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Cole Korponay, Julia Cohen-Gilbert, Poornima Kumar, Nathaniel Harnett, Adrián Medina, Kerry Ressler, Christian Beckmann, David Harper, Lisa Nickerson (2024). Concurrent Large-Scale Brain Dynamics During the Emotional Face Matching Task and Their Relation to Behavior and Mental Health. bioRxiv.

Laura Payne, Laura Seidman, Vitaly Napadow, Lisa Nickerson, Poornima Kumar (2024). Functional Connectivity Associations With Menstrual Pain Characteristics in Adolescents: An Investigation of the Triple Network Model. Pain.

Nathaniel Harnett, Negar Fani, Grace Rowland, Poornima Kumar, Saige Rutherford, Lisa Nickerson (2024). Population-Level Normative Models Reveal Race- and Socioeconomic-Related Variability in Cortical Thickness of Threat Neurocircuitry. Communications Biology.

Yuxing Hao, Huashuai Xu, Mingrui Xia, Chenwei Yan, Yunge Zhang, Dongyue Zhou, Tommi Kärkkäinen, Lisa Nickerson, Huanjie Li, Fengyu Cong (2023). Removal of Site Effects and Enhancement of Signal Using Dual Projection Independent Component Analysis for Pooling Multi-Site MRI Data. European Journal of Neuroscience.

Huashuai Xu, Yuxing Hao, Yunge Zhang, Dongyue Zhou, Tommi Kärkkäinen, Lisa Nickerson, Huanjie Li, Fengyu Cong (2023). Harmonization of Multi-Site Functional MRI Data With Dual-Projection Based ICA Model. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Lauren Lebois, Poornima Kumar, Cori Palermo, Ashley Lambros, Lauren O’Connor, Jonathan Wolff, Justin Baker, Staci Gruber, Nina Lewis-Schroeder, Kerry Ressler, Matthew Robinson, Sherry Winternitz, Lisa Nickerson, Milissa Kaufman (2022). Deconstructing Dissociation: A Triple Network Model of Trauma-Related Dissociation and Its Subtypes. Neuropsychopharmacology.

Nathaniel Harnett, Katherine Finegold, Lauren Lebois, Sanne Van Rooij, Timothy Ely, Vishnu Murty, Tanja Jovanovic, Steven Bruce, Stacey House, Francesca Beaudoin, Xinming An, Donglin Zeng, Thomas Neylan, Gari Clifford, Sarah Linnstaedt, Laura Germine, Kenneth Bollen, Scott Rauch, John Haran, Alan Storrow, Christopher Lewandowski, Paul Musey, Phyllis Hendry, Sophia Sheikh, Christopher Jones, Brittany Punches, Michael Kurz, Robert Swor, Lauren Hudak, Jose Pascual, Mark Seamon, Erica Harris, Anna Chang, Claire Pearson, David Peak, Robert Domeier, Niels Rathlev, Brian O'Neil, Paulina Sergot, Leon Sanchez, Mark Miller, Robert Pietrzak, Jutta Joormann, Deanna Barch, Diego Pizzagalli, John Sheridan, Steven Harte, James Elliott, Ronald Kessler, Karestan Koenen, Samuel McLean, Lisa Nickerson, Kerry Ressler, Jennifer Stevens (2022). Structural Covariance of the Ventral Visual Stream Predicts Posttraumatic Intrusion and Nightmare Symptoms: A Multivariate Data Fusion Analysis. Translational Psychiatry.

Guoqiang Hu, Huanjie Li, Wei Zhao, Yuxing Hao, Zonglei Bai, Lisa Nickerson, Fengyu Cong (2022). Discovering Hidden Brain Network Responses to Naturalistic Stimuli via Tensor Component Analysis of Multi-Subject fMRI Data. Neuroimage.

