Publications

Sarah’s

• Simmons, S. L. (2007). Dead Man Talking: the use of base rates as adjunct in psychological autopsy. American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 28(2):51-65.

• Simmons, S, Naimark, D (2005). Psychotherapy for Psychopaths: Current Controversies. American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 26:5-22.

Alan’s

• Strigo, IA, Guerra, SG, Torrisi, S, Murphy, E, Toor, T, Goldman, V, Alter, BJ, Vu, AT, Hecht, R, Lotz, J, Simmons, AN, & Mehling, WE (2024). Enhancing chronic low back pain management: an initial neuroimaging study of a mobile interoceptive attention training. Front Pain Res (Lausanne). 5:1408027.

• Harlé, KM, Dun, D, Spadoni, AD, Howlett, JR, & Simmons, AN (in press). Assessing social anhedonia in a transdiagnostic sample: insights from a computational psychiatry lens. Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders

• Murphy, E, Toor, T, Palyo, S, Librodo, S, Schopmeyer, K, Simmons, AN, & Strigo, IA (in press). Comparing Pain Outcomes and Treatment Adherence Between In-Person and Virtual Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Programs at the San Francisco VA Health Care System. The Clinical Journal of Pain

• Bu, Y, Burks, J, Yang, K, Prince, J, Borna, A, Coe, CL, Simmons, A, Tu, XM, Baker, D, Kimball, D, Rao, R, Shah V, Huang, M, Schwindt, P, Coleman, TP, Lerman, I  (2024). Non-invasive ventral cervical magnetoneurography as a proxy of in vivo lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation. Communications Biology. 7(1):893.

• Strigo, IA, Guerra , SG, Torrisi , S, Murphy , E, Toor , T, Goldman , V, Alter , B, Vu , A, Hecht , R, Lotz , J, Simmons, AN, and Mehling, WE (2024). Enhancing Chronic Low Back Pain Management: An Initial Neuroimaging Study of a Mobile Interoceptive Attention Training. Frontiers in Pain Research. 5:1408027.

• Gupta, RS, Light, GA, Simmons, AN, Harlé, KM, & Stout, DM (2024). Sex Moderates the Effect of Anhedonia on Parietal Alpha Asymmetry. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 177:97-101.

• Strigo, IA, Craig, AB, & Simmons, AN (2024). Expectation of pain and relief: a dynamical model of the neural basis for pain-trauma co-morbidity. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 163:105750.

• Bomyea,J, Feng,S, Moore, RC, Simmons, AN, & Thomas, ML (in press). Change in resting state functional connectivity following working memory training in individuals with stress-related disorders and elevated repetitive negative thinking. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

• Gupta, RS, Simmons, AN, Dugas, NN, Stout, DM, Harlé, KM (2024). Motivational context and neurocomputation of stop expectation moderate early attention responses supporting proactive inhibitory control. Front Hum Neurosci. 18:1357868.

• Toor, T, Palyo, S, Schopmeyer, K, Simmons, AN, Strigo, IA (2024). Exploring the effects of fitbit incentive on treatment outcomes in veterans undergoing intensive pain rehabilitation program. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 8(1), 42.

• Strigo, IA, Andrew, D, Simmons, AN, Evrard, HC, Blomqvist, A, & Dostrovsky, JO (in press). Interoception and AD (Bud) Craig's paradigm-shifting legacy. Pain

• Strigo, IA, Kadlec, M, Mitchell, JM, & Simmons, AN (2024). Identification of group differences in predictive anticipatory biasing of pain during uncertainty: preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. Pain, 165(8):1735-1747.

• Taylor, C, Stein, MB, Simmons, AN, He, FOveis, C, Holly B Shakya, HB, Sieber, WJ Fowler, JH, & Jain, S (2024). Amplification of Positivity Treatment for Anxiety and Depression: A Randomized Experimental Therapeutics Trial Targeting Social Reward Sensitivity to Enhance Social Connectedness. Biol Psychiatry. 95(5):434-443.

• Caudle M M, Spadoni, A D, Schiehser, D M, Simmons, A N, & Bomyea, J  (2023). Neural activity and network analysis for understanding reasoning using the matrix reasoning task. Cognitive Processing. 24(4):585-594.

• Strigo, IA, Simmons, AN, Giebler, J, Schilling, JM, & Moeller-Bertram, T  (2023). Unsupervised learning for prognostic validity in patients with chronic pain in transdisciplinary pain care. Sci Rep. 13(1):7581.

• Harlé, KM, Ho, TC, Connolly, CG, Simmons, AN, & Yang, TT (2023). How Obstructed Action Efficacy Impacts Reward-based Decision-making in Adolescent Depression: An fMRI Study. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(8), 874-884.

• Berner, LA, Harlé, KM, Simmons, AN, Yu, A, Paulus, MP, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Wierenga, C, Bailer, U, & Kaye, W (2023). State-Specific Alterations in the Neural Computations Underlying Inhibitory Control in Women Remitted from Bulimia Nervosa . Mol Psychiatry. 27:1-8.

• Simmons, AN, & Strigo, IA (2023). Editorial: Understanding Emotions using Brain Imaging and Stimulation Techniques. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17:1130140.

• Hays Weeks, CC, Simmons, AN, Strigo, IA, Timtim, S, Ellis, RJ, & Keltner, JR (2022). Distal neuropathic pain in HIV is associated with functional connectivity patterns in default mode and salience networks. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3:1004060.

• May, AC, Jacobus, J, Simmons, AN, & Tapert, SF  (2022). A Prospective Investigation of Youth Alcohol Experimentation and Reward Responsivity in the ABCD Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13:886848.

• Lerman,I, Klaming, R, Spadoni, A, Baker, DG, & Simmons, AN (2022). Non-invasive Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation Effects on Reaction Time and Valence Image Anticipation Response. Brain Stimulation, 15(4):946-956.

