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Richard J. McNally

Richard J. McNally

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Psychology

D-Index
118
Citations
50571
World Ranking
277
National Ranking
175

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard J. McNally is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main research topics covered by McNally include:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry

Frequent publication venues for McNally's work include:

  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by McNally are:

  • "Network Analysis of Psychopathology: Controversies and Challenges," 2020, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • "Network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science," 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Psychopathological networks: Theory, methods and practice," 2021, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "A tutorial on bayesian networks for psychopathology researchers," 2022, Psychological Methods
  • "Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals With Trauma Histories," 2020, Clinical Psychological Science

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with McNally are:

  • Benjamin W. Bellet
  • Payton J. Jones
  • Donald J. Robinaugh
  • Emily E. Bernstein
  • Denny Borsboom

McNally's scholarly activity includes extensive publication within the field of psychology, with a strong emphasis on clinical applications and methods related to mental health conditions. Their work spans multiple subfields, demonstrating an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and treating psychological disorders.

Their contributions have been recognized through election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1963.

Best Publications

  • Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness.

    Steven Reiss;Rolf A. Peterson;David M. Gursky;Richard J. McNally

  • Identifying highly influential nodes in the complicated grief network.

    Donald J. Robinaugh;Alexander J. Millner;Richard J. McNally

  • Bridge Centrality: A Network Approach to Understanding Comorbidity.

    Payton J. Jones;Ruofan Ma;Richard J. McNally

  • Network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science

    Denny Borsboom;Marie K. Deserno;Mijke Rhemtulla;Sacha Epskamp

  • Can network analysis transform psychopathology

    Richard J. McNally

  • Anxiety sensitivity and panic disorder.

    Richard J McNally

  • How does anxiety sensitivity vary across the anxiety disorders

    Steven Taylor;William J. Koch;Richard J. McNally

  • Progress and Controversy in the Study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Richard J. McNally

  • Regional cerebral blood flow during script-driven imagery in childhood sexual abuse-related PTSD: A PET investigation.

    Lisa M. Shin;Richard J. McNally;Stephen M. Kosslyn;William L. Thompson

  • The emotional counting stroop paradigm: a functional magnetic resonance imaging probe of the anterior cingulate affective division

    Paul J Whalen;George Bush;George Bush;Richard J McNally;Sabine Wilhelm

  • Does Early Psychological Intervention Promote Recovery From Posttraumatic Stress

    Richard J. McNally;Richard A. Bryant;Anke Ehlers

  • Mental Disorders as Causal Systems: A Network Approach to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Richard J. McNally;Donald J. Robinaugh;Gwyneth W. Y. Wu;Li Wang

  • Exposure to Hurricane-Related Stressors and Mental Illness After Hurricane Katrina

    Sandro Galea;Chris R. Brewin;Michael Gruber;Russell T. Jones

  • Selective processing of threat cues in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Richard J. McNally;Susan P. Kaspi;Bradley C. Riemann;Sharon B. Zeitlin

  • Visual imagery and perception in posttraumatic stress disorder. A positron emission tomographic investigation

    Lisa M. Shin;Stephen M. Kosslyn;Richard J. McNally;Nathaniel M. Alpert

  • Autobiographical memory disturbance in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

    Richard J. McNally;Natasha B. Lasko;Natasha B. Lasko;Michael L. Macklin;Michael L. Macklin;Roger K. Pitman;Roger K. Pitman

  • Panic Disorder: A Critical Analysis

    Richard J. McNally

  • Psychological approaches to panic disorder: a review.

    Richard J. McNally

  • Lower precombat intelligence is a risk factor for posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Michael L. Macklin;Linda J. Metzger;Brett T. Litz;Richard J. McNally

  • Selective processing of threat cues in panic disorder

    Richard J. McNally;Bradley C. Riemann;Eunsil Kim

  • Mechanisms of exposure therapy: how neuroscience can improve psychological treatments for anxiety disorders.

    Richard J. McNally

  • Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic, 2nd ed.

    Richard J. McNALLY

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre Heeren
Alexandre Heeren Université Catholique de Louvain
Bradley C. Riemann
Bradley C. Riemann Memorial Hospital of South Bend
Donald J. Robinaugh
Donald J. Robinaugh Massachusetts General Hospital
Sabine Wilhelm
Sabine Wilhelm Harvard University
Iris M. Engelhard
Iris M. Engelhard Utrecht University
Brett T. Litz
Brett T. Litz Boston University
Nader Amir
Nader Amir San Diego State University
Natasha B. Lasko
Natasha B. Lasko Harvard University
Devon E. Hinton
Devon E. Hinton Harvard University
Edna B. Foa
Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania

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