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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Sara Jo Nixon is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and epidemiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of substance abuse and related behavioral and brain mechanisms. Key research topics include substance abuse treatment and outcomes, neural and behavioral psychology studies, prenatal substance exposure effects, memory and neural mechanisms, opioid use disorder treatment, functional brain connectivity studies, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Frequent publication venues for their work are Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Alcohol, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Substance Use & Misuse, and Addictive Behaviors.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sara Jo Nixon include:

  • Substance use patterns in 9-10 year olds: Baseline findings from the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study, 2021, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Age-related changes and longitudinal stability of individual differences in ABCD Neurocognition measures, 2022, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Introducing NIDA's New National Drug Early Warning System, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Neural vulnerability and hurricane-related media are associated with post-traumatic stress in youth, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • A combined laboratory and field test of a smartphone breath alcohol device and blood alcohol concentration estimator to facilitate moderate drinking among young adults., 2021, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Their frequent co-authors include Ben Lewis, Christian Garcia, Andrew J. Moore, Linda B. Cottler, and Devika Bhatia. Collaborative work with these researchers has resulted in multiple joint publications.

Sara Jo Nixon's primary fields of study include medicine with 37 publications, and neuroscience with 21 publications. Subfields typically addressed in their work are cognitive neuroscience, epidemiology, clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

In recognition of their professional contributions, Sara Jo Nixon was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Psychiatric disorders among survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing.

    Carol S. North;Sara Jo Nixon;Sheryll Shariat;Sue Mallonee

  • Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

    Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

  • Adolescent neurocognitive development and impacts of substance use: Overview of the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) baseline neurocognition battery.

    Monica M Luciana;J. M. Bjork;B. J. Nagel

  • Social cognition in parents: inferential and affective reactions to children of three age levels.

    Theodore Dix;Diane N. Ruble;Joan E. Grusec;Sara Nixon

  • Psychiatric Disorders in Rescue Workers After the Oklahoma City Bombing

    Carol S. North;Laura Tivis;J. Curtis McMillen;Betty Pfefferbaum

  • Television exposure in children after a terrorist incident.

    Betty Pfefferbaum;Sara Jo Nixon;Rick D. Tivis;Debby E. Doughty

  • Posttraumatic Stress Responses in Bereaved Children After the Oklahoma City Bombing

    Betty Pfefferbaum;Sara Jo Nixon;Phebe M. Tucker;Rick D. Tivis

  • Blunted stress cortisol response in abstinent alcoholic and polysubstance-abusing men.

    William R. Lovallo;Stacey L. Dickensheets;Dean A. Myers;Terrie L. Thomas

  • Adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study: Overview of substance use assessment methods

    Krista M. Lisdahl;Kenneth J. Sher;Kevin P. Conway;Raul Gonzalez

  • Neuropsychological performance of recently abstinent alcoholics and cocaine abusers

    William W Beatty;Vickie M Katzung;Valerie J Moreland;Sara J Nixon

  • Clinical needs assessment of middle and high school students following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing

    Betty Pfefferbaum;Sara Jo Nixon;Ronald S. Krug;Rick D. Tivis

  • Chronic Cigarette Smoking: Implications for Neurocognition and Brain Neurobiology

    Timothy C. Durazzo;Dieter J. Meyerhoff;Sara Jo Nixon

  • Neurobehavioral sequelae of alcoholism.

    Oscar A. Parsons;Sara Jo Nixon

  • Cognitive functioning in sober social drinkers: a review of the research since 1986.

    Oscar A. Parsons;Sara Jo Nixon

  • The structure of cognition in 9 and 10 year-old children and associations with problem behaviors: Findings from the ABCD study’s baseline neurocognitive battery

    Wesley K. Thompson;M Deanna;James M. Bjork;Raul Gonzalez

  • Predictors of post-traumatic stress symptoms in Oklahoma City: exposure, social support, peri-traumatic responses

    Phebe Tucker;Betty Pfefferbaum;Sara Jo Nixon;Warren Dickson

  • Neuropsychological Deficits in Sober Alcoholics: Influences of Chronicity and Recent Alcohol Consumption

    William W. Beatty;Rick Tivis;Heather D. Stott;Sara Jo Nixon

  • Visuospatial perception, construction, and memory in alcoholism.

    William W. Beatty;Karen A. Hames;Carlos R. Blanco;Sara Jo Nixon

  • Laparoscopic cholecystectomy as a safe and effective treatment for severe acute cholecystitis.

    R. G. Wilson;I. M. C. Macintyre;S. J. Nixon;J. H. Saunders

  • Altered Emotional Perception in Alcoholics: Deficits in Affective Prosody Comprehension

    Marilee Monnot;Sara Nixon;William Lovallo;Elliott Ross

Frequent Co-Authors

Oscar A. Parsons
Oscar A. Parsons University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Linda B. Cottler
Linda B. Cottler University of Florida
William W. Beatty
William W. Beatty University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Raul Gonzalez
Raul Gonzalez Florida International University
Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing
Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing University of Connecticut
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
Lindsay M. Squeglia
Lindsay M. Squeglia Medical University of South Carolina
Monica M Luciana
Monica M Luciana University of Minnesota
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego
Bonnie J. Nagel
Bonnie J. Nagel Oregon Health & Science University

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