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Margaret C. McKinnon

Margaret C. McKinnon

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Neuroscience

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51
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9880
World Ranking
5519
National Ranking
322

Psychology

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52
Citations
9936
World Ranking
5018
National Ranking
335

Overview

Margaret C. McKinnon is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the field of psychology. Their work concentrates heavily on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health, with notable contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology as well as epidemiology.

Their research topics encompass several core areas including:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Margaret C. McKinnon's recent publications reflect these interests and include the following papers:

  • The sense of self in the aftermath of trauma: lessons from the default mode network in posttraumatic stress disorder (2020, European journal of psychotraumatology)
  • Classifying heterogeneous presentations of PTSD via the default mode, central executive, and salience networks with machine learning (2020, NeuroImage Clinical)
  • How Processing of Sensory Information From the Internal and External Worlds Shape the Perception and Engagement With the World in the Aftermath of Trauma: Implications for PTSD (2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience)
  • Peripersonal Space and Bodily Self-Consciousness: Implications for Psychological Trauma-Related Disorders (2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience)
  • Potential Circumstances Associated With Moral Injury and Moral Distress in Healthcare Workers and Public Safety Personnel Across the Globe During COVID-19: A Scoping Review (2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry)

Frequent collaborators in their work have included:

  • Ruth A. Lanius
  • Charlene O'Connor
  • Randi E. McCabe
  • Andrea Brown
  • Heather Millman

Margaret C. McKinnon regularly publishes in journals that focus on trauma, mental health, and clinical research. Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Military Veteran and Family Health
  • European journal of psychotraumatology
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy

This researcher has contributed to over 130 publications in the broad field of psychology, with nearly 100 of those specifically in clinical psychology. Their work intersects neurobiological, psychological, and epidemiological perspectives to better understand trauma-related disorders and resilience factors. The scope of their studies includes in-depth exploration of brain networks involved in posttraumatic stress disorder, sensory processing after trauma, and psychosocial impacts on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • The functional neuroanatomy of autobiographical memory: a meta-analysis.

    Eva Svoboda;Margaret C. McKinnon;Brian Levine

  • The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures

    R. Nathan Spreng;Margaret C. McKinnon;Raymond A. Mar;Brian Levine

  • A meta-analysis examining clinical predictors of hippocampal volume in patients with major depressive disorder.

    Margaret C. McKinnon;Kaan Yucel;Anthony Nazarov;Glenda M. MacQueen

  • Mindfulness-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder: A review of the treatment literature and neurobiological evidence.

    Jenna E. Boyd;Ruth A. Lanius;Margaret C. McKinnon

  • Domain-general contributions to social reasoning: theory of mind and deontic reasoning re-explored

    Margaret C. McKinnon;Morris Moscovitch

  • Systematic review of the neural basis of social cognition in patients with mood disorders.

    Andrée M. Cusi;Anthony Nazarov;Katherine Holshausen;Glenda M. MacQueen

  • The neurobiology of emotion regulation in posttraumatic stress disorder: Amygdala downregulation via real-time fMRI neurofeedback.

    Andrew A. Nicholson;Daniela Rabellino;Maria Densmore;Paul A. Frewen

  • Restoring large-scale brain networks in PTSD and related disorders: a proposal for neuroscientifically-informed treatment interventions

    Ruth A. Lanius;Paul A. Frewen;Mischa Tursich;Rakesh Jetly

  • Bilateral hippocampal volume increases after long-term lithium treatment in patients with bipolar disorder: a longitudinal MRI study.

    Kaan Yucel;Margaret C. McKinnon;Valerie H. Taylor;Kathryn Macdonald

  • Inter-rater and test-retest reliability of quality assessments by novice student raters using the Jadad and Newcastle-Ottawa Scales.

    Mark Oremus;Carolina Oremus;Geoffrey B C Hall;Margaret C McKinnon

  • Bilateral Hippocampal Volume Increase in Patients with Bipolar Disorder and Short-term Lithium Treatment

    Kaan Yucel;Valerie H Taylor;Margaret C McKinnon;Kathryn MacDonald

  • The Dissociative Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Unique Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Basolateral and Centromedial Amygdala Complexes

    Andrew A Nicholson;Maria Densmore;Paul A Frewen;Jean Théberge

  • Successful computer-assisted cognitive remediation therapy in patients with unipolar depression: a proof of principle study

    Safa Elgamal;Margaret C. McKINNON;Karuna Ramakrishnan;Russell T. Joffe

  • Altered empathic responding in major depressive disorder: relation to symptom severity, illness burden, and psychosocial outcome.

    Andrée M. Cusi;Glenda M. MacQueen;R. Nathan Spreng;Margaret C. McKinnon;Margaret C. McKinnon

  • Dynamic causal modeling in PTSD and its dissociative subtype: Bottom-up versus top-down processing within fear and emotion regulation circuitry.

    Andrew A. Nicholson;Andrew A. Nicholson;Karl J. Friston;Peter Zeidman;Sherain Harricharan;Sherain Harricharan

  • Name that tune: identifying popular recordings from brief excerpts.

    E. Glenn Schellenberg;Paul Iverson;Margaret C. Mckinnon

  • Role of morality in the experience of guilt and shame within the armed forces

    A. Nazarov;A. Nazarov;R. Jetly;R. Jetly;H. McNeely;H. McNeely;M. Kiang;M. Kiang;M. Kiang

  • Theory of mind performance in women with posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse

    A. Nazarov;A. Nazarov;P. Frewen;M. Parlar;M. Parlar;C. Oremus;C. Oremus

  • Unique insula subregion resting-state functional connectivity with amygdala complexes in posttraumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype

    Andrew A. Nicholson;Iman Sapru;Maria Densmore;Paul A. Frewen

  • The sense of self in the aftermath of trauma: lessons from the default mode network in posttraumatic stress disorder

    Ruth A Lanius;Ruth A Lanius;Braeden A Terpou;Margaret C McKinnon;Margaret C McKinnon;Margaret C McKinnon

  • Default mode alterations in posttraumatic stress disorder related to early-life trauma: a developmental perspective.

    Judith K Daniels;Paul Frewen;Margaret C McKinnon;Ruth A Lanius

  • fMRI functional connectivity of the periaqueductal gray in PTSD and its dissociative subtype

    Sherain Harricharan;Daniela Rabellino;Paul A. Frewen;Maria Densmore

  • A Review of the Neurobiological Basis of Trauma-Related Dissociation and Its Relation to Cannabinoid- and Opioid-Mediated Stress Response: a Transdiagnostic, Translational Approach

    Ruth A. Lanius;Jenna E. Boyd;Margaret C. McKinnon;Margaret C. McKinnon;Margaret C. McKinnon;Andrew A. Nicholson;Andrew A. Nicholson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth A. Lanius
Ruth A. Lanius University of Western Ontario
Paul A. Frewen
Paul A. Frewen University of Western Ontario
Maria Densmore
Maria Densmore University of Western Ontario
Jean Théberge
Jean Théberge University of Western Ontario
Richard W. J. Neufeld
Richard W. J. Neufeld University of Western Ontario
Randi E. McCabe
Randi E. McCabe McMaster University
Geoffrey B. Hall
Geoffrey B. Hall McMaster University
Brian Levine
Brian Levine University of Toronto
Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch University of Toronto
Michael Amlung
Michael Amlung University of Kansas

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