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Overview

Edward M. Bernat is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with subfields including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, physiology, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics related to mental health and brain function, such as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, smoking behavior and cessation, and suicide and self-harm studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Edward M. Bernat are the following:

  • Recommendations and publication guidelines for studies using frequency domain and time-frequency domain analyses of neural time series, 2022, Psychophysiology
  • Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement remediates anhedonia in chronic opioid use by enhancing neurophysiological responses during savoring of natural rewards, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • A practical introduction to EEG Time-Frequency Principal Components Analysis (TF-PCA), 2022, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Exploring a sustainable building's impact on occupant mental health and cognitive function in a virtual environment, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Diversity and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), 2023, Nature Reviews Psychology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Bernat include Spencer T. Fix, Norman B. Schmidt, Devin Butler, Asha Pavuluri, and Kelvin Choi.

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, among which are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Psychophysiology, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, Tobacco Control, and Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Best Publications

  • Event-related brain potentials differentiate positive and negative mood adjectives during both supraliminal and subliminal visual processing.

    Edward Bernat;Scott Bunce;Howard Shevrin

  • Externalizing Psychopathology and the Error-Related Negativity

    Jason R. Hall;Edward M. Bernat;Christopher J. Patrick

  • Effects of picture content and intensity on affective physiological response

    Edward Bernat;Christopher J. Patrick;Stephen D. Benning;Auke Tellegen

  • P300 amplitude as an indicator of externalizing in adolescent males

    Christopher J. Patrick;Edward M. Bernat;Stephen M. Malone;William G. Iacono

  • Theta and delta band activity explain N2 and P3 ERP component activity in a go/no-go task

    Jeremy Harper;Stephen M. Malone;Edward M. Bernat

  • Unconscious perception: a model-based approach to method and evidence.

    Michael Snodgrass;Edward Bernat;Howard Shevrin

  • Genetic and disorder-specific aspects of resting state EEG abnormalities in schizophrenia.

    Noah C. Venables;Edward M. Bernat;Scott R. Sponheim;Scott R. Sponheim

  • Externalizing psychopathology and gain-loss feedback in a simulated gambling task: dissociable components of brain response revealed by time-frequency analysis.

    Edward M. Bernat;Lindsay D. Nelson;Vaughn R. Steele;William J. Gehring

  • Evidence of disrupted functional connectivity in the brain after combat-related blast injury

    Scott R. Sponheim;Scott R. Sponheim;Kathryn A. McGuire;Kathryn A. McGuire;Seung Suk Kang;Seung Suk Kang;Nicholas D. Davenport;Nicholas D. Davenport

  • Decomposing ERP time–frequency energy using PCA

    Edward M. Bernat;William J. Williams;William J. Gehring

  • Genes mediate the association between P3 amplitude and externalizing disorders.

    Brian M. Hicks;Edward Bernat;Steven M. Malone;William G. Iacono

  • Startle reflex potentiation during aversive picture viewing as an indicator of trait fear.

    Uma Vaidyanathan;Christopher J. Patrick;Edward M. Bernat

  • Recursive Tensor Subspace Tracking for Dynamic Brain Network Analysis

    Alp Ozdemir;Edward M. Bernat;Selin Aviyente

  • Anterior cingulate activity to monetary loss and basal ganglia activity to monetary gain uniquely contribute to the feedback negativity.

    Dan Foti;Anna Weinberg;Edward M. Bernat;Greg H. Proudfit

  • Clarifying the Role of Defensive Reactivity Deficits in Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Using Startle Reflex Methodology

    Uma Vaidyanathan;Jason R. Hall;Christopher J. Patrick;Edward M. Bernat

  • Dynamics of processing invisible faces in the brain: automatic neural encoding of facial expression information.

    Yi Jiang;Robert W. Shannon;Nathalie Vizueta;Edward M. Bernat

  • Decomposing delta, theta, and alpha time-frequency ERP activity from a visual oddball task using PCA.

    Edward M. Bernat;Stephen M. Malone;William J. Williams;Christopher J. Patrick

  • Time-frequency theta and delta measures index separable components of feedback processing in a gambling task

    Edward M. Bernat;Lindsay D. Nelson;Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers

  • Subliminal visual oddball stimuli evoke a P300 component

    Edward Bernat;Howard Shevrin;Michael Snodgrass

  • Operationalizing proneness to externalizing psychopathology as a multivariate psychophysiological phenotype

    Lindsay D. Nelson;Christopher J. Patrick;Edward M. Bernat

  • Neurobiology of Psychopathy

    Christopher J. Patrick;Edward M. Bernat

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University
Stephen M. Malone
Stephen M. Malone University of Minnesota
William G. Iacono
William G. Iacono University of Minnesota
Kent A. Kiehl
Kent A. Kiehl University of New Mexico
Norman B. Schmidt
Norman B. Schmidt Florida State University
William J. Gehring
William J. Gehring University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Vince D. Calhoun
Vince D. Calhoun Georgia State University
Heather A. Henderson
Heather A. Henderson University of Waterloo
Paul van den Broek
Paul van den Broek Leiden University
Paul F Collins
Paul F Collins University of Minnesota

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