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Scott A. Langenecker

Scott A. Langenecker

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Psychology

D-Index
55
Citations
9797
World Ranking
4444
National Ranking
2470

Overview

Scott A. Langenecker is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research spans across multiple areas in psychology, with a primary focus on mental health and related cognitive processes.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the field of Psychology, with 153 publications. Key subfields of study include Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Social Psychology.

Langenecker's work covers a range of main research topics such as Mental Health Research Topics, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Digital Mental Health Interventions, and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

The recent papers by Scott A. Langenecker cover diverse topics and have appeared in a variety of journals:

  • Effects of mood and aging on keystroke dynamics metadata and their diurnal patterns in a large open-science sample: A BiAffect iOS study, 2020, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • Pandemic-related mental health risk among front line personnel, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Resting state functional connectivity correlates of rumination and worry in internalizing psychopathologies, 2021, Depression and Anxiety
  • Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet Is Associated with Lower Depressive Symptoms among U.S. Adults, 2022, Nutrients
  • Risk factors for alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette polysubstance use during adolescence and young adulthood: A 7-year longitudinal study of youth at high risk for smoking escalation, 2021, Addictive Behaviors

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Katie L. Bessette
  • Olusola Ajilore
  • Brian Farstead
  • Robert C. Welsh
  • Mindy Westlund Schreiner

Best Publications

  • Differences in the Functional Neuroanatomy of Inhibitory Control Across the Adult Life Span

    Kristy A. Nielson;Scott Aaron Langenecker;Hugh Garavan

  • fMRI of healthy older adults during Stroop interference.

    Scott Aaron Langenecker;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson;Stephen M. Rao

  • Response of the μ-opioid system to social rejection and acceptance

    David T Hsu;Benjamin J Sanford;Kortni K Meyers;Tiffany M Love

  • Face emotion perception and executive functioning deficits in depression

    Scott A. Langenecker;Linas A. Bieliauskas;Lisa J. Rapport;Jon Kar Zubieta

  • It still hurts: altered endogenous opioid activity in the brain during social rejection and acceptance in major depressive disorder.

    David T Hsu;Benjamin J Sanford;Kortni K Meyers;Tiffany M Love

  • Frontal and Limbic Activation During Inhibitory Control Predicts Treatment Response in Major Depressive Disorder

    Scott A. Langenecker;Susan E. Kennedy;Leslie M. Guidotti;Emily M. Briceno

  • A task to manipulate attentional load, set-shifting, and inhibitory control: convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Parametric Go/No-Go Test.

    Scott A. Langenecker;Jon Kar Zubieta;Elizabeth A. Young;Huda Akil

  • Predicting Mood Disturbance Severity with Mobile Phone Keystroke Metadata: A BiAffect Digital Phenotyping Study.

    John Zulueta;Andrea Piscitello;Mladen Rasic;Rebecca Easter

  • Association Between Placebo-Activated Neural Systems and Antidepressant Responses: Neurochemistry of Placebo Effects in Major Depression

    Marta Peciña;Amy S.B. Bohnert;Magdalena Sikora;Erich T. Avery

  • Shared white matter alterations across emotional disorders: A voxel-based meta-analysis of fractional anisotropy

    Lisanne Michelle Jenkins;Alyssa Barba;Miranda Campbell;Melissa Lamar

  • Neural activation to monetary reward is associated with amphetamine reward sensitivity

    Natania A Crane;Stephanie M Gorka;Jessica Weafer;Scott A Langenecker

  • Emotion Processing, Major Depression, and Functional Genetic Variation of Neuropeptide Y

    Brian J. Mickey;Zhifeng Zhou;Mary M. Heitzeg;Elizabeth Heinz

  • Identifying a cognitive impairment subgroup in adults with mood disorders.

    Grant L. Iverson;Brian L. Brooks;Brian L. Brooks;Scott A. Langenecker;Allan H. Young

  • Abnormal anterior cingulate cortical activity during emotional n-back task performance distinguishes bipolar from unipolar depressed females.

    M. A. Bertocci;G. M. Bebko;B. C. Mullin;S. A. Langenecker

  • Frontal recruitment during response inhibition in older adults replicated with fMRI.

    Scott Aaron Langenecker;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson

  • Neural correlates of rumination in adolescents with remitted major depressive disorder and healthy controls

    Katie L. Burkhouse;Rachel H. Jacobs;Amy T. Peters;Olu Ajilore

  • Intermediate: cognitive phenotypes in bipolar disorder.

    Scott A. Langenecker;Erika F.H. Saunders;Allison M. Kade;Michael T. Ransom

  • Targeting Ruminative Thinking in Adolescents at Risk for Depressive Relapse: Rumination-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy in a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial with Resting State fMRI

    Rachel H. Jacobs;Edward R. Watkins;Amy T. Peters;Claudia G. Feldhaus

  • DRD2 polymorphisms modulate reward and emotion processing, dopamine neurotransmission and openness to experience

    Marta Peciña;Brian J. Mickey;Tiffany Love;Heng Wang

  • Increased coupling of intrinsic networks in remitted depressed youth predicts rumination and cognitive control.

    Rachel H. Jacobs;Lisanne M. Jenkins;Laura B. Gabriel;Alyssa Barba

  • Decoupling of the amygdala to other salience network regions in adolescent-onset recurrent major depressive disorder

    Rachel Jacobs;A. Barba;J. R. Gowins;Heide Klumpp

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Melvin G. McInnis
Melvin G. McInnis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jonathan P. Stange
Jonathan P. Stange University of Southern California
Stewart A. Shankman
Stewart A. Shankman Northwestern University
Linas A. Bieliauskas
Linas A. Bieliauskas University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kristy A. Nielson
Kristy A. Nielson Marquette University
Bruno Giordani
Bruno Giordani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lisa J. Rapport
Lisa J. Rapport Wayne State University
Edward R. Watkins
Edward R. Watkins University of Exeter
Harriet de Wit
Harriet de Wit University of Chicago

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