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Overview

Thomas J. Ross is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a strong focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology as subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers several core topics, including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, Mental Health Research Topics, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior.

Thomas J. Ross has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Brain lesions disrupting addiction map to a common human brain circuit," 2022, Nature Medicine
  • "Dose-dependent relationship between social drinking and brain aging," 2021, Neurobiology of Aging
  • "Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Applied to the Dorsolateral and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortices in Smokers Modifies Cognitive Circuits Implicated in the Nicotine Withdrawal Syndrome," 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • "Short-term nicotine deprivation alters dorsal anterior cingulate glutamate concentration and concomitant cingulate-cortical functional connectivity," 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Nicotine dependence (trait) and acute nicotinic stimulation (state) modulate attention but not inhibitory control: converging fMRI evidence from Go-Nogo and Flanker tasks," 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology

Frequent co-authors in Thomas J. Ross's research include Elliot A. Stein, Betty Jo Salmeron, John R. Fedota, Amy C. Janes, and Yihong Yang.

The scientist has published in several key venues related to brain and psychiatric research. Frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Human Brain Mapping

Best Publications

  • Right hemispheric dominance of inhibitory control: An event-related functional MRI study

    H. Garavan;T. J. Ross;E. A. Stein

  • Dissociable executive functions in the dynamic control of behavior: inhibition, error detection, and correction.

    Hugh Garavan;Thomas J. Ross;Kevin Murphy;Richard A. P. Roche

  • Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving: Neuroanatomical Specificity for Drug Users and Drug Stimuli

    Hugh Garavan;John Pankiewicz;Alan Bloom;Jung-Ki Cho

  • Cingulate hypoactivity in cocaine users during a GO-NOGO task as revealed by event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Jacqueline N. Kaufman;Thomas J. Ross;Elliot A. Stein;Hugh Garavan

  • Amygdala response to both positively and negatively valenced stimuli.

    Hugh Garavan;J. Cara Pendergrass;Thomas J. Ross;Elliot A. Stein

  • Cognitive mechanisms of nicotine on visual attention.

    Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Thomas J. Ross;Elliot A. Stein

  • Multiple Neuronal Networks Mediate Sustained Attention

    Natalia S. Lawrence;Thomas J. Ross;Ray Hoffmann;Hugh Garavan

  • A midline dissociation between error-processing and response-conflict monitoring.

    Hugh Garavan;Thomas J. Ross;J. Kaufman;Elliot A. Stein

  • Mesocorticolimbic circuits are impaired in chronic cocaine users as demonstrated by resting-state functional connectivity.

    Hong Gu;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross;Xiujuan Geng

  • Neuroanatomical dissociation between bottom-up and top-down processes of visuospatial selective attention.

    Britta Hahn;Thomas J. Ross;Elliot A. Stein

  • Neural correlates of high and craving during cocaine self-administration using BOLD fMRI.

    Robert C. Risinger;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross;Shelley L. Amen

  • Cingulate Activation Increases Dynamically with Response Speed under Stimulus Unpredictability

    Britta Hahn;Thomas J. Ross;Elliot A. Stein

  • Intrinsic resting-state activity predicts working memory brain activation and behavioral performance.

    Qihong Zou;Qihong Zou;Qihong Zou;Thomas J. Ross;Hong Gu;Xiujuan Geng

  • Brain lesions disrupting addiction map to a common human brain circuit

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  • Patients with Schizophrenia have a Reduced Neural Response to Both Unpredictable and Predictable Primary Reinforcers

    James A Waltz;Julie B Schweitzer;James M Gold;Pradeep K Kurup

  • Nicotine Enhances Visuospatial Attention by Deactivating Areas of the Resting Brain Default Network

    Britta Hahn;Thomas J. Ross;Yihong Yang;Insook Kim

  • Factors underlying prefrontal and insula structural alterations in smokers

    Xiaochu Zhang;Betty Jo Salmeron;Thomas J. Ross;Xiujuan Geng

  • A Parametric Manipulation of Central Executive Functioning

    H. Garavan;T.J. Ross;S.-J. Li;E.A. Stein

  • A genetically modulated, intrinsic cingulate circuit supports human nicotine addiction

    L. Elliot Hong;Colin A. Hodgkinson;Yihong Yang;Hemalatha Sampath

  • Abnormal Responses to Monetary Outcomes in Cortex, but not in the Basal Ganglia, in Schizophrenia

    James A Waltz;Julie B Schweitzer;Thomas J Ross;Pradeep K Kurup

  • Group independent component analysis reveals consistent resting-state networks across multiple sessions.

    Sharon Chen;Thomas J. Ross;Thomas J. Ross;Wang Zhan;Wang Zhan;Carol S. Myers;Carol S. Myers

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot A. Stein
Elliot A. Stein National Institute on Drug Abuse
Betty Jo Salmeron
Betty Jo Salmeron National Institute on Drug Abuse
Yihong Yang
Yihong Yang National Institute on Drug Abuse
Hong Gu
Hong Gu National Institute on Drug Abuse
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
James M. Gold
James M. Gold University of Maryland, Baltimore
L. Elliot Hong
L. Elliot Hong University of Maryland, Baltimore
Sharon C.-A. Chen
Sharon C.-A. Chen Westmead Hospital
Stacey B. Daughters
Stacey B. Daughters University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kristy A. Nielson
Kristy A. Nielson Marquette University

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