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Katharina Kircanski is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and medicine, with significant expertise in clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

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

Kircanski's main topics of research include areas related to child and adolescent development, mental health, and neurocognitive processes. Specific topics covered in their publications are:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

The scientist has contributed to a range of peer-reviewed publications. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Irritability in Youths: A Critical Integrative Review" (2024), published in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Phasic Versus Tonic Irritability: Differential Associations With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms" (2021), published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Association between irritability and suicidal ideation in three clinical trials of adults with major depressive disorder" (2020), published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Shared and Anxiety-Specific Pediatric Psychopathology Dimensions Manifest Distributed Neural Correlates" (2020), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • "A Randomized Controlled Trial of Computerized Interpretation Bias Training for Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: A Fast-Fail Study" (2021), published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Kircanski frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Their collaborative work includes repeated partnerships with several researchers, among whom the most frequent coauthors are:

  • Melissa A. Brotman
  • Ellen Leibenluft
  • Daniel S. Pine
  • Simone P. Haller
  • Elise M. Cardinale

Best Publications

  • Optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy

    Michelle G. Craske;Katharina Kircanski;Moriel Zelikowsky;Jayson Mystkowski

  • Cognitive aspects of depression

    Katharina Kircanski;Jutta Joormann;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Irritability in Youths: A Translational Model

    Melissa A. Brotman;Katharina Kircanski;Argyris Stringaris;Daniel S. Pine

  • Feelings Into Words Contributions of Language to Exposure Therapy

    Katharina Kircanski;Matthew D. Lieberman;Michelle G. Craske

  • Emotion-Network Density in Major Depressive Disorder

    Madeline Lee Pe;Katharina Kircanski;Renee J. Thompson;Laura F. Bringmann

  • Irritability in Children and Adolescents.

    Melissa A. Brotman;Katharina Kircanski;Ellen Leibenluft

  • Panic disorder: a review of DSM-IV panic disorder and proposals for DSM-V.

    Michelle G. Craske;Katharina Kircanski;Alyssa Epstein;Hans‐Ulrich Wittchen

  • Challenges to the traditional exposure paradigm: Variability in exposure therapy for contamination fears

    Katharina Kircanski;Arezou Mortazavi;Natalie Castriotta;Aaron S. Baker

  • Subtypes of panic attacks: a critical review of the empirical literature

    Katharina Kircanski;Michelle G. Craske;Alyssa M. Epstein;Hans‐Ulrich Wittchen

  • Rumination and Worry in Daily Life: Examining the Naturalistic Validity of Theoretical Constructs.

    Katharina Kircanski;Renee J. Thompson;James E. Sorenson;Lindsey Sherdell

  • Intraclass correlation: improved modeling approaches and applications for neuroimaging

    Gang Chen;Paul A. Taylor;Simone P. Haller;Katharina Kircanski

  • Investigating the nature of co-occurring depression and anxiety: Comparing diagnostic and dimensional research approaches

    Katharina Kircanski;Joelle LeMoult;Sarah Ordaz;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Negative Self-Referential Processing Predicts the Recurrence of Major Depressive Episodes:

    Joelle LeMoult;Katharina Kircanski;Gautam Prasad;Ian H. Gotlib

  • A Latent Variable Approach to Differentiating Neural Mechanisms of Irritability and Anxiety in Youth.

    Katharina Kircanski;Lauren K White;Wan-Ling Tseng;Jillian Lee Wiggins;Jillian Lee Wiggins

  • Brain Mechanisms of Attention Orienting Following Frustration: Associations With Irritability and Age in Youths

    Wan-Ling Tseng;Christen M. Deveney;Joel Stoddard;Katharina Kircanski

  • HPA-Axis Reactivity Interacts with Stage of Pubertal Development to Predict the Onset of Depression

    Natalie L. Colich;Katharina Kircanski;Lara C. Foland-Ross;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Exposure and Response Prevention Process Predicts Treatment Outcome in Youth with OCD

    Katharina Kircanski;Tara S. Peris

  • Emotional arousal may increase susceptibility to fraud in older and younger adults.

    Katharina Kircanski;Nanna Notthoff;Marguerite DeLiema;Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

  • Predicting first onset of depression in young girls: Interaction of diurnal cortisol and negative life events.

    Joelle LeMoult;Sarah J. Ordaz;Katharina Kircanski;Manpreet K. Singh

  • Heart rate variability as a biomarker of anxious depression response to antidepressant medication

    Katharina Kircanski;Leanne M. Williams;Ian H. Gotlib

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Melissa A. Brotman
Melissa A. Brotman National Institutes of Health
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Yair Bar-Haim
Yair Bar-Haim Tel Aviv University
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
John Piacentini
John Piacentini University of California, Los Angeles
Giovanni Abrahão Salum
Giovanni Abrahão Salum Child Mind Institute

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