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Overview

Mary L. Phillips is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has made extensive contributions to research in medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The researcher's primary topics of study cover functional brain connectivity investigations, bipolar disorder and its treatment, mental health topics, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Mary L. Phillips has published extensively in several journals. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Translational Psychiatry

Among their recent papers are:

  • What we learn about bipolar disorder from large-scale neuroimaging: Findings and future directions from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Examining and Modulating Neural Circuits in Psychiatric Disorders With Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Electroencephalography: Present Practices and Future Developments, 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Realizing the Clinical Potential of Computational Psychiatry: Report From the Banbury Center Meeting, February 2019, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
  • Distinguishing between depression in bipolar disorder and unipolar depression using magnetic resonance imaging: a systematic review, 2022, Bipolar Disorders
  • White matter abnormalities in adults with bipolar disorder type-II and unipolar depression, 2021, Scientific Reports

Mary L. Phillips has collaborated frequently with researchers including Amelia Versace, Richelle Stiffler, Michele A. Bertocci, Henry W. Chase, and Haris Aslam, indicating sustained partnerships spanning multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Neurobiology of emotion perception I: the neural basis of normal emotion perception

    Mary L Phillips;Wayne C Drevets;Scott L Rauch;Richard Lane

  • A specific neural substrate for perceiving facial expressions of disgust

    Mary Phillips;A W Young;C Senior;Michael Brammer

  • Neurobiology of emotion perception II: Implications for major psychiatric disorders

    Mary L Phillips;Wayne C Drevets;Scott L Rauch;Richard Lane

  • A neural model of voluntary and automatic emotion regulation: implications for understanding the pathophysiology and neurodevelopment of bipolar disorder.

    Mary L. Phillips;Cecile D. Ladouceur;Wayne C. Drevets;Wayne C. Drevets

  • Harmonization of cortical thickness measurements across scanners and sites.

    Jean-Philippe Fortin;Nicholas C. Cullen;Yvette I. Sheline;Warren D. Taylor

  • The functional neuroanatomy of social behaviour: changes in cerebral blood flow when people with autistic disorder process facial expressions.

    H. D. Critchley;E. M. Daly;E. T. Bullmore;S. C. Williams

  • Major depressive disorder: new clinical, neurobiological, and treatment perspectives

    David J Kupfer;Ellen Frank;Mary L Phillips

  • Neural responses to facial and vocal expressions of fear and disgust

    Mary Phillips;A W Young;Sarah Scott;A J Calder

  • Distinct Neural Correlates of Washing, Checking, and Hoarding Symptom Dimensions in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

    David Mataix-Cols;Sarah Wooderson;Natalia Lawrence;Michael J. Brammer

  • The neural correlates of anhedonia in major depressive disorder.

    Paul A. Keedwell;Chris Andrew;Steven C.R. Williams;Mick J. Brammer

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • A differential pattern of neural response toward sad versus happy facial expressions in major depressive disorder.

    Simon Surguladze;Michael J. Brammer;Paul Keedwell;Vincent Giampietro

  • Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

    D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

  • Bipolar disorder diagnosis: challenges and future directions

    Mary L Phillips;Mary L Phillips;David J Kupfer

  • A new meta-analytic method for neuroimaging studies that combines reported peak coordinates and statistical parametric maps

    Joaquim Radua;David Mataix-Cols;M. L. Phillips;M. L. Phillips;W. El-Hage

  • Annotation: Development of facial expression recognition from childhood to adolescence: behavioural and neurological perspectives

    Catherine Herba;Mary Phillips

  • Explicit and implicit neural mechanisms for processing of social information from facial expressions: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    H. Critchley;E. Daly;Mary L Phillips;M. Brammer

  • Recognition accuracy and response bias to happy and sad facial expressions in patients with major depression.

    Simon A. Surguladze;Andrew W. Young;Carl Senior;Gildas Brébion

  • Subcortical and ventral prefrontal cortical neural responses to facial expressions distinguish patients with bipolar disorder and major depression.

    Natalia S Lawrence;Andrew M Williams;Simon Surguladze;Vincent Giampietro

  • The functional neuroanatomy of bipolar disorder: a consensus model.

    Stephen M Strakowski;Caleb M Adler;Jorge Almeida;Lori L Altshuler

  • Common and distinct patterns of grey-matter volume alteration in major depression and bipolar disorder: evidence from voxel-based meta-analysis

    T Wise;J Radua;J Radua;E Via;N Cardoner

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge R. C. Almeida
Jorge R. C. Almeida The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Brammer
Michael Brammer King's College London
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Cecile D. Ladouceur
Cecile D. Ladouceur University of Pittsburgh
Vincent Giampietro
Vincent Giampietro King's College London
Natalia Lawrence
Natalia Lawrence University of Exeter
Christopher Andrew
Christopher Andrew King's College London
Myrna M. Weissman
Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University
Carl Senior
Carl Senior Aston University

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