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Purcell JB, Ren B, Palermo CA, Bair ZA, Marr MC, Modell RL, Pan X, Robinson MA, Shanahan ME, Swee MB, Kaufman ML. Clinical patterns in a neuroimaging-based predictive model of self-reported dissociation. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2026 Jan; 192:251-260

2025

Harmelech T, Hendler T, Gurevitch G, Fine N, Fruchter E, Amital D, Goldental N, Gross R, Robinson MA, Lebois LA, Kaufman M. Amygdala-targeted neurofeedback for dissociative symptoms in PTSD: Converging evidence from three independent studies. Psychiatry Research. 2025 Sep 28:116752.

Steele N, Huggins AA, Morey RA, Hussain A, Russell C, Suarez-Jimenez B, Pozzi E, Jameei H, Schmaal L, Veer IM, Waller L…Sun. Image-based meta-and mega-analysis (IBMMA): A unified framework for large-scale, multi-site, neuroimaging data analysis. NeuroImage. 2025 Oct 23:121554.

Li T, Huibregtse ME, Ely TD, van Rooij SJ, Lebois LA, Webb EK, Jovanovic T, House SL, Bruce SE, Beaudoin FL, An X…Harnett. Childhood adversity is associated with longitudinal white matter changes after adulthood trauma. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2025 Sep 17.

Tomas CW, Fitzgerald JM, Baird CL, Haswell CC, Abdallah CG, Angstadt M, Baker JT, Berg H, Blackford JU, Cisler J, Cotton AS…Morey. Data‐Driven Approach to Dynamic Resting State Functional Connectivity in Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder: An ENIGMA‐PGC PTSD Study. Human brain mapping. 2025 Aug 1;46(11):e70116.

Roeckner AR, Lin ER, Hinrichs R, Harnett NG, Lebois LA, van Rooij SJ, Ely TD, Jovanovic T, Murty VP, Bruce SE, House SL…Stevens. Sequential decreases in basolateral amygdala response to threat predict failure to recover from PTSD. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2025 May 3:1-0.

Santos JL, Harnett NG, van Rooij SJ, Ely TD, Jovanovic T, Lebois LA, Beaudoin FL, An X, Neylan TC, Linnstaedt SD, Germine LT…Stevens. Social Buffering of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Longitudinal Effects and Neural Mediators. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2025 May 1;10(5):531-41.

Hinojosa CA, van Rooij SJ, Fani N, Ellis RA, Harnett NG, Lebois LA, Ely TD, Jovanovic T, Murty VP, House SL, Beaudoin FL…Stevens. Reward neurocircuitry predicts longitudinal changes in alcohol use following trauma exposure. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2025 Mar 1;10(3):314-23.

Marr, M., Kaufman, M.L. and Lebois, L.A., 2025. Neuroimaging Biomarkers in Dissociative Identity Disorder. In Handbook of the Biology and Pathology of Mental Disorders (pp. 1-17). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Harnett NG, Joshi S, Kumar P, Russell C, Dillon DG, Baker JT, Pizzagalli DA, Kaufman ML, Nickerson LD, Jahanshad N, Salminen LE. Structural Covariance of Early Visual Cortex Is Negatively Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Mega-Analysis From the ENIGMA PTSD Working Group. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2025.

See CR, Si S, Baird CL, Haswell CC, Hussain A, Olff M, Veltman DJ, Frijling JL, Van Zuiden M, Koch SB, Nawijn L…Kempton. A whole-brain voxel-based analysis of structural abnormalities in PTSD: An ENIGMA-PGC study. European psychiatry. 2025 Jan;68(1):e97.

2024

Li M, Lebois LA, Ridgewell C, Palermo CA, Winternitz S, Liu H, Kaufman ML, Shinn AK. Functional connectivity of the auditory cortex in women with trauma-related disorders who hear voices. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2024 Oct 1;9(10):1066-74.

Webb EK, Stevens JS, Ely TD, Lebois LA, van Rooij SJ, Bruce SE, House SL, Beaudoin FL, An X, Neylan TC, Clifford GD. Neighborhood resources associated with psychological trajectories and neural reactivity to reward after trauma. JAMA psychiatry. 2024 Nov 1;81(11):1090-100.

Seligowski AV, Harnett NG, Ellis RA, Grasser LR, Hanif M, Wiltshire C, Ely TD, Lebois LA, van Rooij SJ, House SL, Beaudoin FL…Jovanovic. Probing the neurocardiac circuit in trauma and posttraumatic stress. Journal of psychiatric research. 2024 Aug 1;176:173-81.

