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Overview

Negar Fani is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine, with a primary focus on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, epidemiology, sociology and political science, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work is concentrated on several main topics including posttraumatic stress disorder research, traumatic brain injury research, migration, health and trauma, racial and ethnic identity research, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, stress responses and cortisol, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Negar Fani include Jennifer S. Stevens, Tanja Jovanović, Abigail Powers, Sanne J.H. van Rooij, and Kerry J. Ressler.

Their publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research

Recent papers include:

  • A framework for understanding the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder, 2020, CNS Spectrums
  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 95 risk loci and provide insights into the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder, 2024, Nature Genetics
  • Adverse childhood experiences in African Americans: Framework, practice, and policy., 2021, American Psychologist
  • Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Association of Racial Discrimination With Neural Response to Threat in Black Women in the US Exposed to Trauma, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Emotion Dysregulation and Negative Affect: Association With Psychiatric Symptoms

    Bekh Bradley;Jared A. DeFife;Clifford Guarnaccia;Justine Phifer

  • Disrupted amygdala-prefrontal functional connectivity in civilian women with posttraumatic stress disorder

    Jennifer S. Stevens;Tanja Jovanovic;Negar Fani;Timothy D. Ely

  • Attention bias toward threat is associated with exaggerated fear expression and impaired extinction in PTSD

    Negar Fani;Erin B. Tone;J. Phifer;Seth D. Norrholm

  • Neurobiological Development in the Context of Childhood Trauma.

    Dorthie Cross;Negar Fani;Abigail Powers;Bekh Bradley

  • PTSD, emotion dysregulation, and dissociative symptoms in a highly traumatized sample

    Abigail Powers;Dorthie Cross;Negar Fani;Bekh Bradley

  • Functional Brain Imaging Alterations in Acne Patients Treated With Isotretinoin

    J. Douglas Bremner;Negar Fani;Ali Ashraf;John R. Votaw

  • Neural Correlates of Attention Bias to Threat in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

    Negar Fani;Tanja Jovanovic;Timothy D. Ely;Bekh Bradley;Bekh Bradley

  • Reduced neural activation during an inhibition task is associated with impaired fear inhibition in a traumatized civilian sample.

    Tanja Jovanovic;Tim Ely;Negar Fani;Ebony M. Glover

  • Genetic approaches to understanding post-traumatic stress disorder

    Lynn M. Almli;Negar Fani;Alicia K. Smith;Kerry J. Ressler

  • FKBP5 and attention bias for threat: associations with hippocampal function and shape

    Negar Fani;David Gutman;Erin B. Tone;Lynn Almli

  • PACAP receptor gene polymorphism impacts fear responses in the amygdala and hippocampus

    Jennifer Strafford Stevens;Lynn M. Almli;Negar Fani;David A. Gutman

  • A framework for understanding the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder.

    Daniel L. Drane;Negar Fani;Mark Hallett;Sahib S. Khalsa

  • White Matter Integrity in Highly Traumatized Adults With and Without Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    Negar Fani;Tricia Z King;Tanja Jovanovic;Ebony M Glover

  • Behavioral and Neural Representation of Emotional Facial Expressions Across the Lifespan

    Leah H. Somerville;Negar Fani;Erin B. McClure-Tone

  • Fear load: The psychophysiological over-expression of fear as an intermediate phenotype associated with trauma reactions.

    Seth Davin Norrholm;Ebony M. Glover;Jennifer S. Stevens;Negar Fani

  • Attention Bias in Adult Survivors of Childhood Maltreatment with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Negar Fani;Bekh Bradley-Davino;Bekh Bradley-Davino;Kerry J. Ressler;Erin B. McClure-Tone

  • Stress and Bronchodilator Response in Children with Asthma

    John M. Brehm;Sima K. Ramratnam;Sze Man Tse;Damien C. Croteau-Chonka

  • Food addiction and substance addiction in women: Common clinical characteristics

    Raven Hardy;Negar Fani;Tanja Jovanovic;Vasiliki Michopoulos;Vasiliki Michopoulos

  • Estrogen-dependent association of HDAC4 with fear in female mice and women with PTSD

    Stephanie A. Maddox;Stephanie A. Maddox;Varun Kilaru;Jaemin Shin;Tanja Jovanovic

  • Altered white matter microstructural organization in posttraumatic stress disorder across 3047 adults: results from the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD consortium

    Emily L Dennis;Seth G Disner;Seth G Disner;Negar Fani;Lauren E Salminen

  • Psychological resilience and neurocognitive performance in a traumatized community sample

    Aliza P. Wingo;Negar Fani;Bekh Bradley;Bekh Bradley;Kerry J. Ressler M.D.;Kerry J. Ressler M.D.;Kerry J. Ressler M.D.

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Tanja Jovanovic
Tanja Jovanovic Wayne State University
Abigail Powers
Abigail Powers Emory University
Rajendra A. Morey
Rajendra A. Morey Duke University
Seth D. Norrholm
Seth D. Norrholm Wayne State University
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Ruth A. Lanius
Ruth A. Lanius University of Western Ontario
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Miranda Olff
Miranda Olff University of Amsterdam

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