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Neuroscience

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101
Citations
40445
World Ranking
731
National Ranking
410

Psychology

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101
Citations
40359
World Ranking
594
National Ranking
378

Overview

Monique Ernst is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and focuses their research primarily on neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health. The breadth of these fields reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding brain function and behavior.

Their published research includes 49 publications in neuroscience and 36 in psychology, with consistent contributions to multiple topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology, anxiety and depression psychometrics and treatment, eating disorders, memory and neural mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, and mental health research.

The following papers are notable within their recent contributions:

  • <scp>Mega-analysis</scp> methods in <scp>ENIGMA</scp>: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group (2020, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • A generalized workflow for conducting electric field-optimized, fMRI-guided, transcranial magnetic stimulation (2020, Nature Protocols)
  • A way forward for anxiolytic drug development: Testing candidate anxiolytics with anxiety-potentiated startle in healthy humans (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Low-frequency parietal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces fear and anxiety (2020, Translational Psychiatry)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Christian Grillon, Nicholas L. Balderston, Adam X. Gorka, and Daniel S. Pine.

Their research has been published prominently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Translational Psychiatry, and Psychopharmacology.

Best Publications

  • Toward discovery science of human brain function

    Bharat B. Biswal;Maarten Mennes;Xi Nian Zuo;Suril Gohel

  • Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A Meta-Analysis Toward the Establishment of Novel Treatment for Anxiety

    Yuko Hakamata;Shmuel Lissek;Yair Bar-Haim;Jennifer C. Britton

  • Triadic model of the neurobiology of motivated behavior in adolescence

    Monique Ernst;Daniel S. Pine;Michael Hardin

  • Amygdala and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation to Masked Angry Faces in Children and Adolescents with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Christopher S. Monk;Eva H. Telzer;Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley

  • Amygdala and nucleus accumbens in responses to receipt and omission of gains in adults and adolescents

    Monique Ernst;Eric E. Nelson;Sandra Jazbec;Erin B. McClure

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

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

  • Orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction in abstinent cocaine abusers performing a decision-making task

    Karen I. Bolla;Dana A. Eldreth;Edythe D. London;Kent A. Kiehl;Kent A. Kiehl

  • Behavioral and neural consequences of prenatal exposure to nicotine.

    Monique Ernst;Eric T. Moolchan;Miqun L. Robinson

  • Adolescent immaturity in attention-related brain engagement to emotional facial expressions

    Christopher S Monk;Erin B McClure;Eric E Nelson;Eric Zarahn

  • Neural systems and cue-induced cocaine craving.

    Katherine R Bonson;Steven J Grant;Carlo S Contoreggi;Jonathan M Links

  • Attention bias to threat in maltreated children: implications for vulnerability to stress-related psychopathology.

    Daniel S. Pine;Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley;Lee Anne Montgomery

  • Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Attentional Bias in Response to Angry Faces in Adolescents With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Christopher S Monk;Eric E Nelson;Erin B McClure;Karin Mogg

  • Abnormal Attention Modulation of Fear Circuit Function in Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Erin B. McClure;Christopher S. Monk;Eric E. Nelson;Jessica M. Parrish

  • Decision-making in a Risk-taking Task: A PET Study

    Monique Ernst;Karen Bolla;Maria Mouratidis;Carlo Contoreggi

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex and Human Drug Abuse: Functional Imaging

    Edythe D. London;Monique Ernst;Steven Grant;Katherine Bonson

  • Choice selection and reward anticipation: an fMRI study.

    Monique Ernst;Eric E. Nelson;Erin B. McClure;Christopher S. Monk

  • Neural substrates of choice selection in adults and adolescents: Development of the ventrolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices

    Neir Eshel;Eric E. Nelson;R. James Blair;Daniel S. Pine

  • DOPA Decarboxylase Activity in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adults. A [Fluorine-18]Fluorodopa Positron Emission Tomographic Study

    Monique Ernst;Alan J. Zametkin;John A. Matochik;Peter H. Jons

  • A developmental neurobiological model of motivated behavior: Anatomy, connectivity and ontogeny of the triadic nodes

    Monique Ernst;Julie L. Fudge

  • A developmental examination of amygdala response to facial expressions

    Amanda E. Guyer;Christopher S. Monk;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Eric E. Nelson

  • Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxiety

    Amanda E. Guyer;Jennifer Y. F. Lau;Erin B. McClure-Tone;Jessica Parrish

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Christian Grillon
Christian Grillon National Institutes of Health
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Eric E. Nelson
Eric E. Nelson The Ohio State University
Edythe D. London
Edythe D. London University of California, Los Angeles
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher S. Monk
Christopher S. Monk University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Amanda E. Guyer
Amanda E. Guyer University of California, Davis
Brenda E. Benson
Brenda E. Benson National Institutes of Health
John A. Matochik
John A. Matochik National Institutes of Health

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