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Overview

Deanna M. Barch is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting disciplines within medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology.

The main fields of study covered in their work include Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Within these broad areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

Their research topics reflect this multidisciplinary approach and include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Barch has published regularly in well-known scientific journals and venues. Key frequent publication venues include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Their recent publications highlight a range of topics at the intersection of brain science and mental health:

  • Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals, 2022, Nature
  • Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, 2023, JAMA
  • A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex, 2023, Nature
  • The ABCD study: understanding the development of risk for mental and physical health outcomes, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Associations Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Childhood Outcomes, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry

In terms of collaboration, Barch has frequently co-authored with several researchers including Joan L. Luby, Cynthia Rogers, Scott L. Rauch, Arielle Baskin-Sommers, and Raquel E. Gur. These collaborations reflect sustained partnerships contributing to significant publication outputs across mental health and neuroscience fields.

Best Publications

  • Conflict monitoring and cognitive control.

    Matthew M. Botvinick;Todd S. Braver;Deanna M. Barch;Cameron S. Carter

  • The WU-Minn Human Connectome Project: An Overview

    David C. Van Essen;Stephen M. Smith;M Deanna;Timothy Edward John Behrens

  • Anterior cingulate cortex, error detection, and the online monitoring of performance

    Cameron S. Carter;Cameron S. Carter;Todd S. Braver;Todd S. Braver;M Deanna;M Deanna;Matthew M. Botvinick;Matthew M. Botvinick

  • The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

    D. C. Van Essen;Kamil Ugurbil;Edward J Auerbach

  • The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, Part 1: Test Selection, Reliability, and Validity

    Keith H. Nuechterlein;Michael F. Green;Robert S. Kern;Lyle E. Baade

  • Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals

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  • Prediction of Individual Brain Maturity Using fMRI

    Nico U.F. Dosenbach;Binyam Nardos;Alexander L. Cohen;Damien A. Fair

  • 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

  • Function in the human connectome: Task-fMRI and individual differences in behavior

    M Deanna;Gregory C. Burgess;Michael P. Harms;Steven E. Petersen

  • The default mode network and self-referential processes in depression

    Yvette I. Sheline;M Deanna;Joseph L. Price;Melissa M. Rundle

  • Identification of separable cognitive factors in schizophrenia.

    Keith H. Nuechterlein;M Deanna;James M. Gold;Terry E. Goldberg

  • The maturing architecture of the brain's default network.

    Damien A. Fair;Alexander L. Cohen;Nico U. F. Dosenbach;Jessica A. Church

  • Increased amygdala response to masked emotional faces in depressed subjects resolves with antidepressant treatment: an fMRI study

    Yvette I. Sheline;M Deanna;Julie M. Donnelly;John M. Ollinger

  • Development of distinct control networks through segregation and integration

    Damien A. Fair;Nico U. F. Dosenbach;Jessica A. Church;Alexander L. Cohen

  • Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Response Conflict: Effects of Frequency, Inhibition and Errors

    Todd S. Braver;M Deanna;Jeremy R. Gray;David L. Molfese

  • Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

    Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

  • Approaching a consensus cognitive battery for clinical trials in schizophrenia: The NIMH-MATRICS conference to select cognitive domains and test criteria

    Michael F. Green;Keith H. Nuechterlein;James M. Gold;M Deanna

  • Functional connectomics from resting-state fMRI

    S.M. Smith;D. Vidaurre;Christian Beckmann;Christian Beckmann;Christian Beckmann;M.F. Glasser

  • Definition and description of schizophrenia in the DSM-5

    Rajiv Tandon;Wolfgang Gaebel;M Deanna;Juan Bustillo

  • The Effects of Poverty on Childhood Brain Development: The Mediating Effect of Caregiving and Stressful Life Events

    Joan Luby;Andy Belden;Kelly Botteron;Natasha Marrus

  • A theory of cognitive control, aging cognition, and neuromodulation

    Todd S Braver;Deanna M

  • Cognition in schizophrenia: core psychological and neural mechanisms.

    M Deanna;Alan Ceaser

  • PRIORITY COMMUNICATION Increased Amygdala Response to Masked Emotional Faces in Depressed Subjects Resolves with Antidepressant Treatment: An fMRI Study

    Yvette I. Sheline;M Deanna;Julie M. Donnelly;John M. Ollinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan L. Luby
Joan L. Luby Washington University in St. Louis
Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter University of California, Irvine
Michael P. Harms
Michael P. Harms Washington University in St. Louis
James M. Gold
James M. Gold University of Maryland, Baltimore
Steven M. Silverstein
Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center
Todd S. Braver
Todd S. Braver Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Angus W. MacDonald
Angus W. MacDonald University of Minnesota
Diana J. Whalen
Diana J. Whalen Washington University in St. Louis
Lei Wang
Lei Wang Northwestern University

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