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Leanne M. Williams

Leanne M. Williams

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
116
Citations
38745
World Ranking
686
National Ranking
417

Neuroscience

D-Index
118
Citations
40758
World Ranking
414
National Ranking
245

Psychology

D-Index
117
Citations
40420
World Ranking
300
National Ranking
188

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Leanne M. Williams is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields of study, primarily Neuroscience, Psychology, and Medicine. Within these broad domains, their work focuses heavily on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's main research topics include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Mental Health Research Topics, Treatment of Major Depression, and aspects of Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes. Their studies also encompass Neural and Behavioral Psychology and investigations related to Tryptophan and brain disorders, as well as Stress Responses and Cortisol.

Williams has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

  • Mapping Neural Circuit Biotypes to Symptoms and Behavioral Dimensions of Depression and Anxiety (2021, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Personalized brain circuit scores identify clinically distinct biotypes in depression and anxiety (2024, Nature Medicine)
  • The impact of COVID-19 on mental health: The interactive roles of brain biotypes and human connection (2020, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health)
  • New and emerging approaches to treat psychiatric disorders (2023, Nature Medicine)
  • Reduced functional connectivity of default mode network subsystems in depression: Meta-analytic evidence and relationship with trait rumination (2021, NeuroImage Clinical)

The frequent venues where Williams has published include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Williams often collaborates with several coauthors, including Laura M. Hack, Xue Zhang, Jun Ma, Leonardo Tozzi, and Mayuresh S. Korgaonkar. These collaborations have contributed significantly to advancing research in mental health and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • A direct brainstem–amygdala–cortical ‘alarm’ system for subliminal signals of fear

    Belinda J. Liddell;Kerri J. Brown;Andrew H. Kemp;Matthew J. Barton

  • Causal interactions between fronto-parietal central executive and default-mode networks in humans

    Ashley C. Chen;Desmond J. Oathes;Catie Chang;Travis Bradley

  • Resting-State Functional MRI: Everything That Nonexperts Have Always Wanted to Know.

    H. Lv;Z. Wang;E. Tong;L.M. Williams

  • Interactions between BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and early life stress predict brain and arousal pathways to syndromal depression and anxiety

    J. M. Gatt;Charles Nemeroff;C. Dobson-Stone;C. Dobson-Stone;C. Dobson-Stone;R. H. Paul

  • Precision psychiatry: a neural circuit taxonomy for depression and anxiety

    Leanne M Williams

  • Synchronous Gamma activity: a review and contribution to an integrative neuroscience model of schizophrenia

    Kwang-Hyuk Lee;Leanne M. Williams;Michael Breakspear;Evian Gordon

  • Early Life Stress and Morphometry of the Adult Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Caudate Nuclei

    Ronald A. Cohen;Stuart Grieve;Karin F. Hoth;Robert H. Paul

  • Small‐world properties of nonlinear brain activity in schizophrenia

    Mikail Rubinov;Stuart A. Knock;Cornelis J. Stam;Sifis Micheloyannis

  • The new field of ‘precision psychiatry’

    Brisa S. Fernandes;Brisa S. Fernandes;Brisa S. Fernandes;Leanne M. Williams;Leanne M. Williams;Johann Steiner;Marion Leboyer

  • Brain maturation in adolescence: concurrent changes in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.

    Thomas J. Whitford;Christopher J. Rennie;Christopher J. Rennie;Stuart M. Grieve;C. Richard Clark

  • Cognitive Aging, Executive Function, and Fractional Anisotropy: A Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging Study

    S.M. Grieve;L.M. Williams;R.H. Paul;C.R. Clark

  • Trauma modulates amygdala and medial prefrontal responses to consciously attended fear

    Leanne M. Williams;Andrew H. Kemp;Andrew H. Kemp;Andrew H. Kemp;Kim Felmingham;Kim Felmingham;Matthew J. Barton

  • Face to face: visual scanpath evidence for abnormal processing of facial expressions in social phobia.

    Kaye Horley;Kaye Horley;Leanne M Williams;Leanne M Williams;Craig Gonsalvez;Evian Gordon;Evian Gordon

  • Widespread reductions in gray matter volume in depression.

    Stuart M. Grieve;Mayuresh S. Korgaonkar;Stephen H. Koslow;Evian Gordon

  • The Mellow Years?: Neural Basis of Improving Emotional Stability over Age

    Leanne M Williams;Kerri J Brown;Donna Palmer;Belinda J Liddell

  • Differential neural responses to overt and covert presentations of facial expressions of fear and disgust

    Mary L. Phillips;Leanne M. Williams;Maike Heining;Catherine M. Herba

  • Dysregulation of Arousal and Amygdala-Prefrontal Systems in Paranoid Schizophrenia

    Leanne M. Williams;Pritha Das;Anthony W.F. Harris;Belinda B. Liddell

  • Amygdala and ventral anterior cingulate activation predicts treatment response to cognitive behaviour therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder.

    RA Bryant;KL Felmingham;A Kemp;P Das

  • Abnormal structural networks characterize major depressive disorder: a connectome analysis.

    Mayuresh S. Korgaonkar;Alex Fornito;Leanne M. Williams;Stuart M. Grieve

  • Arousal dissociates amygdala and hippocampal fear responses: evidence from simultaneous fMRI and skin conductance recording.

    Leanne M. Williams;Mary L. Phillips;Michael J. Brammer;David Skerrett

Frequent Co-Authors

Evian Gordon
Evian Gordon University of Sydney
Mayuresh S. Korgaonkar
Mayuresh S. Korgaonkar University of Sydney
Stuart M. Grieve
Stuart M. Grieve University of Sydney
Richard A. Bryant
Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Andrew H. Kemp
Andrew H. Kemp Swansea University
C. Richard Clark
C. Richard Clark Flinders University
Kim L Felmingham
Kim L Felmingham University of Melbourne
Carol Dobson-Stone
Carol Dobson-Stone University of Sydney
Amit Etkin
Amit Etkin Stanford University

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