• Diaz, MM, Caylor, J, Strigo, I, Lerman, I, Henry, B, Lopez, E,Wallace, M, Ellis, RJ, Simmons, AN, & Keltner, JR (2022). Towards Composite Pain Biomarkers Of Neuropathic Pain – Focus On Peripheral Neuropathic Pain. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3:869215

• Strigo, IA, Spadoni, AD, & Simmons, AN  (2022). Understanding pain and trauma symptoms in Veterans from resting state connectivity: unsupervised modeling. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3:871961

• Stout, DM, Simmons, AN, Nievergelt, CM, Biswas, N, Risbrough, VB, & Baker, DG (2022). Deriving psychiatric symptom-based biomarkers from multivariate relationships between psychophysiological and biochemical measures. Neuropsychopharmacology, 47(13):2252-2260.

• Toor, T, Murphy, E, Simmons, AN, Palyo, S, Librodo, SC, & Strigo, IA (2022). Craving of Prescription Opioids Among Veterans with Chronic Pain. Pain, 163(10):2021-2030.

• Timtim, SH, Simmons, AN, Hays, C, Strigo, I, Sorg, S, Ellis, R, & Keltner, JR  (2022). HIV peripheral neuropathy-related degeneration of white matter tracts to sensorimotor cortex. Journal of neurovirology, 28(4), 505-513.

• Harlé, KM, Ho, TC, Connolly, CG, Simmons, AN, & Yang, TT (2022). The effect of obstructed action efficacy on reward-based decision-making in healthy adolescents: a novel functional MRI task to assay frustration. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci., 22, 542–556.

• Berner, LA, Reilly, EE, Yu, X, Krueger, A, Trunko, ME, Anderson, LK, Chen, J, Simmons, AN, & Kaye, WH (2022). Changes in cognitive and behavioral control after lamotrigine and intensive dialectical behavioral therapy for severe, multi-impulsive bulimia nervosa: an fMRI case study. Eat Weight Disord., 27(5): 1919–1928.

• Stout, DM, Powell, S, Kangavary, A, Acheson, DT, Nievergelt, CM, Kash, T, Simmons, AN, Baker, DG, & Risbrough, VB  (2021). Dissociable impact of childhood trauma and deployment trauma on affective modulation of startle. Neurobiol Stress., 15:100362.

• Strigo, IA, Keltner, JR, Ellis, RJ, & Simmons, AN  (2021). Association of Painful Human Immunodeficiency Virus Distal Sensory Polyneuropathy with Aberrant Expectation of Pain Relief: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence. Brain Communications, 3(4), fcab260.

• Stout, DM, Harlé, KM, Norman, SB, Simmons, AN, & Spadoni, AD  (2021). Resting-state connectivity subtype of comorbid PTSD and alcohol use disorder moderates improvement from integrated prolonged exposure therapy in Veterans. Psychol Med., 30:1-10.

• Diaz, MM, Keltner, JR, Simmons, AS, Franklin, D, Moore, RC, Clifford, D, Collier, AC, Gelman, BB, Marra, C, McCutchan, JA, Morgello, S, Sacktor, N, Best, B, Fennema-Notestine, C, Weibel, SG, Igor Grant, I, Marcotte, TD, Vaida, F, Letendre, S, Heaton, R, & Ellis, RJ  (2021). Paresthesia Predicts Increased Risk of Distal Neuropathic Pain in Older People with HIV-associated Sensory Polyneuropathy. Pain Med., 22(8):1850-1856.

• Lang, A J, Malaktaris, A, Maluf, K S, Kangas, J, Sindel, S, Herbert, M, Bomyea, J, Simmons, A, Weaver, J, Velez, D, & Liu, L  (2021). A randomized controlled trial of yoga vs nonaerobic exercise for Veterans with PTSD: Understanding efficacy and mechanisms of change. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 21:100719.

• Harlé, KM, Simmons, AN, Bomyea, J, Spadoni, AD, & Taylor, CT (2021). Higher affective congruency in the approach-avoidance task is associated with insular deactivation to dynamic facial expressions. Neuropsychologia, 151: 107734.

• Peng, Y, Knotts, JD, Taylor,  CT, Craske, MG, Stein, MB, Bookheimer, S, Young, KS, Simmons, AN, Yeh, HW, Ruiz, J, & Paulus, MP (2021). Failure to identify robust latent variables of positive or negative valence processing across units of analysis. BP:CNNI, 6(5):518-526.

• Paulus, MP, Stein, MB, Simmons, AN, Risbrough, VB, Halter, R, & Chaplan SR (2021). The Effects of FAAH Inhibition on the Neural Basis of Anxiety-related Processing in Healthy Male Subjects: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46(5):1011-1019.

• Klaming, R, Simmons , AN, Spadoni, AD, & Lerman I (2022). Effects of Noninvasive Cervical Vagal Nerve Stimulation on Cognitive Performance But Not Brain Activation in Healthy Adults. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, 25(3):424-432.

• Harlé, KM, Simmons, AN, Norman, SB, & Spadoni, AD  (2020). Neural affective mechanisms associated with treatment responsiveness in Veterans with PTSD and comorbid alcohol use disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 305:111172.

• Schreiber, D, Fronzo, G, Simmons, AN, Dawes, C, Flagan, T, & Paulus, MP  (2020). Neural nonpartisans. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 32(3), 576–595.

• Harlé, KM, Bomyea, J, Spadoni, AD, Simmons, AN, & Taylor, CT (2020). Proactive engagement of cognitive control modulates implicit approach-avoidance bias. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(5):998-1010.

• Wierenga, CE, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Berner, LA, Simmons, AN, Bailer, U, Paulus, MP, & Kaye, WH (2020). Increased anticipatory brain response to pleasant touch in women remitted from bulimia nervosa. Translational Psychiatry, 10(1):236.

• Bruchas, MR, & Simmons, A (2020). Imaging stress. Neurobiology of Stress., 13:100228.

