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  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Paul A. Arbisi is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology. Additional subfields related to their work include behavioral neuroscience, biological psychiatry, genetics, and general health professions.

Their research covers several major topics, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research, stress responses and cortisol, tryptophan and brain disorders, psychological testing and assessment, traumatic brain injury research, suicide and self-harm studies, and resilience and mental health.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Adam X. Maihofer, Nikolaos P. Daskalakis, Jonas Bybjerg-Grauholm, Karmel W. Choi, and Renato Polimanti.

Paul A. Arbisi has published extensively in venues such as the Journal of Personality Assessment, Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Psychological Services, and Psychological Assessment.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 95 risk loci and provide insights into the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder, 2024, Nature Genetics
  • Evidence-based clinical psychological assessment (EBCPA): Review of current state of the literature and best practices., 2022, Professional Psychology Research and Practice
  • Enhancing Discovery of Genetic Variants for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Through Integration of Quantitative Phenotypes and Trauma Exposure Information, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Systems biology dissection of PTSD and MDD across brain regions, cell types, and blood, 2024, Science
  • Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire-55, 2021, PsycTESTS Dataset

Throughout their career, they have contributed to the understanding of various psychological assessments and genetic underpinnings of PTSD and related mental health disorders.

Paul A. Arbisi was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • An MMPI-2 Infrequent Response Scale for Use with Psychopathological Populations: The Infrequency-Psychopathology Scale, "F(p).".

    Paul A. Arbisi;Yossef S. Ben-Porath

  • Dopamine and the structure of personality: relation of agonist-induced dopamine activity to positive emotionality.

    Richard A. Depue;Monica M Luciana;Paul A Arbisi;Paul F Collins

  • Longitudinal Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Comorbidity on Postdeployment Outcomes in National Guard Soldiers Deployed to Iraq

    Melissa A. Polusny;Shannon M. Kehle;Nathaniel W. Nelson;Christopher R. Erbes

  • Facilitation of working memory in humans by a d2 dopamine receptor agonist

    Monica Luciana;Richard A. Depue;Paul Arbisi;Arthur Leon

  • General behavior inventory identification of unipolar and bipolar affective conditions in a nonclinical university population.

    Richard A. Depue;Steven Krauss;Michele R. Spoont;Paul Arbisi

  • Regional electroencephalographic asymmetries in bipolar seasonal affective disorder before and after exposure to bright light

    John J. Allen;William G. Iacono;Richard A. Depue;Paul Arbisi

  • Prospective risk factors for new-onset post-traumatic stress disorder in National Guard soldiers deployed to Iraq.

    Melissa A Polusny;Christopher R Erbes;M. Murdoch;Paul A Arbisi

  • Tolerance to the daily ingestion of two cups of milk by individuals claiming lactose intolerance

    Fabrizis L. Suarez;Dennis Savaiano;Paul Arbisi;Michael D. Levitt

  • The construct validity of the Lees-Haley Fake Bad Scale. Does this scale measure somatic malingering and feigned emotional distress?

    James N. Butcher;Paul A. Arbisi;Mera M. Atlis;John L. McNulty

  • Early mental health treatment-seeking among U.S. National Guard soldiers deployed to Iraq.

    Shannon M. Kehle;Melissa A. Polusny;Maureen Murdoch;Christopher R. Erbes

  • The ability of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 validity scales to detect fake-bad responses in psychiatric inpatients

    Paul A. Arbisi;Yossef S. Ben-Porath

  • Examination of the MMPI-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Validity Scales in Civil Forensic Settings: Findings from Simulation and Known Group Samples

    Dustin B. Wygant;Yossef S. Ben-Porath;Paul A. Arbisi;David T.R. Berry

  • Updated meta-analysis of the MMPI-2 Symptom Validity Scale (FBS): Verified utility in forensic practice.

    Nathaniel W. Nelson;James B. Hoelzle;Jerry J. Sweet;Paul A. Arbisi

  • Mental health diagnosis and occupational functioning in National Guard/Reserve veterans returning from Iraq.

    Christopher R. Erbes;Matthew E. Kaler;Tamara Schult;Tamara Schult;Melissa A. Polusny

  • Psychiatric diagnoses, comorbidity, and functioning in National Guard troops deployed to Iraq

    Shannon M. Kehle;Madhavi K. Reddy;Madhavi K. Reddy;Amanda G. Ferrier-Auerbach;Amanda G. Ferrier-Auerbach;Christopher R. Erbes;Christopher R. Erbes

  • A comparison of MMPI-2 validity in African American and Caucasian psychiatric inpatients

    Paul A. Arbisi;Yossef S. Ben-Porath;John McNulty

  • Further evidence on the validity of the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales: addressing questions raised by Rogers, Sewell, Harrison, and Jordan and Nichols.

    Auke Tellegen;Yossef S. Ben-Porath;Martin Sellbom;Paul A. Arbisi

  • Pre-deployment daytime and nighttime sleep complaints as predictors of post-deployment PTSD and depression in National Guard troops

    Erin Koffel;Melissa A. Polusny;Melissa A. Polusny;Paul A. Arbisi;Paul A. Arbisi;Christopher R. Erbes;Christopher R. Erbes

  • Social Causation Versus Social Erosion: Comparisons of Causal Models for Relations Between Support and PTSD Symptoms.

    Sandra L. Shallcross;Paul A. Arbisi;Paul A. Arbisi;Melissa A. Polusny;Melissa A. Polusny;Mark D. Kramer

  • Seasonal independence of low prolactin concentration and high spontaneous eye blink rates in unipolar and bipolar II seasonal affective disorder.

    Richard A. Depue;Paul Arbisi;Steven Krauss;William G. Iacono

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa A. Polusny
Melissa A. Polusny University of Minnesota
Christopher R. Erbes
Christopher R. Erbes University of Minnesota
Yossef S. Ben-Porath
Yossef S. Ben-Porath Kent State University
Paul Thuras
Paul Thuras University of Minnesota
Richard A. Depue
Richard A. Depue Cornell University
Martin Sellbom
Martin Sellbom Monash University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University

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