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Overview

Eamon McCrory is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in psychology, with a significant number of publications in clinical psychology. Their work extends into various subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their research centers on topics related to child abuse and trauma, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry and sexual offending, personality disorders and psychopathology, deception detection and forensic psychology, attachment and relationship dynamics, and bullying, victimization, and aggression.

Among recent publications, the following papers have been featured in notable venues:

  • Social thinning and stress generation after childhood maltreatment: a neurocognitive social transactional model of psychiatric vulnerability, 2022, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Child Maltreatment, Peer Victimization, and Mental Health: Neurocognitive Perspectives on the Cycle of Victimization, 2021, Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Disruptive Behavior Disorders: The Challenge of Delineating Mechanisms in the Face of Heterogeneity, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Trust and childhood maltreatment: evidence of bias in appraisal of unfamiliar faces, 2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Frequent coauthors with whom McCrory has collaborated include:

  • Essi Viding
  • Diana Armbruster-Genc
  • Molly Sharp
  • Ruth Roberts
  • Mattia I. Gerin

Publication venues where McCrory has contributed multiple papers include:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Dyslexia: cultural diversity and biological unity.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Jean Francois Demonet;Ferruccio Fazio;Eamon McCrory

  • A cultural effect on brain function.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Eamon McCrory;Ferruccio Fazio;L. Menoncello

  • Explicit and implicit processing of words and pseudowords by adult developmental dyslexics: A search for Wernicke's Wortschatz?

    N. Brunswick;E. McCrory;C. J. Price;C. D. Frith

  • Research Review: The neurobiology and genetics of maltreatment and adversity

    Eamon McCrory;Eamon McCrory;Stephane A. De Brito;Stephane A. De Brito;Essi Viding

  • Neural processing associated with cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in adolescents and adults

    Catherine L. Sebastian;Nathalie M. G. Fontaine;Geoffrey Bird;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • Amygdala Response to Preattentive Masked Fear in Children With Conduct Problems: The Role of Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Essi Viding;Catherine L. Sebastian;Mark R. Dadds;Patricia L. Lockwood

  • The impact of childhood maltreatment: a review of neurobiological and genetic factors.

    Eamon McCrory;Eamon McCrory;Stephane A De Brito;Stephane A De Brito;Essi Viding

  • Heightened neural reactivity to threat in child victims of family violence.

    Eamon J. McCrory;Eamon J. McCrory;Stéphane A. De Brito;Stéphane A. De Brito;Catherine L. Sebastian;Andrea Mechelli

  • Annual Research Review: Childhood maltreatment, latent vulnerability and the shift to preventative psychiatry – the contribution of functional brain imaging

    Eamon J. McCrory;Mattia Indi Gerin;Essi Viding

  • The link between child abuse and psychopathology: A review of neurobiological and genetic research

    Eamon McCrory;Eamon McCrory;Eamon McCrory;Stephane A De Brito;Stephane A De Brito;Essi Viding

  • Predictors and outcomes of joint trajectories of callous–unemotional traits and conduct problems in childhood.

    Nathalie M. G. Fontaine;Eamon J. P. McCrory;Michel Boivin;Terrie E. Moffitt

  • Disentangling the mental health impact of childhood abuse and neglect.

    Charlotte A.M. Cecil;Essi Viding;Pasco Fearon;Danya Glaser

  • The theory of latent vulnerability: reconceptualizing the link between childhood maltreatment and psychiatric disorder

    Eamon J. McCrory;Essi Viding

  • Etiology of Different Developmental Trajectories of Callous-Unemotional Traits.

    Nathalie M. G. Fontaine;Fruehling V. Rijsdijk;Eamon J. P. McCrory;Essi Viding;Essi Viding

  • More than words: a common neural basis for reading and naming deficits in developmental dyslexia?

    Eamon J. McCrory;Andrea Mechelli;Uta Frith;Cathy J. Price

  • Neural Responses to Affective and Cognitive Theory of Mind in Children With Conduct Problems and Varying Levels of Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Catherine L Sebastian;Eamon J P McCrory;Charlotte A M Cecil;Patricia L Lockwood

  • Reduced orbitofrontal and temporal grey matter in a community sample of maltreated children

    Stéphane A. De Brito;Stéphane A. De Brito;Essi Viding;Catherine L. Sebastian;Philip A. Kelly;Philip A. Kelly

  • Amygdala activation in maltreated children during pre-attentive emotional processing

    Eamon J. McCrory;Stéphane A. De Brito;Philip A. Kelly;Geoffrey Bird

  • Association of Callous Traits with Reduced Neural Response to Others’ Pain in Children with Conduct Problems

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Catherine L. Sebastian;Catherine L. Sebastian;Eamon J. McCrory;Zoe H. Hyde

  • Genetic and neurocognitive contributions to the development of psychopathy

    Essi Viding;Eamon J. McCrory

  • Cortical thickness, surface area, and gyrification abnormalities in children exposed to maltreatment: neural markers of vulnerability?

    Philip A. Kelly;Philip A. Kelly;Essi Viding;Gregory L. Wallace;Marie Schaer

Frequent Co-Authors

Essi Viding
Essi Viding University College London
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London
Jean-Baptiste Pingault
Jean-Baptiste Pingault University College London
Geoffrey Bird
Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Patricia L. Lockwood
Patricia L. Lockwood University of Birmingham
Edward D. Barker
Edward D. Barker King's College London
Craig S. Neumann
Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas

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