Recent Publications

At Michigan PAL we make great efforts to make our research findings available to the greater scientific community. Below you will find a list of all of the manuscripts published by our team. This list includes manuscripts from studies conducted at our laboratory and from studies conducted in collaboration with other laboratories.

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Under review:

  • McGinnis*, E., Shull*, A., Vargas*, I., Lopez-Duran, N.L. (Under Review). Wake Time Mediates the Link between Depression and the Cortisol Awakening Response in children and teens.
  • Lopez-Duran, N.L., Kuhlman*, K.R., Bylsma, L.M., George, C., Kovacs, M. (Under review). No evidence of cognitive flexibility deficits when processing affective stimuli in youth at familial risk for depression.
  • Vargas*, I., Diaz*, V., Lopez-Duran, N.L. (Under Review). The effect of sleep on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis stress reactivity in middle childhood.
  • Vargas*, I., Mayer*, S., & Lopez-Duran, N. (Under Review). The cortisol awakening response (CAR) and depressive symptomatology: Examining the moderating role of sleep and sex

Published:

  • McGinnis*, E., Lopez-Duran, N.L., Martinez-Torteya, C., Abelson, J., Muzik. M. (In Press). Cortisol Awakening Response and Internalizing Symptoms Across Childhood: Exploring the Role of Age and Externalizing Symptoms. International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • Kuhlman*, KR., Vargas*, I., Geiss*, E., Lopez-Duran, N.L. (In Press). Age of trauma onset and HPA-axis dysregulation among trauma-exposed youth. Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Lopez-Duran, N.L., McGinnis*, E., Kuhlman*, K.R., Geiss*, E., Mayer*, S.E. (In Press). Evidence of atypical HPA-axis regulation to psychosocial stress in children and teens with clinical depression. Stress
  • Kuhlman*, K.R., Geiss*, E.G., Vargas*, I., Lopez-Duran, N.L. (2015)  Differential associations between childhood trauma subtypes and adolescent HPA-axis functioning. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 54, 103-114.
  • Harkness, K.L., Hayden E. P., Lopez-Duran, N. L. (2015). Stress Sensitivity and Stress Sensitization in Psychopathology: An Introduction to the Special Section. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 124(1), 1-3
  • Kimel*, S.Y., Lopez-Duran N.L., Kitayama S. (2015) Cortisol and cognitive dissonance: No evidence of a physiological stress response to post-choice dissonance. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
  • Simonsic*, T.E., Kuhlman*, K. R., Houchins*, S., Lopez-Duran, N.L. (2014). Facebook use and depressive symptoms in college students: The role of personality factors. Computers and Human Behavior. 40, 1-5
  • Mayer*, S.E., Abelson, J.A., Lopez-Duran, N.L. (2014). Cognition and stress context interact in shaping neuroendocrine reactivity during childhood: Implications for stress reactivity research. Hormones & Behavior. 66(2), 457-465
  • Lopez-Duran, N.L., Mayer*, S.E, Abelson J.L. (2014). Modeling neuroendocrine stress reactivity in salivary cortisol: Adjusting for peak latency variability. Stress, 17(4), 285-295
  • Abelson J.L., Erickson, T.M., Mayer*, S.E., Crocker, J., Briggs, H., Lopez-Duran, N.L., Liberzon, I. (2014). Brief cognitive intervention can modulate neuroendocrine stress responses to the Trier Social Stress Test: Buffering effects of a compassionate goal orientation. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 44, 60-70
  • Vargas*, I., Lopez-Duran, N.L., (2014). Dissecting the impact of sleep and stress on the cortisol awakening response in young adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 40, 10-16
  • Kuhlman*, K.R., Olson, S.L., Lopez-Duran, N.L. (2014) Predicting developmental changes in internalizing symptoms: Examining the interplay between parenting and neuroendocrine stress reactivity. Developmental Psychobiology. 56(5), 908-923.
  • Lopez-Duran, N.L., Kuhlman*, K.R., George, C.J., Kovacs, M., (2013) Facial expression recognition in children at familial risk for depression: Evidence for oversensitivity to sadness in high risk boys. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 54(5), 565-574
  • Kovacs, M., & Lopez-Duran, N.L. (2012). Contextual Emotion Regulation Therapy: A Developmentally-Based Intervention for Pediatric Depression. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 21(2), 327-343
  • Lopez-Duran, N. L., Nusslock, R., Kovacs, M., & George, C.J (2012). Frontal EEG asymmetry moderates the effects of stressful life events on internalizing symptoms in children at familial risk for depression. Psychophysiology. 49(4), 510-521
  • Feng, X., Forbes, E.E., Kovacs, M., George, C.J., Lopez-Duran, N.L., Fox, N.A., & Cohn, J.F. (2012). Children’s Depressive Symptoms in relation to EEG Frontal Asymmetry and Maternal Depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 40(2), 265-276.
  • Olino, T.M., Lopez-Duran, N.L., Kovacs, M., George, G.J., Gentzler, A.L., Shaw, D.S. (2011) Developmental trajectories of positive and negative affect in high and low familial risk for depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 52(7), 792-799
  • Olson, S. L., Lopez-Duran, N. L., Lunkenheimer, E.S., Chang, H. & Sameroff, A.J. (2011). Individual Differences in the Development of Early Peer Aggression: Integrating Contributions of Self-Regulation, Theory of Mind, and Parenting. Development and Psychopathology. 23(1), 253-266
  • Kovacs, M. & Lopez-Duran, N.L. (2010). Prodromal symptoms and atypical affectivity as predictors of major depression in juveniles: Implications for prevention. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(4), 472-496
  • Lopez-Duran N. L., Kovacs, M. & George, C. (2009). Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis dysregulation in depressed children and adolescents: A meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34(9), 1272-1283
  • Lopez-Duran, N. L., Hajal, N. J., Olson, S. L., Felt, B., & Vazquez, D. M. (2009). Individual differences in salivary cortisol response to fear and frustration in children: A methodological examination of peak timing and stress modality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 103(3), 285-295.
  • Lopez-Duran, N. L., Vazquez, M., Felt, B., Olson, S. L. (2009). An integrative approach to the neurophysiology of emotion regulation. In S.L. Olson and A.J. Sameroff (Eds), Regulatory processes in the development of behavior problems: Biological, behavioral, and social interactions. Cambridge University Press.
  • Lopez-Duran, N. L., Hajal, N. J., Olson, S. L., Felt, B., & Vazquez, D. M. (2009). Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis functioning in reactive and proactive aggression in children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37(2), 169-182.
  • Baji, I., Lopez-Duran, N. L. *, Kovacs, M., George, C., László, M. L., Kapornai, k., Kiss, E., & Vetro, A., (2009). Age, sex, somatic complaints, and the symptom presentation of childhood depression in a Hungarian clinical sample. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 70(10), 1467-72 (*Corresponding Author)
  • Mayer, L., Lopez-Duran, N. L.*, Kovacs, M., George, C., Baji, I., Kapornai, k., Kiss, E., & Vetro, A. (2009). Stressful life events in a clinical sample of depressed children in Hungary. Journal of Affective Disorders. 115(1-2), 207-214. (*Corresponding Author)