Marisa Silveri, Jennifer Sneider, Julia Cohen-Gilbert, Emily Oot, Anna Seraikas, Eleanor Schuttenberg, Derek Hamilton, Helen Sabolek, Sion Harris, Lisa Nickerson (2022). Perceived Stress and Rejection Associated with Functional Network Strength During Memory Retrieval in Adolescents. Cognitive Neuroscience.

Julia Cohen-Gilbert, Lisa Nickerson, Anna Seraikas, Emily Oot, Maya Rieselbach, Eleanor Schuttenberg, Jennifer Sneider, Marisa Silveri (2022). Large-Scale Brain Network Activation During Emotional Inhibitory Control: Associations With Alcohol Misuse in College Freshmen. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research.

Nathaniel Harnett, Jennifer Stevens, Negar Fani, Sanne Van Rooij, Timothy Ely, Vasiliki Michopoulos, Lauren Hudak, Alex Rothbaum, Rebecca Hinrichs, Sterling Winters, Tanja Jovanovic, Barbara Rothbaum, Lisa Nickerson, Kerry Ressler (2022). Acute Posttraumatic Symptoms Are Associated With Multimodal Neuroimaging Structural Covariance Patterns: A Possible Role for the Neural Substrates of Visual Processing in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

Daifeng Dong, Maria Ironside, Emily Belleau, Xiaoqiang Sun, Chang Cheng, Ge Xiong, Lisa Nickerson, Xiang Wang, Shuqiao Yao, Diego Pizzagalli (2022). Sex-Specific Neural Responses to Acute Psychosocial Stress in Depression. Translational Psychiatry.

Fredric Schiffer, Alaptagin Khan, Kyoko Ohashi, Laura Hernandez-Garcia, Carl Anderson, Lisa Nickerson, Martin Teicher (2022). Individual Differences in Hemispheric Emotional Valence by Computerized Test Correlate with Lateralized Differences in Nucleus Accumbens, Hippocampal and Amygdala Volumes. Psychology Research and Behavior Management.

Shi Yu Chan, Lisa Nickerson, Roma Pathak, Dost Öngür, Mei-Hua Hall (2022). Impact of Substance Use Disorder on Between-Network Brain Connectivity in Early Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open.

Felipe Jain, Sergey Chernyak, Lisa Nickerson, Stefana Morgan, Rhiana Schafer, David Mischoulon, Richard Bernard-Negron, Maren Nyer, Cristina Cusin, Liliana Ramirez Gomez, Albert Yeung (2022). Four-Week Mentalizing Imagery Therapy for Family Dementia Caregivers: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Neural Circuit Changes. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

Maria Ironside, Amelia Moser, Laura Holsen, Chun Zuo, Fei Du, Sarah Perlo, Christine Richards, Jessica Duda, Xi Chen, Lisa Nickerson, Kaylee Null, Nara Nascimento, David Crowley, Madhusmita Misra, Jill Goldstein, Diego Pizzagalli (2021). Reductions in Rostral Anterior Cingulate GABA Are Associated With Stress Circuitry in Females With Major Depression: A Multimodal Imaging Investigation. Neuropsychopharmacology.

Guoqiang Hu, Deqing Wang, Siwen Luo, Yuxing Hao, Lisa Nickerson, Fengyu Cong (2021). Frequency-Specific Co-Activation Pattern Analysis via Sparse Nonnegative Tensor Decomposition. Journal of Neuroscience Methods.

Xiao Yang, Poornima Kumar, Lisa Nickerson, Yue Du, Min Wang, Yayun Chen, Tao Li, Diego Pizzagalli, Xiaohong Ma (2021). Identifying Subgroups of Major Depressive Disorder Using Brain Structural Covariance Networks and Mapping of Associated Clinical and Cognitive Variables. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.

Felipe Jain, Sergey Chernyak, Lisa Nickerson, Michelle Abrams, Marco Iacoboni, Leonardo Christov-Moore, Colm Connolly, Lauren Fisher, Hitoshi Sakurai, Kate Bentley, Emily Tan, Michael Pittman, Helen Lavretsky, Andrew Leuchter (2021). Mentalizing Imagery Therapy for Depressed Family Dementia Caregivers: Feasibility, Clinical Outcomes, and Brain Connectivity Changes. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports.

