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  • 2013 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2011 - Joseph Zubin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology
  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Ian H. Gotlib is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, with primary focus areas including Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Within these broader disciplines, their work concentrates on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research covers several key topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Mental Health Research Topics, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, and Birth, Development, and Health.

Ian H. Gotlib has contributed extensively to scholarly journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science

Among recent papers, notable works include:

  • Child maltreatment and depression: A meta-analysis of studies using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (2020, Child Abuse & Neglect)
  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders (2020, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing (2020, Translational Psychiatry)

Ian H. Gotlib has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Tiffany C. Ho
  • Matthew D. Sacchet
  • Jessica L. Buthmann
  • Dominik Grotegerd
  • Jonas G. Miller

The scientist has received several awards over the course of their career, such as the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2013, the Joseph Zubin Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology in 2011, and recognition as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association since 1997.

Best Publications

  • Risk for psychopathology in the children of depressed mothers: a developmental model for understanding mechanisms of transmission.

    Sherryl H. Goodman;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Cognition and Depression: Current Status and Future Directions

    Ian H. Gotlib;Jutta Joormann

  • Psychopathology and early experience: a reappraisal of retrospective reports.

    Chris R. Brewin;Bernice Andrews;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Psychosocial Functioning and Depression: Distinguishing Among Antecedents, Concomitants, and Consequences

    Peter A. Barnett;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Emotion regulation in depression: Relation to cognitive inhibition.

    Jutta Joormann;Ian H. Gotlib

  • The role of cognition in depression: A critical appraisal.

    James C. Coyne;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

  • Attentional biases for negative interpersonal stimuli in clinical depression.

    Ian H. Gotlib;Elena Krasnoperova;Dana Neubauer Yue;Jutta Joormann

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder : findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    Tiffany C. Ho;Boris Gutman;Elena Pozzi;Hans J. Grabe

  • Interacting with nature improves cognition and affect for individuals with depression

    Marc G. Berman;Ethan Kross;Katherine M. Krpan;Mary K. Askren

  • Gender Differences in Anxiety Disorders and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents

    Peter M. Lewinsohn;Ian H. Gotlib;Mark Lewinsohn;John R. Seeley

  • Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later

    B. J. Casey;Leah H. Somerville;Ian H. Gotlib;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Depressive Rumination, the Default-Mode Network, and the Dark Matter of Clinical Neuroscience

    J. Paul Hamilton;Madison Farmer;Phoebe Fogelman;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Psychological aspects of depression: Toward a cognitive-interpersonal integration.

    Ian H. Gotlib;Constance L. Hammen

  • Handbook of depression

    Ian H. Gotlib;Constance L. Hammen

  • Functional neuroimaging of major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis and new integration of base line activation and neural response data.

    J. Paul Hamilton;Amit Etkin;Daniella J. Furman;Maria G. Lemus

  • Default-mode and task-positive network activity in major depressive disorder: implications for adaptive and maladaptive rumination.

    J. Paul Hamilton;Daniella J. Furman;Catie Chang;Moriah E. Thomason

  • Adolescent Psychopathology: II. Psychosocial Risk Factors for Depression

    Peter M. Lewinsohn;Robert E. Roberts;John R. Seeley;Paul Rohde

  • Depression and general psychopathology in university students

    Ian H. Gotlib

  • Prevalence rates and demographic characteristics associated with depression in pregnancy and the postpartum.

    Ian H. Gotlib;Valerie E. Whiffen;John H. Mount;Kenneth Milne

  • Adult attachment security and symptoms of depression: the mediating roles of dysfunctional attitudes and low self-esteem.

    John E. Roberts;Ian H. Gotlib;Jon D. Kassel

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew D. Sacchet
Matthew D. Sacchet Harvard University
Jutta Joormann
Jutta Joormann Yale University
Tiffany C. Ho
Tiffany C. Ho University of California, San Francisco
Kathryn L. Humphreys
Kathryn L. Humphreys Vanderbilt University
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Lianne Schmaal
Lianne Schmaal University of Melbourne
Renee J. Thompson
Renee J. Thompson Washington University in St. Louis
Katharina Kircanski
Katharina Kircanski University of Southern California
Dick J. Veltman
Dick J. Veltman Amsterdam UMC

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