• Howlett, JR, Bomyea, B, Harlé, KM, & Simmons, AN (2021). Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder are Associated with Exaggerated Neural Response to Surprising Errors. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(1):172-181

• Keltner, JR, Tong, A, Visser, E, Jenkinson, M, Connolly, C, Dasca, A, Sheringov, A, Calvo, Z, Umbao, E, Mande, R, Bilder, M, Sahota, G, Franklin, D, Corkran, S, Grant, I, Archibald, S, Vaida, F, Brown, G, Atkinson, JH, Simmons, A, & Ellis, R (2020). Evidence for a Novel Subcortical Mechanism for Posterior Cingulate Cortex Atrophy in HIV Peripheral Neuropathy. Journal of NeuroVirology, 26(4):530-543.

• May, AC, Jacobus, J, Stewart, JL, Simmons, AN, Paulus, MP, & Tapert, SF (2020). Do Adolescents Use Substances to Relieve Uncomfortable Sensations? A Preliminary Examination of Negative Reinforcement Among Adolescent Cannabis and Alcohol Users. Brain Sci. 10(4):214.

• Bomyea, J, Ball, T M, Simmons, AN, Campbell-Sills, L, Paulus, MPP, & Stein, MB (2020). Change in neural response during emotion regulation is associated with symptom reduction in cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders. 271:207-214.

• Courtney, KE, Infante, A, Bordyuga, M, Simmons, AN, & Tapert, SF (2020). Prospective Associations between BOLD Markers of Response Inhibition and the Transition to Frequent Binge Drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 44(2):463-469.

• Bomyea, J, Simmons, AN, Shenton, ME, Coleman, MJ, Bouix, S, Rathi, Y, Pasternak, O, Coimbra, R, Shutter, L, George, MS, Grant, G, Zafonte, RD, McAllister, TW, & Stein, MB (2020). Neurocognitive Markers of Childhood Abuse in Individuals with PTSD: Findings from the INTRuST Clinical Consortium. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 121:108-117.

• Klaming, R, Spadoni, AD, Veltman, DJ, & Simmons, AN (2019). Expansion of hippocampal and amygdala shape in posttraumatic stress and early life stress  . Neuroimage Clinical. 24:101982.

• Caylor, J, Reddy, R, Yin, S, Cui, C, Huang, M, Huang, C, Rao, R, Baker, DG, Simmons, A, Souza, D, Narouze, S, Vallejo, R, & Lerman, I (2019). Spinal cord stimulation in chronic pain: evidence and theory for mechanisms of action. Bioelectronic Medicinevolume 5(12).

• Bomyea, J, Stout, DM, & Simmons, AN (2019). Attenuated prefrontal and temporal neural activity during working memory as a potential biomarker of suicidal ideation in veterans with PTSD. Journal of Affective Disorders. 257:607-614.

• Harlé, KM, Spadoni, AD, Norman, SB, & Simmons, AN (2019). Neurocomputational Changes in Inhibitory Control Associated With Prolonged Exposure Therapy. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 33(4):500-510.

• Stout, DM, Glenn, DE, Acheson, DT, Simmons, AN, & Risbrough, VB (2019). Characterizing the Neural Circuitry Associated with Configural Threat Learning  . Brain Research. 1719:225-234.

• Courtney, KE, Infante, MA, Brown, GG, Tapert, SF, Simmons, AN, Smith, TL, & Schuckit, MA  (2019). The Relationship between Regional CBF Estimates and Alcohol Problems at 5-Year Follow-Up: The Role of Level of Response. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 43(5):812-821.

• Berner, LA, Simmons, AN, Wierenga, CE, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Paulus, MP, Bailer, UF, & Kaye WH (2019). Altered Anticipation and Processing of Aversive Interoceptive Experience among Women Remitted from Bulimia Nervosa. Neuropsychopharmacology. 44(7):1265-1273.

• Bischoff-Grethe, A, Wierenga, CE, Berner, LA, Simmons, AN, Bailer, U, Paulus, MP, & Kaye, WH (2018). Neural hypersensitivity to pleasant touch in women remitted from anorexia nervosa. Translational Psychiatry. 8(1):161

• Lerman,I, Davis, B, Huang, M, Huang,C, Sorkin, L, Proudfoot, J,Zhong, E, Kimball, D, Rao, R, Simon, B, Spadoni, A,Strigo, I, Baker, DG, & Simmons, AN (2019). Noninvasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation Alters the Neural and Physiological Response to Noxious Thermal Challenge. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0201212.

• Stout, DM, Bomyea, J, Risbrough, VB, & Simmons, AN (2020). Aversive Distractors Modulate Affective Working Memory in Frontoparietal Regions. Emotion. 20(2):286-295.

• LeWinn, KZ, Strigo, IA, Connolly, CG, Ho, TC, Tymofiyeva, O, Sacchet, MD, Weng, HY, Blom, EH, Simmons, AN, & Yang TT (2018). An exploratory examination of reappraisal success in depressed adolescents: Preliminary evidence of functional differences in cognitive control brain regions. Journal Affect Disorders. 240:155-164.

• Stout, DM, Buchsbaum, MS, Spadoni, AD, Risbrough, VB, Strigo, IA, Matthews, SC,  & Simmons, AN (2018). Multimodal Canonical Correlation Reveals Converging Neural Circuitry Across Trauma-Related Disorders of Affect and Cognition. Neurobiology of Stress. 9: 241-250.

• Bischoff-Grethe, A, Wierenga, CE, Berner, LA, Simmons, AN, Ursula Bailer, U, Paulus, MP, & Kaye, WH   (2018). Neural hypersensitivity to pleasant touch in women remitted from anorexia nervosa. Translational Psychiatry. 8(1):161.

• Stout, DM, Glenn, DE, Acheson, DT, Spadoni, AD, Risbrough, VB, & Simmons, AN (2018). Neural Measures Associated with Configural Threat Acquisition. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 150:99-106.

• Spadoni, AD, Huang, M, & Simmons, AN (2018). Emerging Approaches to Neurocircuits in PTSD and TBI: Imaging the Interplay of Neural and Emotional Trauma. Curr Top Behav Neurosc. 38:163-192.