Jennifer Sneider, Julia Cohen-Gilbert, Derek Hamilton, Anna Seraikas, Emily Oot, Eleanor Schuttenberg, Lisa Nickerson, Marisa Silveri (2021). Brain Activation During Memory Retrieval Is Associated With Depression Severity in Women. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.

Cagri Yuksel, Xi Chen, Virginie-Anne Chouinard, Lisa Nickerson, Margaret Gardner, Talia Cohen, Dost Öngür, Fei Du (2021). Abnormal Brain Bioenergetics in First-Episode Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open.

Huanjie Li, Stephen Smith, Staci Gruber, Scott Lukas, Marisa Silveri, Kevin Hill, William Killgore, Lisa Nickerson (2020). Denoising Scanner Effects From Multimodal MRI Data Using Linked Independent Component Analysis. Neuroimage.

Guoqiang Hu, Abigail Waters, Serdar Aslan, Blaise Frederick, Fengyu Cong, Lisa Nickerson (2020). Snowball ICA: A Model Order Free Independent Component Analysis Strategy for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Amy Janes, Nathan Krantz, Lisa Nickerson, Blaise Frederick, Scott Lukas (2020). Craving and Cue Reactivity in Nicotine-Dependent Tobacco Smokers Is Associated With Different Insula Networks. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

Arkadiy Maksimovskiy, Emily Oot, Anna Seraikas, Maya Rieselbach, Carolyn Caine, Jennifer Sneider, Julia Cohen-Gilbert, Sion Harris, Lisa Nickerson, Michael Rohan, Marisa Silveri (2019). Morphometric Biomarkers of Adolescents With Familial Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research.

Guoqiang Hu, Qing Zhang, Abigail Waters, Huanjie Li, Chi Zhang, Jianlin Wu, Fengyu Cong, Lisa Nickerson (2019). Tensor Clustering on Outer-Product of Coefficient and Component Matrices of Independent Component Analysis for Reliable Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Decomposition. Journal of Neuroscience Methods.

Steven Maher, Tor Ekstrom, Dost Öngür, Deborah Levy, Daniel Norton, Lisa Nickerson, Yue Chen (2019). Functional Disconnection Between the Visual Cortex and Right Fusiform Face Area in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research.

Lisa Nickerson (2018). Replication of Resting State-Task Network Correspondence and Novel Findings on Brain Network Activation During Task fMRI in the Human Connectome Project Study. Scientific Reports.

Kelly Dumais, Sergey Chernyak, Lisa Nickerson, Amy Janes (2018). Sex Differences in Default Mode and Dorsal Attention Network Engagement. PloS One.

Jennifer Sneider, Julia Cohen-Gilbert, Derek Hamilton, Elena Stein, Noa Golan, Emily Oot, Anna Seraikas, Michael Rohan, Sion Harris, Lisa Nickerson, Marisa Silveri (2018). Adolescent Hippocampal and Prefrontal Brain Activation During Performance of the Virtual Morris Water Task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

William Killgore, Ryan Smith, Elizabeth Olson, Mareen Weber, Scott Rauch, Lisa Nickerson (2017). Emotional Intelligence Is Associated With Connectivity Within and Between Resting-State Networks. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Elizabeth Olson, Jiaolong Cui, Rena Fukunaga, Lisa Nickerson, Scott Rauch, Isabelle Rosso (2017). Disruption of White Matter Structural Integrity and Connectivity in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A TBSS and Tractography Study. Depression and Anxiety.

Najmeh Khalili-Mahani, Serge Rombouts, Matthias Van Osch, Eugene Duff, Felix Carbonell, Lisa Nickerson, Lino Becerra, Albert Dahan, Alan Evans, Jean-Paul Soucy, Richard Wise, Alex Zijdenbos, Joop Van Gerven (2017). Biomarkers, Designs, and Interpretations of Resting-State fMRI in Translational Pharmacological Research: A Review of State-of-the-Art, Challenges, and Opportunities for Studying Brain Chemistry. Human Brain Mapping.

