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Kim Wallen is a researcher affiliated with Emory University in the United States, with a focus on medicine and psychology. Their work spans across clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, speech and hearing, social psychology, and behavioral neuroscience. The primary research interests of Wallen involve maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, primate behavior and ecology, stress responses and cortisol, hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones, and sexual function and dysfunction studies.

Wallen has published research articles in various academic venues, including:

  • Transgender Health
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Biological Psychiatry

Some recent publications by Wallen include:

  • Protection or Pleasure: The Role of Genital Arousal in Sexual Intercourse, 2020, Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Hormones and Behavior: An emergent journal, 2020, Hormones and Behavior

Wallen also contributed as a co-author on research published in 2020 on the methodologies used to evaluate the neurodevelopmental effects of pubertal suppression in transgender youth (published in Transgender Health), and on a 2025 study on the impacts of exogenous estradiol on episodic memory and neural encoding of conditioned threat in women (Biological Psychiatry).

The researcher frequently collaborates with other academics including Diane Chen, John F. Strang, Victoria D. Kolbuck, Stephen M. Rosenthal, and Deborah P. Waber. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary approaches within their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Summary of the recommendations on sexual dysfunctions in men

    Francesco Montorsi;Ganesan Adaikan;Edgardo Becher;Francois Giuliano

  • Men and women differ in amygdala response to visual sexual stimuli

    Stephan Hamann;Rebecca A Herman;Carla L Nolan;Kim Wallen;Kim Wallen

  • Hormonal influences on sexually differentiated behavior in nonhuman primates

    Kim Wallen

  • Sex Differences in Response to Visual Sexual Stimuli: A Review

    Heather A. Rupp;Kim Wallen

  • Sex and context: hormones and primate sexual motivation.

    Kim Wallen

  • Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children.

    Janice M. Hassett;Erin R. Siebert;Kim Wallen;Kim Wallen

  • Sex differences in viewing sexual stimuli: an eye-tracking study in men and women.

    Heather A. Rupp;Kim Wallen

  • Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder: International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH) Expert Consensus Panel Review

    Irwin Goldstein;Noel N. Kim;Anita H. Clayton;Leonard R. DeRogatis

  • Nature Needs Nurture: The Interaction of Hormonal and Social Influences on the Development of Behavioral Sex Differences in Rhesus Monkeys

    Kim Wallen

  • Desire and ability: Hormones and the regulation of female sexual behavior

    Kim Wallen

  • Variation in Orgasm Occurrence by Sexual Orientation in a Sample of U.S. Singles

    Justin R. Garcia;Elisabeth A. Lloyd;Kim Wallen;Helen E. Fisher;Helen E. Fisher

  • Low-status monkeys "play dumb" when learning in mixed social groups.

    Christine M. Drea;Kim Wallen

  • Gonadal influence on agonistic behavior in the male domestic rat

    Barfield Rj;Busch De;Wallen K

  • Female sexual arousal: Genital anatomy and orgasm in intercourse

    Kim Wallen;Elisabeth A. Lloyd

  • Increasing women's sexual desire: The comparative effectiveness of estrogens and androgens.

    Maurand Cappelletti;Kim Wallen

  • Masculinization and Defeminization in Altricial and Precocial Mammals: Comparative Aspects of Steroid Hormone Action

    Kim Wallen;Michael J. Baum

  • The Organizational Hypothesis: Reflections on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Phoenix, Goy, Gerall, and Young (1959).

    Kim Wallen

  • Periovulatory changes in female sexual behavior and patterns of ovarian steroid secretion in group-living rhesus monkeys

    Kim Wallen;Linda A. Winston;Suzanne Gaventa;Maryann Davis-DaSilva

  • The effects of postmenopausal hormone therapies on female sexual functioning: a review of double-blind, randomized controlled trials.

    Jeanne Leventhal Alexander;Krista Kotz;Lorraine Dennerstein;S. Jerome Kutner

  • Timing of prenatal androgen exposure: anatomical and endocrine effects on juvenile male and female rhesus monkeys.

    Rebecca A. Herman;Benjamin Jones;David R. Mann;Kim Wallen

  • Hormonal inXuences on sexually diVerentiated behavior in nonhuman primates

    Kim Wallen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jocelyne Bachevalier
Jocelyne Bachevalier Emory University
Dario Maestripieri
Dario Maestripieri University of Chicago
Deborah M. Power
Deborah M. Power University of Algarve
Andrea C. Gore
Andrea C. Gore The University of Texas at Austin
Patrick R. Hof
Patrick R. Hof Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David Crews
David Crews The University of Texas at Austin
Randy J. Nelson
Randy J. Nelson West Virginia University
Zuoxin Wang
Zuoxin Wang Florida State University
David R. Grattan
David R. Grattan University of Otago
Tucker Balch
Tucker Balch Emory University

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