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Paul F Collins is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Neuroscience, Medicine, and Psychology. Within these broad domains, their work includes a concentration on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The scientist's scholarly contributions address multiple key topics, including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Mental Health Research Topics, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum.

Recent significant publications highlight various aspects of cognitive and brain function. These include:

  • Neuroplasticity, the Prefrontal Cortex, and Psychopathology-Related Deviations in Cognitive Control, 2022, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • The Longitudinal Association between Externalizing Behavior and Frontoamygdalar Resting-state Functional Connectivity in Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Does Pubertal Stage Mediate the Association between Family Environment and Structure and Function of the Amygdala-mPFC Circuit? A Replication Study of the Longitudinal ABCD Cohort, 2022, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental Trajectories of Delay Discounting from Childhood to Young Adulthood: Longitudinal Associations and Test-Retest Reliability, 2022, Cognitive Psychology
  • Initiation of Moderately Frequent Cannabis Use in Adolescence and Young Adulthood is Associated with Declines in Verbal Learning and Memory: A Longitudinal Comparison of Pre- versus Post-Initiation Cognitive Performance, 2021, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Collins collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Mónica Luciana, Sandra Thijssen, Samuel D. Klein, Hannah Weiss, and Bing Xu. These partnerships have contributed to a body of work across a range of journals. The most frequent publication venues for Collins' work are the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Communications Psychology, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research integrates diverse methodologies and spans longitudinal study designs, neuroimaging approaches, and developmental psychology frameworks, emphasizing cognitive control, brain connectivity, and psychosocial development across adolescence and young adulthood.

Best Publications

  • Neurobiology of the structure of personality: Dopamine, facilitation of incentive motivation, and extraversion.

    Richard A. Depue;Paul F. Collins

  • Mood, personality, and self-monitoring: negative affect and emotionality in relation to frontal lobe mechanisms of error monitoring.

    Phan Luu;Paul F Collins;Don M. Tucker

  • 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

  • Developmental Changes in Dopamine Neurotransmission in Adolescence: Behavioral Implications and Issues in Assessment

    Dustin Wahlstrom;Paul F Collins;Tonya White;Monica M Luciana

  • Opposing roles for dopamine and serotonin in the modulation of human spatial working memory functions.

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

  • The development of corpus callosum microstructure and associations with bimanual task performance in healthy adolescents

    Ryan L. Muetzel;Paul F. Collins;Bryon A. Mueller;Ann M. Schissel

  • Adolescents' performance on delay and probability discounting tasks: contributions of age, intelligence, executive functioning, and self-reported externalizing behavior.

    Elizabeth A. Olson;Catalina J. Hooper;Paul F Collins;Monica M Luciana

  • Dopaminergic modulation of working memory for spatial but not object cues in normal humans

    Monica Luciana;Paul F. Collins

  • Longitudinal Changes in Behavioral Approach System Sensitivity and Brain Structures Involved in Reward Processing during Adolescence.

    Snežana Urošević;Paul Collins;Ryan Muetzel;Kelvin Lim

  • White matter integrity predicts delay discounting behavior in 9-to 23-year-olds: A diffusion tensor imaging study

    Elizabeth A. Olson;Paul F. Collins;Catalina J. Hooper;Ryan Muetzel

  • Dopaminergic modulation of incentive motivation in adolescence: age-related changes in signaling, individual differences, and implications for the development of self-regulation.

    Monica Luciana;Dustin Wahlstrom;James N. Porter;Paul F. Collins

  • Event-related potential and looking-time analysis of infants' responses to familiar and novel events : implications for visual recognition memory

    Charles A. Nelson;Paul F. Collins

  • Effects of alcohol use initiation on brain structure in typically developing adolescents

    Monica M Luciana;Paul F Collins;Ryan L. Muetzel;Kelvin O Lim

  • Associations between cortical thickness and general intelligence in children, adolescents and young adults

    Kyle Menary;Paul F Collins;James N. Porter;Ryan Muetzel;Ryan Muetzel

  • Tower of London Performance in Healthy Adolescents: The Development of Planning Skills and Associations With Self-Reported Inattention and Impulsivity

    Monica M Luciana;Paul F Collins;Elizabeth A. Olson;Ann M. Schissel

  • Incentive Motivation, Cognitive Control, and the Adolescent Brain: Is It Time for a Paradigm Shift?

    Monica M Luciana;Paul F Collins

  • Event-related potentials to emotional and neutral stimuli.

    Sarah F. Lang;Charles A. Nelson;Paul F. Collins

  • Neural and behavioral correlates of visual recognition memory in 4- and 8-month-old infants.

    Charles A Nelson;Paul F Collins

  • Neurocognition in college-aged daily marijuana users.

    Mary P Becker;Paul F. Collins;Monica M Luciana

  • Longitudinal changes in white matter microstructure after heavy cannabis use

    Mary P. Becker;Paul F. Collins;Kelvin O. Lim;R.L. Muetzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Monica M Luciana
Monica M Luciana University of Minnesota
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Edward M. Bernat
Edward M. Bernat University of Maryland, College Park
Richard A. Depue
Richard A. Depue Cornell University
Paul van den Broek
Paul van den Broek Leiden University
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University
Alan R. Lang
Alan R. Lang Florida State University
Brenda E. Benson
Brenda E. Benson National Institutes of Health
Paul A. Arbisi
Paul A. Arbisi University of Minnesota
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health

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