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Overview

Monica M Luciana is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach primarily focused on developmental and clinical aspects of brain and behavior.

The main subfields Monica works in are Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. These reflect a broad interest in understanding brain function and mental health across developmental stages, especially in children and adolescents.

Among the main topics covered in their publications are Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Mental Health Research Topics, and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment. This range indicates a focus on both neurobiological processes and clinical conditions affecting youth.

Monica has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Paul F. Collins
  • Kathryn R. Cullen
  • Andrea Wiglesworth
  • Mark Fiecas
  • Bonnie Klimes-Dougan

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in several key journals and venues, such as:

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • NeuroImage
  • JAACAP Open
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Recent papers by Monica M Luciana include:

  • Correspondence Between Perceived Pubertal Development and Hormone Levels in 9-10 Year-Olds From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, 2021, Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Rates of Incidental Findings in Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Children, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • Emerging ethical issues raised by highly portable MRI research in remote and resource-limited international settings, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Substance use patterns in 9-10 year olds: Baseline findings from the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study, 2021, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Age-related changes and longitudinal stability of individual differences in ABCD Neurocognition measures, 2022, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Best Publications

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

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

  • The functional emergence of prefrontally-guided working memory systems in four- to eight-year-old children

    Monica M Luciana;Charles A. Nelson

  • The Development of Nonverbal Working Memory and Executive Control Processes in Adolescents

    Monica M Luciana;Heather M. Conklin;Catalina J. Hooper;Rebecca S. Yarger

  • Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

    Charles A. Nelson;Monica Luciana

  • Adolescents' performance on the Iowa Gambling Task: implications for the development of decision making and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

    Catalina J. Hooper;Monica M Luciana;Heather M. Conklin;Rebecca S. Yarger

  • Assessment of neuropsychological function through use of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery: performance in 4- to 12-year-old children.

    Monica Luciana;Charles A. Nelson

  • Adolescent neurocognitive development and impacts of substance use: Overview of the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) baseline neurocognition battery.

    Monica M Luciana;J. M. Bjork;B. J. Nagel

  • Working memory performance in typically developing children and adolescents: behavioral evidence of protracted frontal lobe development.

    Heather M. Conklin;Monica M Luciana;Catalina J. Hooper;Rebecca S. Yarger

  • Dopamine and the structure of personality: relation of agonist-induced dopamine activity to positive emotionality.

    Richard A. Depue;Monica M Luciana;Paul A Arbisi;Paul F Collins

  • Developmental Changes in Dopamine Neurotransmission in Adolescence: Behavioral Implications and Issues in Assessment

    Dustin Wahlstrom;Paul F Collins;Tonya White;Monica M Luciana

  • Perinatal Iron Deficiency Decreases Cytochrome c Oxidase (CytOx) Activity in Selected Regions of Neonatal Rat Brain

    Marissa deUngria;Raghavendra Rao;Jane D. Wobken;Monica Luciana

  • Facilitation of working memory in humans by a d2 dopamine receptor agonist

    Monica Luciana;Richard A. Depue;Paul Arbisi;Arthur Leon

  • Opposing roles for dopamine and serotonin in the modulation of human spatial working memory functions.

    Monica Luciana;Paul F. Collins;Richard A. Depue

  • Practitioner Review: Computerized assessment of neuropsychological function in children: clinical and research applications of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery (CANTAB)

    Monica Luciana

  • Neural networks involved in adolescent reward processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies.

    Merav H. Silverman;Kelly Jedd;Monica M Luciana

  • Neurobehavioral evidence for changes in dopamine system activity during adolescence.

    Dustin Wahlstrom;Tonya White;Monica M Luciana

  • The development of corpus callosum microstructure and associations with bimanual task performance in healthy adolescents

    Ryan L. Muetzel;Paul F. Collins;Bryon A. Mueller;Ann M. Schissel

  • Neurobehavioral evidence for working-memory deficits in school-aged children with histories of prematurity.

    Monica M Luciana;Linda L Lindeke;Michael K Georgieff;Maria Mills

  • Adolescents' performance on delay and probability discounting tasks: contributions of age, intelligence, executive functioning, and self-reported externalizing behavior.

    Elizabeth A. Olson;Catalina J. Hooper;Paul F Collins;Monica M Luciana

  • Dopaminergic modulation of working memory for spatial but not object cues in normal humans

    Monica Luciana;Paul F. Collins

  • Longitudinal Changes in Behavioral Approach System Sensitivity and Brain Structures Involved in Reward Processing during Adolescence.

    Snežana Urošević;Paul Collins;Ryan Muetzel;Kelvin Lim

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul F Collins
Paul F Collins University of Minnesota
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Marie T. Banich
Marie T. Banich University of Colorado Boulder
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego
Bonnie J. Nagel
Bonnie J. Nagel Oregon Health & Science University
Amanda Sheffield Morris
Amanda Sheffield Morris Oklahoma State University
John K. Hewitt
John K. Hewitt University of Colorado Boulder
William G. Iacono
William G. Iacono University of Minnesota
Raul Gonzalez
Raul Gonzalez Florida International University

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