• Nguyen-Louie TT, Simmons, AN, Squeglia, LM, Infante, AM, Schacht, J, & Tapert, SF (2018). Earlier Alcohol Use Onset Prospectively Predicts Changes in Functional Connectivity. Psychopharmacology. 235(4):1041-1054.

• Bomyea, J, Taylor, C, Spadoni, AD, & Simmons, AN (2018). Neural mechanisms of interference control in working memory capacity. Human Brain Mapping. 32(11):1836-46.

• Glenn, DE, Risbrough, VB, Simmons, AN, Acheson, DT, & Stout, DM (2018). The Future of Contextual Fear Learning for PTSD Research: A Methodological Review of Neuroimaging Studies. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 38:207-228.

• Strigo, IA, Spadoni, AD, Inslicht, SS, & Simmons, AN (2018). Repeated exposure to experimental pain differentiates combat TBI with and without PTSD. Journal of Neurotrauma. 35(2):297-307.

• Strigo, IA, Murray, SB, Simmons, AN, Bernard, RS, Huang, JS, & Kaye, WH (2017). The clinical application of fMRI data in a single-patient diagnostic conundrum: Classifying brain response to experimental pain to distinguish between gastrointestinal, depressive and eating disorder symptoms. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 45:149-153.

• Bomyea, J, Matthews, SC, Buchsbaum, MS, Spadoni, AD, Strigo, IA, & Simmons, AN (2017). Neural differences underlying face processing in veterans with TBI and co-occurring TBI and PTSD. Journal Affect Disorders, 223:130-138.

• Berner, LA, Simmons, AN, Wierenga, CE, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Paulus, MP, Bailer, UF, Ely, AV, & Kaye, WH (2018). Altered interoceptive activation before, during, and after aversive breathing load in women remitted from anorexia nervosa. Psychol Med. 48(1):142-154.

• Ho, TC, Sacchet, MD, Connolly, CG, Margulies, DS, Tymofiyeva, O, Paulus, MP, Simmons, AN, Gotlib, IH, & Yang, TT (2017). Inflexible Functional Connectivity of the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 42(12):2434-2445.

• Paulus, MP, Stein, MB, Craske, MG, Bookheimer, S, Taylor, CT, Simmons, AN, Sidhu, N, Young, KS, & Fan, B (2017). Latent variable analysis of positive and negative valence processing focused on symptom and behavioral units of analysis in mood and anxiety disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders. 216:17-29.

• Connolly, CG, Ho, TC, Henje Blom, E, LeWinn, KZ, Sacchet, MD, Tymofiyeva, O, Simmons, AN, & Yang, TT (2017). Resting-state functional connectivity of the amygdala and longitudinal changes in depression severity in adolescent depression.. Journal of Affective Disorders,  207:86-94.

• Huang, JS, Terrones, L, Simmons, AN, Kaye, W, & Strigo, I (2016). Pilot Study of fMRI Responses to Somatic Pain Stimuli in Youth with Functional and Inflammatory Gastrointestinal Disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr., 63(5):500-507.

• Sacchet, MD, Ho, TC, Connolly, CG, Tymofiyeva, O, Lewinn, KZ, Han, LK, Blom, EH, Tapert, SF, Max, JE, Frank, GK, Paulus, MP, Simmons, AN, Gotlib, IH, & Yang, TT (2016). Large-Scale Hypoconnectivity between Resting-State Functional Networks in Unmedicated Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology, 41(12):2951-2960.

• Haase, L, Stewart, JL, Youssef, B, May, AC, Isakovic, S, Simmons, AN, Johnson, DC, Potterat, EG, & Paulus, MP (2016). When the brain does not adequately feel the body: Links between low resilience and interoception. Biol Psychol. 113:37-45

• Fonzo , GA, Ramsawh, HJ, Flagan, TM, Simmons, AN, Sullivan, SG, Allard, CA, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB (2016). Early Life Stress and the Anxious Brain: Evidence for A Neural Mechanism Linking Childhood Emotional Maltreatment to Anxiety in Adulthood. Psychological Medicine, 46(5):1037-54.

• Schuckit, MA, Smith, TL, Paulus, MP, Tapert, SF, Simmons, AN, Tolentino, NJ, & Shafir, A (2016). The Ability of fMRI Imaging to Predict Heavy Drinking and Alcohol Problems 5 Years Later. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 40(1):206-13.

• Wagner, A, Simmons, AN, Overndorfer, TA, Frank, GKW, McCurdy-McKinnon, D, Fudge, JL, Yang, TT, Paulus, MP, & Kaye, WH   (2015). Altered sensitization patterns to sweet food stimuli in patients recovered from anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 234(3):305-13.

• Henje Blom, E, Han, L, Connolly, C, Ho, T, Lin, J, LeWinn, K, Simmons, A, Sacchet, M, Mobayed, N, Luna, M, Paulus, M, Epel, E, Blackburn, E, Wolkowitz, O, & Yang, T (2015). Peripheral Telomere Length and Hippocampal Volume in Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder. Translational Psychiatry, 5:e676.

• Aupperle, RL, Stillman, AN, Simmons, AN, Flagan, T, Carolyn B Allard, CB, Thorp, SR, Norman, SB, Paulus, MP, Murray B Stein, MB (2016). Intimate Partner Violence PTSD and Neural Correlates of Inhibition. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 29(1):33-40.

• Kosheleva, E, Spadoni, AD, Strigo, IA, Buchsbaumb, MS, & Simmons, AN (2016). Faking Bad: The neural correlates of feigning memory impairment. Neuropsychology, 30(3):377-84.

• Haase, L, May, AC, Falahpour, M, Isakovic, S, Simmons, AN, Hickman, S, Liu, TT, & Paulus, MP  (2015). A pilot study investigating changes in neural processing after mindfulness training in elite athletes. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9:229.

