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  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kevin S. LaBar is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans a broad range of topics within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, mental health, and neurology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation

Kevin S. LaBar's prominent recent publications include:

  • Brain Structure in Acutely Underweight and Partially Weight-Restored Individuals With Anorexia Nervosa: A Coordinated Analysis by the ENIGMA Eating Disorders Working Group, 2022, Biological Psychiatry
  • Mood-congruent memory revisited., 2022, Psychological Review
  • Neural correlates of conceptual-level fear generalization in posttraumatic stress disorder, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Proximal threats promote enhanced acquisition and persistence of reactive fear-learning circuits, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Enhancing Cognitive Restructuring with Concurrent Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Transdiagnostic Randomized Controlled Trial, 2021, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Brain stimulation
  • Biological Psychiatry

Kevin S. LaBar collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • John L. Graner
  • Andrada D. Neacsiu
  • Leonard Faul
  • Lysianne Beynel
  • Moria J. Smoski

The scientist's award history includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory

    Kevin S LaBar;Roberto Cabeza

  • HUMAN AMYGDALA ACTIVATION DURING CONDITIONED FEAR ACQUISITION AND EXTINCTION : A MIXED-TRIAL FMRI STUDY

    Kevin S LaBar;J.Christopher Gatenby;John C Gore;Joseph E LeDoux

  • Impaired fear conditioning following unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans

    Kevin S. LaBar;Joseph E. LeDoux;Dennis D. Spencer;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Interaction between the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system predicts better memory for emotional events.

    Florin Dolcos;Florin Dolcos;Kevin S LaBar;Roberto Cabeza

  • A large-scale distributed network for covert spatial attention: further anatomical delineation based on stringent behavioural and cognitive controls.

    Darren R. Gitelman;Anna C. Nobre;Anna C. Nobre;Todd B. Parrish;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Emotional intensity predicts autobiographical memory experience.

    Jennifer M. Talarico;Kevin S. LaBar;David C. Rubin

  • Remembering one year later: Role of the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system in retrieving emotional memories

    Florin Dolcos;Kevin S. LaBar;Roberto Cabeza

  • Neuroanatomic Overlap of Working Memory and Spatial Attention Networks: A Functional MRI Comparison within Subjects

    Kevin S. LaBar;Darren R. Gitelman;Todd B. Parrish;M.-Marsel Mesulam

  • A comparison of automated segmentation and manual tracing for quantifying hippocampal and amygdala volumes

    Rajendra A. Morey;Christopher M. Petty;Christopher M. Petty;Yuan Xu;Jasmeet Pannu Hayes;Jasmeet Pannu Hayes

  • Dissociable prefrontal brain systems for attention and emotion.

    Hiroshi Yamasaki;Kevin S. LaBar;Gregory McCarthy

  • Dissociable effects of arousal and valence on prefrontal activity indexing emotional evaluation and subsequent memory: an event-related fMRI study.

    Florin Dolcos;Kevin S. LaBar;Roberto Cabeza

  • Arousal-Mediated Memory Consolidation: Role of the Medial Temporal Lobe in Humans

    K. S. LaBar;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Hunger selectively modulates corticolimbic activation to food stimuli in humans.

    Kevin S. LaBar;Darren R. Gitelman;Todd B. Parrish;Yun Hee Kim

  • Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence

    Laura A. Thomas;Michael D. De Bellis;Reiko Graham;Reiko Graham;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Brain Activity during Episodic Retrieval of Autobiographical and Laboratory Events: An fMRI Study using a Novel Photo Paradigm

    Roberto Cabeza;Steve E. Prince;Sander M. Daselaar;Daniel L. Greenberg

  • The large-scale neural network for spatial attention displays multifunctional overlap but differential asymmetry.

    Yun Hee Kim;Darren R. Gitelman;Anna C. Nobre;Todd B. Parrish

  • Dynamic Perception of Facial Affect and Identity in the Human Brain

    Kevin S. LaBar;Michael J. Crupain;James T. Voyvodic;Gregory McCarthy

  • fMRI studies of successful emotional memory encoding: A quantitative meta-analysis

    Vishnu P. Murty;Maureen Ritchey;R. Alison Adcock;Kevin S. LaBar

  • The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Autobiographical Memory: Neural Correlates of Recall, Emotional Intensity, and Reliving

    Sander M. Daselaar;Heather J. Rice;Daniel L. Greenberg;Daniel L. Greenberg;Roberto Cabeza

  • Structural magnetic resonance imaging in bipolar disorder: an international collaborative mega-analysis of individual adult patient data.

    Brian Hallahan;John Newell;Jair C. Soares;Paolo Brambilla;Paolo Brambilla

  • Reprint of: fMRI studies of successful emotional memory encoding: a quantitative meta-analysis.

    Vishnu P. Murty;Maureen Ritchey;R. Alison Adcock;Kevin S. LaBar

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory McCarthy
Gregory McCarthy Yale University
Rajendra A. Morey
Rajendra A. Morey Duke University
Darren R. Gitelman
Darren R. Gitelman Northwestern University
Todd B. Parrish
Todd B. Parrish Northwestern University
Roberto Cabeza
Roberto Cabeza Duke University
M.-Marsel Mesulam
M.-Marsel Mesulam Northwestern University
Joseph E. Dunsmoor
Joseph E. Dunsmoor The University of Texas at Austin
Anna C. Nobre
Anna C. Nobre Yale University
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Florin Dolcos
Florin Dolcos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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