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  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Daniel S. Pine is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Social Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Psychometrics
  • Treatment
  • Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

The scientist has published numerous papers in multiple prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Anxiety disorders," 2021, The Lancet
  • "Age Differences in the Neural Correlates of Anxiety Disorders: An fMRI Study of Response to Learned Threat," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "ENIGMA-anxiety working group: Rationale for and organization of large-scale neuroimaging studies of anxiety disorders," 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Neural mechanisms underlying heterogeneous expression of threat-related attention in social anxiety," 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "Social anxiety and age are associated with neural response to social evaluation during adolescence," 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Daniel S. Pine has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Yair Bar-Haim
  • Rany Abend
  • Anderson M. Winkler
  • Ellen Leibenluft
  • Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam

In terms of academic recognition, Daniel S. Pine was admitted as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2013.

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

  • Depression in adolescence

    Anita Thapar;Stephan Collishaw;Daniel S. Pine;Ajay Kumar Thapar

  • The risk for early-adulthood anxiety and depressive disorders in adolescents with anxiety and depressive disorders.

    Daniel S. Pine;Patricia Cohen;Diana Gurley;Judith S. Brook

  • Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Developmental Issues and Implications for DSM-V

    Katja Beesdo;Susanne Knappe;Daniel S. Pine

  • The social re-orientation of adolescence: a neuroscience perspective on the process and its relation to psychopathology.

    Eric E. Nelson;Ellen Leibenluft;Erin B. McCLURE;Daniel S. Pine

  • Classical fear conditioning in the anxiety disorders : a meta-analysis

    Shmuel Lissek;Alice S. Powers;Erin B. McClure;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A Meta-Analysis Toward the Establishment of Novel Treatment for Anxiety

    Yuko Hakamata;Shmuel Lissek;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer C. Britton

  • Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework.

    Joseph E. LeDoux;Daniel S. Pine

  • Reduced Amygdala Response to Fearful Expressions in Children and Adolescents With Callous-Unemotional Traits and Disruptive Behavior Disorders

    Abigail A. Marsh;Elizabeth C. Finger;Derek G.V. Mitchell;Marguerite E. Reid

  • Triadic model of the neurobiology of motivated behavior in adolescence

    Monique Ernst;Daniel S. Pine;Michael Hardin

  • Incidence of social anxiety disorder and the consistent risk for secondary depression in the first three decades of life.

    Katja Beesdo;Antje Bittner;Daniel S. Pine;Murray B. Stein

  • Developing constructs for psychopathology research: research domain criteria.

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

  • Defining Clinical Phenotypes of Juvenile Mania

    Ellen Leibenluft;Dennis S. Charney;Kenneth E. Towbin;Robinder K. Bhangoo

  • Adolescent Depressive Symptoms as Predictors of Adult Depression: Moodiness or Mood Disorder?

    Daniel S. Pine;Elizabeth Cohen;Patricia Cohen;Judith Brook

  • 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

  • Social anxiety disorder: questions and answers for the DSM-V

    Susan M. Bögels;Lynn Alden;Deborah C. Beidel;Lee Anna Clark

  • The development of psychopathy

    R.J.R. Blair;K.S. Peschardt;S. Budhani;D.G.V. Mitchell

  • Anxiety disorders

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  • Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear as a Pathogenic Marker of Panic Disorder

    Shmuel Lissek;Stephanie Rabin;Randi E. Heller;David Lukenbaugh

  • Association between cigarette smoking and anxiety disorders during adolescence and early adulthood.

    Jeffrey G. Johnson;Patricia Cohen;Daniel S. Pine;Donald F. Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health
Melissa A. Brotman
Melissa A. Brotman National Institutes of Health
Yair Bar-Haim
Yair Bar-Haim Tel Aviv University
Eric E. Nelson
Eric E. Nelson The Ohio State University
Christian Grillon
Christian Grillon National Institutes of Health
Katharina Kircanski
Katharina Kircanski University of Southern California
Amanda E. Guyer
Amanda E. Guyer University of California, Davis
Dennis S. Charney
Dennis S. Charney Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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