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Overview

Martin P. Paulus is affiliated with the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's publication record includes significant contributions to topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, mental health research topics, neural and behavioral psychology studies, tryptophan and brain disorders, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Care: Clinical Applications, Barriers, Facilitators, and Artificial Wisdom, 2021, published in Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field, 2023, published in World Psychiatry
  • Neurobiology, Clinical Presentation, and Treatment of Methamphetamine Use Disorder, 2020, published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Prevalence and Family-Related Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, and Self-injury in Children Aged 9 to 10 Years, 2020, published in JAMA Network Open
  • Meaningful associations in the adolescent brain cognitive development study, 2021, published in NeuroImage

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Rayus Kuplicki, Jennifer L. Stewart, Robin L. Aupperle, Sahib S. Khalsa, and Jonathan Savitz.

Key publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, and Translational Psychiatry.

Among their scholarly contributions are books published by Springer Science+Business Media and Frontiers Media, including Neuroscience of Social Stress (2022) and Brain and cognition for addiction prevention and treatment (2021).

Best Publications

  • An insular view of anxiety.

    Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein

  • Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

    Unknown

  • Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1·2 million individuals in the USA between 2011 and 2015: a cross-sectional study

    Sammi R Chekroud;Ralitza Gueorguieva;Amanda B Zheutlin;Martin Paulus

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

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

  • A prospective 12-year study of subsyndromal and syndromal depressive symptoms in unipolar major depressive disorders.

    Lewis L. Judd;Hagop S. Akiskal;Jack D. Maser;Pamela J. Zeller

  • Increased amygdala and insula activation during emotion processing in anxiety-prone subjects.

    M.P.H. Murray B. Stein;Alan N. Simmons;B.S. Justin S. Feinstein;Martin P. Paulus

  • New insights into symptoms and neurocircuit function of anorexia nervosa

    Walter H. Kaye;Julie L. Fudge;Martin Paulus

  • Interoception in anxiety and depression

    Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein

  • Increased activation in the right insula during risk-taking decision making is related to harm avoidance and neuroticism.

    Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus;Corianne Rogalsky;Alan N. Simmons;Alan N. Simmons;Justin S. Feinstein

  • Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

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  • Demographic, physical and mental health assessments in the adolescent brain and cognitive development study: Rationale and description

    M Deanna;Matthew D. Albaugh;Shelli Avenevoli;Linda Chang

  • Major depressive disorder: A prospective study of residual subthreshold depressive symptoms as predictor of rapid relapse

    Lewis L Judd;Hagop S Akiskal;Jack D Maser;Pamela J Zeller

  • Psychosocial Disability During the Long-term Course of Unipolar Major Depressive Disorder

    Lewis L. Judd;Hagop S. Akiskal;Pamela J. Zeller;Martin Paulus

  • Executive function and PTSD: disengaging from trauma.

    Robin L. Aupperle;Andrew J. Melrose;Murray B. Stein;Murray B. Stein;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • Decision making, impulsivity and time perception

    Marc Wittmann;Marc Wittmann;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • Neurobiology of decision making: a selective review from a neurocognitive and clinical perspective.

    Monique Ernst;Martin P. Paulus;Martin P. Paulus

  • The neurocircuitry of impaired insight in drug addiction

    Rita Z. Goldstein;A.D. (Bud) Craig;Antoine Bechara;Hugh Garavan;Hugh Garavan

  • Socioeconomic Burden of Subsyndromal Depressive Symptoms and Major Depression in a Sample of the General Population

    Lewis L. Judd;Martin P. Paulus;Kenneth B. Wells;Mark H. Rapaport

  • Interoception, contemplative practice, and health.

    Norman Farb;Jennifer Daubenmier;Cynthia J. Price;Tim Gard

  • Subsyndromal symptomatic depression: a new mood disorder?

    Lewis L. Judd;Mark Hyman Rapaport;Martin P. Paulus;John L. Brown

  • The role and clinical significance of subsyndromal depressive symptoms (SSD) in unipolar major depressive disorder

    Lewis L Judd;Hagop S Akiskal;Martin P Paulus

  • Dopamine D4 Receptor-Knock-Out Mice Exhibit Reduced Exploration of Novel Stimuli

    Stephanie C. Dulawa;David K. Grandy;Malcolm J. Low;Martin P. Paulus

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan N. Simmons
Alan N. Simmons University of California, San Diego
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Sahib S. Khalsa
Sahib S. Khalsa Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Mark A. Geyer
Mark A. Geyer University of California, San Diego
Scott C. Matthews
Scott C. Matthews University of California, San Diego
Gregory G. Brown
Gregory G. Brown University of California, San Diego

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