Peer Reviewed
Webler, R. D., Oathes, D. J., van Rooij, S. J. H., Gewirtz, J. C., Nahas, Z., Lissek, S., & Widge, A. S. (2023). Causally mapping human threat extinction relevant circuits with depolarizing brain stimulation methods. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 144, 105005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.105005
Keefe, J. R., Suarez-Jimenez, B., Zhu, X., Lazarov, A., Durosky, A., Such, S., Marohasy, C., Lissek, S., & Neria, Y. (2022). Elucidating behavioral and functional connectivity markers of aberrant threat discrimination in PTSD. Depression and anxiety, 39(12), 891–901. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.23295
Zhu, X., Suarez-Jimenez, B., Lazarov, A., Such, S., Marohasy, C., Small, S. S., Wager, T. D., Lindquist, M. A., Lissek, S., & Neria, Y. (2022). Sequential fear generalization and network connectivity in trauma exposed humans with and without psychopathology. Communications biology, 5(1), 1275. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04228-5
Manbeck, A. B., Cooper, S. E., & Lissek, S. (2022). Reversing threat contingencies enhances generalization of conditioned fear. Learning and Motivation, 80, 101843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2022.101843
Korem, N., Duek, O., Ben-Zion, Z., Kaczkurkin, A. N., Lissek, S., Orederu, T., Schiller, D., Harpaz-Rotem, I., & Levy, I. (2022). Emotional numbing in PTSD is associated with lower amygdala reactivity to pain. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 47(11), 1913–1921. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01405-2
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. (2022). A meta-analysis of conditioned fear generalization in anxiety-related disorders. Neuropsychopharmacology, 47(9), 1652–1661. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01332-2
Hunt, C., Fleig, R., Almy, B., & Lissek, S. (2022). Heightened false alarms of conditioned threat predict longitudinal increases in GAD and SAD symptoms over the first year of college. Journal of anxiety disorders, 87, 102539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2022.102539
Hunt, C., Webler, R., Emich, A., Fhong, K., Hiljus, J., & Lissek, S. (2022). Pre-COVID-19 fear conditioning responses predict COVID-19-related anxiety: evidence from an exploratory study. Anxiety, stress, and coping, 35(5), 547–556. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2033735
Cooper, S. E., Hunt, C., Stasik-O'Brien, S. M., Berg, H., Lissek, S., Watson, D., & Krueger, R. F. (2022). The placement of obsessive-compulsive symptoms within a five-factor model of maladaptive personality. Assessment, 10731911211070623. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211070623
Cooper, S. E., Hunt, C., Ross, J. P., Hartnell, M. P., & Lissek, S. (2022). Heightened generalized conditioned fear and avoidance in women and underlying psychological processes. Behaviour research and therapy, 151, 104051. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104051
Hunt, C., Degeneffe, N., Bixby, J., & Lissek, S. (2022). Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms Are Associated With Heightened Avoidance of Low-Probability, High-Aversion Threats: A Preliminary Test of the Improbable-Catastrophe Hypothesis. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(3), 514-533. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702621103486
Berg, H., Hunt, C., Cooper, S. E., Olatunji, B. O., & Lissek, S. (2021). Generalization of conditioned disgust and the attendant maladaptive avoidance: Validation of a novel paradigm and effects of trait disgust-proneness. Behaviour research and therapy, 146, 103966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103966
Polusny, M. A., Marquardt, C. A., Campbell, E. H., Filetti, C. R., Noël, V. V., Disner, S. G., Schaefer, J. D., Davenport, N., Lissek, S., Noorbaloochi, S., Sponheim, S. R., & Erbes, C. R. (2021). Advancing Research on Mechanisms of Resilience (ARMOR) Longitudinal Cohort Study of New Military Recruits: Results from a Feasibility Pilot Study. Research in human development, 18(3), 212–229. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2021.1964898
Webler, R. D., Berg, H., Fhong, K., Tuominen, L., Holt, D. J., Morey, R. A., Lange, I., Burton, P. C., Fullana, M. A., Radua, J., & Lissek, S. (2021). The neurobiology of human fear generalization: meta-analysis and working neural model. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 128, 421–436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.06.035
