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1961

Overview

Eric E. Nelson is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study including Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience, with notable subfields in Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research topics cover a diverse array of areas including Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Epilepsy Research and Treatment, Face Recognition and Perception, and Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

Frequent coauthors in Eric E. Nelson's work include Whitney I. Mattson, Michele Morningstar, Connor Grannis, Kristen R. Hoskinson, and Leena Nahata.

Eric E. Nelson's recent papers encompass various aspects of psychology and health, particularly around transgender youth and neurodevelopmental effects. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Testosterone treatment, internalizing symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction in transgender boys" (2021, Psychoneuroendocrinology)
  • "Consensus Parameter: Research Methodologies to Evaluate Neurodevelopmental Effects of Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth" (2020, Transgender Health)
  • "Associations Among Gender-Affirming Hormonal Interventions, Social Support, and Transgender Adolescents' Mental Health" (2023, Journal of Adolescent Health)
  • "Transgender Youth Executive Functioning: Relationships with Anxiety Symptoms, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment Status" (2021, Child Psychiatry & Human Development)
  • "The Gender Self-Report: A multidimensional gender characterization tool for gender-diverse and cisgender youth and adults." (2023, American Psychologist)

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Journal of Adolescent Health, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Neuropsychologia, and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Brain substrates of infant–mother attachment: Contributions of opioids, oxytocin, and norepinephrine.

    Eric E Nelson;Jaak Panksepp

  • 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

  • Adolescent immaturity in attention-related brain engagement to emotional facial expressions

    Christopher S Monk;Erin B McClure;Eric E Nelson;Eric Zarahn

  • Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Attentional Bias in Response to Angry Faces in Adolescents With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Christopher S Monk;Eric E Nelson;Erin B McClure;Karin Mogg

  • Abnormal Attention Modulation of Fear Circuit Function in Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Erin B. McClure;Christopher S. Monk;Eric E. Nelson;Jessica M. Parrish

  • Modulation of emotion by cognition and cognition by emotion.

    K.S. Blair;B.W. Smith;D.G.V. Mitchell;J. Morton

  • Orbitofrontal cortex tracks positive mood in mothers viewing pictures of their newborn infants.

    Jack B Nitschke;Eric E Nelson;Brett D Rusch;Andrew S Fox

  • Choice selection and reward anticipation: an fMRI study.

    Monique Ernst;Eric E. Nelson;Erin B. McClure;Christopher S. Monk

  • Neural substrates of choice selection in adults and adolescents: Development of the ventrolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices

    Neir Eshel;Eric E. Nelson;R. James Blair;Daniel S. Pine

  • A developmental examination of amygdala response to facial expressions

    Amanda E. Guyer;Christopher S. Monk;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Eric E. Nelson

  • Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxiety

    Amanda E. Guyer;Jennifer Y. F. Lau;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Jessica Parrish

  • Brain systems for the mediation of social separation-distress and social-reward. Evolutionary antecedents and neuropeptide intermediaries.

    Jaak Panksepp;Eric Nelson;Marni Bekkedal

  • Social re-orientation and brain development: An expanded and updated view.

    Eric E. Nelson;Johanna M. Jarcho;Amanda E. Guyer

  • A developmental examination of gender differences in brain engagement during evaluation of threat

    Erin B McClure;Christopher S Monk;Eric E Nelson;Eric Zarahn

  • The NIMH Child Emotional Faces Picture Set (NIMH-ChEFS): a new set of children's facial emotion stimuli.

    Helen Link Egger;Daniel S. Pine;Eric Nelson;Ellen Leibenluft

  • The neurobiology of the emotional adolescent: From the inside out.

    Amanda E. Guyer;Jennifer S. Silk;Eric E. Nelson

  • Common and Distinct Amygdala-Function Perturbations in Depressed vs Anxious Adolescents

    Katja Beesdo;Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Amanda E. Guyer;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Erin B. McClure-Tone

  • Probing the Neural Correlates of Anticipated Peer Evaluation in Adolescence

    Amanda E. Guyer;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Nina D. Shiffrin;Daniel S. Pine

  • Fear conditioning in adolescents with anxiety disorders: results from a novel experimental paradigm

    Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Shmuel Lissek;Eric E. Nelson;Yoon Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Amanda E. Guyer
Amanda E. Guyer University of California, Davis
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher S. Monk
Christopher S. Monk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Jennifer Y. F. Lau Queen Mary University of London
Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Koraly Pérez-Edgar Pennsylvania State University
Stephen J. Fromm
Stephen J. Fromm National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. Suomi
Stephen J. Suomi National Institutes of Health

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