• Brown, GG, Ostrowitzki, S, Stein, MB, von Kienlin, M, Liu, TT, Simmons, A, Wierenga, C, Stein, OY, Bruns, A, Bischoff-Grethe, A, & Paulus, MP (2015). Temporal profile of brain response to alprazolam in patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 233(3):394-401.

• Rabinovich, MI, Varona, P & Simmons, AN (2015). Dynamical bridge between brain and mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(8):453-61.

• Buchsbaum, MS, Simmons, AN, DeCastro, A, Farid, N, & Matthews, SC (2015). Clusters of Low (18)F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake Voxels in Combat Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Neurotrauma, 32(22):1736-50.

• Spadoni, AD, Kosheleva, E, Buchsbaum, MS, & Simmons, AN  (2015). Neural correlates of malingering in mild traumatic brain injury: a positron emission tomography study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 233(3):367-72.

• Henje Blom, E, Connolly, CG, Ho, TC,  LeWinn, KZ, Han, L, Paulus, MP, Wu, J Simmons, AN, & Yang, TT  (2015). Altered insular activation and increased insular functional connectivity during sad and happy face processing in adolescent major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 178:215-23.

• Wierenga, CE, Ely, A, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Bailer, UF, Simmons, AN, & Kaye, WH (2014). Are extremes of consumption in eating disorders related to an altered balance between reward and inhibition? . Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8:410

• Fonzo, G, Ramsawh, H, Flagan, T, Sullivan, SG, Simmons, AN, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2014). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder is associated with attenuation of limbic activation to threat-related facial emotions. Journal of Affective Disorders. 169:76-85

• Wierenga, CE, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Melrose, AJ, Irvine, Z, Torres, L, Bailer, U, Simmons, AN, Fudge, JL, McClure, SM, Ely, A, & Kaye, W (2015). Hunger does not motivate reward in anorexia nervosa. Biological Psychiatry, 77(7):642-52.

• Ho, TC, Connolly, CG, Henje Blom, E, LeWinn, KZ, Hendren, R, Wu, J, Chan, M, Strigo, IA, Tapert, SF, Paulus, MP, Frank, G, Max, JE, Duncan, LG, Hecht, FM, Simmons, AN, & Yang, TT (2015). Emotion-dependent functional connectivity of the default mode network in adolescent depression. Biological Psychiatry, 78(9):635-46.

• Fonzo, G, Ramsawh, H, Flagan, T, Sullivan, S, Letamendi, A, Simmons, AN, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB (2015). Common and Disorder-Specific Neural Responses to Emotional Faces in Generalized Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Panic Disorders. British Journal of Psychiatry, 206(3):206-15.

• Shu, I, Onton, JA, O’Connell, RM, Simmons, AN, & Matthews, SC  (2014). Combat veterans with comorbid PTSD and mild TBI exhibit a greater inhibitory processing ERP from the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 30;224(1):58-66.

• LeWinn, KZ, Connolly, CG, Wu, J, Drahos,M, Hoeft,F, Ho, TC, Simmons, AN, & Yang, TT (2014). White Matter Correlates of Adolescent Depression: Structural Evidence for Frontolimbic Disconnectivity. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 53(8):899-909.

• Camacho, A, Gonzalez, P, Castañeda, S F, Simmons, A, Buelna, C, Lemus, H, & Talavera, G A (2015). Improvement in Depressive Symptoms among Hispanic/Latinos receiving a Culturally Tailored IMPACT and Problem-Solving Intervention in a Community Health Center.. Community Mental Health Journal, 51(4):385-92.

• McCarthy, MJ, Liang, S, Spadoni, AD, Kelsoe, JR, & Simmons, AN (2014). Whole Brain Expression Of Bipolar Disorder Associated Genes: Structural and Genetic Analyses. PLoS One, 9(6):e100204.

• Moeller-Bertram T, Strigo IA, Simmons AN, Schilling JM, Patel P, & Baker DG (2014). Evidence for Acute Central Sensitization to Prolonged Experimental Pain in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Pain Med, 15(5):762-71.

• Wierenga, C, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Melrose AJ, Grenesko-Stevens, E, Irvine, Z, Wagner, A, Simmons, A, Matthews, S, Yau WY, Fennema-Notestine, C, & Kaye, WH (2014). Altered BOLD Response during Inhibitory and Error Processing in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa. PLoS One. 9(3):e92017.

• Johnson, DC, Thom, N, Stanley, E, Haase, L, Simmons, ANShi, P, Minor, T, Thompson, W, Potterat, E, & Paulus, MP (2014). Modifying Resilience Mechanisms in At-Risk Individuals: A Controlled Study of Mindfulness Training in Marines Preparing for Deployment. American Journal of Psychiatry, 171(8):844-53.

• Haase, L, Thom, N, Shukla, A, Davenport, P, Simmons, AN, Paulus, MP, & Johnson, DC  (2016). Mindfulness-Based Training Attenuates Insula Response To An Aversive Interoceptive Challenge. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 11(1): 182-90.

• Schiehser DM, Delano-Wood L, Jak AJ, Matthews SC, Simmons AN, Jacobson MW, Filoteo JV, Bondi MW, Orff HJ, & Liu L (2015). Validation of the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale in Mild to Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 30(2):116-21.

• Galli G, Shukla A, Simmons AN, Davenport PW, & Paulus MP (2013). Sex differences in the neural processing of aversive interoceptive events: the benefit of relief. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 30;8(12):e84044

• Shu, I, Onton, JA, O’Connell, RM, Simmons, AN, & Matthews, SC (2014). Combat veterans with PTSD after mild TBI exhibit greater ERPs from posterior-medial cortical areas while appraising facial features. Journal of Affective Disorders. 155:234-40.

• Strigo, IA, Spadoni, AD, & Simmons, AN (2014). Too hard to control: compromised pain anticipation and modulation in mild traumatic brain injury.. Translational Psychiatry, 4:e340.

