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J. Cobb Scott is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with a particular focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their scientific output includes numerous studies related to functional brain connectivity, mental health, and developmental topics. Major themes in their work cover:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments

J. Cobb Scott has published in several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication locations include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Among recent papers associated with their research are:

  • Convergent neural representations of experimentally-induced acute pain in healthy volunteers: A large-scale fMRI meta-analysis, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • A quantitative meta-analysis of brain glutamate metabolites in aging, 2020, Neurobiology of Aging
  • Targeting location relates to treatment response in active but not sham rTMS stimulation, 2021, Brain Stimulation
  • Altered resting-state functional connectivity in adolescents is associated with PTSD symptoms and trauma exposure, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • A Pilot Study of a Moral Injury Group Intervention Co-Facilitated by a Chaplain and Psychologist, 2020, Journal of Traumatic Stress

J. Cobb Scott has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Ruben C. Gur
  • Tyler M. Moore
  • Raquel E. Gur
  • Kosha Ruparel
  • Monica E. Calkins

Best Publications

  • Neurocognitive Effects of Methamphetamine: A Critical Review and Meta-analysis

    J. Cobb Scott;Steven Paul Woods;Steven Paul Woods;Georg E. Matt;Rachel A. Meyer

  • A quantitative meta-analysis of neurocognitive functioning in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    J. Cobb Scott;Georg E. Matt;Kristen M. Wrocklage;Cassandra Crnich

  • The California Verbal Learning Test – second edition: Test-retest reliability, practice effects, and reliable change indices for the standard and alternate forms

    Steven Paul Woods;Dean C. Delis;J. Cobb Scott;Joel H. Kramer

  • Association of Cannabis With Cognitive Functioning in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    J. Cobb Scott;J. Cobb Scott;Samantha T. Slomiak;Jason D. Jones;Adon F. G. Rosen

  • Burden of Environmental Adversity Associated With Psychopathology, Maturation, and Brain Behavior Parameters in Youths.

    Raquel E Gur;Raquel E Gur;Tyler M Moore;Tyler M Moore;Adon F G Rosen;Adon F G Rosen;Ran Barzilay

  • Action (verb) fluency: test-retest reliability, normative standards, and construct validity.

    Steven Paul Woods;J. Cobb Scott;Danielle A. Sires;Igor Grant

  • Default mode network abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: A novel network-restricted topology approach.

    Teddy J. Akiki;Teddy J. Akiki;Christopher L. Averill;Christopher L. Averill;Kristen M. Wrocklage;Kristen M. Wrocklage;J. Cobb Scott;J. Cobb Scott

  • Neuropsychology and the prediction of everyday functioning.

    Thomas D. Marcotte;J. Cobb Scott;Rujvi Kamat;Robert K. Heaton

  • Longer Term Improvement in Neurocognitive Functioning and Affective Distress Among Methamphetamine Users Who Achieve Stable Abstinence

    Jennifer E. Iudicello;Steven Paul Woods;Ofilio Vigil;J. Cobb Scott

  • Lower cognitive reserve among individuals with syndromic HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).

    Erin E. Morgan;Steven Paul Woods;Christine Smith;Christine Smith;Erica Weber

  • Construct validity of Hopkins Verbal Learning Test- : Revised component process measures in an HIV-1 sample

    Steven Paul Woods;J. Cobb Scott;Matthew S. Dawson;Erin E. Morgan

  • Neurocognitive Consequences of HIV Infection in Older Adults: An Evaluation of the “Cortical” Hypothesis

    J. Cobb Scott;Steven Paul Woods;Catherine L. Carey;Erica Weber

  • Cortical thickness reduction in combat exposed U.S. veterans with and without PTSD.

    Kristen M. Wrocklage;Lynnette A. Averill;J. Cobb Scott;Christopher L. Averill

  • Visual attention deficits are associated with driving accidents in cognitively-impaired HIV-infected individuals.

    Thomas D. Marcotte;Deborah Lazzaretto;J. Cobb Scott;Erica Roberts

  • A neuropsychological investigation of multitasking in HIV infection: implications for everyday functioning.

    J. Cobb Scott;Steven Paul Woods;Ofilio Vigil;Robert K. Heaton

  • Convergent neural representations of experimentally-induced acute pain in healthy volunteers: A large-scale fMRI meta-analysis

    Anna Xu;Bart Larsen;Erica B. Baller;J. Cobb Scott

  • Association between traumatic stress load, psychopathology, and cognition in the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort.

    Ran Barzilay;Monica E Calkins;Tyler M Moore;Daniel H Wolf

  • Neuropsychological Functioning in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Associations with Performance Validity, Comorbidities, and Functional Outcomes.

    Kristen M. Wrocklage;Brian C. Schweinsburg;John H. Krystal;Marcia Trejo

  • Military sexual trauma interacts with combat exposure to increase risk for posttraumatic stress symptomatology in female Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

    J. Cobb Scott;Robert H. Pietrzak;Steven M. Southwick;Jessica Jordan

  • Predictive validity of demographically adjusted normative standards for the HIV Dementia Scale.

    Erin E. Morgan;Steven Paul Woods;J. Cobb Scott;Meredith Childers

  • Elevated Amygdala Perfusion Mediates Developmental Sex Differences in Trait Anxiety.

    Antonia N. Kaczkurkin;Tyler M. Moore;Kosha Ruparel;Rastko Ciric

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Tyler M. Moore
Tyler M. Moore University of Pennsylvania
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Steven Paul Woods
Steven Paul Woods University of Houston
Steven M. Southwick
Steven M. Southwick Yale University
Monica E. Calkins
Monica E. Calkins University of Pennsylvania
Robert K. Heaton
Robert K. Heaton University of California, San Diego
Erin E. Morgan
Erin E. Morgan University of California, San Diego
Robert H. Pietrzak
Robert H. Pietrzak Yale University
Mary Claire King
Mary Claire King University of Washington

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