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James Loughead is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong emphasis on medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their academic contributions include 19 publications in medicine, 13 in neuroscience, and 11 in psychology.

Their work delves into subfields such as cognitive neuroscience and physiology, each represented by six publications. Additionally, clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and genetics are notable areas of their research.

Main topics of Loughead's research include smoking behavior and cessation, functional brain connectivity studies, and stress responses involving cortisol. Other focal points in their studies cover biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor studies, behavioral health and interventions, and menopause-related health impacts and treatments.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Loughead include C. Neill Epperson, Mary D. Sammel, Daniel D. Langleben, Zhenhao Shi, and Wen Cao.

Loughead has published articles in several journals and venues, such as Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society, Maturitas, Translational Psychiatry, Tobacco Control, and Addiction.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Loughead include:

  • Executive function after risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: does current mood and early life adversity matter? (2020, Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society)
  • Natural vs. surgical postmenopause and psychological symptoms confound the effect of menopause on executive functioning domains of cognitive experience (2023, Maturitas)
  • Impact of childhood adversity on network reconfiguration dynamics during working memory in hypogonadal women (2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology)
  • Progesterone Increases Nicotine Withdrawal and Anxiety in Male but Not Female Smokers During Brief Abstinence (2022, Nicotine & Tobacco Research)
  • Divergent Amygdala Volume Asymmetries for Male and Female Youth With High Versus Low Callous-Unemotional Traits (2020, Crime & Delinquency)

Best Publications

  • An Improved Framework for Confound Regression and Filtering for Control of Motion Artifact in the Preprocessing of Resting-State Functional Connectivity Data

    Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Mark A. Elliott;Raphael T. Gerraty;Kosha Ruparel

  • Impact of in-scanner head motion on multiple measures of functional connectivity: relevance for studies of neurodevelopment in youth.

    Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Daniel H. Wolf;James Loughead;Kosha Ruparel

  • Baby Schema in Infant Faces Induces Cuteness Perception and Motivation for Caretaking in Adults

    Melanie L. Glocker;Daniel D. Langleben;Kosha Ruparel;James W. Loughead

  • Neuroimaging of the Philadelphia neurodevelopmental cohort.

    Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Mark A. Elliott;Kosha Ruparel;James Loughead

  • Age group and sex differences in performance on a computerized neurocognitive battery in children age 8-21.

    Ruben C. Gur;Jan Richard;Monica E. Calkins;Rosetta Chiavacci

  • Classifying spatial patterns of brain activity with machine learning methods: Application to lie detection

    Christos Davatzikos;Kosha Ruparel;Yong Fan;Dinggang Shen

  • Baby schema modulates the brain reward system in nulliparous women

    Melanie L. Glocker;Daniel D. Langleben;Daniel D. Langleben;Kosha Ruparel;James W. Loughead

  • Telling truth from lie in individual subjects with fast event‐related fMRI

    Daniel D. Langleben;James W. Loughead;Warren B. Bilker;Kosha Ruparel

  • Age-related differences in brain activation during emotional face processing

    Faith M. Gunning-Dixon;Ruben C. Gur;Alexis C. Perkins;Lee Schroeder

  • Neural substrates for functionally discriminating self-face from personally familiar faces

    Steven M. Platek;James W. Loughead;Ruben C. Gur;Samantha Busch

  • Functional maturation of the executive system during adolescence.

    Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Daniel H. Wolf;Guray Erus;Kosha Ruparel

  • Limbic activation associated with misidentification of fearful faces and flat affect in schizophrenia.

    Raquel E. Gur;James Loughead;Christian G. Kohler;Mark A. Elliott

  • Large-Scale Brain Network Coupling Predicts Acute Nicotine Abstinence Effects on Craving and Cognitive Function

    Caryn Lerman;Hong Gu;James Loughead;Kosha Ruparel

  • Varenicline improves mood and cognition during smoking abstinence.

    Freda Patterson;Christopher Jepson;Andrew A. Strasser;James Loughead

  • Acute Effect of Methadone Maintenance Dose on Brain fMRI Response to Heroin-Related Cues

    Daniel D Langleben;Kosha Ruparel;Igor Elman;Samantha Busch-Winokur

  • Working memory deficits predict short-term smoking resumption following brief abstinence.

    Freda Patterson;Christopher Jepson;James Loughead;Kenneth Perkins

  • Sensory Contributions to Impaired Emotion Processing in Schizophrenia

    Pamela D. Butler;Pamela D. Butler;Pamela D. Butler;Ilana Y. Abeles;Ilana Y. Abeles;Nicole G. Weiskopf;Arielle Tambini

  • "It's Not What You Say, But How You Say it": A Reciprocal Temporo-frontal Network for Affective Prosody.

    David I. Leitman;Daniel H. Wolf;J. Daniel Ragland;Petri Laukka

  • Being right is its own reward: load and performance related ventral striatum activation to correct responses during a working memory task in youth.

    Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Kosha Ruparel;James Loughead;Mark A. Elliott

  • Reduced prefrontal and temporal processing and recall of high "sensation value" ads.

    Daniel D. Langleben;James W. Loughead;Kosha Ruparel;Jonathan G. Hakun

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Caryn Lerman
Caryn Lerman University of Southern California
Hakon Hakonarson
Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Amy E. Pinkham
Amy E. Pinkham The University of Texas at Dallas
Elisabeth M. Weiss
Elisabeth M. Weiss University of Innsbruck
Ute Habel
Ute Habel RWTH Aachen University
Monica E. Calkins
Monica E. Calkins University of Pennsylvania
Anna Rose Childress
Anna Rose Childress University of Pennsylvania
Susan M. Domchek
Susan M. Domchek University of Pennsylvania

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