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Helena J. V. Rutherford

Helena J. V. Rutherford

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
4303
World Ranking
9625
National Ranking
5078

Helena J. V. Rutherford publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helena J. V. Rutherford sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 143 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Helena J. V. Rutherford D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helena J. V. Rutherford sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Helena J. V. Rutherford is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has a research profile spanning psychology and medicine, with a particular focus on various subfields such as social psychology, clinical psychology, public health, pediatrics, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research covers a range of topics including neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, attachment and relationship dynamics, infant health and development, functional brain connectivity studies, and neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Amanda Lowell, Marc N. Potenza, Francesca Penner, Kathryn M. Wall, and Linda C. Mayes.

Rutherford's publications often appear in journals specializing in developmental and mental health disciplines. Notable frequent publication venues are Developmental Psychobiology, Infant Mental Health Journal, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Social Neuroscience, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent papers contributed to by Rutherford demonstrate a focus on maternal and infant neuroscience as well as mental health, showcasing topics that intersect with cognition, substance use, anxiety, and racial disparities in research. Selected recent publications include:

  • Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain (2023) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Substance use and mothers' neural responses to infant cues (2020) in Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Racial disparities in EEG research and their implications for our understanding of the maternal brain (2022) in Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Maternal perinatal anxiety and neural responding to infant affective signals: Insights, challenges, and a road map for neuroimaging research (2021) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Adult attachment is related to maternal neural response to infant cues: an ERP study (2021) in Attachment & Human Development

Best Publications

  • Emotion Regulation in Parenthood.

    Helena J.V. Rutherford;Norah S. Wallace;Heidemarie K. Laurent;Linda C. Mayes

  • Parental reflective functioning is associated with tolerance of infant distress but not general distress: Evidence for a specific relationship using a simulated baby paradigm

    Helena J.V. Rutherford;Benjamin Goldberg;Patrick Luyten;David J. Bridgett

  • Investigating the association between parental reflective functioning and distress tolerance in motherhood.

    Helena J.V. Rutherford;Cortney R. Booth;Patrick Luyten;David J. Bridgett

  • Thriving and Surviving: Approach and Avoidance Motivation and Lateralization

    Helena J. V. Rutherford;Annukka K. Lindell

  • Maternal neural responses to infant cries and faces: relationships with substance use.

    Nicole Landi;Jessica Montoya;Hedy Kober;Helena J. V. Rutherford

  • Disruption of maternal parenting circuitry by addictive process: Rewiring of reward and stress systems

    Helena J. V. Rutherford;Sarah K. Williams;Sheryl Moy;Linda C. Mayes

  • Here's looking at you, kid: attention to infant emotional faces in mothers and non-mothers

    Chloe Thompson-Booth;Essi Viding;Linda C. Mayes;Helena J.V. Rutherford

  • Associations between Emotion Regulation and Parental Reflective Functioning

    Alysse M. Schultheis;Linda C. Mayes;Helena J. V. Rutherford

  • Attachment dismissal predicts frontal slow-wave ERPs during rejection by unfamiliar peers.

    Lars O White;Jia Wu;Jessica L Borelli;Helena J V Rutherford

  • Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain

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  • Early adverse experience and substance addiction: dopamine, oxytocin, and glucocorticoid pathways.

    Sohye Kim;Stephanie Kwok;Linda C. Mayes;Marc N. Potenza

  • Value associations of irrelevant stimuli modify rapid visual orienting

    Helena J. V. Rutherford;Jennifer L. O'Brien;Jane E. Raymond

  • Diminished social reward anticipation in the broad autism phenotype as revealed by event-related brain potentials

    Anthony Cox;Gregor Kohls;Adam J. Naples;Cora E. Mukerji

  • Maternal executive functioning as a mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of parenting: Preliminary evidence.

    David J. Bridgett;Meghan J. Kanya;Helena J. V. Rutherford;Linda C. Mayes

  • The Application of Electroencephalography to Investigate the Neural Bases of Parenting: A Review.

    Angela N. Maupin;Nathan J. Hayes;Linda C. Mayes;Helena J. V. Rutherford

  • Neurobiology of adolescent substance use disorders: implications for prevention and treatment.

    Helena J.V. Rutherford;Linda C. Mayes;Marc N. Potenza

  • Regional Brain Responses in Nulliparous Women to Emotional Infant Stimuli

    Jessica L. Montoya;Nicole Landi;Nicole Landi;Hedy Kober;Patrick D. Worhunsky

  • Sex differences moderate the relationship between adolescent language and mentalization.

    Helena J. V. Rutherford;Justin D. Wareham;Ioanna Vrouva;Linda C. Mayes

  • Investigating the impact of parental status and depression symptoms on the early perceptual coding of infant faces: An event-related potential study

    Laura K. Noll;Linda C. Mayes;Helena J. V. Rutherford

  • The variable heart: High frequency and very low frequency correlates of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents

    Julia D. Blood;Jia Wu;Tara M. Chaplin;Rebecca Hommer

  • Mothers with substance addictions show reduced reward responses when viewing their own infant's face.

    Sohye Kim;Sohye Kim;Udita Iyengar;Linda C. Mayes;Marc N. Potenza

  • Parenting and addiction: neurobiological insights.

    Helena Jv Rutherford;Linda C Mayes

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Marc N. Potenza
Marc N. Potenza Yale University
Nicole Landi
Nicole Landi University of Connecticut
Michael J. Crowley
Michael J. Crowley Yale University
Lane Strathearn
Lane Strathearn University of Iowa
David J. Bridgett
David J. Bridgett Northern Illinois University
Eamon McCrory
Eamon McCrory University College London
Jane E. Raymond
Jane E. Raymond University of Birmingham
James C. McPartland
James C. McPartland Yale University
Kevin A. Pelphrey
Kevin A. Pelphrey University of Virginia

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