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Mood and Anxiety Disorders

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*Long, Y.,*Dickey, L., *Pegg, S., *Argiros, A., *Venanzi, L., *Dao, A., & Kujawa, A. (in press). Neurophysiological responses to interpersonal emotional images moderate the effects of interpersonal trauma on adolescent depression. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

*Hill, K. E., *Dickey, L., *Pegg, S., *Dao, A., Arfer, K. B., & Kujawa, A. (2023). Associations between parental conflict and social and monetary reward responsiveness in adolescents with clinical depression. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

*Gupta, R. S., *Dickey, L., & Kujawa, A. (2022). Neural markers of emotion regulation difficulties moderate effects of COVID-19 stressors on adolescent depression. Depression and Anxiety.

*Cárdenas, E. F., Kujawa, A., Letterie, M., & Humphreys, K. L. (2022). A preliminary test of a brief online intervention for enhancing parental reflective function and the role of parental depressive symptoms. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

*Cárdenas, E. F., Kujawa, A., Humphreys, K. L. (2022). Benevolent childhood experiences and childhood maltreatment history: Examining their roles in depressive symptoms across the peripartum period. Adversity and Resilience Science.

Weinberg, A., Kujawa, A., & Riesel, A. (2022). Understanding trajectories to anxiety and depression: Neural responses to errors and reward as indices of susceptibility to stressful life events. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

*Politte-Corn, Nick, E., *Dickey, L., *Pegg, S., Cole, D. C., & Kujawa, A. (2022). #Socialdistancing: Social media use and online social support moderate the effect of pandemic-related stress on internalizing symptoms in emerging adults. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

*Dickey, L., *West, M., *Pegg, S. *Green, H., & Kujawa, A. (2021). Neurophysiological responses to interpersonal emotional images prospectively predict the impact of COVID-19 pandemic-related stress on internalizing symptoms. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

*Kesselring, I., Yaremych, H. E., *Pegg, S., *Dickey, L., & Kujawa, A. (2021). Zoom or in-person? An ecological momentary assessment study of the effects of time with friends and depressive symptoms on affect in emerging adults. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

*Pegg, S., Arfer, K. B., & Kujawa, A. (2021). Altered reward responsiveness in depression: An examination of social and monetary reward domains and interactions with rejection sensitivity. Journal of Affective Disorders.

Burkhouse, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2023). Annual Research Review: Emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression diagnoses – A systematic review of neural and physiological research. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry64, 583-607.

*Gupta, R. S., Kujawa, A., & Vago, D. (2021). A preliminary investigation of ERP components of attentional bias in anxious adults using temporospatial principal component analysis. Journal of Psychophysiology.

Kujawa, A., *Green, H., Compas, B. E., *Dickey, L., & *Pegg, S. (2020). Exposure to COVID-19 pandemic stress: Associations with depression and anxiety in emerging adults in the U.S. Depression and Anxiety, 37, 1280-1288.

*Pegg, S., Ethridge, P., Shields, G. S., Slavich, G. M., Weinberg, A., & Kujawa, A. (2019). Blunted social reward responsiveness moderates the effect of lifetime social stress exposure on depressive symptoms. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience13, 178.

Kujawa, A., Hajcak, G., & Klein, D. N. (2019). Reduced reward responsiveness moderates the effect of maternal depression on depressive symptoms in offspring: Evidence across levels of analysis. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 60, 82-90.

Kujawa, A., & Burkhouse, K. L. (2017). Vulnerability to depression in youth: Advances from affective neuroscience. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 2, 28-37.

Kessel, E. M., Kujawa, A., Dougherty, L. R., Hajcak, G., Carlson, G. A., & Klein, D. N. (2017). Neurophysiological processing of emotion in children of mothers with a history of depression: The moderating role of preschool persistent irritability. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 45, 1599-1608.

Burkhouse, K. L., Kujawa, A., Keenan, K., Klumpp, H., Fitzgerald, K. D., Monk, C. S., & Phan, K. L. (2017). The relation between parent depressive symptoms and neural correlates of attentional control in offspring: A preliminary study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 263, 26-31.

Kujawa, A., Wu, M., Klumpp, H., Pine, D. S., Swain, J. E., Fitzgerald, K. D., Monk, C. S., & Phan, K. L. (2016). Altered development of amygdala-frontal connectivity during emotional face processing in anxious youth and young adults. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 1, 345-352.

Goldstein, B., Shankman, S., Kujawa, A., Torpey, D., Olino, T., & Klein, D. N. (2016). Developmental changes in electroencephalographic frontal asymmetry in young children at risk for depression. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 57, 1075-1082.

Kessel, E. M., Dougherty, L. R., Kujawa, A., Hajcak, G., Carlson, G. R., & Klein, D. N. (2016). Longitudinal associations between preschool disruptive mood dysregulation symptoms and neural reactivity to monetary reward during preadolescence. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 26, 131-137.

Kujawa, A., Glenn, C. R., Hajcak, G., & Klein, D. N. (2015). Affective modulation of the startle response among children at high and low risk for anxiety disorders. Psychological Medicine, 45, 2647-2656.

Kujawa, A., MacNamara, A., Fitzgerald, K. D., Monk, C. S., & Phan, K. L. (2015). Enhanced neural reactivity to threatening faces in anxious youth: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 1493-1501.

Proudfit, G. H., Bress J., Foti, D., Kujawa, A., Klein, D. N. (2015). Depression and event-related potentials: Emotional disengagement and reward insensitivity. Current Opinion in Psychology, 4, 110-113.

Kujawa, A., Proudfit, G. H., & Klein, D. N. (2014). Neural reactivity to rewards and losses in offspring of mothers and fathers with histories of depressive and anxiety disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology123(2), 287-297.

Torpey, D. C., Hajcak, G., Kim, J., Kujawa, A., Dyson, M. W., Olino, T. M., & Klein, D. N. (2013). Error-related brain activity in young children: Associations with parental anxiety and child temperamental negative emotionality. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 54(8), 854-862.

Kujawa, A. J., Hajcak, G., Torpey, D., Kim, J., & Klein D. N. (2012). Electrocortical reactivity to emotional faces in young children and associations with maternal and paternal depression. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 53(2), 207-215.

Kujawa, A. J., Torpey, D., Kim, J., Hajcak, G., Rose, S., Gotlib, I., & Klein, D. N. (2011). Attentional biases for emotional faces in young children of mothers with chronic or recurrent depression. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 39(1), 125-135