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Journal articles
2024, 'Using electrodermal activity to estimate fear learning differences in anxiety: A multiverse analysis', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2024.104598
,2024, 'The impact of estrous cycle on anxiety-like behaviour during unlearned fear tests in female rats and mice: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105789
,2024, 'Improving Exposure Therapy: Rationale and Design of an International Consortium', Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 47, pp. 433 - 444, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2024.02.008
,2024, 'The effects of diazepam on fear extinction in nulliparous and primiparous female rats', Hormones and Behavior, 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105518
,2024, 'Dissociable roles of the basolateral amygdala in fear acquisition and extinction as a function of reproductive experience in female rats', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, pp. 106716 - 106716, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106716
,2024, 'The effects of diazepam and chronic fluoxetine on models of anxiety differ in female rats depending on their reproductive history', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, pp. 106718 - 106718, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106718
,2024, 'What rodent models can tell us about the mechanisms and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders in the peripartum period and beyond', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, pp. 106714 - 106714, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106714
,2023, 'Dissociable role of the basolateral complex of the amygdala in the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear following reproductive experience in female rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107863
,2023, 'Reproductive experience alters the effects of diazepam and fluoxetine on anxiety-like behaviour, fear extinction, and corticosterone levels in female rats', Psychopharmacology, 240, pp. 2515 - 2528, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-023-06446-z
,2023, 'The impact of the ovarian cycle on anxiety, allopregnanolone, and corticotropin releasing hormone changes after motherhood in female rats and women', Translational Psychiatry, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02480-9
,2023, 'The relationship between salivary Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 and cortisol reactivity and psychological outcomes prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 13, pp. 100606, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100606
,2023, 'Battle of the sexes: who is more variable, and does it really matter?', Lab Animal, 52, pp. 107 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41684-023-01164-7
,2023, 'The impact of motherhood on anxiety symptoms over the menstrual cycle: A translational approach in female rats and women', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 153, pp. 106183 - 106183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106183
,2022, 'Female rodents are not more variable than male rodents: A meta-analysis of preclinical studies of fear and anxiety', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104962
,2022, 'The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104203
,2022, 'What Pre-clinical Rat Models Can Tell Us About Anxiety Across the Menstrual Cycle in Healthy and Clinically Anxious Humans', Current Psychiatry Reports, 24, pp. 697 - 707, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11920-022-01376-7
,2022, 'The impact of hormonal contraceptives on anxiety treatments: From preclinical models to clinical settings', Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2022.101030
,2022, 'The relationship between repetitive negative thinking, sleep disturbance, and subjective fatigue in women with Generalized Anxiety Disorder', British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61, pp. 666 - 679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12356
,2022, 'Correction to: Symptom fluctuation over the menstrual cycle in anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD: a systematic review (Archives of Women's Mental Health, (2022), 25, 1, (71-85), 10.1007/s00737-021-01187-4)', Archives of Women's Mental Health, 25, pp. 829 - 830, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-022-01237-5
,2022, 'Methodological implications of sample size and extinction gradient on the robustness of fear conditioning across different analytic strategies', PLoS ONE, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268814
,2022, 'Symptom fluctuation over the menstrual cycle in anxiety disorders, PTSD, and OCD: a systematic review', Archives of Women's Mental Health, 25, pp. 71 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-021-01187-4
,2022, 'The Association Between Salivary FGF2 and Physiological and Psychological Components of the Human Stress Response', Chronic Stress, 6, pp. 24705470221114787, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/24705470221114787
,2021, 'BDNF genotype Val66Met interacts with acute plasma BDNF levels to predict fear extinction and recall', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103942
,2021, 'Cannabinoid polymorphisms interact with plasma endocannabinoid levels to predict fear extinction learning', Depression and Anxiety, 38, pp. 1087 - 1099, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/da.23170
,2021, 'Mind's eye: The impact of spider presence and cognitive therapy on size estimation biases in spider phobia', Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 83, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102456
