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Overview

Nader Amir is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a total of 26 publications in Psychology and 13 in Neuroscience. Their work is concentrated in several subfields, including Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Pharmacology.

The main topics addressed in Amir's research cover Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes, as well as Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Eating Disorders and Behaviors.

Amir frequently publishes in several academic venues. These include:

  • Biological Psychology
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Psychophysiology
  • European Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Their recent scholarly articles include the following:

  • Neural and behavioral correlates of inhibitory control in youths with varying levels of irritability, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Application of attentional bias modification training to modulate hyperactive error-monitoring in OCD, 2020, International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Blunted Flanker P300 Demonstrates Specificity to Depressive Symptoms in Females during Adolescence, 2021, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Error-related brain activity in pediatric major depressive disorder: An ERP and time-frequency investigation, 2023, International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Error-related brain activity: A time-domain and time-frequency investigation in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2022, Psychophysiology

Amir collaborates regularly with several coauthors, most notably Greg Hajcak, Nicholas J. Santopetro, Amanda Holbrook, Christopher J. Brush, and Shaan F. McGhie. The number of joint publications with these colleagues ranges from three to seven.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Randy Frost;Gail Steketee;Nader Amir;Martine Bouvard

  • The Validation of a New Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Scale: The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory

    Edna B. Foa;Michael J. Kozak;Paul M. Salkovskis;Meredith E. Coles

  • Attention Modification Program in Individuals With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Nader Amir;Courtney Beard;Michelle Burns;Jessica Bomyea

  • Development and initial validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory.

    M Freeston;G Steketee;R Frost;N Amir

  • Attention Training in Individuals with Generalized Social Phobia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Nader Amir;Courtney Beard;Charles T. Taylor;Heide Klumpp

  • Attentional Biases for Facial Expressions in Social Phobia: The Face-in-the-Crowd Paradigm

    Eva Gilboa-Schechtman;Edna B. Foa;Nader Amir

  • Attentional bias to threat in social phobia: facilitated processing of threat or difficulty disengaging attention from threat?

    N. Amir;J. Elias;H. Klumpp;A. Przeworski

  • The Effect of a Single-Session Attention Modification Program on Response to a Public-Speaking Challenge in Socially Anxious Individuals

    Nader Amir;Geri Weber;Courtney Beard;Jessica Bomyea

  • A multi-session interpretation modification program: changes in interpretation and social anxiety symptoms.

    Courtney Beard;Nader Amir

  • Empirical recommendations for improving the stability of the dot-probe task in clinical research.

    Rebecca B. Price;Jennie M. Kuckertz;Greg J. Siegle;Cecile D. Ladouceur

  • Relationship Between Trauma Narratives and Trauma Pathology

    Nader Amir;Jane Stafford;Melinda S. Freshman;Edna B. Foa

  • Memory and memory confidence in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    David F. Tolin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Bartholomew D. Brigidi;Nader Amir

  • Family Distress and Involvement in Relatives of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients

    Nader Amir;Melinda Freshman;Edna B. Foa

  • Automatic activation and strategic avoidance of threat-relevant information in social phobia

    Nader Amir;Edna B. Foa;Meredith E. Coles

  • Strategies of thought control in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Nader Amir;Laurie Cashman;Edna B. Foa

  • Internet-delivered attention bias modification training in individuals with social anxiety disorder - a double blind randomized controlled trial

    Per Carlbring;Maria Apelstrand;Helena Sehlin;Nader Amir

  • Increased activation of the anterior cingulate cortex during processing of disgust faces in individuals with social phobia

    Nader Amir;Heide Klumpp;Jason Elias;Jeffrey S. Bedwell

  • Suppression of the emotional Stroop effect by increased anxiety in patients with social phobia

    Nader Amir;Richard J. Mcnally;Bradley C. Riemann;James Burns

  • Cognitive processing of emotional information in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Susan P. Kaspi;Richard J. McNally;Nader Amir

  • Interpretation Bias and Social Anxiety

    Nader Amir;Courtney Beard;Emily Bower

Frequent Co-Authors

Edna B. Foa
Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania
Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University
Meredith E. Coles
Meredith E. Coles Binghamton University
Per Carlbring
Per Carlbring Stockholm University
Michael J. Kozak
Michael J. Kozak National Institutes of Health
V. Robin Weersing
V. Robin Weersing San Diego State University
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Steven R. H. Beach
Steven R. H. Beach University of Georgia
Bradley C. Riemann
Bradley C. Riemann Memorial Hospital of South Bend
Stefan G. Hofmann
Stefan G. Hofmann Philipp University of Marburg

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