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Turhan Canli is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. They have a significant body of research primarily in neuroscience and medicine, with published work spanning behavioral neuroscience, biological psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and molecular biology.

Their research topics include:

  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Autism spectrum disorder research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation

Among their frequent co-authors are Courtenay L. Kessler, Elif Aysimi Duman, Emma K. Adam, Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn, and Yen-Wen Chen.

Turhan Canli has published regularly in several venues, with multiple publications in Psychoneuroendocrinology, Alzheimer's & Dementia, and The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Other publications appear in Molecular Biomedicine and Personality Neuroscience.

Representative papers authored or co-authored by Turhan Canli include:

  • "Treatment-resistant depression: molecular mechanisms and management," 2024, Molecular Biomedicine
  • ""Nothing to see here": No structural brain differences as a function of the Big Five personality traits from a systematic review and meta-analysis," 2022, Personality Neuroscience
  • "Integration of postmortem amygdala expression profiling, GWAS, and functional cell culture assays: neuroticism-associated synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A (SV2A) gene is regulated by miR-133a and miR-218," 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Digital Media and Developing Brains: Concerns and Opportunities," 2024, Current Addiction Reports
  • "Early-life adversity severity, timing, and context type are associated with SLC6A4 methylation in emerging adults: Results from a prospective cohort study," 2024, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Best Publications

  • Long story short: the serotonin transporter in emotion regulation and social cognition.

    Turhan Canli;Klaus-Peter Lesch

  • Event-Related Activation in the Human Amygdala Associates with Later Memory for Individual Emotional Experience

    Turhan Canli;Zuo Zhao;James Brewer;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • Sex differences in the neural basis of emotional memories

    Turhan Canli;John E. Desmond;Zuo Zhao;John D. E. Gabrieli

  • An fMRI study of personality influences on brain reactivity to emotional stimuli.

    Turhan Canli;Zuo Zhao;John E. Desmond;Eunjoo Kang

  • Amygdala Responses to Emotionally Valenced Stimuli in Older and Younger Adults

    Mara Mather;Turhan Canli;Tammy English;Sue Whitfield

  • Amygdala Response to Happy Faces as a Function of Extraversion

    Turhan Canli;Heidi Sivers;Susan L. Whitfield;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Hemispheric asymmetry for emotional stimuli detected with fMRI.

    Turhan Canli;John E. Desmond;Zuo Zhao;Gary Glover

  • Neural Bases of Social Anxiety Disorder: Emotional Reactivity and Cognitive Regulation During Social and Physical Threat

    Philippe R. Goldin;Tali Manber;Shabnam Hakimi;Turhan Canli

  • Individual differences in emotion processing

    Stephan Hamann;Turhan Canli

  • Beyond affect: A role for genetic variation of the serotonin transporter in neural activation during a cognitive attention task

    Turhan Canli;Kazufumi Omura;Brian W. Haas;Andreas Fallgatter

  • Neural correlates of epigenesis

    Turhan Canli;Maolin Qiu;Kazufumi Omura;Eliza Congdon

  • Functional brain mapping of extraversion and neuroticism: learning from individual differences in emotion processing.

    Turhan Canli

  • Measurement and reliability of response inhibition.

    Eliza Congdon;Jeanette A. Mumford;Jessica R. Cohen;Adriana Galvan

  • Effect of estrogen-serotonin interactions on mood and cognition.

    Zenab Amin;Turhan Canli;C. Neill Epperson

  • Emotional conflict and neuroticism: personality-dependent activation in the amygdala and subgenual anterior cingulate.

    Brian W. Haas;Kazufumi Omura;R. Todd Constable;Turhan Canli

  • Analysis of DRD4 and DAT polymorphisms and behavioral inhibition in healthy adults: implications for impulsivity.

    Eliza Congdon;Klaus Peter Lesch;Turhan Canli

  • Subgenual anterior cingulate activation to valenced emotional stimuli in major depression.

    Ian H Gotlib;Heidi Sivers;John D E Gabrieli;Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

  • Amygdala responsiveness is modulated by tryptophan hydroxylase-2 gene variation.

    T. Canli;E. Congdon;L. Gutknecht;R. T. Constable

  • Brain activation to emotional words in depressed vs healthy subjects.

    Turhan Canli;Heidi Sivers;Moriah E Thomason;Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

  • Amygdala reactivity to emotional faces predicts improvement in major depression.

    Turhan Canli;Rebecca E Cooney;Philippe Goldin;Maulik Shah

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian W. Haas
Brian W. Haas University of Georgia
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Martin J. Herrmann
Martin J. Herrmann University of Würzburg
Philippe R. Goldin
Philippe R. Goldin University of California, Davis
Greg Hajcak
Greg Hajcak Santa Clara University
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Andreas Mühlberger
Andreas Mühlberger University of Regensburg

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