Borst B, Jovanovic T, House SL, Bruce SE, Harnett NG, Roeckner AR, Ely TD, Lebois LA, Young D, Beaudoin FL, An X…van Rooij. Sex Differences in Response Inhibition–Related Neural Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Civilians With Recent Trauma. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 2024 Jul 1;9(7):668-80.

van Rooij SJ, Santos JL, Hinojosa CA, Ely TD, Harnett NG, Murty VP, Lebois LA, Jovanovic T, House SL, Bruce SE, Beaudoin FL…Stevens. Defining the r factor for post-trauma resilience and its neural predictors. Nature Mental Health. 2024 Jun;2(6):680-93.

Rowland, G.E., Purcell, J.B., Lebois, L.A., Kaufman, M.L. and Harnett, N.G., 2024. Child sexual abuse versus adult sexual assault: A review of psychological and neurobiological sequelae. Mental health science, 2(2), p.e51.

Nievergelt CM, Maihofer AX, Atkinson EG, Chen CY, Choi KW, Coleman JR, Daskalakis NP, Duncan LE, Polimanti R, Aaronson C, Amstadter AB…Mufford. Genome-wide association analyses identify 95 risk loci and provide insights into the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder. Nature genetics. 2024 May;56(5):792-808.

Purcell JB, Brand B, Browne HA, Chefetz RA, Shanahan M, Bair ZA, Baranowski KA, Davis V, Mangones P, Modell RL, Palermo CA, Robertson EC, Robinson MA, Ward L, Winternitz S, Kaufman ML, Lebois LAM. Treatment of dissociative identity disorder: leveraging neurobiology to optimize success. Expert Rev Neurother. 2024 Mar;24(3):273-289. doi: 10.1080/14737175.2024.2316153. Epub 2024 Feb 15. Review. PMID: 38357897; PMCID: PMC10950423.
*Received International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation David Caul Award

Robinson MA, Purcell JB, Ward L, Winternitz S, Kaufman ML, Baranowski KA, Lebois LAM. Advancing Research on and Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder With People With Lived Experience. Am J Psychother. 2024 May 7;:appipsychotherapy20230024. doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20230024. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38711402.

Webb EK, Stevens JS, Ely TD, Lebois LAM, … Ressler KJ, McLean SA, Harnett NG. Neighborhood Resources Associated With Psychological Trajectories and Neural Reactivity to Reward After Trauma. JAMA Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 31:e242148. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.2148. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39083325; PMCID: PMC11292566.

Seligowski AV, Harnett NG, Ellis RA, Grasser LR, Hanif M, Wiltshire C, Ely TD, Lebois LAM, …Ressler KJ, Stevens JS, Jovanovic T. Probing the neurocardiac circuit in trauma and posttraumatic stress. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2024 Jun 7;176:173-181. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.06.009. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38875773.

Nievergelt CM, Maihofer AX, Atkinson EG, …Ressler KJ, Koenen KC. Genome-wide association analyses identify 95 risk loci and provide insights into the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder. Nat Genet. 2024 May;56(5):792-808. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01707-9. Epub 2024 Apr 18. PubMed PMID: 38637617.

2023

Webb EK, Ely TD, Rowland GE, Lebois LAM, van Rooij SJ, Bruce SE, Jovanovic T, House SL, Beaudoin FL, An X, Neylan TC et al. Neighborhood Disadvantage and Neural Correlates of Threat and Reward Processing in Survivors of Recent Trauma. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Sep 5;6(9):e2334483-.

Rowland G, Roeckner A, Ely TD, Lebois LAM, … Harnett NG. Prior sexual trauma exposure impacts posttraumatic dysfunction and neural circuitry following a recent traumatic event in the AURORA study. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science. 2023 Feb 16

Wong SA, Lebois LAM, Ely TD, van Rooij SJH, …Harnett NG. Internal capsule microstructure mediates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and PTSD following adulthood trauma exposure. Molecular Psychiatry. 2023 Mar 17:1-10.

Harnett NG, Fani N, Carter S, Sanchez LD, Rowland GE, Davie WM, Guzman C, Lebois LAM, … Stevens JS, Ressler KJ. Structural inequities contribute to racial/ethnic differences in neurophysiological tone, but not threat reactivity, after trauma exposure. Molecular Psychiatry. 2023 Feb 1:1-10.

