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Overview

Jennifer Y. F. Lau is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology. Additional interests include general health professions and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their work include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Their research also addresses psychological well-being and life satisfaction, mental health research topics, COVID-19 and mental health, art therapy and mental health, as well as migration, health, and trauma.

Their recent papers include:

  • Filipino help-seeking for mental health problems and associated barriers and facilitators: a systematic review, 2020, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Comorbidity Between Depression and Anxiety in Adolescents: Bridge Symptoms and Relevance of Risk and Protective Factors, 2021, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Harnessing emotional mental imagery to reduce anxiety and depression in young people: an integrative review of progress and promise, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Psychobiotic interventions for anxiety in young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis, with youth consultation, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Childhood maltreatment and its mental health consequences among Indian adolescents with a history of child work, 2020, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors include Laura Riddleston, Meenakshi Shukla, Victoria Pile, Rakesh Pandey, and Veena Kumari.

The venues where this researcher has frequently published are:

  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Current Psychology

Best Publications

  • Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Psychological Therapies for Children With Chronic Pain

    Emma Fisher;Lauren Heathcote;Tonya M. Palermo;Amanda C de C Williams

  • Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxiety

    Amanda E. Guyer;Jennifer Y. F. Lau;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Jessica Parrish

  • The developmental, dimensional and diagnostic interview (3di): a novel computerized assessment for autism spectrum disorders.

    David Skuse;Richard Warrington;Dorothy Bishop;Uttom Chowdhury

  • THE ROLE OF PEER REJECTION IN ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION

    Belinda Platt;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Jennifer Y.F. Lau

  • Common and Distinct Amygdala-Function Perturbations in Depressed vs Anxious Adolescents

    Katja Beesdo;Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Amanda E. Guyer;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Erin B. McClure-Tone

  • A preliminary study of medial temporal lobe function in youths with a history of caregiver deprivation and emotional neglect

    Françoise S. Maheu;Mary Dozier;Amanda E. Guyer;Darcy Mandell

  • Changes in the adolescent brain and the pathophysiology of psychotic disorders

    Matcheri S Keshavan;Jay N Giedd;Jennifer Y F Lau;David A. Lewis

  • How to Boost Positive Interpretations? A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretation

    Claudia Menne-Lothmann;Wolfgang Viechtbauer;Petra Höhn;Zuzana Kasanova

  • Fear conditioning in adolescents with anxiety disorders: results from a novel experimental paradigm

    Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Shmuel Lissek;Eric E. Nelson;Yoon Lee

  • The direction of longitudinal associations between sleep problems and depression symptoms: a study of twins aged 8 and 10 years.

    Alice M. Gregory;Früuhling V. Rijsdijk;Jennifer Y. F. Lau;Ronald E. Dahl

  • Distinct neural signatures of threat learning in adolescents and adults

    Jennifer Y. Lau;Jennifer Y. Lau;Jennifer C. Britton;Eric E. Nelson;Adrian Angold

  • Filipino help-seeking for mental health problems and associated barriers and facilitators: a systematic review.

    Andrea B. Martinez;Andrea B. Martinez;Melissa Co;Jennifer Lau;June S. L. Brown

  • Cognitive bias modification training in adolescents : effects on interpretation biases and mood

    Claudia Lothmann;Emily A. Holmes;Stella W.Y. Chan;Stella W.Y. Chan;Jennifer Y.F. Lau

  • Examining the State-Trait Anxiety Relationship: A Behavioural Genetic Approach.

    Jennifer Y. F. Lau;Thalia C. Eley;Jim Stevenson

  • Social anxiety disorder in adolescence: How developmental cognitive neuroscience findings may shape understanding and interventions for psychopathology.

    Simone P.W. Haller;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Gaia Scerif;Jennifer Y.F. Lau

  • BDNF gene polymorphism (Val66Met) predicts amygdala and anterior hippocampus responses to emotional faces in anxious and depressed adolescents

    Jennifer Y. F. Lau;David Goldman;Beata Buzas;Colin Hodgkinson

  • Disentangling gene-environment correlations and interactions on adolescent depressive symptoms.

    Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Thalia C. Eley

  • Amygdala function and 5-HTT gene variants in adolescent anxiety and major depressive disorder.

    Jennifer Y.F. Lau;David Goldman;Beata Buzas;Stephen J. Fromm

  • I think, therefore I am: a twin study of attributional style in adolescents.

    Jennifer Y.F. Lau;Frühling Rijsdijk;Thalia C. Eley

  • Confidence matching in group decision-making

    Dan Bang;Laurence Aitchison;Laurence Aitchison;Rani Moran;Rani Moran;Santiago Herce Castanon

  • Using real-time fMRI to influence effective connectivity in the developing emotion regulation network.

    Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Qiang Luo;Calem de Burca;Moses O. Sokunbi;Moses O. Sokunbi

Frequent Co-Authors

Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey
Alice M. Gregory
Alice M. Gregory Goldsmiths University of London
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Emily A. Holmes
Emily A. Holmes Uppsala University
Bahador Bahrami
Bahador Bahrami Max Planck Society
Veena Kumari
Veena Kumari Brunel University London
Eric E. Nelson
Eric E. Nelson The Ohio State University
Gaia Scerif
Gaia Scerif University of Oxford
Shmuel Lissek
Shmuel Lissek University of Minnesota

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