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Kathleen M. Thomas is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, and behavioral neuroscience.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Among notable recent papers authored by Kathleen M. Thomas are:

  • Validation of an online version of the Trier Social Stress Test in a study of adolescents (2020), published in Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Graded Variation in T1w/T2w Ratio during Adolescence: Measurement, Caveats, and Implications for Development of Cortical Myelin (2022), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • Accelerated maturation in functional connectivity following early life stress: Circuit specific or broadly distributed? (2021), published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Age-related differences in resting-state functional connectivity from childhood to adolescence (2023), published in Cerebral Cortex
  • Measurement matters: An individual differences examination of family socioeconomic factors, latent dimensions of children's experiences, and resting state functional brain connectivity in the ABCD sample (2021), published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kathleen M. Thomas include:

  • Ruskin H. Hunt
  • Megan R. Gunnar
  • Jeremy Harper
  • Stephen M. Malone
  • Sylia Wilson

Their research outputs have appeared repeatedly in several journals, with multiple publications in:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Network Neuroscience

The scientific output of Kathleen M. Thomas demonstrates a focus on understanding functional and structural brain connectivity, particularly related to adolescent development and the impact of early life stress. Their work integrates advanced neuroimaging methods to explore neural dynamics and the biological basis for psychological conditions.

Best Publications

  • The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study: Imaging acquisition across 21 sites.

    B.J. Casey;B.J. Casey;Tariq Cannonier;May I. Conley;May I. Conley;Alexandra O. Cohen

  • Structural and functional brain development and its relation to cognitive development.

    B.J. Casey;Jay N. Giedd;Kathleen M. Thomas

  • Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation.

    Nim Tottenham;Todd A. Hare;Brian T. Quinn;Thomas W. McCarry

  • Failure of frontolimbic inhibitory function in the context of negative emotion in borderline personality disorder.

    David Silbersweig;John F. Clarkin;Martin Goldstein;Otto F. Kernberg

  • Cognitive and brain consequences of conflict.

    Jin Fan;Jonathan I. Flombaum;Bruce D. McCandliss;Kathleen M. Thomas

  • Differential patterns of striatal activation in young children with and without ADHD.

    Sarah Durston;Sarah Durston;Nim T. Tottenham;Kathleen M. Thomas;Matthew C. Davidson

  • A neural basis for the development of inhibitory control

    Sarah Durston;Kathleen M. Thomas;Yihong Yang;Aziz M. Uluğ

  • Amygdala Response to Fearful Faces in Anxious and Depressed Children

    Kathleen M. Thomas;Wayne C. Drevets;Wayne C. Drevets;Ronald E. Dahl;Neal D. Ryan

  • Amygdala response to facial expressions in children and adults

    Kathleen M. Thomas;Wayne C. Drevets;Paul J. Whalen;Clayton H. Eccard

  • Neurophysiologic evaluation of auditory recognition memory in healthy newborn infants and infants of diabetic mothers

    Raye Ann DeRegnier;Charles A. Nelson;Charles A. Nelson;Kathleen M. Thomas;Sandi Wewerka;Sandi Wewerka

  • Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: Imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects

    Michael P. Harms;Leah H. Somerville;Beau M. Ances;Jesper Andersson

  • Neurocognitive sequelae of infants of diabetic mothers.

    Charles A. Nelson;Sandi Wewerka;Kathleen M. Thomas;Stephanie Tribby-Walbridge

  • Dissociation of response conflict, attentional selection, and expectancy with functional magnetic resonance imaging

    B. J. Casey;Kathleen M. Thomas;Tomihisa F. Welsh;Rajendra D. Badgaiyan

  • A pilot study of amygdala volumes in pediatric generalized anxiety disorder

    Michael D De Bellis;B.J Casey;Ronald E Dahl;Boris Birmaher

  • The effect of preceding context on inhibition: an event-related fMRI study.

    S. Durston;S. Durston;Kathleen M Thomas;M. S. Worden;Y. Yang

  • A Developmental Functional MRI Study of Spatial Working Memory

    Kathleen M. Thomas;Steven W. King;Peter L. Franzen;Tomihisa F. Welsh

  • Attentional mechanisms of borderline personality disorder

    Michael I. Posner;Michael I. Posner;Mary K. Rothbart;Mary K. Rothbart;Nathalie Vizueta;Kenneth N. Levy;Kenneth N. Levy

  • The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Development: A large-scale study of brain connectivity development in 5-21 year olds.

    Leah H. Somerville;Susan Y. Bookheimer;Randy L. Buckner;Gregory C. Burgess

  • Evidence of Developmental Differences in Implicit Sequence Learning: An fMRI Study of Children and Adults

    Kathleen M. Thomas;Ruskin H. Hunt;Nathalie Vizueta;Tobias Sommer

  • Functional neuroanatomy of spatial working memory in children.

    Charles A. Nelson;Christopher S. Monk;Joseph Lin;Leslie J. Carver

Frequent Co-Authors

B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota
William G. Iacono
William G. Iacono University of Minnesota
Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
Nim Tottenham
Nim Tottenham Columbia University
Stephen M. Malone
Stephen M. Malone University of Minnesota
Michael I. Posner
Michael I. Posner University of Oregon
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Sheree L. Toth
Sheree L. Toth University of Rochester

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