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Key:
π§ - Cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology
π§βπ¬- Experimental psychopathology
π- Quantitative psychopathology
π΅οΈ- Method reform and meta-science
Β π¨οΈ PreprintsΒ
Augmenting extinction with counterconditioning strengthens and sustains neural safety representations in PTSD.
Cooper, S. E., Keller, N. E., Bauer, E. A., Lambert, S. R., Hennings, A. C., Azar, A. A., Bibb, S. A., Nemeroff, C. B., Cisler, J. M., Lewis-Peacock, J. A., & Dunsmoor, J. E. (preprinted 2025)
Under review
π°Β 2024
Out with the bad, in with the good: A review on augmented extinction learning in humans.
Bauer, E. A., Laing, P. A. F., Cooper, S. E., Cisler, J. M., & Dunsmoor, J. E.
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Integrating threat conditioning and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology to advance the study of anxiety-related psychopathology.
Β Cooper, S. E., Perkins, E. R., Webler, R. D., Dunsmoor, J. E., & Krueger, R. F.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
Semantic structures facilitate threat memory integration throughout the medial temporal lobe and medial prefrontal cortex.Β
Cooper, S. E., Hennings, A. C., Bibb, S. A., Lewis-Peacock, J. A., & Dunsmoor, J. E.
Current Biology
Causally probing the role of the hippocampus in fear discrimination: A precision functional mapping guided, transcranial magnetic stimulation study in participants with post-traumatic stress symptoms.Β
Webler, R. D., Morales Carrasco, C.*, Cooper, S. E.*, Chen, M., Hunt, C. O., Hennessy, S., Cao, L., Lam, C., Chiu, A., Differding, C., Todd, E., Hendrickson, T. J., Oathes, D. J., Widge, A. S., Hermosillo, R. J. M., Nelson, S. M., Fair, D. A., Lissek, S. M., & Nahas, Z. *co-second authors
Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science
Associations between anxiety-related traits and fear acquisition and extinction - an item-based content and meta-analysis.
Bruntsch, M., Cooper, S. E., Abend, R., Chalkia, A., Ehlers, M. R., Johnson, D. C., KlingelhΓΆfer-Jens, M., Morriss, J., Zika, O., & Lonsdorf, T. B.Β
In principle acceptance of Version 3 by Peer Community in Registered Reports.
π°Β 2023
Psychological flexibility in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda as a mechanism for change within a guided self-help intervention.
Lakin, D. P.*, Cooper, S. E.*, Andersen, L., Brown, F. L., Augustinavicius, J. L. S., Carswell, K., Leku, M., Adaku, A., Au, T., Bryant, R., Garcia-Moreno, C., White, R. G., & Tol, W. A. *co-first authors
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Test-retest reliability of human threat conditioning and generalization across a 1-to-2-week interval.Β
Cooper, S. E., Dunsmoor, J. E., Koval, K., Pino, E., & Steinman, S. A.
Psychophysiology
Modeling relations between ERP factors with broader versus narrower dimensions of externalizing psychopathology.
Paison, R., Ribes-Guardiola, P., Patrick, C., Stewart, R. A., Paiva, T. O., Macedo, I., Barbosa, F., Brislin, S. J., Martin, E. A., Blain, S. D., Cooper, S. E., β¦ HiTOP Neurobiological Foundations workgroup.
Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
Precision behavioral phenotyping as a strategy for uncovering the biological correlates of psychopathology.
Tiego, J., Martin, E. A., DeYoung, C. G., Hagan, K., Cooper, S. E., Pasion, R., Satchell, L., Shackman, A. J., Bellgrove, M. A., & Fornito, A.Β
Nature Mental Health
π°Β 2022
A meta-analysis of conditioned fear generalization in anxiety-related disorders.
Cooper, S. E., van Dis, E. A. M., Hagenaars, M. A., Krypotos, A. -M., Nemeroff, C. B., Lissek, S., Engelhard, I. M., & Dunsmoor, J. E.
Neuropsychopharmacology
Reversing threat contingencies enhances generalization of conditioned fear.
Heightened generalized conditioned fear and avoidance in women and underlying psychological processes.
Cooper, S. E., Hunt, C., Ross, J. P., Hartnell, M. P., & Lissek, S.Β
Behaviour Research and Therapy
π°Β 2017 - 2021
Generalization of conditioned disgust and the attendant maladaptive avoidance: Validation of a novel paradigm and effects of trait disgust-proneness.
Berg, H., Hunt, C., Cooper, S. E., Olatunji, B. O., & Lissek, S. (2021)
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Fear conditioning and extinction in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review.
Neurobiology and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: Progress toward ontogenetically informed and clinically useful nosology.
Perkins, E. R., Joyner, K. J., Patrick, C. J., Bartholow, B. D., Latzman, R. D., DeYoung, C. G., Kotov, R., Reininghaus, U., Cooper, S. E., Afzali, M. H., Docherty, A. R., Dretsch, M. N., Eaton, N. R., Goghari, V. M., Haltigan, J. D., Krueger, R. F., Martin, E. A., Michelini, G., Ruocco, A. C., β¦ Zald, D. H. (2020)
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
Anxiety sensitivity and intolerance of uncertainty facilitate the conversion of generalized Pavlovian fear into maladaptive avoidance.Β
Hunt, C., Cooper, S. E., Hartnell, M. P., & Lissek, S. (2019)
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Impaired discriminative fear conditioning during later training trials differentiates generalized anxiety disorder, but not panic disorder, from healthy control participants.
Distraction/Suppression and Distress Endurance diminish the extent to which generalized conditioned-fear is transferred to maladaptive behavioral-avoidance.
Hunt, C., Cooper, S.E., Hartnell, M.P., & Lissek, S. (2017)
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Neural substrates of overgeneralized conditioned fear in PTSD.
Kaczkurkin, A. N., Burton, P. C., Chazin, S. M., Manbeck, A. B., Espensen-Sturges, T., Cooper, S. E., β¦ Lissek, S. (2017)
American Journal of Psychiatry