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Overview

Tanja Jovanovic is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience, emphasizing Clinical Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology as key subfields of study.

Their work extensively addresses topics related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Child Abuse and Trauma, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, as well as Migration, Health, and Trauma.

Jovanovic has contributed to frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Neuropsychopharmacology

Some of the recent papers that include contributions from Jovanovic are:

  • A validated predictive algorithm of post-traumatic stress course following emergency department admission after a traumatic stressor (2020) - Nature Medicine
  • Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis (2020) - Molecular Psychiatry
  • Evaluating the impact of trauma and PTSD on epigenetic prediction of lifespan and neural integrity (2020) - Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Trauma exposure and stress-related disorders in a large, urban, predominantly African-American, female sample (2021) - Archives of Women s Mental Health
  • Artificial intelligence in prediction of mental health disorders induced by the COVID-19 pandemic among health care workers (2020) - Croatian Medical Journal

Jovanovic collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors including:

  • Jennifer S. Stevens
  • Kerry J. Ressler
  • Sanne J.H. van Rooij
  • Samuel A. McLean
  • Steven E. Bruce

Best Publications

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with PACAP and the PAC1 receptor

    Kerry J. Ressler;Kerry J. Ressler;Kerry J. Ressler;Kristina B. Mercer;Bekh Bradley;Bekh Bradley;Tanja Jovanovic

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • Inflammation in Fear- and Anxiety-Based Disorders: PTSD, GAD, and Beyond.

    Vasiliki Michopoulos;Vasiliki Michopoulos;Abigail Powers;Charles F Gillespie;Kerry J Ressler

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • How the Neurocircuitry and Genetics of Fear Inhibition May Inform Our Understanding of PTSD

    Tanja Jovanovic;Kerry J. Ressler

  • Impaired Safety Signal Learning May be a Biomarker of PTSD

    Tanja Jovanovic;Andrew M. Kazama;Jocelyne Bachevalier;Michael E Davis;Michael E Davis

  • Impaired Fear Inhibition is a Biomarker of PTSD but not Depression

    Tanja Jovanovic;Seth D. Norrholm;Seth D. Norrholm;Q B A Nineequa Blanding;Michael Davis

  • 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

  • A Randomized, Double-Blind Evaluation of d-Cycloserine or Alprazolam Combined With Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans

    Barbara Olasov Rothbaum;Matthew Price;Tanja Jovanovic;Seth D. Norrholm

  • Fear Extinction in Traumatized Civilians with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Relation to Symptom Severity

    Seth D. Norrholm;Seth D. Norrholm;Tanja Jovanovic;Ilana W. Olin;Ilana W. Olin;Lauren A. Sands

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder may be associated with impaired fear inhibition: Relation to symptom severity

    Tanja Jovanovic;Tanja Jovanovic;Seth Davin Norrholm;Seth Davin Norrholm;Jennifer E. Fennell;Megan Keyes

  • Estrogen Levels Are Associated with Extinction Deficits in Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Ebony M. Glover;Tanja Jovanovic;Kristina B. Mercer;Kristina B. Mercer;Kimberly Kerley

  • Disrupted amygdala-prefrontal functional connectivity in civilian women with posttraumatic stress disorder

    Jennifer S. Stevens;Tanja Jovanovic;Negar Fani;Timothy D. Ely

  • Veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: what about comorbid chronic pain?

    Jillian C. Shipherd;Megan Keyes;Tanja Jovanovic;David J. Ready

  • The PedBE clock accurately estimates DNA methylation age in pediatric buccal cells.

    Lisa M. McEwen;Kieran J. O’Donnell;Kieran J. O’Donnell;Megan G. McGill;Rachel D. Edgar

  • PTSD and gene variants: new pathways and new thinking.

    Kelly H Skelton;Kerry Ressler;Kerry Ressler;Seth Davin Norrholm;Seth Davin Norrholm;Tanja Jovanovic

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  • D-Cycloserine Augmentation of Exposure-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data.

    David Mataix-Cols;Lorena Fernández de la Cruz;Benedetta Monzani;David Rosenfield

  • Diagnostic Biomarkers for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Promising Horizons from Translational Neuroscience Research.

    Vasiliki Michopoulos;Vasiliki Michopoulos;Seth Davin Norrholm;Seth Davin Norrholm;Tanja Jovanovic

  • Association of CRP genetic variation and CRP level with elevated PTSD symptoms and physiological responses in a civilian population with high levels of trauma.

    Vasiliki Michopoulos;Alex O. Rothbaum;Tanja Jovanovic;Lynn M. Almli

  • Association between childhood maltreatment and adult emotional dysregulation in a low-income, urban, African American sample: moderation by oxytocin receptor gene.

    Bekh Bradley;Drew Westen;Kristina B. Mercer;Elisabeth B. Binder

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with PACAP and the PAC1

    J. Ressler;Kristina B. Mercer;Bekh Bradley;Tanja Jovanovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Seth D. Norrholm
Seth D. Norrholm Wayne State University
Bekh Bradley
Bekh Bradley Emory University
Barbara O. Rothbaum
Barbara O. Rothbaum Emory University
Negar Fani
Negar Fani Emory University
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society
Abigail Powers
Abigail Powers Emory University
Michael Davis
Michael Davis Georgia Institute of Technology
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Caroline M. Nievergelt
Caroline M. Nievergelt University of California, San Diego

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