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Patricia J. Conrod

Patricia J. Conrod

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Psychology

D-Index
81
Citations
25028
World Ranking
1385
National Ranking
75

Overview

Patricia J. Conrod is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Epidemiology.

Their work covers key topics related to brain and behavioral sciences, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Frequent collaborators with Patricia J. Conrod include Hugh Garavan, Tobias Banaschewski, Andreas Heinz, Sherry H. Stewart, and Sylvane Desrivières, reflecting a broad network of interdisciplinary research partnerships.

They have published extensively, with notable contributions appearing in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Addiction

Some recent significant papers include:

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure across the lifespan (2020, Human Brain Mapping)

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book literature, including a publication with Frontiers Media titled Prescribing Psychotropics: Misuse, Abuse, Dependence, Withdrawal and Addiction (2021).

Best Publications

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • The substance use risk profile scale: A scale measuring traits linked to reinforcement-specific substance use profiles

    Patricia A. Woicik;Sherry H. Stewart;Robert O. Pihl;Patricia J. Conrod

  • The IMAGEN study: reinforcement-related behaviour in normal brain function and psychopathology.

    G Schumann;E Loth;T Banaschewski;A Barbot

  • Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks

    Jonas Richiardi;Jonas Richiardi;Andre Altmann;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Catie Chang

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Psychometric evaluation of the five-factor Modified Drinking Motives Questionnaire--Revised in undergraduates.

    Valerie V. Grant;Sherry H. Stewart;Roisin M. O'Connor;Ekin Blackwell

  • Adolescent impulsivity phenotypes characterized by distinct brain networks.

    Robert Whelan;Patricia J Conrod;Patricia J Conrod;Jean-Baptiste Poline;Anbarasu Lourdusamy

  • Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers

    Robert Whelan;Robert Whelan;Richard Watts;Catherine A. Orr;Robert R. Althoff

  • Association of Screen Time and Depression in Adolescence

    Elroy Boers;Mohammad H. Afzali;Nicola Newton;Patricia Conrod

  • Functional associations among trauma, PTSD, and substance-related disorders.

    Sherry H. Stewart;Robert O. Pihl;Patricia J. Conrod;Maurice Dongier

  • Efficacy of cognitive-behavioral interventions targeting personality risk factors for youth alcohol misuse.

    Patricia J. Conrod;Sherry H. Stewart;Nancy Comeau;A. Michael Maclean

  • Personality‐targeted interventions delay the growth of adolescent drinking and binge drinking

    Patricia J. Conrod;Natalie Castellanos;Clare Mackie

  • Effectiveness of a selective, personality-targeted prevention program for adolescent alcohol use and misuse: a cluster randomized controlled trial

    Patricia J Conrod;Maeve O'Leary-Barrett;Nicola Newton;Lauren Topper

  • Brief, Personality-Targeted Coping Skills Interventions and Survival as a Non-Drug User Over a 2-Year Period During Adolescence

    Patricia J. Conrod;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;John Strang

  • Validation of a system of classifying female substance abusers on the basis of personality and motivational risk factors for substance abuse.

    Patricia J. Conrod;Robert O. Pihl;Sherry H. Stewart;Maurice Dongier

  • The Brain’s Response to Reward Anticipation and Depression in Adolescence: Dimensionality, Specificity, and Longitudinal Predictions in a Community-Based Sample

    Argyris Stringaris;Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil;Eric Artiges;Hervé Lemaitre

  • Long-term effects of a personality-targeted intervention to reduce alcohol use in adolescents.

    Patricia J. Conrod;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Clare Mackie

  • The neural basis of video gaming

    Simone Kühn;A. Romanowski;C. Schilling;R. Lorenz

  • Integrated motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy for people with psychosis and comorbid substance misuse: randomised controlled trial

    Christine Barrowclough;Gillian Haddock;Til Wykes;Ruth Beardmore

  • The structure of psychopathology in adolescence and its common personality and cognitive correlates.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Frédéric N. Brière;Maeve O'Leary-Barrett;Tobias Banaschewski

  • Structural, concurrent, and predictive validity of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale in early adolescence

    Marvin Krank;Sherry H. Stewart;Roisin O'Connor;Patricia B. Woicik

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Frauke Nees
Frauke Nees Kiel University
Luise Poustka
Luise Poustka University of Göttingen
Robert Whelan
Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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