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John G. Kerns is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their work places significant emphasis on subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics with a focus on functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and mental health research topics. Other main areas include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, schizophrenia research and treatment, mental health and psychiatry, and neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

John G. Kerns has contributed to numerous scholarly articles. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Prospective Study Examining the Effects of Extreme Drinking on Brain Structure in Emerging Adults" (2020), published in Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research
  • "Positive schizotypy, maladaptive openness, and openness facets." (2020), published in Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • "Functional connectivity between the ventral anterior cingulate and amygdala during implicit emotional conflict regulation and daily-life emotion dysregulation" (2021), published in Neuropsychologia
  • "Daily-Life Negative Affect in Emotional Distress Disorders Associated with Altered Frontoinsular Emotion Regulation Activation and Cortical Gyrification" (2020), published in Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • "Alcohol use in young adults associated with cortical gyrification" (2020), published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John G. Kerns include:

  • Jessica P.Y. Hua
  • Kelsey T. Straub
  • Anne M. Merrill
  • Timothy J. Trull
  • Cassandra L. Boness

John G. Kerns often publishes in specific academic venues including:

  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Brain Imaging and Behavior

Best Publications

  • Anterior cingulate conflict monitoring and adjustments in control

    John G. Kerns;John G. Kerns;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen;Angus W. MacDonald;Raymond Y. Cho;Raymond Y. Cho

  • Specificity of prefrontal dysfunction and context processing deficits to schizophrenia in never-medicated patients with first-episode psychosis.

    Angus W. MacDonald;Cameron S. Carter;John G. Kerns;Stefan Ursu

  • Decreased Conflict- and Error-Related Activity in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Subjects With Schizophrenia

    John G. Kerns;Jonathan D. Cohen;Angus W. MacDonald;Melissa K. Johnson

  • Anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex activity in an FMRI study of trial-to-trial adjustments on the Simon task

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  • Cognitive impairments associated with formal thought disorder in people with schizophrenia.

    John G. Kerns;Howard Berenbaum

  • The dimensions of emotional intelligence, alexithymia, and mood awareness: Associations with personality and performance on an emotional stroop task

    Erin Coffey;Howard Berenbaum;John G. Kerns

  • Executive Functioning Component Mechanisms and Schizophrenia

    John G. Kerns;Keith H. Nuechterlein;Todd S. Braver;M Deanna

  • The relation between gender and negative attitudes toward gay men and lesbians: Do gender role attitudes mediate this relation?

    John G. Kerns;Mark A. Fine;Mark A. Fine

  • The Aberrant Salience Inventory: A new measure of psychosis proneness.

    David C. Cicero;John G. Kerns;Denis M. McCarthy

  • Schizotypy facets, cognitive control, and emotion.

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  • The influence of positive mood on different aspects of cognitive control

    Elizabeth A. Martin;John G. Kerns

  • Positive schizotypy and emotion processing

    John G. Kerns

  • Psychological Trauma and Schizotypal Symptoms

    Howard Berenbaum;Eve M. Valera;John G. Kerns

  • Prefrontal Cortex Guides Context-Appropriate Responding during Language Production

    John G Kerns;Jonathan D Cohen;Jonathan D Cohen;V.Andrew Stenger;Cameron S Carter;Cameron S Carter

  • Communication disturbances, working memory, and emotion in people with elevated disorganized schizotypy.

    John G. Kerns;Theresa M. Becker

  • The relationship between formal thought disorder and executive functioning component processes.

    John G. Kerns;Howard Berenbaum

  • Anomalous experiences, peculiarity, and psychopathology.

    Howard Berenbaum;John Kerns;Chitra Raghavan

  • Aberrant semantic and affective processing in people at risk for psychosis.

    John G. Kerns;Howard Berenbaum

  • The role of aberrant salience and self-concept clarity in psychotic-like experiences.

    David C. Cicero;Theresa M. Becker;Elizabeth A. Martin;Anna R. Docherty

  • Word production in schizophrenia and its relationship to positive symptoms.

    John G. Kerns;Howard Berenbaum;M Deanna;Marie T. Banich

  • Correspondence between psychometric and clinical high risk for psychosis in an undergraduate population.

    David C. Cicero;Elizabeth A. Martin;Theresa M. Becker;Anna R. Docherty

  • Prefrontal dysfunction in first-degree relatives of schizophrenia patients during a Stroop task.

    Theresa M. Becker;John G. Kerns;Angus W. MacDonald;Cameron S. Carter

  • Multidimensional factor structure of positive schizotypy.

    David C. Cicero;John G. Kerns

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Cicero
David C. Cicero University of North Texas
Timothy J. Trull
Timothy J. Trull University of Missouri
Thomas M. Piasecki
Thomas M. Piasecki University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kenneth J. Sher
Kenneth J. Sher University of Missouri
Drew H. Bailey
Drew H. Bailey University of California, Irvine
Howard Berenbaum
Howard Berenbaum University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce D. Bartholow
Bruce D. Bartholow University of Missouri
Nelson Cowan
Nelson Cowan University of Missouri
Andrea Raballo
Andrea Raballo University of Perugia
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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