• Ho, TC, Yang, G, Wu, J, Paulus, MP, Cassey, P, Brown, SB, Hoang, N, Chan, M, Connolly, CG, Henje Blom, E, Duncan, LG, Chesney, MA, Simmons, AN, & Yang, TT  (2014). Functional connectivity of negative emotional processing in adolescent depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 155:65-74.

• Ushinsky, A, Reinhardt, LE, Simmons, AN, & Strigo, IA  (2013). Further evidence of emotional allodynia in unmedicated young adults with major depressive disorder. PLoS One. 8(11):e80507.

• Ho TC, Wu J, Shin DD, Liu TT, Yang G, Tapert SF, Connolly CG, Frank G, Max JE, Wolkowitz O, Eisendrath S, Banerjee D, Hood KK, Hendren R, Paulus MP, Simmons AN, & Yang TT (2013). Altered cerebral perfusion in executive, affective, and motor networks during adolescent depression. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 52(10):1076-1091.e2.

• Oberndorfer, T, Simmons, AN, McCurdy, D, Strigo, I, Matthews, S, Yang, T Irine, Z, & Kaye, W  (2013). Greater anterior insula activation during anticipation of food images in women recovered from anorexia nervosa versus controls. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 214(2):132-41.

• Spadoni, AD, Simmons, AN, & Tapert, SF  (2013). Family History of Alcohol Use Disorders and Neuromaturation: A Functional Connectivity Study with Adolescents. The American Journal of Alcohol and Drug Abuse. 39(6):356-64.

• Taylor, CT, Aupperle, RL, Flagan, T, Simmons, AN, Amir, N, Stein, MB, & Paulus, MP (2014). Neural correlates of a computerized attention modification program in anxious subjects. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 9(9):1379-87.

• Connolly, CG, Wu, J, Hoeft, F; Wolkowitz, O, Eisendrath, S, Frank, G, Hendren, F, Max, JE, Paulus,MP, Tapert, SF, Banerjee, D, Simmons, AN, & Yang, TT  (2013). Resting state functional connectivity of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in depressed adolescents. Biological Psychiatry. 74(12):898-907.

• Aupperle, RL, Allard, CB, Simmons, AN, Flagan, T, Thorp, SR, Norman, SB, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2013). Neural responses during emotional processing before and after cognitive trauma therapy for battered women. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 214(1):48-55.

• Oberndorfer, TA, Frank, GKW, Simmons, AN, Wagner, A, McCurdy, D, Fudge, JL, Yang, TT, Paulus, MP, & Kaye, WH  (2013). Altered insula response to sweet taste processing after recovery from anorexia and bulimia nervosa. American Journal of Psychiatry. 170(10):1143-51.

• Simmons, AN, Norman, SB, Spadoni, AD, & Strigo, IA  (2013). Neurosubstrates of remission following Prolonged Exposure therapy in veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 82(6):382-9.

• Kaye, WH, Wierenga, CE, Bailer, UF, Simmons, AN, & Bischoff-Grethe, A  (2013). Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels: The Neurobiology of Anorexia Nervosa. Trends in Neuroscience, 36(2):110-20.

• Kaye, WH, Wierenga, CE, Bailer, UF, Simmons, AN, Wagner, A, & Bischoff-Grethe, A  (2013). Does a shared neurobiology for foods and drugs of abuse contribute to extremes of food ingestion in anorexia and bulimia nervosa?Biological Psychiatry. 73(9):836-42.

• Strigo, IA Matthews, SC, & Simmons, AN  (2013). Decreased frontal regulation during pain anticipation in unmedicated subjects with major depressive disorder. Translational Psychiatry, 3:e239.

• Thom, N, Johnson, DC, Flagan, T, Simmons, AN, Kotturi, S, Van Orden, KF, Potterat, EG, Swain, JL, & Paulus, MP  (2014). Detecting Emotion in Others: Increased Insula and Decreased Medial Prefrontal Cortex Activation During Emotion Processing in Elite Adventure Racers. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 9(2):225-31.

• Schreiber, D, Fonzo, G, Simmons, AN, Dawes, CT, Flagan, T, Fowler, JH, & Paulus, MP  (2013). Red Brain, Blue Brain: Evaluative Processes Differ in Democrats and Republicans. PLoS ONE, 8(2):e52970.

• Fonzo, GA, Flagan, TM, Sullivan, S, Allard, CB, Grimes, EM, Simmons, AN, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2013). Neural functional and structural correlates of childhood maltreatment in women with intimate-partner violence-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 211(2):93-103.

• Stewart, JL, Flagan, TM, May, AC, Reske, M, Simmons, AN, & Paulus, MP  (2013). Young Adults at Risk for Stimulant Dependence show Reward Dysfunction during Reinforcement-Based Decision Making. Biological Psychiatry, 73(3):235-41.

• Simmons, AN, Flagan, TM, Wittmann, M, Strigo, IA, Matthews, SC, Donovan, H, Lohr, JB, & Paulus, MP  (2013). The effects of temporal unpredictability in anticipation of negative events in combat veterans with PTSD. Journal of Affective Disorders, 146(3):426-32.

• Mahmood, OM, Goldenberg, D, Thayer, R, Migliorini, R, Simmons, AN, & Tapert, SF  (2013). Adolescents’ fMRI activation to a response inhibition task predicts future substance use. Addictive Behaviors, 38(1), 1435–1441.

• Acheson, DT, Stein, MB, Paulus, MP, Ravindran, L, Simmons, AN, Lohr, JB, & Risbrough, VB  (2012). Effects of anxiolytic treatment on potentiated startle during aversive image anticipation. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 27(4):419-27.

• Matthews, SC, Spadoni, AD, Lohr, J, Strigo, IA, & Simmons, AN  (2012). Diffusion tensor imaging of blast exposure in OEF-OIF veterans: Evidence of white matter disruption associated with loss versus alteration of consciousness. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 204(2-3):149-54.

• Paulus, MP, Schuckit, MA, Tapert,SF, Tolentino, NJ, Matthews, SC, Smith, TL, Trim, RS, Hall, SA, & Simmons, AN  (2012). High versus Low Level of Response to Alcohol: Evidence of Differential Reactivity to Emotional Stimuli. Biological Psychiatry, 72(10):848-55.

