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Overview

Joel T. Nigg is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related areas within medicine, neuroscience, and psychology.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these broader fields, their research extends to several subfields such as:

  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The primary research topics addressed by Joel T. Nigg include:

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Their recent publications cover core issues in ADHD research and developmental psychology, including:

  • Development of ADHD: Etiology, Heterogeneity, and Early Life Course (2020), published in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology
  • Toward a Revised Nosology for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Heterogeneity (2020), published in Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Other notable recent papers to which they have contributed include:

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder (2021), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Annual Research Review: Perspectives on progress in ADHD science - from characterization to cause (2022), published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Large epigenome-wide association study of childhood ADHD identifies peripheral DNA methylation associated with disease and polygenic risk burden (2020), published in Translational Psychiatry

Their frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Sarah L. Karalunas
  • Michael A. Mooney
  • Damien A. Fair
  • Hanna Gustafsson
  • Peter Ryabinin

Joel T. Nigg's work is often published in venues such as:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • JCPP Advances
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Validity of the executive function theory of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analytic review.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Alysa E. Doyle;Joel T. Nigg;Stephen V. Faraone

  • The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism

    A Di Martino;C-G Yan;Q Li;E Denio

  • On inhibition/disinhibition in developmental psychopathology: Views from cognitive and personality psychology and a working inhibition taxonomy.

    Joel T. Nigg

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan

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  • Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Philip Shaw;Argyris Stringaris;Joel Nigg;Ellen Leibenluft

  • Annual Research Review: On the relations among self-regulation, self-control, executive functioning, effortful control, cognitive control, impulsivity, risk-taking, and inhibition for developmental psychopathology

    Joel T. Nigg

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder

    Stephen V. Faraone;Tobias Banaschewski;David Coghill;Yi Zheng

  • Is ADHD a Disinhibitory Disorder

    Joel T. Nigg

  • Temperament and developmental psychopathology

    Joel T. Nigg

  • Causal heterogeneity in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: do we need neuropsychologically impaired subtypes?

    Joel T. Nigg;Erik G. Willcutt;Alysa E. Doyle;Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke

  • Validity of DSM-IV attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptom dimensions and subtypes.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Joel T. Nigg;Bruce F. Pennington;Mary V. Solanto

  • An integrative theory of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder based on the cognitive and affective neurosciences.

    Joel T. Nigg;B. J. Casey

  • Etiologic subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: brain imaging, molecular genetic and environmental factors and the dopamine hypothesis.

    James M. Swanson;Marcel Kinsbourne;Joel Nigg;Bruce Lanphear

  • Neuropsychological executive functions and DSM-IV ADHD subtypes.

    Joel T. Nigg;Lisa G. Blaskey;Cynthia L. Huang-Pollock;Marsha D. Rappley

  • Neuropsychologic theory and findings in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the state of the field and salient challenges for the coming decade.

    Joel T. Nigg

  • Poor response inhibition as a predictor of problem drinking and illicit drug use in adolescents at risk for alcoholism and other substance use disorders.

    Joel T. Nigg;Maria M. Wong;Michelle M. Martel;Jennifer M. Jester

  • Enhancing studies of the connectome in autism using the autism brain imaging data exchange II

    Adriana Di Martino;David O'Connor;David O'Connor;Bosi Chen;Kaat Alaerts

  • What causes ADHD? : understanding what goes wrong and why

    Joel T. Nigg

  • Executive Dysfunction and Delay Aversion in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Nosologic and Diagnostic Implications

    Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke;Joseph A. Sergeant;Joel Nigg;Erik Willcutt

  • Distinct neuropsychological subgroups in typically developing youth inform heterogeneity in children with ADHD

    Damien A. Fair;Deepti Bathula;Deepti Bathula;Molly A. Nikolas;Joel T. Nigg

  • Distinct neural signatures detected for ADHD subtypes after controlling for micro-movements in resting state functional connectivity MRI data.

    Damien A. Fair;Joel T. Nigg;Swathi Iyer;Deepti Bathula;Deepti Bathula

  • Parent stress and coping in relation to child ADHD severity and associated child disruptive behavior problems.

    Cheryl Lynn Podolski;Joel T. Nigg

Frequent Co-Authors

Michelle M. Martel
Michelle M. Martel University of Kentucky
Robert A. Zucker
Robert A. Zucker University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Hiram E. Fitzgerald Michigan State University
Bonnie J. Nagel
Bonnie J. Nagel Oregon Health & Science University
Maria M. Wong
Maria M. Wong Idaho State University
Kenneth M. Adams
Kenneth M. Adams University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Stephen P. Hinshaw
Stephen P. Hinshaw University of California, Berkeley
Jaap Oosterlaan
Jaap Oosterlaan University of Amsterdam
Alexander von Eye
Alexander von Eye Michigan State University

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