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Michael D. De Bellis

Michael D. De Bellis

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Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
19075
World Ranking
4706
National Ranking
2609

Overview

Michael D. De Bellis is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Their work prominently spans subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, epidemiology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's research focuses on several interconnected topics including functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, child abuse and trauma, mental health research topics, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, traumatic brain injury research, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael D. De Bellis include:

  • Impact of Childhood Trauma on Executive Function in Adolescence-Mediating Functional Brain Networks and Prediction of High-Risk Drinking, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Children Exposed to Maltreatment: Assessment and the Role of Psychotropic Medication, 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • Association of Heavy Drinking With Deviant Fiber Tract Development in Frontal Brain Systems in Adolescents, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • A comparison of methods to harmonize cortical thickness measurements across scanners and sites, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Volumetric trajectories of hippocampal subfields and amygdala nuclei influenced by adolescent alcohol use and lifetime trauma, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors whose repeated contributions reflect ongoing joint research efforts. These frequent collaborators include Kate B. Nooner, Susan F. Tapert, Duncan B. Clark, Bonnie J. Nagel, and Sandra A. Brown.

Michael D. De Bellis has published in several venues, with multiple works appearing in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • PEDIATRICS
  • JAMA Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Developmental traumatology part II: brain development ∗

    Michael D De Bellis;Matcheri S Keshavan;Duncan B Clark;B.J Casey

  • Developmental traumatology part I: biological stress systems

    Michael D De Bellis;Andrew S Baum;Boris Birmaher;Matcheri S Keshavan

  • The Biological Effects of Childhood Trauma

    Michael D. De Bellis;A B Abigail Zisk

  • Sex Differences in Brain Maturation during Childhood and Adolescence

    Michael D. De Bellis;Matcheri S. Keshavan;Sue R. Beers;Julie Hall

  • Brain structures in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder: a sociodemographically matched study

    Michael D. De Bellis;Matcheri S. Keshavan;Heather Shifflett;Satish Iyengar

  • The psychobiology of neglect.

    Michael D. De Bellis

  • Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Sue R. Beers;Michael D. De Bellis

  • Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence

    Laura A. Thomas;Michael D. De Bellis;Reiko Graham;Reiko Graham;Kevin S. LaBar

  • Developmental traumatology: a contributory mechanism for alcohol and substance use disorders.

    Michael D. De Bellis

  • Prefrontal Cortex, Thalamus, and Cerebellar Volumes in Adolescents and Young Adults with Adolescent-Onset Alcohol Use Disorders and Comorbid Mental Disorders

    Michael D. De Bellis;Anandhi Narasimhan;Dawn L. Thatcher;Matcheri S. Keshavan

  • A pilot longitudinal study of hippocampal volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder

    Michael D De Bellis;Julie Hall;Amy M Boring;Karin Frustaci

  • A pilot study of amygdala volumes in pediatric generalized anxiety disorder

    Michael D De Bellis;B.J Casey;Ronald E Dahl;Boris Birmaher

  • Neuropsychological Findings in Childhood Neglect and their Relationships to Pediatric PTSD

    Michael D. De Bellis;Stephen R. Hooper;Eve G. Spratt;Donald P. Woolley

  • N-Acetylaspartate Concentration in the Anterior Cingulate of Maltreated Children and Adolescents With PTSD

    M. D. De Bellis;M. S. Keshavan;S. Spencer;J. Hall

  • Urinary Catecholamine Excretion in Sexually Abused Girls

    Michael D. De Bellis;Lori Lefter;Penelope K. Trickett;Frank W. Putnam

  • Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: results of the youth mood project.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Katholiki Georgiades;Eric K. Duku;Alison Shea

  • The psychobiology of maltreatment in childhood

    Tiffany Watts-English;Beverly L. Fortson;Nicole Gibler;Stephen R. Hooper

  • Biologic findings of post-traumatic stress disorder and child maltreatment.

    Michael D. De Bellis;Lisa A. Thomas

  • Differential developmental trajectories of magnetic susceptibility in human brain gray and white matter over the lifespan

    Wei Li;Bing Wu;Bing Wu;Anastasia Batrachenko;Vivian Bancroft-Wu

  • Pituitary volumes in pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder

    Lisa A Thomas;Michael D De Bellis

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation in sexually abused girls

    Michael D. de Bellis;Michael D. de Bellis;Michael D. de Bellis;George P. Chrousos;George P. Chrousos;George P. Chrousos;Lorah D. Dorn;Lillian Burke;Lillian Burke;Lillian Burke

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen R. Hooper
Stephen R. Hooper University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
Bonnie J. Nagel
Bonnie J. Nagel Oregon Health & Science University
Edith V. Sullivan
Edith V. Sullivan Stanford University
Rajendra A. Morey
Rajendra A. Morey Duke University
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego
Sandra A. Brown
Sandra A. Brown University of California, San Diego
Tammy Chung
Tammy Chung Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Penelope K. Trickett
Penelope K. Trickett University of Southern California

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