• Strigo, IA, Matthews, SC, Simmons, AN, Oberndorfer, T, Klabunde, M, Reinhardt, LE, & Kaye, WH  (2013). Altered Insula Activation During Pain Anticipation In Individuals Recovered From Anorexia Nervosa: Evidence Of Interoceptive Dysregulation. The International Journal of Eating Disorders, 46(1):23-33.

• Dawes, CT, Loewen, PJ, Schreiber, D, Simmons, AN, Flagan, T, McElreath, R, Bokemper, SE, Fowler, JH, & Paulus, MP  (2012). Neural Basis of Egalitarian Behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 109(17):6479-83.

• Perlman, G, Simmons, AN, Wu, J, Hahn, KS, Tapert, SF, Max, JE, Paulus, MP, Brown, GG, Frank, GK, Campbell-Sills, L, Hoeft, F, & Yang, TT  (2012). Altered Amygdala Response and Functional Connectivity During Emotion Regulation: A Study of 14 Depressed Adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 139(1):75-84.

• Matthews, SC, Spadoni, AD, Knox, K, Strigo, IA, & Simmons, AN  (2012). Combat exposed war veterans at increased risk for suicide show hyperactivation of prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate during error processing. Psychosom Med, 74(5):471-5

• Simmons, AN, Thayer, RE, Spadoni, AD, Matthews, SC, Strigo, IA, & Tapert, SF   (2012). The Parametric, Psychological, Neuropsychological, and Neuroanatomical Properties of Self and World Evaluation. PLoS ONE, 7(2): e31509.

• Simmons, AN, Fitzpatrick, S, Strigo, IA, Potterat, EG, Johnson, DC, Matthews, SC, Van Orden, KF, Swain, JL, & Paulus, MP  (2012). Altered Insula Activation in Anticipation of Changing Emotional States: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Cognitive Flexibility in Special Operations Forces Personnel. NeuroReport, 23(4):234-9.

• Paulus, MP, Flagan , T, Simmons, AN, Gillis, K, Kotturi, S, Nathaniel Thom, N, Johnson, DC, Van Orden, KF, Davenport, PW, & Swain, JL  (2012). Subjecting Elite Athletes to Inspiratory Breathing Load Reveals Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Optimal Performers in Extreme Environments. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29394.

• Kruschwitz, JD, Simmons, AN, Flagan, T, & Paulus, MP  (2012). Nothing to lose: Processing blindness to potential losses drives thrill and adventure seekers. Neuroimage. 59(3):2850-9.

• Aupperle, RL, Allard, CB, Grimes, EM, Simmons, AN, Flagan, T, Behrooznia, M, Cissell, SH, Twamley, EW,Thorp, SR, Norman, SB, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2012). Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation during emotional anticipation and neuropsychological performance in PTSD. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(4):360-71.

• Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, Strigo, IA, Baker, DG, Donovan, HK, Motezadi, A, Stein, MB, & Paulus, MP  (2011). Altered amygdala activation during face processing in Iraqi and Afghanistani war veterans. Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders. 1:6 doi:10.1186/2045-5380-1-6.

• Ball, TM, Sullivan, SS, Flagan, T, Hitchcock, CA, Simmons, A, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2012). Selective effects of social anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, and negative affectivity on the neural bases of emotional face processing. Neuroimage. 59(2):1879-87.

• Wittmann, M, Simmons, AN, Flagan, T, Lane, SD, Wackermann, J, & Paulus , MP  (2011). Neural substrates of time perception and impulsivity. Brain Research, 1406:43-58

• Schuckit, MA, Tapert, S, Matthews, SC, Paulus, MP, Tolentino, NJ, Smith, TL, Trim, RS, Hall, S, & Simmons, A  (2012). fMRI Differences between Subjects with Low and High Responses to Alcohol during a Stop Signal Task. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 36(1):130-40.

• Padula, CB, Simmons, A, Matthews, SC, Robinson, SK, Tapert, SF, Schuckit, MA, & Paulus, MP  (2011). Alcohol Attenuates Activation in the Bilateral Anterior Insula during an Emotional Processing Task: A Pilot Study. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 46(5):547-52.

• Simmons, AN, & Matthews, SC  (2012). Neural Circuitry of PTSD with or without Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: a meta-analysis. Neuropharmacology, 62(1):598-606.

• Aupperle, RL, Ravindran, L, Tankersley, D, Flagan, T, Stein, NR, Simmons, AN, Stein, MB, & Paulus, MP  (2011). Pregabalin influences insula and amygdala activation during anticipation of emotional images. Neuropsychopharmacology, 36(7):1466-77.

• Wierenga, CE, Stricker, NH, McCauley, A,  Simmons, AN, Jak, AJ, Chang, Y, Nation, DA, Bangen, KJ, Salmon, DP, & Bondi, MW  (2011). Altered brain response for semantic knowledge in Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychologia, 49(3):392-404.

• Strigo, IA, Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, & Craig, AD  (2010). The relationship between amygdala activation and passive exposure time to an aversive cue during a continuous performance task. PLoS ONE, 5(11):e15093.

• Camacho, A, Ng; B, Bejarano, A, Simmons, A, & Chavira, D  (2012). Crisis visits and psychiatric hospitalizations among patients attending a community clinic in rural Southern California. Community Mental Health Journal. 48(2):133-7

• Matthews, SC, Simmons, AN, & Strigo, IA  (2011). The effects of loss versus alteration of consciousness on inhibition-related brain activity among individuals with a history of blast-related concussion. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 191(1):76-9.

• Simmons, AN, Stein, MB, Strigo, IA, Arce, E, Hitchcock, C, & Paulus, MP  (2011). Anxiety positive subjects show altered processing in the anterior insula during anticipation of negative stimuli. Human Brain Mapping. 32(11):1836-46.

