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Overview

Naomi Sadeh is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their primary field of study is Psychology, with a strong focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health. The research spans various topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, suicide and self-harm studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, child abuse and trauma, mental health research, bullying, victimization and aggression, as well as substance abuse treatment and outcomes.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Naomi Sadeh include:

  • Profiles of lifetime substance use are differentiated by substance of choice, affective motivations for use, and childhood maltreatment (2020), published in Addictive Behaviors
  • Childhood assaultive trauma and physical aggression: Links with cortical thickness in prefrontal and occipital cortices (2020), published in NeuroImage Clinical
  • Aggression in the Digital Era: Assessing the Validity of the Cyber Motivations for Aggression and Deviance Scale (2021), published in Assessment
  • Childhood trauma moderates morphometric associations between orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala: implications for pathological personality traits (2020), published in Psychological Medicine
  • Dimensions of childhood maltreatment and adult risky behaviors: Differential affective and inhibitory control mechanisms (2022), published in Child Abuse & Neglect

Frequent publication venues for Naomi Sadeh's work include:

  • Assessment
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Naomi Sadeh's research network includes frequent collaboration with several co-authors, among them:

  • Nadia Bounoua
  • Rickie Miglin
  • Jeffrey M. Spielberg
  • Ana E. Sheehan
  • Anna Stumps

The research output predominantly addresses psychological and psychosocial dimensions of human behavior, often connecting childhood experiences such as trauma and maltreatment to adult behaviors and neurological markers. The investigations engage clinical and experimental methods to explore mechanisms underlying aggression, substance use, personality traits, and risk behavior development.

Best Publications

  • Validating a Distinction Between Primary and Secondary Psychopathy With Measures of Gray's BIS and BAS Constructs.

    Joseph P. Newman;Donal G. MacCoon;Leah J. Vaughn;Naomi Sadeh

  • Traumatic stress, oxidative stress and post-traumatic stress disorder: neurodegeneration and the accelerated-aging hypothesis.

    Mark W. Miller;Naomi Sadeh

  • Serotonin transporter gene associations with psychopathic traits in youth vary as a function of socioeconomic resources.

    Naomi Sadeh;Shabnam Javdani;Joshua J. Jackson;Elizabeth K. Reynolds

  • Psychopathic personality traits associated with abnormal selective attention and impaired cognitive control.

    Naomi Sadeh;Edelyn Verona

  • Inhibitory control and negative emotional processing in psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder.

    Edelyn Verona;Jenessa Sprague;Naomi Sadeh

  • Accelerated DNA methylation age: Associations with PTSD and neural integrity.

    Erika J. Wolf;Erika J. Wolf;Mark W. Logue;Jasmeet P. Hayes;Naomi Sadeh;Naomi Sadeh

  • Expanding our Lens: Female Pathways to Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence and Adulthood

    Shabnam Javdani;Naomi Sadeh;Naomi Sadeh;Edelyn Verona

  • Parallel Syndromes: Two Dimensions of Narcissism and the Facets of Psychopathic Personality in Criminally Involved Individuals

    Michelle Schoenleber;Naomi Sadeh;Edelyn Verona

  • Borderline Personality Disorder as a Female Phenotypic Expression of Psychopathy

    Jenessa Sprague;Shabnam Javdani;Naomi Sadeh;Joseph P. Newman

  • Suicidality as a function of impulsivity, callous–unemotional traits, and depressive symptoms in youth.

    Shabnam Javdani;Naomi Sadeh;Edelyn Verona

  • Stress-induced asymmetric frontal brain activity and aggression risk.

    Edelyn Verona;Naomi Sadeh;John J. Curtin

  • SKA2 methylation is associated with decreased prefrontal cortical thickness and greater PTSD severity among trauma-exposed veterans.

    Naomi Sadeh;Jeffrey M. Spielberg;Jeffrey M. Spielberg;Mark W. Logue;Erika J. Wolf;Erika J. Wolf

  • Mild traumatic brain injury is associated with reduced cortical thickness in those at risk for Alzheimer’s disease

    Jasmeet P. Hayes;Mark W. Logue;Mark W. Logue;Naomi Sadeh;Naomi Sadeh;Jeffrey M. Spielberg

  • Gendered social forces: A Review of the Impact of Institutionalized Factors on Women and Girls' Criminal Justice Trajectories

    Shabnam Javdani;Naomi Sadeh;Edelyn Verona

  • Visual complexity attenuates emotional processing in psychopathy: Implications for fear-potentiated startle deficits

    Naomi Sadeh;Edelyn Verona

  • Functions of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents and young adults with Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms.

    Naomi Sadeh;Esme A. Londahl-Shaller;Auran Piatigorsky;Samantha Fordwood

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder increases risk of criminal recidivism among justice-involved persons with mental disorders

    Naomi Sadeh;Dale E. McNiel

  • EPIGENETIC VARIATION AT SKA2 PREDICTS SUICIDE PHENOTYPES AND INTERNALIZING PSYCHOPATHOLOGY.

    Naomi Sadeh;Naomi Sadeh;Erika J. Wolf;Erika J. Wolf;Mark W. Logue;Mark W. Logue;Jasmeet P. Hayes;Jasmeet P. Hayes

  • Gender Differences in Emotional Risk for Self- and Other-Directed Violence among Externalizing Adults.

    Naomi Sadeh;Shabnam Javdani;M. Sima Finy;Edelyn Verona

  • Accelerated DNA Methylation Age: Associations With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Mortality.

    Erika J. Wolf;Mark W. Logue;Tawni B. Stoop;Steven A. Schichman

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Miller
Mark W. Miller Boston University
Erika J. Wolf
Erika J. Wolf Boston University
William P. Milberg
William P. Milberg Boston University
Jeffrey M. Spielberg
Jeffrey M. Spielberg University of Delaware
Regina E. McGlinchey
Regina E. McGlinchey Boston University
Edelyn Verona
Edelyn Verona University of South Florida
Mieke Verfaellie
Mieke Verfaellie Boston University
Joseph P. Newman
Joseph P. Newman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wendy Heller
Wendy Heller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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