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Overview

J. Douglas Steele is affiliated with the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology. Steele's work includes substantial contributions to studies involving functional brain connectivity and the application of radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging.

Their publication record includes frequent appearances in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 19 publications, Preprints.org (6), Brain (4), Psychological Medicine (3), and Translational Psychiatry (3). These platforms reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Steele's research and engagement with both preprint and peer-reviewed literature.

Steele's recent papers demonstrate a focus on the neurobiological and psychological aspects of major depressive disorder and chronic pain. Key publications include:

  • Structural brain correlates of serum and epigenetic markers of inflammation in major depressive disorder, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • The effect of adverse childhood experiences on chronic pain and major depression in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Blunted medial prefrontal cortico-limbic reward-related effective connectivity and depression, 2020, Brain
  • Early life predictors of late life cerebral small vessel disease in four prospective cohort studies, 2021, Brain
  • Integrated methylome and phenome study of the circulating proteome reveals markers pertinent to brain health, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators include Andrew M. McIntosh, Heather C. Whalley, Gordon D. Waiter, Mathew A. Harris, and Anca-Larisa Sandu. This network of co-authors indicates a consistent partnership within fields related to brain imaging, psychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main fields of study for Steele cover Medicine (87 publications) and Neuroscience (58 publications). Within these areas, their subfields of study are particularly centered on:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Steele's work addresses a variety of topics, notably:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Renal cell carcinoma treatment
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Best Publications

  • Functional Specialization within Rostral Prefrontal Cortex (Area 10): A Meta-analysis

    Sam J. Gilbert;Stephanie Spengler;Jon S. Simons;J. Douglas Steele

  • Recent developments and current controversies in depression

    Klaus P Ebmeier;Claire Donaghey;J Douglas Steele

  • Expected value and prediction error abnormalities in depression and schizophrenia.

    Victoria B. Gradin;Victoria B. Gradin;Poornima Kumar;Gordon Waiter;Trevor Ahearn

  • Abnormal temporal difference reward-learning signals in major depression.

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  • Blunted response to feedback information in depressive illness

    J. D. Steele;Pramod Kumar;Klaus P. Ebmeier

  • Modeling Trait Anxiety: From Computational Processes to Personality

    James G. Raymond;J. Douglas Steele;Peggy Seriès

  • Capsulotomy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: long-term follow-up of 25 patients

    Christian Rück;Andreas Karlsson;Andreas Karlsson;J. Douglas Steele;Gunnar Edman

  • Segregation of cognitive and emotional function in the prefrontal cortex: a stereotactic meta-analysis

    John Douglas Steele;S. M. Lawrie

  • Electroconvulsive therapy reduces frontal cortical connectivity in severe depressive disorder

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  • Multi-centre diagnostic classification of individual structural neuroimaging scans from patients with major depressive disorder.

    Benson Mwangi;Klaus P. Ebmeier;Keith Matthews;J. Douglas Steele

  • The insular cortex and the neuroanatomy of major depression

    Reiner Sprengelmeyer;J. Douglas Steele;Benson Mwangi;Poornima Kumar

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) reproducibility and variance components across visits and scanning sites with a finger tapping task.

    Viktoria-Eleni Gountouna;Dominic E. Job;Andrew M. McIntosh;T. William J. Moorhead

  • Left dorso-lateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation affects cortical excitability and functional connectivity, but does not impair cognition in major depression.

    Polash M. Shajahan;Mike F. Glabus;J.Douglas Steele;Alan B. Doris

  • Anterior Cingulotomy for Major Depression: Clinical Outcome and Relationship to Lesion Characteristics

    J. Douglas Steele;David Christmas;M. Sam Eljamel;Keith Matthews

  • Nonlinear Complexity Analysis of Brain fMRI Signals in Schizophrenia

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  • Statistical parametric mapping of (99m)Tc-HMPAO-SPECT images for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: normalizing to cerebellar tracer uptake.

    Darius Soonawala;Tania Amin;Klaus P Ebmeier;J Douglas Steele

  • A causal role for the anterior mid-cingulate cortex in negative affect and cognitive control

    Serenella Tolomeo;David Christmas;Ines Jentzsch;Blair Johnston

  • Neurocognitive consequences of chronic cannabis use: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Pedro Rafael Figueiredo;Serenella Tolomeo;J. Douglas Steele;Alexander Baldacchino

  • Prefrontal cortical functional abnormality in major depressive disorder: A stereotactic meta-analysis

    J. Douglas Steele;James Currie;Stephen M. Lawrie;Ian Reid

  • Brainstem abnormalities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder support high accuracy individual diagnostic classification.

    Blair A. Johnston;Benson Mwangi;Keith Matthews;David Coghill

  • Cognitive brain potentials and regional cerebral blood flow equivalents during two- and three-sound auditory "oddball tasks".

    K.P. Ebmeier;J.D. Steele;D.M. MacKenzie;R.E. O'Carroll

  • Comprehensive review: Computational modelling of schizophrenia

    Vincent Valton;Liana Romaniuk;J. Douglas Steele;Stephen Lawrie

  • Prediction of illness severity in patients with major depression using structural MR brain scans.

    Benson Mwangi;Keith Matthews;J. Douglas Steele

  • Structural MRI-Based Predictions in Patients with Treatment-Refractory Depression (TRD).

    Blair A. Johnston;J. Douglas Steele;Serenella Tolomeo;David Christmas

  • Structural brain correlates of serum and epigenetic markers of inflammation in major depressive disorder.

    Claire Green;Xueyi Shen;Anna J. Stevenson;Eleanor L.S. Conole

  • Increased neural response to social rejection in major depression.

    Poornima Kumar;Poornima Kumar;Gordon D Waiter;Magda Dubois;Maarten Milders

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Baldacchino
Alex Baldacchino University of St Andrews
David J. Porteous
David J. Porteous University of Edinburgh
Joanna M. Wardlaw
Joanna M. Wardlaw University of Edinburgh
Jeremy Hall
Jeremy Hall Cardiff University
Benson Mwangi
Benson Mwangi The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Christian Rück
Christian Rück Karolinska Institute
David Coghill
David Coghill University of Melbourne
Björn A. Meyerson
Björn A. Meyerson Karolinska Institute
Patricia A. Gooding
Patricia A. Gooding University of Manchester

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