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Elaine F. Walker

Elaine F. Walker

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Psychology

D-Index
88
Citations
28824
World Ranking
1037
National Ranking
642

Overview

Elaine F. Walker is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work also touches on Genetics and Clinical Psychology as subfields of study.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health research topics, bipolar disorder and treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, congenital heart defects research, tryptophan and brain disorders, and mental health and psychiatry.

Frequent coauthors in Elaine F. Walker's publications include Scott W. Woods, Tyrone D. Cannon, Diana O. Perkins, Kristin S. Cadenhead, and Barbara A. Cornblatt.

Elaine F. Walker has contributed to various publication venues with notable frequency. These include UNC Libraries, Schizophrenia Research, Biological Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Bulletin, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent papers by the scientist include:

  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS 3): Methods and baseline description, 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • A review of negative symptom assessment strategies in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis, 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • Accelerated cortical thinning precedes and predicts conversion to psychosis: The NAPLS3 longitudinal study of youth at clinical high-risk, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Toward Generalizable and Transdiagnostic Tools for Psychosis Prediction: An Independent Validation and Improvement of the NAPLS-2 Risk Calculator in the Multisite PRONIA Cohort, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Mismatch Negativity in Response to Auditory Deviance and Risk for Future Psychosis in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Prediction of psychosis in youth at high clinical risk: a multisite longitudinal study in North America.

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Kristin Cadenhead;Barbara Cornblatt;Scott W. Woods

  • Schizophrenia: A neural diathesis-stress model.

    Elaine F. Walker;Donald Diforio

  • Progressive Reduction in Cortical Thickness as Psychosis Develops: A Multisite Longitudinal Neuroimaging Study of Youth at Elevated Clinical Risk

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Yoonho Chung;George He;Daqiang Sun

  • An Individualized Risk Calculator for Research in Prodromal Psychosis

    Tyrone D. Cannon;Changhong Yu;Jean Addington;Carrie E. Bearden

  • Neuromotor Precursors of Schizophrenia

    Elaine F. Walker;Tammy Savoie;Dana Davis

  • The Stress Cascade and Schizophrenia: Etiology and Onset

    Cheryl Corcoran;Elaine Walker;Rebecca Huot;Vijay Mittal

  • At clinical high risk for psychosis: Outcome for nonconverters

    Jean Addington;Barbara A. Cornblatt;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Validity of the Prodromal Risk Syndrome for First Psychosis: Findings From the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study

    Scott W. Woods;Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • Facial discrimination and emotional recognition in schizophrenia and affective disorders.

    Todd E. Feinberg;Arthur Rifkin;Carrie Schaffer;Elaine Walker

  • Neuropsychology of the Prodrome to Psychosis in the NAPLS Consortium: Relationship to Family History and Conversion to Psychosis

    Larry J. Seidman;Anthony J. Giuliano;Eric C. Meyer;Jean Addington

  • Association of Thalamic Dysconnectivity and Conversion to Psychosis in Youth and Young Adults at Elevated Clinical Risk

    Alan Anticevic;Kristen Haut;John D. Murray;Grega Repovs

  • Prediction of adult-onset schizophrenia from childhood home movies of the patients.

    Elaine Walker;Richard J. Lewine

  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study: A Collaborative Multisite Approach to Prodromal Schizophrenia Research

    Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon;Barbara Cornblatt;Barbara Cornblatt

  • North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study (NAPLS 2): overview and recruitment.

    Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Barbara A. Cornblatt;Daniel H. Mathalon

  • Negative symptoms in individuals at clinical high risk of psychosis

    Danijela Piskulic;Jean Addington;Kristin S. Cadenhead;Tyrone D. Cannon

  • The neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia revisited: An update on recent findings considering illness stage and neurobiological and methodological complexities.

    Marita Pruessner;Alexis E. Cullen;Monica Aas;Elaine F. Walker

  • Schizophrenia: Etiology and Course

    Elaine Walker;Lisa Kestler;Annie Bollini;Karen M. Hochman

  • Maternal depression and infant cortisol: Influences of timing, comorbidity and treatment

    Patricia A. Brennan;Rebecca Pargas;Elaine F. Walker;Paula Green

  • Association of Neurocognition With Transition to Psychosis: Baseline Functioning in the Second Phase of the North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study

    Larry J. Seidman;Daniel I. Shapiro;William S. Stone;Kristen A. Woodberry

  • Childhood precursors of schizophrenia: facial expressions of emotion.

    Elaine F. Walker;Kathleen E. Grimes;Dana M. Davis;Adina J. Smith

  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

    Vijay A. Mittal;Elaine F. Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott W. Woods
Scott W. Woods Yale University
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel H. Mathalon
Daniel H. Mathalon University of California, San Francisco
Diana O. Perkins
Diana O. Perkins University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Heinssen
Robert Heinssen National Institutes of Health
Vijay A. Mittal
Vijay A. Mittal Northwestern University
Stephan Hamann
Stephan Hamann Emory University
Michael F. Green
Michael F. Green University of California, Los Angeles
Craig S. Neumann
Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas
Gregory P. Strauss
Gregory P. Strauss University of Georgia

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