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Justin S. Feinstein

Justin S. Feinstein

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Neuroscience

D-Index
40
Citations
9795
World Ranking
7985
National Ranking
3429

Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
9754
World Ranking
8102
National Ranking
4341

Overview

Justin S. Feinstein is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience, with a total of 31 publications in Psychology, 27 in Medicine, and 21 in Neuroscience.

The scientist's work delves into several subfields of study, including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics covered in Feinstein's research include:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Frequent publication venues for Feinstein's work encompass bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE, Research Square, and Biological Psychiatry.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Feinstein include:

  • "A Bayesian computational model reveals a failure to adapt interoceptive precision estimates across depression, anxiety, eating, and substance use disorders" (2020, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • "Greater decision uncertainty characterizes a transdiagnostic patient sample during approach-avoidance conflict: a computational modelling approach" (2021, Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience)
  • "Perceptual insensitivity to the modulation of interoceptive signals in depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "Association of Generalized Anxiety Disorder With Autonomic Hypersensitivity and Blunted Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activity During Peripheral Adrenergic Stimulation" (2022, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • "Diminished responses to bodily threat and blunted interoception in suicide attempters" (2020, eLife)

Feinstein has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Sahib S. Khalsa, Martin P. Paulus, Rayus Kuplicki, Jerzy Bodurka, and Ryan Smith.

Best Publications

  • Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

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  • Increased amygdala and insula activation during emotion processing in anxiety-prone subjects.

    M.P.H. Murray B. Stein;Alan N. Simmons;B.S. Justin S. Feinstein;Martin P. Paulus

  • Increased activation in the right insula during risk-taking decision making is related to harm avoidance and neuroticism.

    Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Corianne Rogalsky;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Justin S. Feinstein

  • The Human Amygdala and the Induction and Experience of Fear

    Justin S. Feinstein;Ralph Adolphs;Antonio R. Damasio;Daniel Tranel

  • Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage.

    Justin S Feinstein;Colin Buzza;Rene Hurlemann;Rene Hurlemann;Robin L Follmer

  • The pathways of interoceptive awareness

    Sahib S Khalsa;David Rudrauf;Justin S Feinstein;Daniel Tranel

  • Dose-dependent decrease of activation in bilateral amygdala and insula by lorazepam during emotion processing.

    Martin P. Paulus;Justin S. Feinstein;Gabriel Castillo;Alan N. Simmons

  • An Active Inference Approach to Interoceptive Psychopathology.

    Martin P. Paulus;Justin S. Feinstein;Justin S. Feinstein;Sahib S. Khalsa;Sahib S. Khalsa

  • Preserved Self-Awareness following Extensive Bilateral Brain Damage to the Insula, Anterior Cingulate, and Medial Prefrontal Cortices

    Carissa L. Philippi;Justin S. Feinstein;Sahib S. Khalsa;Antonio Damasio

  • Fear Processing and Social Networking in the Absence of a Functional Amygdala

    Benjamin Becker;Yoan Mihov;Dirk Scheele;Keith Kendrick

  • 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

  • Superior temporal gyrus and insula provide response and outcome-dependent information during assessment and action selection in a decision-making situation.

    Martin P. Paulus;Justin S. Feinstein;David S. Leland;Alan N. Simmons

  • Anterior cingulate activation in high trait anxious subjects is related to altered error processing during decision making

    Martin P. Paulus;Justin S. Feinstein;Alan Simmons;Alan Simmons;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein

  • The Insular Cortex Dynamically Maps Changes in Cardiorespiratory Interoception.

    Mahlega S Hassanpour;W Kyle Simmons;W Kyle Simmons;Justin S Feinstein;Justin S Feinstein;Qingfei Luo

  • Sustained experience of emotion after loss of memory in patients with amnesia

    Justin S. Feinstein;Melissa C. Duff;Daniel Tranel

  • Feelings Without Memory in Alzheimer Disease

    Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez;Justin S. Feinstein;Daniel Tranel

  • Selective impairment of goal-directed decision-making following lesions to the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex

    Justin Reber;Justin S. Feinstein;John P. O’Doherty;Mimi Liljeholm;Mimi Liljeholm

  • Tulsa 1000: a naturalistic study protocol for multilevel assessment and outcome prediction in a large psychiatric sample.

    Teresa A Victor;Sahib S Khalsa;Sahib S Khalsa;W Kyle Simmons;W Kyle Simmons;Justin S Feinstein;Justin S Feinstein

  • Preserved emotional awareness of pain in a patient with extensive bilateral damage to the insula, anterior cingulate, and amygdala

    Justin S. Feinstein;Justin S. Feinstein;Justin S. Feinstein;Sahib S. Khalsa;Sahib S. Khalsa;Sahib S. Khalsa;Tim V. Salomons;Kenneth M. Prkachin

  • Anterior insula reactivity during certain decisions is associated with neuroticism

    Justin S. Feinstein;Murray B. Stein;Martin P. Paulus

  • Report The Human Amygdala and the Induction and Experience of Fear

    Justin S. Feinstein;Ralph Adolphs;Antonio Damasio;Daniel Tranel

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin P. Paulus
Martin P. Paulus Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Sahib S. Khalsa
Sahib S. Khalsa Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Daniel Tranel
Daniel Tranel University of Iowa
W. Kyle Simmons
W. Kyle Simmons Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
René Hurlemann
René Hurlemann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Alan N. Simmons
Alan N. Simmons University of California, San Diego

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