,2021, 'Subjective sleep quality and characteristics across the menstrual cycle in women with and without Generalized Anxiety Disorder', Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110570
,2021, 'It's all about who you know: Memory retention of a rat's cagemates during infancy negatively predicts adulthood hippocampal FGF2', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 182, pp. 107448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107448
,2021, 'Gender differences in adolescent sleep disturbance and treatment response to smartphone app–delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia: Exploratory study', JMIR Formative Research, 5, pp. e22498, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/22498
,2021, 'Maternal Experience Does Not Predict Fear Extinction and Anxiety-Like Behaviour in Primiparous Rats Post-weaning', Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2, pp. 742337, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2021.742337
,2020, 'Gender differences in avoidance and repetitive negative thinking following symptom provocation in men and women with spider phobia', British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 59, pp. 565 - 577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12267
,2020, 'Women With Generalized Anxiety Disorder Show Increased Repetitive Negative Thinking During the Luteal Phase of the Menstrual Cycle', Clinical Psychological Science, 8, pp. 1037 - 1045, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167702620929635
,2020, 'Gender Differences in Adolescent Sleep Disturbance and Treatment Response to Smartphone App–Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia: Exploratory Study (Preprint)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.22498
,2020, 'Progesterone levels predict reductions in behavioral avoidance following cognitive restructuring in women with spider phobia', Journal of Affective Disorders, 270, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.039
,2020, 'Hormonal, reproductive, and behavioural predictors of fear extinction recall in female rats', Hormones and Behavior, 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104693
,2020, 'Day at the museum. A benchmarking and feasibility study for large group, one-session exposure treatment for spider phobia', Australian Psychologist, 55, pp. 121 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ap.12425
,2020, 'Physical and mental fatigue across the menstrual cycle in women with and without generalised anxiety disorder', Hormones and Behavior, 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.104667
,2019, 'D-Cycloserine and estradiol enhance fear extinction in nulliparous but not primiparous female rats', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107088
,2019, 'Fibroblast growth factor-2 enhancement of extinction recall depends on the success of within-session extinction training in rats: a re-analysis', Psychopharmacology, 236, pp. 227 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-5032-3
,2019, 'Reproductive experience alters the involvement of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in fear extinction, but not fear conditioning, in female Sprague Dawley rats', Psychopharmacology, 236, pp. 251 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-4956-y
,2018, 'Low estradiol is linked to increased skin conductance, but not subjective anxiety or affect, in response to an impromptu speech task', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98, pp. 30 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.07.023
,2018, 'Sex hormones and gender vulnerabilities to anxiety disorders', Psychiatric Times, 35, pp. 12 - 13
,2018, 'The impact of chronic fluoxetine on conditioned fear expression and hippocampal FGF2 in rats: Short- and long-term effects', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 155, pp. 344 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.09.004
,2018, 'Postnatal stress is associated with impaired fear conditioning and extinction, and heightened hippocampal fibroblast growth factor 2, in mother rats', Hormones and Behavior, 105, pp. 110 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.08.005
,2018, 'Estradiol-induced enhancement of fear extinction in female rats: The role of NMDA receptor activation', Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 86, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.05.003
,2018, 'Estradiol moderates the relationship between state-trait anxiety and attentional bias to threat in women', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 93, pp. 82 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.04.018
,2018, 'Sex hormones are associated with rumination and interact with emotion regulation strategy choice to predict negative affect in women following a sad mood induction', Frontiers in Psychology, 9, pp. 937, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00937
,2018, 'Effects of D-cycloserine on individual differences in relapse of fear', Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 84, pp. 115 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.02.005
,2018, 'The association between estradiol levels, hormonal contraceptive use, and responsiveness to one-session-treatment for spider phobia in women', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90, pp. 134 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.02.019
,2018, 'Effects of systemic estradiol on fear extinction in female rats are dependent on interactions between dose, estrous phase, and endogenous estradiol levels', Hormones and Behavior, 97, pp. 67 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.10.009
,2018, 'Individual differences in fear relapse', Behaviour Research and Therapy, 100, pp. 37 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.11.003
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