Huanjie Li, Lisa Nickerson, Thomas Nichols, Jia-Hong Gao (2017). Comparison of a Non-Stationary Voxelation-Corrected Cluster-Size Test With TFCE for Group-Level MRI Inference. Human Brain Mapping.

Lisa Nickerson, Stephen Smith, Döst Öngür, Christian Beckmann (2017). Using Dual Regression to Investigate Network Shape and Amplitude in Functional Connectivity Analyses. Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Julia Cohen-Gilbert, Lisa Nickerson, Jennifer Sneider, Emily Oot, Anna Seraikas, Michael Rohan, Marisa Silveri (2017). College Binge Drinking Associated With Decreased Frontal Activation to Negative Emotional Distractors During Inhibitory Control. Frontiers in Psychology.

Steven Maher, Tor Ekstrom, Yunjie Tong, Lisa Nickerson, Blaise Frederick, Yue Chen (2016). Greater Sensitivity of the Cortical Face Processing System to Perceptually-Equated Face Detection. Brain Research.

Yang Fan, Lisa Nickerson, Huanjie Li, Yajun Ma, Bingjiang Lyu, Xinyuan Miao, Yan Zhuo, Jianqiao Ge, Qihong Zou, Jia-Hong Gao (2015). Functional Connectivity-Based Parcellation of the Thalamus: An Unsupervised Clustering Method and Its Validity Investigation. Brain Connectivity.

Yasmin Mashhoon, Simon Sava, Jennifer Sneider, Lisa Nickerson, Marisa Silveri (2015). Cortical Thinness and Volume Differences Associated With Marijuana Abuse in Emerging Adults. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Huanjie Li, Lisa Nickerson, Xuna Zhao, Thomas Nichols, Jia-Hong Gao (2015). A Voxelation-Corrected Non-Stationary 3D Cluster-Size Test Based on Random Field Theory. Neuroimage.

Nicolas Bolo, Gail Musen, Donald Simonson, Lisa Nickerson, Veronica Flores, Tamar Siracusa, Brandon Hager, In Kyoon Lyoo, Perry Renshaw, Alan Jacobson (2015). Functional Connectivity of Insula, Basal Ganglia, and Prefrontal Executive Control Networks During Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes. Journal of Neuroscience.

Amy Janes, Robert Ross, Stacey Farmer, Blaise Frederick, Lisa Nickerson, Scott Lukas, Chantal Stern (2015). Memory Retrieval of Smoking-Related Images Induces Greater Insula Activation as Revealed by an fMRI-Based Delayed Matching to Sample Task. Addiction Biology.

Roee Admon, Lisa Nickerson, Daniel Dillon, Avram Holmes, Ryan Bogdan, Poornima Kumar, Darin Dougherty, Dan Iosifescu, David Mischoulon, Maurizio Fava, Diego Pizzagalli (2015). Dissociable Cortico-Striatal Connectivity Abnormalities in Major Depression in Response to Monetary Gains and Penalties. Psychological Medicine.

Huanjie Li, Lisa Nickerson, Jinhu Xiong, Qihong Zou, Yang Fan, Yajun Ma, Tingqi Shi, Jianqiao Ge, Jia-Hong Gao (2014). A High-Performance 3D Cluster-Based Test of Unsmoothed fMRI Data. Neuroimage.

Poornima Kumar, Lisa Berghorst, Lisa Nickerson, Sunny Dutra, Franziska Goer, Douglas Greve, Diego Pizzagalli (2014). Differential Effects of Acute Stress on Anticipatory and Consummatory Phases of Reward Processing. Neuroscience.

