Vijay A. Mittal
Vijay A. Mittal Northwestern University
Paul Allen
Paul Allen Royal Holloway University of London
Joseph Ventura
Joseph Ventura University of California, Los Angeles
Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
André Aleman
André Aleman University Medical Center Groningen

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