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Overview

Hedy Kober is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans primarily across psychology and neuroscience, with 78 publications in psychology and 41 in neuroscience. Their work involves various subfields including clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Kober's research interests cover multiple main topics, such as mental health research, functional brain connectivity, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, mindfulness and compassion interventions, behavioral health interventions, and the influence of neurotransmitter receptors on behavior.

Among their recent academic publications are:

  • Association of Drug Cues and Craving With Drug Use and Relapse, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health, 2021, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • A neuromarker for drug and food craving distinguishes drug users from non-users, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Meta-analysis of human prediction error for incentives, perception, cognition, and action, 2022, Neuropsychopharmacology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kober include Jutta Joormann, Reuma Gadassi Polack, Corey R. Roos, Nilofar Vafaie, and Tor D. Wager.

Kober's work has appeared repeatedly in several scientific journals and publication venues, notably:

  • Biological Psychiatry (5 publications)
  • Emotion (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • JAMA Psychiatry (2 publications)
  • Journal of Research on Adolescence (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Tor D. Wager;Hedy Kober;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

  • Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies

    Jason T. Buhle;Jennifer A. Silvers;Tor D. Wager;Richard Lopez

  • Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity

    Judson A. Brewer;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Jeremy R. Gray;Yi Yuan Tang

  • Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

    Hedy Kober;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Joshua W. Joseph;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

  • A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of self-and other judgments reveals a spatial gradient for mentalizing in medial prefrontal cortex

    Bryan T. Denny;Hedy Kober;Tor D. Wager;Kevin N. Ochsner

  • Prefrontal–striatal pathway underlies cognitive regulation of craving

    Hedy Kober;Peter Mende-Siedlecki;Ethan F. Kross;Jochen Weber

  • Food cue reactivity and craving predict eating and weight gain: a meta-analytic review.

    Rebecca G. Boswell;Hedy Kober

  • Mindfulness training for smoking cessation: results from a randomized controlled trial.

    Judson A. Brewer;Sarah Mallik;Theresa A. Babuscio;Charla Nich

  • Mindful attention reduces neural and self-reported cue-induced craving in smokers

    Cecilia Westbrook;John David Creswell;Golnaz Tabibnia;Erica Julson

  • Diminished frontostriatal activity during processing of monetary rewards and losses in pathological gambling.

    Iris M. Balodis;Hedy Kober;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Michael C. Stevens

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    I. Scott MacKenzie;Hedy Kober;Derek Smith;Terry Jones

  • The neuroimaging of emotion.

    Tor D. Wager;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Eliza Bliss-Moreau;Kristen A. Lindquist

  • Evaluating the consistency and specificity of neuroimaging data using meta-analysis.

    Tor D. Wager;Martin A. Lindquist;Thomas E. Nichols;Thomas E. Nichols;Hedy Kober

  • Global prefrontal and fronto-amygdala dysconnectivity in bipolar I disorder with psychosis history.

    Alan Anticevic;Alan Anticevic;Margaret S. Brumbaugh;Anderson M. Winkler;Anderson M. Winkler;Lauren E. Lombardo

  • Association of Drug Cues and Craving With Drug Use and Relapse

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  • Monetary reward processing in obese individuals with and without binge eating disorder.

    Iris M. Balodis;Hedy Kober;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Marney A. White

  • Divergent neural substrates of inhibitory control in binge eating disorder relative to other manifestations of obesity

    Iris M. Balodis;Nathan D. Molina;Hedy Kober;Patrick D. Worhunsky

  • The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health

    Leonie Koban;Peter J. Gianaros;Hedy Kober;Tor D. Wager

  • Regulation of craving by cognitive strategies in cigarette smokers.

    Hedy Kober;Ethan F. Kross;Walter Mischel;Carl L. Hart

  • Emotion regulation in substance use disorders.

    Hedy Kober

  • Brain Activity During Cocaine Craving and Gambling Urges: An fMRI Study.

    Hedy Kober;Cheryl M Lacadie;Bruce E Wexler;Robert T Malison

  • Real-time fMRI links subjective experience with brain activity during focused attention.

    Kathleen A. Garrison;Dustin Scheinost;Patrick D. Worhunsky;Hani M. Elwafi

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc N. Potenza
Marc N. Potenza Yale University
Godfrey D. Pearlson
Godfrey D. Pearlson Yale University
Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll Yale University
Tor D. Wager
Tor D. Wager Dartmouth College
Michael C. Stevens
Michael C. Stevens Yale University
Iris M. Balodis
Iris M. Balodis McMaster University
Jochen Weber
Jochen Weber Columbia University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Judson A. Brewer
Judson A. Brewer Brown University

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