Dumornay NM, Lebois LA, Ressler KJ, Harnett NG. Racial disparities in adversity during childhood and the false appearance of race-related differences in brain structure. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2023 Feb 1;180(2):127-38.

2022

Lebois, L.A., Kumar, P., Palermo, C.A., Lambros, A.M., O’Connor, L., Wolff, J.D., Baker, J.T., Gruber, S.A., Lewis-Schroeder, N., Ressler, K.J. Robinson, M.A., Winternitz S, Nickerson L, & Kaufman ML. Deconstructing dissociation: a triple network model of trauma-related dissociation and its subtypes. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 Dec; 47(13):2261-70.

Maihofer AX, Engchuan W, Huguet G, et al. Rare copy number variation in posttraumatic stress disorder. Molecular psychiatry. 2022 Dec;27(12):5062-9.

Lebois LAM, Kaplan CS, Palermo CA, Pan X, Kaufman ML. A Grounded Theory of Dissociative Identity Disorder: placing DID in mind, brain, and body. In: Dorahy M, Gold S, editors. Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: Past, Present, Future. 2022 (pp. 392-408). Routledge.

Pan X, Palermo CA, Kaplan CS, Harnett N, Winternitz SR, Kaufman ML, Lebois LAM. Anxiety sensitivity predicts depression severity in individuals with dissociative identity disorder. J Psychiatr Res. 2022 Nov 1;155:263-8.

Harnett NG, Finegold KE, Lebois LA, van Rooij SJ, Ely TD, ….Stevens JS. Structural covariance of the ventral visual stream predicts posttraumatic intrusion and nightmare symptoms: a multivariate data fusion analysis. Translational Psychiatry. 2022 Aug 8;12(1):1-3.

Sun D, Rakesh G, Haswell CC, Logue M, Baird CL, …Morey R. A Comparison of Methods to Harmonize Cortical Thickness Measurements Across Scanners and Sites. NeuroImage. 2022 Jul 30:119509.

Tanriverdi B, Gregory DF, Olino TM, Ely TD, Harnett NG, van Rooij SJ, Lebois LAM, … Murty V.. Hippocampal Threat Reactivity Interacts with Physiological Arousal to Predict PTSD Symptoms. Journal of Neuroscience. 2022 Jul 25.

Lebois LAM, Harnett, van Rooij, Ely, Jovanovic, …, Ressler. Persistent Dissociation and its Neural Correlates in Predicting Outcomes after Trauma Exposure. Am J Psychiatry. 2022 Jun 22; doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.21090911

Sun, Rakesh, Clarke-Rubright, Haswell, Logue, …, Morey. Remodeling of the Cortical Structural Connectome in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Results from the ENIGMA-PGC PTSD Consortium. Bio Psychiatry CNNI. 2022 Mar 15

Lebois LAM, Ross DA, Kaufman ML. “I Am Not I”: the neuroscience of dissociative identity disorder. Biol Psychiatry. 2022;91:e11-e13

Clausen, Fercho, Monsour, Disner, Salminen, …, & Morey. Assessment of brain age in posttraumatic stress disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA PTSD and brain age working groups. Brain and Behavior. 2022 Jan;12(1):e2413

Harnett NG, Dumornay NM, Delity M, Sanchez LD, Mohiuddin K, Musey PI Jr., Seamon MJ, McLean SA, Kessler RC, Koenen KC, Beaudoin FL, Lebois LAM, … & Ressler KJ. Prior differences in previous trauma exposure primarily drive the observed racial/ethnic differences in posttrauma depression and anxiety following a recent trauma. Psychological Medicine. 2022 Jan 31:1-0

Maihofer, A. X., Choi, K. W., Coleman, J. R., Daskalakis, N. P., Denckla, C. A., Ketema, E., ... & Ursano, R. J. Enhancing discovery of genetic variants for PTSD through integration of quantitative phenotypes and trauma exposure information. Biological Psychiatry. 2022 Jan; doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.09.020

2021

Stevens JS, Harnett NG, Lebois LAM, van Rooij SJH, … & Ressler KJ. Brain-based biotypes of psychiatric vulnerability in the acute aftermath of trauma. Am J Psychiatry. 2021 ;178:1037-1049.

