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Overview

Ruth A. Lanius is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience, with significant contributions across Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work has concentrated on key topics including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Resilience and Mental Health, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ruth A. Lanius include:

  • Margaret C. McKinnon
  • Maria Densmore
  • Andrew A. Nicholson
  • Jean Théberge
  • Rakesh Jetly

Key publication venues where Ruth A. Lanius has published multiple works include:

  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Journal of Military Veteran and Family Health
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy

Among recent papers, the selected publications are:

  • Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist), 2020, Brain
  • The sense of self in the aftermath of trauma: lessons from the default mode network in posttraumatic stress disorder, 2020, European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • The brain-body disconnect: A somatic sensory basis for trauma-related disorders, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Classifying heterogeneous presentations of PTSD via the default mode, central executive, and salience networks with machine learning, 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • How Processing of Sensory Information From the Internal and External Worlds Shape the Perception and Engagement With the World in the Aftermath of Trauma: Implications for PTSD, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Ruth A. Lanius has also contributed to academic publishing through book authorship. One notable publication through Oxford University Press is Finding Solid Ground: Overcoming Obstacles in Trauma Treatment, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Emotion Modulation in PTSD: Clinical and Neurobiological Evidence for a Dissociative Subtype

    Ruth A. Lanius;Eric Vermetten;Richard J. Loewenstein;Bethany Brand

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  • Neural Correlates of Traumatic Memories in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Functional MRI Investigation

    Ruth A. Lanius;Peter C. Williamson;Maria Densmore;Kristine Boksman

  • Spontaneous Low-Frequency Fluctuations in the BOLD Signal in Schizophrenic Patients: Anomalies in the Default Network

    Robyn L. Bluhm;Jodi Miller;Ruth A. Lanius;Elizabeth A. Osuch

  • Brain activation during script-driven imagery induced dissociative responses in PTSD: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation.

    Ruth A Lanius;Peter C Williamson;Kristine Boksman;Maria Densmore

  • 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

  • Reformulating PTSD for DSM-V: life after Criterion A.

    Chris R. Brewin;Ruth A. Lanius;Andrei Novac;Ulrich Schnyder

  • A review of neuroimaging studies in PTSD: Heterogeneity of response to symptom provocation

    R.A. Lanius;R. Bluhm;U. Lanius;C. Pain;C. Pain

  • 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

  • Smaller Hippocampal Volume in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Multisite ENIGMA-PGC Study: Subcortical Volumetry Results From Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Consortia

    Mark W. Logue;Sanne J.H. van Rooij;Emily L. Dennis;Sarah L. Davis

  • 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

  • Mindfulness-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder: A review of the treatment literature and neurobiological evidence.

    Jenna E. Boyd;Ruth A. Lanius;Margaret C. McKinnon

  • Recall of emotional states in posttraumatic stress disorder: an fMRI investigation.

    Ruth A Lanius;Peter C Williamson;James Hopper;Maria Densmore

  • The Nature of Traumatic Memories: A 4-T fMRI Functional Connectivity Analysis

    Ruth A. Lanius;Peter C. Williamson;Maria Densmore;Kristine Boksman

  • Functional connectivity of dissociative responses in posttraumatic stress disorder: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation.

    Ruth A. Lanius;Ruth A. Lanius;Peter C. Williamson;Robyn L. Bluhm;Maria Densmore

  • Meta-analysis of alexithymia in posttraumatic stress disorder.

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

  • Resting state default-mode network connectivity in early depression using a seed region-of-interest analysis: Decreased connectivity with caudate nucleus

    Robyn Bluhm;Peter Williamson;Ruth Lanius;Jean Théberge

  • 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

  • Default mode network connectivity as a predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder symptom severity in acutely traumatized subjects

    R. A. Lanius;R. L. Bluhm;N. J. Coupland;K. M. Hegadoren

  • Dissociative disorders in DSM-5.

    David Spiegel;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Ruth Lanius;Eric Vermetten

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret C. McKinnon
Margaret C. McKinnon McMaster University
Paul A. Frewen
Paul A. Frewen University of Western Ontario
Maria Densmore
Maria Densmore University of Western Ontario
Jean Théberge
Jean Théberge University of Western Ontario
Richard W. J. Neufeld
Richard W. J. Neufeld University of Western Ontario
Eric Vermetten
Eric Vermetten Leiden University Medical Center
Richard J. Loewenstein
Richard J. Loewenstein University of Maryland, Baltimore
Bethany L. Brand
Bethany L. Brand Towson University
David J. A. Dozois
David J. A. Dozois University of Western Ontario
David Spiegel
David Spiegel Stanford University

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