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Overview

Richard J. Maddock is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within neuroscience and medicine, contributing extensively to neuroimaging, biological psychiatry, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their scholarly work includes a range of topics primarily focused on:

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Advanced MRI techniques and applications
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Reproductive system and pregnancy

Maddock's publications are frequently found in prominent venues such as:

  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Schizophrenia Research

The scientist has contributed to several papers, notable examples include:

  • "Medial Prefrontal Cortex Glutamate Is Reduced in Schizophrenia and Moderated by Measurement Quality: A Meta-analysis of Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Studies," 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • "Frequency drift in MR spectroscopy at 3T," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Altered behavior, brain structure, and neurometabolites in a rat model of autism-specific maternal autoantibody exposure," 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Delay discounting abnormalities are seen in first-episode schizophrenia but not in bipolar disorder," 2020, Schizophrenia Research
  • "Extracellular free water elevations are associated with brain volume and maternal cytokine response in a longitudinal nonhuman primate maternal immune activation model," 2023, Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Tyler A. Lesh
  • Melissa D. Bauman
  • Jason Smucny
  • Ana-Maria Iosif
  • Casey E. Hogrefe

The areas of study where Maddock has made contributions encompass:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Subfield specializations include:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • The retrosplenial cortex and emotion: new insights from functional neuroimaging of the human brain.

    Richard J. Maddock

  • Posterior cingulate cortex activation by emotional words: fMRI evidence from a valence decision task

    Richard J. Maddock;Amy S. Garrett;Michael H. Buonocore

  • Remembering familiar people: the posterior cingulate cortex and autobiographical memory retrieval.

    Richard J Maddock;A. S. Garrett;M. H. Buonocore

  • GABA Concentration Is Reduced in Visual Cortex in Schizophrenia and Correlates with Orientation-Specific Surround Suppression

    Jong H. Yoon;Richard J. Maddock;Ariel Rokem;Michael A. Silver

  • Efficacy of sertraline in preventing relapse of posttraumatic stress disorder: results of a 28-week double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

    Jonathan Davidson;Teri Pearlstein;Peter Londborg;Kathleen T. Brady

  • MR spectroscopic studies of the brain in psychiatric disorders.

    Richard J. Maddock;Michael H. Buonocore

  • Impaired recognition of facial expressions of emotion in Alzheimer's disease.

    Rita Hargrave;Richard J. Maddock;Valerie Stone

  • Ambulatory heart rate changes in patients with panic attacks.

    C B Taylor;J Sheikh;W S Agras;W T Roth

  • Activation of left posterior cingulate gyrus by the auditory presentation ofthreat-related words: an fMRI study

    Richard J. Maddock;Michael H. Buonocore

  • Sertraline treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: results of 24 weeks of open-label continuation treatment.

    Peter D. Londborg;Mark T. Hegel;Susanna Goldstein;David Goldstein

  • Acute Modulation of Cortical Glutamate and GABA Content by Physical Activity

    Richard J. Maddock;Gretchen A. Casazza;Dione H. Fernandez;Michael I. Maddock

  • Brain regions showing increased activation by threat-related words in panic disorder.

    Richard J. Maddock;Michael H. Buonocore;Shawn J. Kile;Amy S. Garrett

  • Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain: a review of physical principles and technical methods.

    Michael H Buonocore;Richard J Maddock

  • Stress Test Reactivity in Panic Disorder

    W T Roth;J Margraf;A Ehlers;C B Taylor

  • Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex GABA Concentration in Humans Predicts Working Memory Load Processing Capacity.

    Jong H. Yoon;Anthony Grandelis;Richard J. Maddock

  • Accommodation responses and refractive error.

    Richard J Maddock;M. Millodot;S. Leat;C. A. Johnson

  • Panic disorder and chest pain in the coronary care unit

    Cameron Carter;Richard Maddock;Ezra Amsterdam;Steven McCormick

  • Lactate infusions and panic attacks: Do patients and controls respond differently?

    Anke Ehlers;Jürgen Margraf;Walton T. Roth;C.Barr Taylor

  • Hyperventilation-induced panic attacks in panic disorder with agoraphobia.

    Richard J. Maddock;Cameron S. Carter

  • Vigorous exercise increases brain lactate and Glx (glutamate+glutamine): a dynamic 1H-MRS study.

    Richard J. Maddock;Gretchen A. Casazza;Michael H. Buonocore;Costin Tanase

  • Time course of the subjective emotional response to aversive pictures: relevance to fMRI studies.

    Amy S Garrett;Richard J Maddock

Frequent Co-Authors

Cameron S. Carter
Cameron S. Carter University of California, Irvine
Walton T. Roth
Walton T. Roth Stanford University
Anke Ehlers
Anke Ehlers University of Oxford
Jürgen Margraf
Jürgen Margraf Ruhr University Bochum
J. Daniel Ragland
J. Daniel Ragland University of California, Davis
David G. Amaral
David G. Amaral University of California, Davis
Michael J. Minzenberg
Michael J. Minzenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel C. Javitt
Daniel C. Javitt Columbia University
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University

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