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Paul A. Frewen is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research contributions span psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a concentration on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Their publications have appeared frequently in several venues, including:

  • European journal of psychotraumatology
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology

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

  • Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist), 2020, Brain
  • Neuroimaging the consciousness of self: Review, and conceptual-methodological framework, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Screening for consequences of trauma - an update on the global collaboration on traumatic stress, 2020, European journal of psychotraumatology
  • Classifying heterogeneous presentations of PTSD via the default mode, central executive, and salience networks with machine learning, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • A randomized, controlled trial of alpha-rhythm EEG neurofeedback in posttraumatic stress disorder: A preliminary investigation showing evidence of decreased PTSD symptoms and restored default mode and salience network connectivity using fMRI, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical

Frequent collaborators in their scientific work include:

  • Ruth A. Lanius
  • Rakesh Jetly
  • Andrew A. Nicholson
  • Maria Densmore
  • Jean Théberge

The main fields of study reflected in Frewen's work are:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these fields, their research focuses on subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Epidemiology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Their main topics of investigation cover a range of areas, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of the Evidence for the Trauma and Fantasy Models of Dissociation

    Constance J. Dalenberg;Bethany L. Brand;David H. Gleaves;Martin J. Dorahy

  • Letting Go: Mindfulness and Negative Automatic Thinking

    Paul A. Frewen;Elspeth M. Evans;Nicholas Maraj;David J. A. Dozois

  • Neuroimaging studies of psychological interventions for mood and anxiety disorders: Empirical and methodological review

    Paul A Frewen;David J A Dozois;Ruth A Lanius

  • The dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder: rationale, clinical and neurobiological evidence, and implications.

    Ruth A. Lanius M.D.;Bethany Brand;Eric Vermetten M.D.;Paul A. Frewen

  • Alterations in default network connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder related to early-life trauma.

    Robyn L Bluhm;Peter C Williamson;Elizabeth A Osuch;Paul A Frewen

  • Neural correlates of reexperiencing, avoidance, and dissociation in PTSD: symptom dimensions and emotion dysregulation in responses to script-driven trauma imagery.

    James W. Hopper;Paul A. Frewen;Bessel A. van der Kolk;Ruth A. Lanius

  • Toward a psychobiology of posttraumatic self-dysregulation: reexperiencing, hyperarousal, dissociation, and emotional numbing.

    Paul A. Frewen;Ruth A. Lanius

  • Meta-analysis of alexithymia in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Paul A. Frewen;David J. A. Dozois;Richard W. J. Neufeld;Ruth A. Lanius

  • Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist)

    Tomas Ros;Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert;Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert;Vadim Zotev;Kymberly D Young

  • Selective attention to threat versus reward: Meta-analysis and neural-network modeling of the dot-probe task

    Paul A Frewen;David J A Dozois;Marc F Joanisse;Richard W J Neufeld

  • Mind over chatter: Plastic up-regulation of the fMRI salience network directly after EEG neurofeedback

    Tomas Ros;Jean Théberge;Jean Théberge;Paul A. Frewen;Rosemarie Kluetsch;Rosemarie Kluetsch

  • The neurobiology of emotion regulation in posttraumatic stress disorder: Amygdala downregulation via real-time fMRI neurofeedback.

    Andrew A. Nicholson;Daniela Rabellino;Maria Densmore;Paul A. Frewen

  • A systematic meta-analysis of the Stroop task in depression.

    Amanda M. Epp;Keith S. Dobson;David J.A. Dozois;Paul A. Frewen

  • Restoring large-scale brain networks in PTSD and related disorders: a proposal for neuroscientifically-informed treatment interventions

    Ruth A. Lanius;Paul A. Frewen;Mischa Tursich;Rakesh Jetly

  • Evidence for a dissociative subtype of PTSD by latent profile and confirmatory factor analyses in a civilian sample.

    Carolin Steuwe;Ruth A. Lanius;Paul A. Frewen

  • Clinical and neural correlates of alexithymia in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Paul A. Frewen;Ruth A. Lanius;David J. A. Dozois;Richard W. J. Neufeld

  • How understanding the neurobiology of complex post-traumatic stress disorder can inform clinical practice: a social cognitive and affective neuroscience approach

    R. A. Lanius;R. L. Bluhm;P. A. Frewen

  • Association of trauma exposure with proinflammatory activity: a transdiagnostic meta-analysis.

    M Tursich;R W J Neufeld;P A Frewen;S Harricharan

  • Plastic modulation of PTSD resting-state networks and subjective wellbeing by EEG neurofeedback.

    Rosemarie C. Kluetsch;Tomas Ros;Jean Théberge;Paul A. Frewen

  • The Dissociative Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Unique Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Basolateral and Centromedial Amygdala Complexes

    Andrew A Nicholson;Maria Densmore;Paul A Frewen;Jean Théberge

  • Fear conditioning and early life vulnerabilities: two distinct pathways of emotional dysregulation and brain dysfunction in PTSD

    Ruth A. Lanius;Paul A. Frewen;Eric Vermetten;Rachel Yehuda

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth A. Lanius
Ruth A. Lanius University of Western Ontario
Margaret C. McKinnon
Margaret C. McKinnon McMaster University
Richard W. J. Neufeld
Richard W. J. Neufeld University of Western Ontario
David J. A. Dozois
David J. A. Dozois University of Western Ontario
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Bethany L. Brand
Bethany L. Brand Towson University
Eric Vermetten
Eric Vermetten Leiden University Medical Center
Richard J. Loewenstein
Richard J. Loewenstein University of Maryland, Baltimore
Christine Wekerle
Christine Wekerle McMaster University
Bessel A. van der Kolk
Bessel A. van der Kolk Boston University

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