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Overview

Steven E. Bruce is affiliated with the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology and epidemiology. The work also encompasses cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their scholarly output includes investigations into topics such as posttraumatic stress disorder research, traumatic brain injury research, and migration, health, and trauma. Additional subjects addressed in their studies include child abuse and trauma, functional brain connectivity studies, stress responses and cortisol, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Steven E. Bruce's frequent co-authors include Jennifer S. Stevens, Samuel A. McLean, Thomas C. Neylan, Sarah D. Linnstaedt, and Francesca L. Beaudoin.

The scientist's research has been published predominantly in several specific venues, including UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, the Journal of Psychiatric Research, and Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Brain-Based Biotypes of Psychiatric Vulnerability in the Acute Aftermath of Trauma, 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Persistent Dissociation and Its Neural Correlates in Predicting Outcomes After Trauma Exposure, 2022, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Structural covariance of the ventral visual stream predicts posttraumatic intrusion and nightmare symptoms: a multivariate data fusion analysis, 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • Development and Validation of a Model to Predict Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depression After a Motor Vehicle Collision, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Influence of Psychiatric Comorbidity on Recovery and Recurrence in Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, and Panic Disorder: A 12-Year Prospective Study

    Steven E. Bruce;Kimberly A. Yonkers;Michael W. Otto;Jane L. Eisen

  • Impact of exposure to community violence on violent behavior and emotional distress among urban adolescents.

    Albert D. Farrell;Steven E. Bruce

  • Chronicity, relapse, and illness--course of panic disorder, social phobia, and generalized anxiety disorder: findings in men and women from 8 years of follow-up.

    Kimberly A. Yonkers;Steven E. Bruce;Ingrid R. Dyck;Martin B. Keller

  • Factor structure and stability of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index in a longitudinal study of anxiety disorder patients.

    Benjamin F Rodriguez;Steven E Bruce;Maria E Pagano;Michael A Spencer

  • Does cognitive-behavioral therapy for PTSD improve perceived health and sleep impairment?

    Tara E. Galovski;Candice Monson;Steven E. Bruce;Patricia A. Resick

  • Nonpsychiatric illness among primary care patients with trauma histories and posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Risa B. Weisberg;Steven E. Bruce;Jason T. Machan;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Impact of Exposure to Community Violence on Anxiety: A Longitudinal Study of Family Social Support as a Protective Factor for Urban Children

    Kamila S. White;Steven E. Bruce;Albert D. Farrell;Wendy Kliewer

  • The AURORA Study: a longitudinal, multimodal library of brain biology and function after traumatic stress exposure.

    Samuel A. McLean;Kerry Ressler;Karestan Chase Koenen;Thomas Neylan

  • Are benzodiazepines still the medication of choice for patients with panic disorder with or without agoraphobia

    Steven E. Bruce;Russell G. Vasile;Robert M. Goisman;Carl Salzman

  • Infrequency of "pure" GAD: impact of psychiatric comorbidity on clinical course.

    Steven E. Bruce;Jason T. Machan;Ingrid Dyck;Martin B. Keller

  • Altered emotional interference processing in the amygdala and insula in women with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

    Steven E. Bruce;Katherine R. Buchholz;Wilson J. Brown;Laura Yan

  • Relationships among psychosocial functioning, diagnostic comorbidity, and the recurrence of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and major depression.

    Benjamin F. Rodriguez;Steven E. Bruce;Maria E. Pagano;Martin B. Keller

  • Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Primary Care Patients

    Steven E. Bruce;Risa B. Weisberg;Regina T. Dolan;Jason T. Machan

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy increases amygdala connectivity with the cognitive control network in both MDD and PTSD.

    Haochang Shou;Zhen Yang;Theodore D. Satterthwaite;Philip A Cook

  • Chronicity in posttraumatic stress disorder and predictors of the course of posttraumatic stress disorder among primary care patients.

    Caron Zlotnick;Benjamin F. Rodriguez;Risa B. Weisberg;Steven E. Bruce

  • The relationship between early life stress and microstructural integrity of the corpus callosum in a non-clinical population

    Robert R Paul;Lorrie Henry;Stuart M Grieve;Thomas J Guilmette;Thomas J Guilmette

  • Altered white matter microstructural organization in posttraumatic stress disorder across 3047 adults: results from the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD consortium

    Emily L Dennis;Seth G Disner;Seth G Disner;Negar Fani;Lauren E Salminen

  • Characteristics and Predictors of Full and Partial Recovery From Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Primary Care Patients

    Benjamin F. Rodriguez;Risa B. Weisberg;Maria E. Pagano;Steven E. Bruce

  • Dimensional depression severity in women with major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder correlates with fronto-amygdalar hypoconnectivty.

    T. D. Satterthwaite;P. A. Cook;S. E. Bruce;Charles Conway

  • Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis.

    Xin Wang;Hong Xie;Tian Chen;Andrew S. Cotton

  • The AURORA Study: A Longitudinal, Multimodal Library of Brain Biology and Function after Traumatic Stress Exposure

    Samuel A. McLean;Kerry Ressler;Karestan Chase Koenen;Thomas Neylan

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Tanja Jovanovic
Tanja Jovanovic Wayne State University
Diego A. Pizzagalli
Diego A. Pizzagalli Harvard University
Thomas C. Neylan
Thomas C. Neylan University of California, San Francisco
Jutta Joormann
Jutta Joormann Yale University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Robert H. Pietrzak
Robert H. Pietrzak Yale University
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis
Mark W. Miller
Mark W. Miller Boston University
Ruth A. Lanius
Ruth A. Lanius University of Western Ontario

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