Amy Janes, Stacey Farmer, Blaise Frederick, Lisa Nickerson, Scott Lukas (2014). An Increase in Tobacco Craving Is Associated With Enhanced Medial Prefrontal Cortex Network Coupling. PloS One.

Yunjie Tong, Lia Hocke, Lisa Nickerson, Stephanie Licata, Kimberly Lindsey, Blaise Frederick (2013). Evaluating the Effects of Systemic Low-Frequency Oscillations Measured in the Periphery on the Independent Component Analysis Results of Resting-State Networks. Neuroimage.

Stephanie Licata, Lisa Nickerson, Steven Lowen, George Trksak, Robert Maclean, Scott Lukas (2013). The Hypnotic Zolpidem Increases the Synchrony of BOLD Signal Fluctuations in Widespread Brain Networks During a Resting Paradigm. Neuroimage.

Amy Janes, Lisa Nickerson, Blaise Frederick, Marc Kaufman (2012). Prefrontal and Limbic Resting State Brain Network Functional Connectivity Differs Between Nicotine-Dependent Smokers and Non-Smoking Controls. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Blaise Frederick, Lisa Nickerson, Yunjie Tong (2012). Physiological Denoising of BOLD fMRI Data Using Regressor Interpolation at Progressive Time Delays (RIPTiDe) Processing of Concurrent fMRI and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS). Neuroimage.

Nicola Filippini, Lisa Nickerson, Christian Beckmann, Klaus Ebmeier, Giovanni Frisoni, Paul Matthews, Stephen Smith, Clare Mackay (2012). Age-Related Adaptations of Brain Function During a Memory Task Are Also Present at Rest. Neuroimage.

Lisa Nickerson, Caitlin Ravichandran, Leslie Lundahl, John Rodolico, Steven Dunlap, George Trksak, Scott Lukas (2011). Cue Reactivity in Cannabis-Dependent Adolescents. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Steven Lowen, Lisa Nickerson, Jonathan Levin (2009). Differential Effects of Acute Cocaine and Placebo Administration on Visual Cortical Activation in Healthy Subjects Measured Using BOLD fMRI. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior.

Blaise Frederick, Kimberly Lindsey, Lisa Nickerson, Elizabeth Ryan, Scott Lukas (2007). An MR-Compatible Device for Delivering Smoked Marijuana During Functional Imaging. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior.

Lisa Nickerson, Shalini Narayana, Jack Lancaster, Peter Fox, Jia-Hong Gao (2003). Estimation of the Local Statistical Noise in Positron Emission Tomography Revisited: Practical Implementation. Neuroimage.

Sarah Nunneley, Charles Martin, James Slauson, Christopher Hearon, Lisa Nickerson, Patrick Mason (2002). Changes in Regional Cerebral Metabolism During Systemic Hyperthermia in Humans. Journal of Applied Physiology.

Lisa Nickerson, Charles Martin, Jack Lancaster, Jia-Hong Gao, Peter Fox (2001). A Tool for Comparison of PET and fMRI Methods: Calculation of the Uncertainty in the Location of an Activation Site in a PET Image. Neuroimage.

Ho-Ling Liu, Yonglin Pu, Lisa Nickerson, Yijun Liu, Peter Fox, Jia-Hong Gao (2000). Comparison of the Temporal Response in Perfusion and BOLD-Based Event-Related Functional MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

Charles Martin, Paul Jerabek, Lisa Nickerson, Peter Fox (1999). Effect of Partition Coefficient, Permeability Surface Product, and Radioisotope on the Signal-to-Noise Ratio in PET Functional Brain Mapping: A Computer Simulation. Human Brain Mapping.

Charles Martin, Robert Williams, Jia-Hong Gao, Lisa Nickerson, Jinhu Xiong, Peter Fox (1997). The Pharmacokinetics of Hyperpolarized Xenon: Implications for Cerebral MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Jinhu Xiong, Lisa Nickerson, Hunter Downs III, Peter Fox (1997). Basic Principles and Neurosurgical Applications of Positron Emission Tomography. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America.