Berg, H., Ma, Y., Rueter, A., Kaczkurkin, A., Burton, P. C., DeYoung, C. G., MacDonald, A. W., Sponheim, S. R., & Lissek, S. (2021). Salience and central executive networks track overgeneralization of conditioned-fear in post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological medicine, 51(15), 2610–2619. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720001166
Albott, C. S., Lee, S., Cullen, K. R., Thuras, P., Lissek, S., Wels, J., Friedrich, K. J., Krueger, A. M., & Lim, K. O. (2021). Characterization of Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder Using Ketamine as an Experimental Medicine Probe †. Journal of psychiatry and brain science, 6, e210012. https://doi.org/10.20900/jpbs.20210012
Sun, M., Marquardt, C., Disner, S., Burton, P., Davenport, N., Lissek, S., & Sponheim, S. (2020). Posttraumatic stress symptomatology and abnormal neural responding during emotion regulation under cognitive demands: Mediating effects of personality. Personality Neuroscience, 3, E9. doi:10.1017/pen.2020.10
Shukla, M., Lau, J. Y. F., Lissek, S., Pandey, R., & Kumari, V. (2020). Reduced emotional responsiveness in individuals with marginal elevation in blood pressure within the normal range: Evidence from altered affect-modulated startle response. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 153, 18-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.013
Berg, H., Ma, Y., Rueter, A., Kaczkurkin, A., Burton, P. C., DeYoung, C. G., MacDonald, A., Sponheim, S. R., & Lissek, S. (Accepted/In press). Salience and central executive networks track overgeneralization of conditioned-fear in post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological medicine. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720001166
Hammell, A. E., Helwig, N. E., Kaczkurkin, A. N., Sponheim, S. R., & Lissek, S. (2020). The temporal course of over-generalized conditioned threat expectancies in posttraumatic stress disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 124, [103513]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2019.103513
Hunt, C., Cooper, S.E, Hartnell, M.P., & Lissek, S. (2019). Anxiety sensitivity and intolerance of uncertainty facilitate associations between generalized Pavlovian fear and maladaptive avoidance decisions. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128, 315-326.
Lange, I., Goossens, L., Bakker, J., Michielse, S., van Winkel, R., Lissek, S., Leibold, N., Marcelis, M., Wichers, M., van Os, J., van Amelsvoort, T., & Schruers, K. (2019). Neurobehavioural mechanisms of threat generalization moderate the link between childhood maltreatment and psychopathology in emerging adulthood. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 44, 185-194.
Cooper, S.E., & Lissek, S.L. (2018). Impaired discriminative fear conditioning during later training trials differentiates generalized anxiety disorder, but not panic disorder, from healthy control participants. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 85, 84-93.
Marquardt, C. A., Goldman, D. J., Cuthbert, B. N., Lissek, S., & Sponheim, S. R. (2018). Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Rather Than Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Best Account for Altered Emotional Responses in Military Veterans. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(1), 114-124. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22259
Hunt, C., Cooper, S. E., Hartnell, M. P., & Lissek, S. (2017). Distraction/suppression and Distress Endurance diminish the extent to which generalized conditioned fear is associated with maladaptive behavioral avoidance. Behaviour Research and Therapy.
Lange I, Goossens L, Michielse S, Bakker J, Lissek S, Papalini S, Verhagen S, Leibold N, Marcelis M, Wichers M, Lieverse R, van Os J, van Amelsvoort T, Schruers K. (2017). Behavioral pattern separation and its link to the neural mechanisms of fear generalization. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsx104.
Kaczkurkin, A.N., Burton, P.C., Chazin, S.M., Manbeck, A.B., Espensen-Sturges, T., Cooper, S.E., Sponheim, S.R., & Lissek, S. (2017). Neural substrates of over-generalized conditioned fear in posttraumatic stress disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry.
Lissek, S., van Meurs, B. (2015). Learning models of PTSD: Theoretical accounts and psychobiological evidence. International Journal of Psychophysiology.
Book Chapters
Lissek S. & Berg C. (2022). Learning models of PTSD. In J. G. Beck & D. M. Sloan (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.