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D-Index
100
Citations
44119
World Ranking
618
National Ranking
394

Overview

Nicholas B. Allen is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant portion of work in subfields such as clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's recent publications cover topics related to adolescent development, mental health, and neurodevelopmental processes. Notable papers include:

  • Puberty Initiates Cascading Relationships Between Neurodevelopmental, Social, and Internalizing Processes Across Adolescence (2020), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • A meta-analysis of the association between adolescent social media use and depressive symptoms (2020), published in Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Think Locally, Act Globally: Federated Learning with Local and Global Representations (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap (2023), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Rapid assessment of psychological and epidemiological correlates of COVID-19 concern, financial strain, and health-related behavior change in a large online sample (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Frequent co-authors working alongside Nicholas B. Allen include Sarah Whittle, Randy P. Auerbach, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Nandita Vijayakumar, and Benjamin W. Nelson. This collaboration reflects a network of researchers with expertise in developmental and clinical psychology.

Publications have often appeared in journals prominent within their fields, including Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, arXiv (Cornell University), Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorders, and Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. These venues align with Allen's focus on psychological development and mental health research.

Best Publications

  • Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

    George C Patton;George C Patton;Susan M Sawyer;Susan M Sawyer;Susan M Sawyer;John S Santelli;David A Ross;David A Ross

  • Mindful emotion regulation: An integrative review

    Richard Hamilton Chambers;Eleonora Gullone;Nicholas B Allen

  • Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) As a Screening Instrument for Depression Among Community-Residing Older Adults

    Peter M. Lewinsohn;John R. Seeley;Robert E. Roberts;Nicholas B. Allen

  • So depression is an inflammatory disease, but where does the inflammation come from?

    Michael Berk;Lana Williams;Lana Williams;Felice N Jacka;Felice N Jacka;Adrienne O'Neil;Adrienne O'Neil

  • The Impact of Intensive Mindfulness Training on Attentional Control, Cognitive Style, and Affect

    Richard Chambers;Barbara Chuen Yee Lo;Nicholas B. Allen

  • Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

    Ali H. Mokdad;Mohammad H ossein Forouzanfar;Farah Daoud;Arwa A. Mokdad

  • Importance of investing in adolescence from a developmental science perspective

    Ronald E. Dahl;Nicholas B. Allen;Linda Wilbrecht;Ahna Ballonoff Suleiman

  • Gender Differences in Anxiety Disorders and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents

    Peter M. Lewinsohn;Ian H. Gotlib;Mark Lewinsohn;John R. Seeley

  • Emotional Inertia and Psychological Maladjustment

    Peter Kuppens;Nicholas B. Allen;Lisa B. Sheeber

  • The social risk hypothesis of depressed mood: evolutionary, psychosocial, and neurobiological perspectives.

    Nicholas B. Allen;Paul B. T. Badcock

  • Structural brain abnormalities in major depressive disorder: A selective review of recent MRI studies

    Valentina Lorenzetti;Nicholas Brian Allen;Alexander Fornito;Murat Yucel

  • First onset versus recurrence of depression: differential processes of psychosocial risk.

    Peter M. Lewinsohn;Nicholas B. Allen;John R. Seeley;Ian H. Gotlib

  • The emergence of depression in adolescence: development of the prefrontal cortex and the representation of reward.

    Christopher G Davey;Murat Yucel;Nicholas Brian Allen

  • Mechanisms underlying the association between insomnia, anxiety, and depression in adolescence: Implications for behavioral sleep interventions.

    Matthew J. Blake;John A. Trinder;Nicholas B. Allen;Nicholas B. Allen

  • Mindfulness-based psychotherapies: A review of conceptual foundations, empirical evidence and practical considerations

    Nicholas B Allen;Richard Chambers;Wendy Knight

  • The role of affective dysregulation in drug addiction

    Ali Cheetham;Nicholas B. Allen;Murat Yücel;Dan I. Lubman;Dan I. Lubman

  • Simple metric for scaling motor threshold based on scalp-cortex distance: Application to studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Mark G. Stokes;Christopher D. Chambers;Ian C. Gould;Tracy R. Henderson

  • Maternal Socialization of Positive Affect: The Impact of Invalidation on Adolescent Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptomatology

    Marie Bee Hui Yap;Nicholas Brian Allen;Cecile D Ladouceur

  • Arrested development? Reconsidering dual-systems models of brain function in adolescence and disorders

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Nicholas B. Allen

  • Using an Emotion Regulation Framework to Understand the Role of Temperament and Family Processes in Risk for Adolescent Depressive Disorders.

    Marie Bee Hui Yap;Nicholas Brian Allen;Lisa B Sheeber

  • Sex differences in the neural correlates of emotion: Evidence from neuroimaging

    Sarah Whittle;Murat Yucel;Marie Bee Hui Yap;Nicholas Brian Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian G Simmons
Julian G Simmons University of Melbourne
Sarah Whittle
Sarah Whittle University of Melbourne
Murat Yücel
Murat Yücel QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Lisa Sheeber
Lisa Sheeber Oregon Research Institute
Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
Greg Murray
Greg Murray Swinburne University of Technology
Marie Bee Hui Yap
Marie Bee Hui Yap Monash University
Craig A. Olsson
Craig A. Olsson Deakin University
Valentina Lorenzetti
Valentina Lorenzetti Australian Catholic University
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven

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