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Christopher S. Monk is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a notable concentration on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work is distributed across several main fields of study including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Subfields prominently covered are Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key topics addressed in Monk's research include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Mental Health Research Topics, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Child Abuse and Trauma, and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum.

Christopher S. Monk has contributed to publications in several journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • JAMA Network Open

Recent papers by this scientist include:

  • "An ecological approach to understanding the developing brain: Examples linking poverty, parenting, neighborhoods, and the brain." (2020) in American Psychologist
  • "Beyond family-level adversities: Exploring the developmental timing of neighborhood disadvantage effects on the brain" (2020) in Developmental Science
  • "Childhood violence exposure and social deprivation are linked to adolescent threat and reward neural function" (2020) in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Association of Childhood Violence Exposure With Adolescent Neural Network Density" (2020) in JAMA Network Open
  • "Parsing differences in amygdala volume among individuals with and without social and generalized anxiety disorders across the lifespan" (2020) in Journal of Psychiatric Research

Frequent collaborators of Christopher S. Monk include:

  • Luke W. Hyde
  • Colter Mitchell
  • Nestor L. Lopez-Duran
  • Vonnie C. McLoyd
  • Kate D. Fitzgerald

Best Publications

  • Toward discovery science of human brain function

    Bharat B. Biswal;Maarten Mennes;Xi Nian Zuo;Suril Gohel

  • The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism

    A Di Martino;C-G Yan;Q Li;E Denio

  • Amygdala and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation to Masked Angry Faces in Children and Adolescents with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Christopher S. Monk;Eva H. Telzer;Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley

  • Amygdala and nucleus accumbens in responses to receipt and omission of gains in adults and adolescents

    Monique Ernst;Eric E. Nelson;Sandra Jazbec;Erin B. McClure

  • Abnormalities of intrinsic functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorders.

    Christopher S. Monk;Scott J. Peltier;Jillian Lee Wiggins;Shih Jen Weng

  • Adolescent immaturity in attention-related brain engagement to emotional facial expressions

    Christopher S Monk;Erin B McClure;Eric E Nelson;Eric Zarahn

  • Attention bias to threat in maltreated children: implications for vulnerability to stress-related psychopathology.

    Daniel S. Pine;Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley;Lee Anne Montgomery

  • Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Attentional Bias in Response to Angry Faces in Adolescents With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Christopher S Monk;Eric E Nelson;Erin B McClure;Karin Mogg

  • Abnormal Attention Modulation of Fear Circuit Function in Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Erin B. McClure;Christopher S. Monk;Eric E. Nelson;Jessica M. Parrish

  • Alterations of resting state functional connectivity in the default network in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders

    Shih Jen Weng;Jillian Lee Wiggins;Scott J. Peltier;Melisa Carrasco

  • Choice selection and reward anticipation: an fMRI study.

    Monique Ernst;Eric E. Nelson;Erin B. McClure;Christopher S. Monk

  • A developmental examination of amygdala response to facial expressions

    Amanda E. Guyer;Christopher S. Monk;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Eric E. Nelson

  • Amygdala and nucleus accumbens activation to emotional facial expressions in children and adolescents at risk for major depression

    Christopher S. Monk;Rachel G. Klein;Eva H. Telzer;Elizabeth A. Schroth

  • A developmental examination of gender differences in brain engagement during evaluation of threat

    Erin B McClure;Christopher S Monk;Eric E Nelson;Eric Zarahn

  • Mechanisms of postnatal neurobiological development : Implications for human development

    Sara J. Webb;Christopher S. Monk;Charles A. Nelson

  • Functional neuroanatomy of spatial working memory in children.

    Charles A. Nelson;Christopher S. Monk;Joseph Lin;Leslie J. Carver

  • Recognition of facial emotions among maltreated children with high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder

    Carrie L. Masten;Amanda E. Guyer;Hilary B. Hodgdon;Erin B. McClure

  • Common and Distinct Amygdala-Function Perturbations in Depressed vs Anxious Adolescents

    Katja Beesdo;Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Amanda E. Guyer;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Erin B. McClure-Tone

  • Resting state cortico-cerebellar functional connectivity networks: a comparison of anatomical and self-organizing map approaches.

    Jessica A. Bernard;Rachael D. Seidler;Kelsey M. Hassevoort;Bryan L. Benson

  • Neural circuitry of emotional face processing in autism spectrum disorders.

    Christopher S. Monk;Shih Jen Weng;Jillian Lee Wiggins;Nikhil Kurapati

  • (American Journal of Psychiatry (2008) 105, (90-98))

    Christopher S. Monk

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health
Luke W. Hyde
Luke W. Hyde University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Autumn Kujawa
Autumn Kujawa Vanderbilt University
Eric E. Nelson
Eric E. Nelson The Ohio State University
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles
Nestor L. Lopez-Duran
Nestor L. Lopez-Duran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brendan P. Bradley
Brendan P. Bradley University of Southampton

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