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Neuroscience

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44
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7903
World Ranking
7144
National Ranking
3093

Psychology

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44
Citations
7890
World Ranking
6972
National Ranking
3774

Overview

Robin Nusslock is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has an extensive record of research contributions primarily in neuroscience and psychology. Their scholarly output includes work in various subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, behavioral neuroscience, and clinical psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics with notable focus areas including mental health research, functional brain connectivity studies, stress responses and cortisol, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, tryptophan and brain disorders, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and bipolar disorder and treatment.

Some of Robin Nusslock's recent papers are:

  • "The neuroscience of positive emotions and affect: Implications for cultivating happiness and wellbeing," 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Neurobiological and behavioral mechanisms of circadian rhythm disruption in bipolar disorder: A critical multi-disciplinary literature review and agenda for future research from the ISBD task force on chronobiology," 2021, Bipolar Disorders
  • "Precision behavioral phenotyping as a strategy for uncovering the biological correlates of psychopathology," 2023, Nature Mental Health
  • "Association of Inflammatory Activity With Larger Neural Responses to Threat and Reward Among Children Living in Poverty," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Low doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) increase reward-related brain activity," 2022, Neuropsychopharmacology

Frequent collaborators of Robin Nusslock include Richard E. Zinbarg, Michelle G. Craske, Lauren B. Alloy, Iris Ka-Yi Chat, and Katherine S. Young.

The scientist's work is often published in journals such as Biological Psychiatry, Brain Behavior and Immunity, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Nature Mental Health, and Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

Best Publications

  • Early-Life Adversity and Physical and Emotional Health Across the Lifespan: A Neuroimmune Network Hypothesis

    Robin Nusslock;Gregory E. Miller

  • Exercise-Mediated Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus via BDNF.

    Patrick Z. Liu;Robin Nusslock

  • Behavioral Approach System and Behavioral Inhibition System sensitivities and bipolar spectrum disorders: prospective prediction of bipolar mood episodes

    Lauren B Alloy;Lyn Y Abramson;Patricia D Walshaw;Alex Cogswell

  • The psychosocial context of bipolar disorder: environmental, cognitive, and developmental risk factors.

    Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson;Snezana Urosevic;Patricia D. Walshaw

  • Beyond the FRN: Broadening the time-course of EEG and ERP components implicated in reward processing

    James E. Glazer;Nicholas J. Kelley;Narun Pornpattananangkul;Vijay A. Mittal

  • Reward processing and mood-related symptoms: An RDoC and translational neuroscience perspective

    Robin Nusslock;Lauren B. Alloy

  • The neuroscience of positive emotions and affect: Implications for cultivating happiness and wellbeing.

    Rebecca Alexander;Oriana R. Aragón;Jamila Bookwala;Nicolas Cherbuin

  • Waiting to win: elevated striatal and orbitofrontal cortical activity during reward anticipation in euthymic bipolar disorder adults.

    Robin R. Nusslock;Robin R. Nusslock;Jorge R.C. Almeida;Erika E. Forbes;Amelia Versace

  • Progression along the bipolar spectrum: A longitudinal study of predictors of conversion from bipolar spectrum conditions to bipolar I and II disorders

    Lauren B. Alloy;Snežana Urošević;Lyn Y. Abramson;Shari Jager-Hyman

  • Role of Reward Sensitivity and Processing in Major Depressive and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

    Lauren B. Alloy;Thomas Olino;Rachel D. Freed;Robin Nusslock

  • Behavioral approach system (BAS)–relevant cognitive styles and bipolar spectrum disorders: Concurrent and prospective associations.

    Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson;Patricia D. Walshaw;Rachel K. Gerstein

  • Effect of bipolar disorder on left frontal cortical responses to goals differing in valence and task difficulty.

    Eddie Harmon-Jones;Lyn Y. Abramson;Robin Nusslock;Jonathan D. Sigelman

  • A goal-striving life event and the onset of hypomanic and depressive episodes and symptoms: perspective from the behavioral approach system (BAS) dysregulation theory.

    Robin Nusslock;Lyn Y. Abramson;Eddie Harmon-Jones;Lauren B. Alloy

  • The development and course of bipolar spectrum disorders: an integrated reward and circadian rhythm dysregulation model.

    Lauren B. Alloy;Robin Nusslock;Elaine M. Boland

  • Cognitive vulnerability and frontal brain asymmetry: common predictors of first prospective depressive episode.

    Robin Nusslock;Alexander J. Shackman;Eddie Harmon-Jones;Lauren B. Alloy

  • Dissociable patterns of abnormal frontal cortical activation during anticipation of an uncertain reward or loss in bipolar versus major depression

    Henry W. Chase;Robin Nusslock;Robin Nusslock;Jorge R. C. Almeida;Erika E. Forbes

  • Behavioral Approach System (BAS) Sensitivity and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: A Retrospective and Concurrent Behavioral High-Risk Design

    Lauren B. Alloy;Lyn Y. Abramson;Patricia D. Walshaw;Alex Cogswell

  • Subthreshold bipolarity: diagnostic issues and challenges.

    Robin Nusslock;Ellen Frank

  • Creativity and sensory gating indexed by the P50: Selective versus leaky sensory gating in divergent thinkers and creative achievers

    Darya L. Zabelina;Daniel O’Leary;Narun Pornpattananangkul;Robin Nusslock

  • Motivated to win: Relationship between anticipatory and outcome reward-related neural activity.

    Narun Pornpattananangkul;Robin Nusslock

Frequent Co-Authors

Lauren B. Alloy
Lauren B. Alloy Temple University
Lyn Y. Abramson
Lyn Y. Abramson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Richard E. Zinbarg
Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales
Susan Y. Bookheimer
Susan Y. Bookheimer University of California, Los Angeles
Gregory E. Miller
Gregory E. Miller Northwestern University
Edith Chen
Edith Chen Northwestern University
James A. Coan
James A. Coan University of Virginia
Wayne G. Whitehouse
Wayne G. Whitehouse Temple University

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