Harnett NG & Lebois LAM. Leveraging resting-state neurophenotypes to identify susceptibility to and heterogeneity of posttraumatic stress disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2021 Aug 13; Epub ahead of print

Steuber ER, Seligowski AV, Roeckner AR, Reda MH, Lebois LAM et al. Thalamic volume and fear extinction interact to predict acute posttraumatic stress severity. J Psychiatr Res. 2021 July; 325-332.

Merker JB, Hill SB, Wolff JD, Winternitz SR, Ressler KJ, *Kaufman ML, *Lebois LAM. Posttraumatic Cognitions Predict Distorted Body Perceptions in Women with Dissociative Identity Disorder. J Psychiatr Res. 2021 Feb 1;134:166-72.

Harnett NG, van Rooij SJH, Ely TD, Lebois LAM et al. Prognostic neuroimaging biomarkers of trauma-related psychopathology: Resting state fMRI shortly after trauma predicts future PTSD and depression symptoms in the AURORA study. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2021 Jan 21:1-9.

2020

Wang, Xie, Chen, Cotton, Salminen et al. Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: An ENIGMA-Psychiatric Genomics Consortium PTSD Workgroup mega-analysis. Mol Psychiatry. 2020 Dec 7:1-3.

Kessler RC, Ressler KJ, House SL, Beaudoin FL, An X et al. Socio-demographic and trauma-related predictors of PTSD within eight weeks of a motor vehicle collision in the AURORA study. Mol Psychiatry. 2020 Oct 19:1-14.

*Lebois LAM, *Li M, *Baker JT, Wolff JD, Wang D, Lambros A, Grinspoon E, Winternitz S, Ren J, Gonenc A, Gruber S, Ressler KJ, *Liu H, *Kaufman ML.  Large-scale Brain Network Architecture Changes Associated with Trauma-related Dissociation. Am J Psychiatry. 2020 Sept.

Comment: Menon V. Dissociation by Network Integration. Am J Psychiatry. 2021 Feb 01;178(2):110-112. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20121728

King C, Wolff JD, Hill SB, Bigony CE, Winternitz S, Ressler KJ, *Kaufman ML, *Lebois LAM.  Childhood Maltreatment type and severity predict depersonalization and derealization in treatment-seeking women with posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychiatry Res. doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113301.

Lebois LAM, Wilson-Mendenhall CD, Simmons WK, Barrett LF, & Barsalou LW (2020). Learning situated emotions. Neuropsychologia, 145, 106637. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.008.

Lebois LAM, Palermo CA, Scheuer LS, Lebois EP, Winternitz SR, Germine L, & Kaufman ML (2020). Higher integration scores are associated with facial emotion perception differences in dissociative identity disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 123, 164-170. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.02.007

Shinn AK, Wolff JD, Hwang M, Lebois LAM, Robinson MA, Winternitz SR, Ongur D, Ressler KJ, & Kaufman ML. Assessing voice hearing in trauma spectrum disorders: a comparison of two measures and a review of the literature. Frontiers in Psychiatry. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.01011.

Hill SB, Wolff JD, Bigony CE, Winternitz S, Ressler KJ, *Kaufman ML, *Lebois LAM. Dissociative Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women in Partial and Residential Levels of Psychiatric Care. J Trauma & Dissociation. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2019.1678214.

Dalvie S, Maihofer AX, Coleman JR, Bradley B et al. Genomic influences on self-reported childhood maltreatment. Transl Psychiatry. 2020 Jan 27;10(1):1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-0706-0

McLean, Ressler, Koenen, Neylan, Germine et al. (2020). The AURORA Study: A Longitudinal, Multimodal Library of Brain Biology and Function after Traumatic Stress Exposure. Mol Psychiatry, 25, 283-296.

2019

Dennis, Disner, Fani, Salminen, Logue et al. Altered White Matter Microstructural Organization in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder across 3,049 Adults: Results from the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD Consortium. Mol Psychiatry. Epub 2019 Dec 19. doi: 10.1038/s41380-019-0631-x

Nievergelt, Maihofer, Klengel, Atkinson, Chen et al. (2019). International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci.  Nature Communications, 10(1), 1-16.

Joyce VW, King CD, Nash CC, Lebois LAM, Ressler KJ, Buonopane RJ (2019). Predicting Psychiatric Rehospitalization in Adolescents. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 46(6), 807-820.

Kieran K (2019). Three Recent Cases of Likely Methadone Cross-Reactivity With Vortioxetine. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 25(3), 1.

