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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Daniel W. McNeil is affiliated with West Virginia University in the United States. Their research spans across the fields of Dentistry and Medicine, with particular focus on subfields such as Periodontics, General Health Professions, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's body of work covers diverse topics including Dental Health and Care Utilization, Oral Microbiology and Periodontitis Research, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Cleft Lip and Palate Research, and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Daniel W. McNeil include:

  • Expanding the genetic architecture of nicotine dependence and its shared genetics with multiple traits, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Maternal Oral Health Influences Infant Salivary Microbiome, 2020, Journal of Dental Research
  • Development and Validation of the Oral Health Values Scale, 2021, Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology
  • Evaluating the ecological hypothesis: early life salivary microbiome assembly predicts dental caries in a longitudinal case-control study, 2022, Microbiome
  • Maternal factors and risk of early childhood caries: A prospective cohort study, 2022, Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Mary L. Marazita, Betsy Foxman, John R. Shaffer, Casey D. Wright, and Katherine Neiswanger.

Daniel W. McNeil's publications are prominently found in several academic venues such as:

  • Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology
  • Journal of Dental Research
  • JDR Clinical & Translational Research
  • Genes
  • Journal of Public Health Dentistry

Additional scholarly contributions include a book titled Thinking While Black, published by Rutgers University Press in 2023.

Recognition awarded to Daniel W. McNeil includes being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Development of the Fear of Pain Questionnaire-III

    Daniel W. McNeil;Avie J. Rainwater

  • REVIEW OF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING IN PROMOTING HEALTH BEHAVIORS

    Renata K. Martins;Daniel W. McNeil

  • Fear of pain in orofacial pain patients.

    Daniel W. McNeil;Anthony R. Au;Michael J. Zvolensky;Deborah Rettig McKee

  • A brief behavioral activation treatment for depression. A randomized pilot trial within an inpatient psychiatric hospital.

    Derek R. Hopko;C. W. Lejuez;James P. Lepage;Sandra D. Hopko

  • A brief behavioral activation treatment for depression

    C.W. Lejuez;Derek R. Hopko;James P. LePage;Sandra D. Hopko

  • Emotional imagery and the differential diagnosis of anxiety.

    Edwin W. Cook;Barbara G. Melamed;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Daniel W. McNeil

  • Clinical Child Psychology's Progress in Disseminating Empirically Supported Treatments

    Amy D. Herschell;Cheryl B. McNeil;Daniel W. McNeil

  • Multimodal comparisons of social phobia subtypes and avoidant personality disorder.

    Martin L. Boone;Daniel W. McNeil;Carrie L. Masia;Cynthia L. Turk

  • Effects of pain acceptance and pain control strategies on physical impairment in individuals with chronic low back pain.

    Kevin E. Vowles;Daniel W. McNeil;Richard T. Gross;Michael L. McDaniel

  • Components of dental fear in adults

    Daniel W. McNeil;M.Lee Berryman

  • Fear-avoidance beliefs as measured by the fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire: change in fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire is predictive of change in self-report of disability and pain intensity for patients with acute low back pain.

    Steven Z George;Julie M Fritz;Daniel W McNeil

  • Anxiety sensitivity in the prediction of pain-related fear and anxiety in a heterogeneous chronic pain population.

    Michael J Zvolensky;Jeffrey L Goodie;Daniel W McNeil;Jeannie A Sperry

  • Effects of Emotion on Pain Reports, Tolerance and Physiology

    Leslie E Carter;Daniel W McNeil;Kevin E Vowles;John T Sorrell

  • Emotional imagery in simple and social phobia: Fear versus anxiety.

    Daniel W. McNeil;Scott R. Vrana;Barbara G. Melamed;Bruce N. Cuthbert

  • Genes and their effects on dental caries may differ between primary and permanent dentitions.

    X. Wang;J.R. Shaffer;R.J. Weyant;K.T. Cuenco

  • Autonomic arousal and experimentally induced pain: a critical review of the literature.

    Brandon Nicholas Kyle;Daniel W McNeil

  • Hyposalivation and xerostomia in dentate older adults

    R. Constance Wiener;Bei Wu;Richard Crout;Michael Wiener

  • Assessment of contemporary social phobia verbal report instruments.

    Barry J. Ries;Daniel W. McNeil;Martin L. Boone;Cynthia L. Turk

  • Assessment of anxiety sensitivity in young American Indians and Alaska Natives.

    Michael J Zvolensky;Daniel W McNeil;Chebon A Porter;Sherry H Stewart

  • Genome-wide association study across European and African American ancestries identifies a SNP in DNMT3B contributing to nicotine dependence.

    D.B. Hancock;Y. Guo;G.W. Reginsson;N.C. Gaddis

  • Emotional imagery and the defferential diagnosis of anxiety

    Barbara G. Melamed;Edwin W. Cook;Bruce N. Cuthbert;Daniel W. McNeil

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary L. Marazita
Mary L. Marazita University of Pittsburgh
Eleanor Feingold
Eleanor Feingold University of Pittsburgh
Laura J. Bierut
Laura J. Bierut Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel E. Weeks
Daniel E. Weeks University of Pittsburgh
Nancy L. Saccone
Nancy L. Saccone Washington University in St. Louis
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University
Michael J. Zvolensky
Michael J. Zvolensky University of Houston
Kevin E. Vowles
Kevin E. Vowles Queen's University Belfast
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Pamela A. F. Madden
Pamela A. F. Madden Washington University in St. Louis

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