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James L. Abelson is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on clinical and experimental psychology as well as behavioral neuroscience. Abelson's work is distributed across several subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, general health professions, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment approaches, and cognitive processes. Additional work addresses stress responses and cortisol, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, eating disorders and behaviors, health policy implementation science, and behavioral and psychological studies.

James L. Abelson has contributed to notable recent publications such as:

  • The Cortisol Awakening Response: Regulation and Functional Significance (2024, Endocrine Reviews)
  • Treatment-Specific Associations Between Brain Activation and Symptom Reduction in OCD Following CBT: A Randomized fMRI Trial (2020, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • Primary Aim Results of a Clustered SMART for Developing a School-Level, Adaptive Implementation Strategy to Support CBT Delivery at High Schools in Michigan (2022, Implementation Science)
  • Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Examining Multilevel Prediction of Response to Behavioral Activation and Exposure-Based Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (2020, Trials)
  • The Roles of Comorbidity and Trauma Exposure and Its Timing in Shaping HPA Axis Patterns in Depression (2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology)

Frequent collaborators with whom Abelson has coauthored multiple works include Joseph A. Himle, Kate D. Fitzgerald, Elisabeth Akeman, Namik Kirlić, and Ashley N. Clausen.

Abelson's research has been published predominantly in venues such as Biological Psychiatry, Implementation Science, Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Psychoneuroendocrinology. The publication distribution indicates a focus on psychiatric and implementation science journals.

Best Publications

  • Deep brain stimulation for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder

    James L. Abelson;George C. Curtis;Oren Sagher;Ronald C. Albucher

  • Clinical calibration of DSM-IV diagnoses in the World Mental Health (WMH) version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI)

    Ronald C. Kessler;Jamie M. Abelson;Olga Demler;Javier I. Escobar

  • Error-related hyperactivity of the anterior cingulate cortex in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Kate Dimond Fitzgerald;Robert C. Welsh;William J. Gehring;James L. Abelson

  • Cortisol, pulsatility and its role in stress regulation and health

    Elizabeth A. Young;James L. Abelson;Stafford L. Lightman

  • Context Processing and the Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    Israel Liberzon;Israel Liberzon;James L. Abelson

  • Impaired Contextual Modulation of Memories in PTSD: An fMRI and Psychophysiological Study of Extinction Retention and Fear Renewal

    Sarah N. Garfinkel;James L. Abelson;Anthony P. King;Rebecca K. Sripada

  • The development of persistent pain and psychological morbidity after motor vehicle collision: integrating the potential role of stress response systems into a biopsychosocial model.

    Samuel A. McLean;Daniel J. Clauw;James L. Abelson;Israel Liberzon

  • Neuroendocrine and Psychophysiologic Responses in PTSD: A Symptom Provocation Study

    Israel Liberzon;James L Abelson;Shelly B Flagel;Jonathan Raz

  • Effect of comorbid anxiety disorders on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to a social stressor in major depression.

    Elizabeth A Young;James L Abelson;Oliver G Cameron

  • Resting-State Functional Connectivity between Fronto-Parietal and Default Mode Networks in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Emily R. Stern;Kate D. Fitzgerald;Robert C. Welsh;James L. Abelson

  • Persistent respiratory irregularity in patients with panic disorder.

    James L Abelson;John G Weg;Randolph M Nesse;George C Curtis

  • HPA axis activity in patients with panic disorder: review and synthesis of four studies

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  • Reliability and clinical validity of UM-CIDI DSM-III-R Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Ronald C. Kessler;Shanyang Zhao;Jamie Abelson

  • CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY AND VULNERABILITY TO MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS

    Elizabeth A. Young;James L. Abelson;George C. Curtis;Randolph M. Nesse

  • Videoconferencing-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Joseph A. Himle;Daniel J. Fischer;Jordana R. Muroff;Michelle L. Van Etten

  • Medial Frontal Cortex Activity and Loss-Related Responses to Errors

    Stephan F. Taylor;Brian Martis;Brian Martis;Kate D. Fitzgerald;Robert C. Welsh

  • Cannabinoid facilitation of fear extinction memory recall in humans

    Christine A. Rabinak;Mike Angstadt;Chandra S. Sripada;James L. Abelson

  • Developmental alterations of frontal-striatal-thalamic connectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Kate Dimond Fitzgerald;Robert C. Welsh;Emily R. Stern;Mike Angstadt

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in panic disorder : 24-hour secretion of corticotropin and cortisol

    James L. Abelson;George C. Curtis

  • Cortisol, heart rate, and blood pressure as early markers of PTSD risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Matthew C. Morris;Matthew C. Morris;Natalie Hellman;James L. Abelson;Uma Rao

  • Salivary cortisol response during exposure treatment in driving phobics.

    Georg W. Alpers;James L. Abelson;Frank H. Wilhelm;Walton T. Roth

  • Blunted growth hormone response to clonidine in patients with generalized anxiety disorder.

    James L. Abelson;Debra Glitz;Debra Glitz;Oliver G. Cameron;Myung A. Lee;Myung A. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
George C. Curtis
George C. Curtis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joseph A. Himle
Joseph A. Himle University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Randolph M. Nesse
Randolph M. Nesse Arizona State University
Anthony P. King
Anthony P. King The Ohio State University
Oliver G. Cameron
Oliver G. Cameron University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nestor L. Lopez-Duran
Nestor L. Lopez-Duran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Maria Muzik
Maria Muzik University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jennifer Crocker
Jennifer Crocker The Ohio State University
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University

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