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Jennifer L. Stewart

Jennifer L. Stewart

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
5958
World Ranking
7347
National Ranking
3964

Overview

Jennifer L. Stewart is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Their work spans multiple fields and subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and biological psychiatry.

The main topics covered in their research portfolio include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional areas of focus are psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, mental health research topics, neural and behavioral psychology studies, functional brain connectivity studies, tryptophan and brain disorders, and stress responses and cortisol.

Stewart has published frequently in several reputable journals, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Scientific Reports

Among their recent published articles are:

  • Neurobiology, Clinical Presentation, and Treatment of Methamphetamine Use Disorder (2020) in JAMA Psychiatry
  • A Bayesian computational model reveals a failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across depression, anxiety, eating, and substance use disorders (2020) in PLoS Computational Biology
  • Mapping sign-tracking and goal-tracking onto human behaviors (2020) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Imprecise action selection in substance use disorder: Evidence for active learning impairments when solving the explore-exploit dilemma (2020) in Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Greater decision uncertainty characterizes a transdiagnostic patient sample during approach-avoidance conflict: a computational modelling approach (2021) in Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Stewart has collaborated extensively with several researchers, notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Martin P. Paulus
  • Rayus Kuplicki
  • Robin L. Aupperle
  • Sahib S. Khalsa
  • Ryan Smith

In addition to journal publications, Stewart has contributed to book literature, notably publishing with The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado eBooks. One of their books is PARS in Charge: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Program Leaders published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Assessing and conceptualizing frontal EEG asymmetry: An updated primer on recording, processing, analyzing, and interpreting frontal alpha asymmetry.

    Ezra E. Smith;Samantha J. Reznik;Jennifer L. Stewart;John J.B. Allen

  • Interoception and drug addiction.

    Martin P. Paulus;Jennifer L. Stewart

  • The time course of activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex during top-down attentional control

    Rebecca Levin Silton;Wendy Heller;David N. Towers;Anna S. Engels

  • Neurobiology, Clinical Presentation, and Treatment of Methamphetamine Use Disorder: A Review

    Martin P Paulus;Martin P Paulus;Jennifer L Stewart;Jennifer L Stewart

  • Resting frontal EEG asymmetry as an endophenotype for depression risk: sex-specific patterns of frontal brain asymmetry.

    Jennifer L. Stewart;Andrew W. Bismark;David N. Towers;James A. Coan

  • EMOTION-MODULATED PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVITY IN LEFT DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX

    John D. Herrington;Aprajita Mohanty;Nancy S. Koven;Joscelyn E. Fisher

  • Time Course of Attentional Bias in Anxiety: Emotion and Gender Specificity

    Sarah M. Sass;Wendy Heller;Jennifer L. Stewart;Rebecca Levin Silton

  • Resting and task-elicited prefrontal EEG alpha asymmetry in depression: support for the capability model.

    Jennifer L. Stewart;James A. Coan;David N. Towers;John J. B. Allen

  • A Bayesian computational model reveals a failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across depression, anxiety, eating, and substance use disorders.

    Ryan Smith;Rayus Kuplicki;Justin Feinstein;Justin Feinstein;Katherine L Forthman

  • Prefrontal Cortex, Emotion, and Approach/Withdrawal Motivation

    Jeffrey M. Spielberg;Jennifer L. Stewart;Rebecca L. Levin;Gregory A. Miller

  • Frontal EEG asymmetry during emotional challenge differentiates individuals with and without lifetime major depressive disorder

    Jennifer L. Stewart;Jennifer L. Stewart;James A. Coan;David N. Towers;John J.B. Allen

  • When the brain does not adequately feel the body: Links between low resilience and interoception

    Lori Haase;Jennifer L. Stewart;Brittany Youssef;April C. May

  • The oft-neglected role of parietal EEG asymmetry and risk for major depressive disorder.

    Jennifer L. Stewart;David N. Towers;James A. Coan;John J. B. Allen

  • Attentional Bias to Negative Emotion as a Function of Approach and Withdrawal Anger Styles: An ERP Investigation

    Jennifer L. Stewart;Jennifer L. Stewart;Rebecca Levin Silton;Rebecca Levin Silton;Sarah M. Sass;Joscelyn E. Fisher;Joscelyn E. Fisher

  • You are the danger: attenuated insula response in methamphetamine users during aversive interoceptive decision-making.

    Jennifer L. Stewart;April C. May;Tasha Poppa;Paul W. Davenport

  • Depression and anxious apprehension distinguish frontocingulate cortical activity during top-down attentional control.

    Rebecca Levin Silton;Wendy Heller;Anna S. Engels;David N. Towers

  • Time course of processing emotional stimuli as a function of perceived emotional intelligence, anxiety, and depression

    Joscelyn E. Fisher;Sarah M. Sass;Wendy Heller;Rebecca Levin Silton

  • Mapping sign-tracking and goal-tracking onto human behaviors.

    Janna M. Colaizzi;Shelly B. Flagel;Michelle A. Joyner;Ashley N. Gearhardt

  • Altered cingulate and insular cortex activation during risk-taking in methamphetamine dependence: losses lose impact

    Joshua L. Gowin;Jennifer L. Stewart;April C. May;Tali M. Ball

  • Anger style, psychopathology, and regional brain activity.

    Jennifer L. Stewart;Rebecca Levin-Silton;Sarah M. Sass;Wendy Heller

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
Sahib S. Khalsa
Sahib S. Khalsa Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Wendy Heller
Wendy Heller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John J.B. Allen
John J.B. Allen University of Arizona
Gregory A. Miller
Gregory A. Miller University of California, Los Angeles
James A. Coan
James A. Coan University of Virginia
Marc Wittmann
Marc Wittmann Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene
Alan N. Simmons
Alan N. Simmons University of California, San Diego

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