Sackler Institute _{for Developmental Psychobiology}

Publications

• Somerville, L. H., Wagner, D. D., Wig, G. S., Moran, J. M., Whalen, P. J., & Kelly, W. M. (in press). Interactions between transient and sustained neural signals support the generation and regulation of anxious emotions. Cerebral Cortex.
• Somerville, L. H., & Casey, B. J. (2011). Response to Moshman, "Adolescents and their teenage brans." Human Developmen, 54(4), 1-17. PDF
  
• Jones, R. M., Somerville, L. H., Li, J., Ruberry, E. J., Libby, V., Glover, G., Voss, H. U., Ballon, D. J., & Casey, B. J. (2011). Behavioral and neural properties of social reinforcement learning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(37), 13039 - 13045.
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• Casey, B.J., Somerville, L. H., Gotlib, I.H., Ayduk, O., Franklin, N.T., Askren, M. K., Jonides, J., Berman, M. G., Wilson, N. L., Teslovich, T., Glover, G., Zayas, V., Mischel, W., & Shoda, Y. (2011). Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 108(36), 14988 - 15003.
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• Somerville, L. H.*, Hare, T. A.*, & Casey, B. J. (2011). Frontostriatal maturation predicts cognitive control failure to appetitive cues in adolescents. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(9), 2123-2134. *Equal author contribution
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• Davis, F.C., Somerville, L. H., Ruberry, E. J., Shin, L. M., & Whalen, P. J. (2011). A tale of two negatives: Differential memory modulation by threat-related facial expressions. Emotion, 11(3), 647-655.
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• Somerville, L. H., Fani, N., & McClure-Tone, E. B. (2011). Behavioral and neural representation of emotional facial expressions across the lifespan. Developmental Neuropsychology, 36(4), 408-428.
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• Casey, B. J., Jones, R. M., & Somerville, L. H. (2011). Braking and accelerating of the adolescent brain. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21(1), 21-33.
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• Somerville, L.H., Whalen, P.J., & Kelley, W.M. (2010). Human bed nucleus of the stria terminalis indexes hypervigilant threat monitoring. Biological Psychiatry, 68(5), 416-424.
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• Somerville, L. H., Kelley, W.M., & Heatherton, T.F. (2010). Self-esteem modulates medial prefrontal cortical responses to evaluative social feedback. Cerebral Cortex, 20(12), 3005-3013.
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• Casey, B. J., Jones, R. M., Levita, L., Libby, V., Pattwell, S., Ruberry, E. J., Soliman, F. A., & Somerville L. H., (2010).The storm and stress of adolescence: Insights from human imaging and mouse genetics. Developmental Psychobiology, 52(3), 225-235.
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• Somerville, L. H., & Casey, B. J. (2010). Developmental neurobiology of cognitive control and motivational systems. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 20:1-6.
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• Soliman, F., Glatt, C. E., Levita, L., Bath, K. G., Jones, R. M., Pattwell, S. S., Tottenham, N., Somerville, L. H., Voss, H. U., Glover, G., Ballon, D. J., Lee, F. S., & Casey, B. J. (2010). A genetic variant BDNF (Val66Met) polymorphism alters extinction learning in both mouse and human. Science, 327, 863-866..
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• Somerville, L. H., Jones, R. M., & Casey, B. J. (2010). A time of change: Behavioral and neural correlates of adolescent sensitivity to appetitive and aversive environmental cues. Brain and Cognition, 72, 124-133.
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• Whalen, P. J., Johnstone, T., Somerville, L. H., Nitschke, J. B., Polis, S. A., Alexander, A. L., Davidson, R. J., & Kalin, N. H. (2008). A functional magnetic resonance imaging predictor of treatment response to venlafaxine in generalized anxiety disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 63(9), 858-863.
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• Somerville, L. H. & Whalen, P. J. (2006). Prior experience as a stimulus category confound: An example using facial expressions of emotion. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 271-274.
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• Somerville, L. H., Heatherton, T. F., & Kelley, W. M. (2006). Anterior cingulate cortex responds differentially to expectancy violation and social rejection. Nature Neuroscience, 9(8), 1007-1008.
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• Somerville, L. H., Wig, G. S., Whalen, P. J., & Kelley, W. M. (2006). Dissociable medial temporal lobe contributions to social memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(8), 1253-1265.
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• Johnstone, T., Somerville, L. H., Alexander, A. L., Davidson, R. J., Kalin, N. H., & Whalen, P. J. (2005). Stability of amygdala BOLD response to fearful faces over multiple scan sessions. NeuroImage, 25, 1112-1123.
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• Somerville, L. H., Kim, H., Johnstone, T., Alexander, A. L., & Whalen, P. J. (2004). Human amygdala responses during presentation of happy and neutral faces: Correlations with state anxiety. Biological Psychiatry, 55, 897-903.
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• Whalen, P. J., Kagan, J., Cook, R. G., Davis, F. C., Kim, H., Polis, S., McLaren, D. L., Somerville, L. H., McLean, A. A., Maxwell, J. S., & Johnstone, T. (2004). Human amygdala responsivity to masked fearful eye-whites. Science, 306, 2061.
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• Kim, H., Somerville, L. H., Johnstone, T., Polis, S., Alexander, A. L., Shin, L. M., & Whalen, P. J. (2004). Contextual modulation of fMRI responsivity to surprised faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1730-1745.
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• Kim, H., Somerville, L. H., Johnstone, T., Alexander, A. L., & Whalen, P. J. (2003). Inverse amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to surprised faces. Neuroreport, 14, 2317-2322.
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• Kim, H., Somerville, L. H., McLean, A. A., Johnstone, T., Shin, L. M., & Whalen, P. J. (2003). Functional MRI responses of the human dorsal amygdala/substantia innominata region to facial expressions of emotion. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 985, 533-535.
  
  
• Whalen, P. J., Shin, L. M., Somerville, L. H., McLean, A. A., & Kim, H. (2002). Functional neuroimaging studies of the amygdala in depression. Seminars in Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 7, 234-242.