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Overview

Christine L. Larson is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields including psychology, medicine, and neuroscience, with a focus on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, epidemiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and neurology.

The main areas of study in their work include:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Christine L. Larson has contributed extensively to numerous journals, publishing predominantly in venues such as:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • NeuroImage

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Racial Discrimination is Associated with Acute Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Predicts Future Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity in Trauma-Exposed Black Adults in the United States," 2021, Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • "Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis," 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Scoring the Life Events Checklist: Comparison of three scoring methods," 2021, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • "Amygdala functional connectivity in the acute aftermath of trauma prospectively predicts severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms," 2020, Neurobiology of Stress
  • "Assessment of brain age in posttraumatic stress disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA PTSD and brain age working groups," 2021, Brain and Behavior

Throughout their career, Christine L. Larson has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Terri A. deRoon-Cassini
  • Jacklynn M. Fitzgerald
  • Ashley A. Huggins
  • E. Kate Webb
  • Carissa W. Tomas

Best Publications

  • Dysfunction in the Neural Circuitry of Emotion Regulation--A Possible Prelude to Violence

    Richard J. Davidson;Katherine M. Putnam;Christine L. Larson

  • Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

    Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

  • Anterior cingulate activity as a predictor of degree of treatment response in major depression: evidence from brain electrical tomography analysis.

    Diego Pizzagalli;Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui;Jack B. Nitschke;Terrence R. Oakes

  • Suppression and enhancement of emotional responses to unpleasant pictures

    Daren C. Jackson;Jessica R. Malmstadt;Christine L. Larson;Richard J. Davidson

  • Metabolic rate in the right amygdala predicts negative affect in depressed patients.

    Heather C. Abercrombie;Stacey M. Schaefer;Christine L. Larson;Terrence R. Oakes

  • Functional but not structural subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in melancholia

    D A Pizzagalli;T R Oakes;A S Fox;M K Chung

  • Asymmetric frontal brain activity, cortisol, and behavior associated with fearful temperament in rhesus monkeys.

    Ned H. Kalin;Christine Larson;Steven E. Shelton;Richard J. Davidson

  • Functional coupling of simultaneous electrical and metabolic activity in the human brain

    Terrence R. Oakes;Diego A. Pizzagalli;Andrew M. Hendrick;Katherine A. Horras

  • Brain electrical tomography in depression: the importance of symptom severity, anxiety, and melancholic features.

    Diego A Pizzagalli;Jack B Nitschke;Terrence R Oakes;Andrew M Hendrick

  • Fear is fast in phobic individuals: amygdala activation in response to fear-relevant stimuli.

    Christine L. Larson;Hillary S. Schaefer;Greg J. Siegle;Cory A.B. Jackson

  • The shape of threat: simple geometric forms evoke rapid and sustained capture of attention.

    Christine L. Larson;Joel Aronoff;Jeffrey J. Stearns

  • EEG alpha power and alpha power asymmetry in sleep and wakefulness

    Ruth M. Benca;William H. Obermeyer;Christine L. Larson;Blenda Yun

  • Relations between PET-derived measures of thalamic glucose metabolism and EEG alpha power

    Christine L. Larson;Richard J. Davidson;Heather C. Abercrombie;Robert T. Ward

  • Recognizing threat: A simple geometric shape activates neural circuitry for threat detection

    Christine L. Larson;Joel Aronoff;Issidoros C. Sarinopoulos;David C. Zhu

  • Failure to filter: anxious individuals show inefficient gating of threat from working memory

    Daniel M. Stout;Alexander J. Shackman;Christine L. Larson

  • The interplay of attention and emotion: top-down attention modulates amygdala activation in psychopathy

    Christine L. Larson;Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers;Daniel M. Stout;Nicholas L. Balderston

  • Thalamic metabolic rate predicts EEG alpha power in healthy control subjects but not in depressed patients.

    Kristen A Lindgren;Christine L Larson;Stacey M Schaefer;Heather C Abercrombie

  • Simple geometric shapes are implicitly associated with affective value

    Christine L. Larson;Joel Aronoff;Elizabeth L. Steuer

  • Common and distinct patterns of affective response in dimensions of anxiety and depression.

    Christine L. Larson;Jack B. Nitschke;Richard J. Davidson

  • Temporal stability of the emotion‐modulated startle response

    Christine L. Larson;Dante Ruffalo;Jennifer Y. Nietert;Richard J. Davidson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Fred J. Helmstetter
Fred J. Helmstetter University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Terrence R. Oakes
Terrence R. Oakes University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ruth M. Benca
Ruth M. Benca University of California, Irvine
Jack B. Nitschke
Jack B. Nitschke University of Wisconsin–Madison
Han-Joo Lee
Han-Joo Lee University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Diego A. Pizzagalli
Diego A. Pizzagalli Harvard University
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Kelly L. Klump
Kelly L. Klump Michigan State University

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