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2525
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Overview

James M. Bjork is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with a focus on several subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, including functional brain connectivity studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neural and behavioral psychology studies, mental health research topics, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and advanced MRI techniques and applications. These topics represent a broad and interdisciplinary approach to understanding brain function and behavior.

James M. Bjork has contributed to numerous recent papers published in well-known scientific journals. Some notable examples include:

  • Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, 2023, JAMA
  • Effect of Pharmacogenomic Testing for Drug-Gene Interactions on Medication Selection and Remission of Symptoms in Major Depressive Disorder, 2022, JAMA
  • Baseline Brain Function in the Preadolescents of the ABCD Study, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Reliability and Stability Challenges in ABCD Task fMRI Data, 2022, NeuroImage
  • A Methodological Checklist for fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity Studies: Development and Expert Consensus, 2022, Nature Protocols

They frequently publish in prominent venues, with multiple contributions in Biological Psychiatry, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Substance Use & Misuse, and JAMA.

James M. Bjork frequently collaborates with several researchers. The most frequent coauthors include F. Gerard Moeller, Liangsuo Ma, Lori Keyser-Marcus, Deanna M. Barch, and Chelsea Sawyers.

Best Publications

  • The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study: Imaging acquisition across 21 sites.

    B.J. Casey;B.J. Casey;Tariq Cannonier;May I. Conley;May I. Conley;Alexandra O. Cohen

  • Function in the human connectome: Task-fMRI and individual differences in behavior

    M Deanna;Gregory C. Burgess;Michael P. Harms;Steven E. Petersen

  • Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

    Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

  • Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

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  • Incentive-Elicited Brain Activation in Adolescents: Similarities and Differences from Young Adults

    James M. Bjork;Brian Knutson;Grace W. Fong;Daniel M. Caggiano

  • Adolescent neurocognitive development and impacts of substance use: Overview of the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) baseline neurocognition battery.

    Monica M Luciana;J. M. Bjork;B. J. Nagel

  • Two models of impulsivity: relationship to personality traits and psychopathology.

    Alan C. Swann;James M. Bjork;F.Gerard Moeller;Donald M. Dougherty

  • Impulsivity in abstinent alcohol-dependent patients: relation to control subjects and type 1–/type 2–like traits

    James M. Bjork;Daniel W. Hommer;Steven J. Grant;Cinnamon Danube

  • Adolescents, adults and rewards: comparing motivational neurocircuitry recruitment using fMRI.

    James M. Bjork;Ashley R. Smith;Gang Chen;Daniel W. Hommer

  • Laboratory measures of aggression and impulsivity in women with borderline personality disorder.

    Donald M Dougherty;James M Bjork;Helena C.G Huckabee;F.Gerard Moeller

  • Why We Like to Drink: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of the Rewarding and Anxiolytic Effects of Alcohol

    Jodi M. Gilman;Vijay A. Ramchandani;Megan B. Davis;James M. Bjork

  • Striatal Functional Alteration in Adolescents Characterized by Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition

    Amanda E. Guyer;Eric E. Nelson;Koraly Perez-Edgar;Koraly Perez-Edgar;Michael G. Hardin;Michael G. Hardin

  • Amphetamine modulates human incentive processing.

    Brian Knutson;James M Bjork;Grace W Fong;Daniel Hommer

  • Behavioral impulsivity paradigms: a comparison in hospitalized adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders.

    Donald M. Dougherty;James M. Bjork;R. Andrew Harper;Dawn M. Marsh

  • Does Traumatic Brain Injury Increase Risk for Substance Abuse

    James M. Bjork;Steven J. Grant

  • The structure of cognition in 9 and 10 year-old children and associations with problem behaviors: Findings from the ABCD study’s baseline neurocognitive battery

    Wesley K. Thompson;M Deanna;James M. Bjork;Raul Gonzalez

  • The Neural Substrate of Reward Anticipation in Health: A Meta-Analysis of fMRI Findings in the Monetary Incentive Delay Task

    Robin Paul Wilson;Marco Colizzi;Matthijs Geert Bossong;Matthijs Geert Bossong;Paul Allen;Paul Allen

  • Incentive-elicited striatal activation in adolescent children of alcoholics.

    James M. Bjork;Brian Knutson;Daniel W. Hommer

  • Imaging brain response to reward in addictive disorders.

    Daniel W. Hommer;James M. Bjork;Jodi M. Gilman

  • Striatal sensitivity to reward deliveries and omissions in substance dependent patients.

    James M. Bjork;Ashley R. Smith;Daniel W. Hommer

  • The effects of tryptophan depletion and loading on laboratory aggression in men: time course and a food-restricted control

    James M. Bjork;Donald M. Dougherty;F. Gerard Moeller;Don R. Cherek

  • Differential behavioral effects of plasma tryptophan depletion and loading in aggressive and nonaggressive men.

    James M Bjork;Donald M Dougherty;F Gerard Moeller;Alan C Swann

  • Who are those "risk-taking adolescents"? Individual differences in developmental neuroimaging research.

    James M. Bjork;Dustin A. Pardini

Frequent Co-Authors

F. Gerard Moeller
F. Gerard Moeller Virginia Commonwealth University
Donald M. Dougherty
Donald M. Dougherty The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Daniel W. Hommer
Daniel W. Hommer National Institutes of Health
Joel L. Steinberg
Joel L. Steinberg Virginia Commonwealth University
Monica M Luciana
Monica M Luciana University of Minnesota
Marie T. Banich
Marie T. Banich University of Colorado Boulder
Raul Gonzalez
Raul Gonzalez Florida International University
B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego

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