Lebois LAM, Seligowski AV, Wolff JD, Hill SB, & Ressler KJ (2019). Augmentation of Extinction and Inhibitory Learning in Anxiety and Trauma-Related Disorders. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 15, 257-284.

Seligowski AV, Lebois LAM, Hill SB, Kahhale I, Wolff JD, Jovanovic T, Winternitz S, Kaufman ML, & Ressler KJ (2019). Autonomic responses to fear conditioning among women with PTSD and dissociation. Depression and anxiety, 36(7), 625-634

Lebois LAM, Wolff JD, Hill SB, Bigony CE, Winternitz S, Ressler KJ, & Kaufman ML (2019). Preliminary Evidence of a Missing Self Bias in Face Perception for Individuals with Dissociative Identity Disorder. J Trauma & Dissociation, 20(2), 140-164.

2018

*Fenster R, *Lebois LAM, Ressler KJ, Suh J (2018) Brain Circuit Dysfunction in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: from Mouse to Man. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 19(9), 535-551.

Lewis-Schroeder NF, Kieran K, Murphy BL, Wolff JD, Robinson MA, & Kaufman ML (2018). Conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of traumatic stress in first responders: a review of critical issues. Harvard review of psychiatry, 26(4), 216-227.

Logue, van Rooij, Dennis, Davis et al. (2018). Smaller Hippocampal Volume in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Multisite ENIGMA-PGC Study: Subcortical Volumetry Results From Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Consortia. Biological psychiatry, 83(3), 244-253.

2017

2016

Lebois LAM, Wolff JD, & Ressler KJ (2016). Neuroimaging genetic approaches to posttraumatic stress disorder. Experimental neurology, 284, 141-152.

Lebois LAM, Ressler KJ. Mechanisms of PACAP in PTSD and stress-related disorders in humans. In: Reglodi D, Tamas A, editors. Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide—PACAP. Current Topics in Neurotoxicity. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 767-780.

Lebois LAM, Hertzog C, Slavich GM, Barrett LF, & Barsalou LW (2016). Establishing the situated features associated with perceived stress. Acta Psychologica, 169, 119-132. Supplemental Materials.

Tincher MM, Lebois LAM, & Barsalou LW (2016). Mindful attention reduces linguistic intergroup bias. Mindfulness, 7, 349-360. Supplemental Materials.

2015

McCarthy-Jones, S, Castro Romero M, McCarthy-Jones R, Dillon J, Cooper-Rompato C, Kieran K, Kaufman ML, & Blackman L (2015). Hearing the Unheard: an interdisciplinary, mixed methodology study of women’s experiences of hearing voices (auditory verbal hallucinations). Frontiers in psychiatry, 6, 181.

Lebois LAM, Papies EK, Gopinath K, Cabanban R, Quigley KS, Krishnamurthy V, Barrett LF, & Barsalou LW (2015). A shift in perspective: Decentering through mindful attention to imagined stressful events. Neuropsychologia, 75, 505-524. Supplemental Materials.

Earlier

Kimble M, & Kaufman ML (2004). Clinical correlates of neurological change in posttraumatic stress disorder: an overview of critical systems. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 27(1), 49-65.

Kimble M, Ruddy K, Deldin P, & Kaufman ML (2004). A CNV-distraction paradigm in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 16(1), 102-108.

Reich DB, Winternitz S, Hennen J, Watts T, & Stanculescu C (2004). A preliminary study of risperidone in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse in women. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 65(12), 1601-1606.

Kimble MO, Kaufman ML, Leonard LL, Nestor PG, Riggs DS, Kaloupek DG, & Bachrach P (2002). Sentence completion test in combat veterans with and without PTSD: preliminary findings. Psychiatry Research, 113(3), 303-307.

Kaufman ML, Kimble MO, Kaloupek DG, McTeague LM, Bachrach P, Forti AM, & Keane TM (2002). Peritraumatic dissociation and physiological response to trauma-relevant stimuli in Vietnam combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 190(3), 167-174.

Keane TM, Kaufman ML, & Kimble MO (2001). Peritraumatic dissociative symptoms, ASD, and the development of PTSD: Causation, correlation, or epiphenomenon. Controversies in psychiatry: Dissociative states, 21-43.

Kimble M, Kaloupek D, Kaufman ML, & Deldin P (2000). Stimulus novelty differentially affects attentional allocation in PTSD. Biological Psychiatry, 47(10), 880-890.

 

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