• Campbell-Sills L, Simmons, AN, Lovero, KL, Rochlin, AA, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2011). Functioning of Neural Systems Supporting Emotion Regulation in Anxiety-Prone Individuals. NeuroImage, 54(1):689-96.

• Wittmann, M, Simmons, AN, Aron, JL, & Paulus, MP  (2010). Accumulation of neural activity in the posterior insula encodes the passage of time. Neuropsychologia, 48(10):3110-20.

• Matthews, SC, Strigo, IA, Simmons, AN, O'Connell, RM, Reinhardt, LE, & Moseley, SA  (2011). A Multimodal imaging study in U.S. veterans of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom with and without major depression after blast-related concussion.. NeuroImage, 54 Suppl 1:S69-75.

• Fonzo, GA, Simmons, AN, Thorp, SR, Norman, SB, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2010). Exaggerated and Disconnected Insular-Amygdalar BOLD Response to Threat-Related Emotional Faces in Women with Intimate-Partner Violence PTSD. Biological Psychiatry, 68(5):433-41.

• Strigo, IA, Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, Grimes, EM, Allard, CB, Reinhardt, LE, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2010). Neural correlates of altered pain response in women with posttraumatic stress disorder from intimate partner violence. Biological Psychiatry, 68(5), 442-50.

• Camacho, A, Simmons, AN, Ng, B, Matthews, SC, & Akiskal, HS  (2010). A factor Analysis of Different Temperament Domains in a Border Region In Rural Southern California Journal of Affective Disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 126(1-2):46-8.

• Paulus, MP, Simmons, AN, Fitzpatrick, SN, Potterat, EG, Van Orden, KF, Bauman, J, & Swain, JL  (2010). Differential brain activation to angry faces by elite war-fighters: neural processing evidence for enhanced threat-detection. PLoS ONE, 5(4):e10096.

• Wierenga, CE, Stricker, NR, McCauley, A, Simmons, A, Jak, AJ, Chang, Y, Delano-Wood, L, Bangen, KJ, Salmon, DP, & Bondi, MW  (2010). Increased functional brain response during word retrieval in cognitively intact older adults at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage, 51(3):1222-33.

• Matthews, SC, Simmons, AN, Strigo, IA, Arce, E, Stein, MB, & Paulus, MP  (2010). Escitalopram attenuates posterior cingulate activity during self evaluation in healthy volunteers. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 182(2):81-7.

• Trim, RS, Simmons, AN, Tolentino, NJ, Matthews, SC, Robinson, SK, Smith, TL, Padula, CB, Paulus, MP, Tapert, SF, & Schuckit, MA  (2010). Acute Ethanol Effects on Brain Activation in Low- and High-Level Responders to Alcohol. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(7):1162-70.

• Yang, TT, Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, Tapert, SF, Frank, GK, Max, JE, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Lansing, AE, Brown, GG, Strigo, IA, Wu, J, & Paulus, MP  (2010). Adolescents With Major Depression Demonstrate Increased Amygdala Activation. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 49(1):42-51.

• Strigo, IA, Matthews, SC, & Simmons, AN  (2010). Right Anterior Insula Hypoactivity During Anticipation of Homeostatic Shifts in Major Depressive Disorder. Psychosom Med., 72(3):316-23.

• Oberndorfer TA, Kaye WH, Simmons AN, Strigo IA, & Matthews SC  (2011). Demand-specific alteration of medial prefrontal cortex response during an inhibition task in recovered anorexic women. Int J Eat Disord, 44(1):1-8.

• Baker, DG, Heppner, P, Afari, N, Nunnink, S, Kilmer, M, Simmons, A, Harder, L, & Bosse, B  (2009). Trauma exposure, branch of service, and physical injury in relation to mental health among U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.. Mil Med. 74(8):773-8.

• Simmons, AN, Arce, E, Lovero, KL, Stein, M B, & Paulus, MP  (2009). Subchronic SSRI administration reduces insula response during affective anticipation in health volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 23:1-12.

• Simmons, AN, Strigo, IA, Matthews, SC, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2009). Initial evidence of a failure to activate right anterior insula during affective set shifting in PTSD. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71(4):373-7.

• Yang, TT, Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, Tapert, SF, Frank, GK, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Lansing, AE, Wu, J, Brown, GG, & Paulus, MP  (2009). Depressed adolescents demonstrate greater subgenual anterior cingulate activity. Neuroreport, 20(4):440-4.

• Yang, TT, Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, Tapert, SF, Frank, GK, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Lansing, AE, Wu, J, & Paulus, MP  (2009). Adolescent subgenual anterior cingulate activity is related to harm avoidance. Neuroreport, 20(1):19-23.

• Lovero, KL, Simmons, AN, Aron, JL, & Paulus, MP  (2009). Anterior insular cortex anticipates impending stimulus significance. Neuroimage. 45(3):976-83.

• Matthews, SC, Simmons, AN, Strigo, IA, Gianaros, PJ, Yang, TT, & Paulus, MP  (2009). Inhibition-related activity in subgenual cingulate is associated with symptom severity in major depression. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 172(1):1-6.

• Arce, E, Simmons, AN, Stein, M B, Winkielman, P, Hitchcock, C, & Paulus, MP  (2009). Association between individual differences in self-reported emotional resilience and the affective perception of neutral faces. Journal of Affective Disorders, 114(1-3):286-93.

• Simmons, AN, Paulus, MP, Thorp, SR, Matthews, SC, Norman, SB, & Stein, MB  (2008). Functional Activation and Neural Networks in Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Related to Intimate Partner Violence. Biol Psychiatry, 64(8):681-90.

• Strigo, IA, Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, Craig, AD, & Paulus, MP  (2008). Association of major depressive disorder with altered functional brain response during anticipation and processing of heat pain. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(11):1275-84.

• Matthews, SC, Strigo, IA, Simmons, AN, Yang, TT, & Paulus, MP  (2008). Decreased functional coupling of the amygdala and supragenual cingulate is related to increased depression in unmedicated individuals with current major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 111(1):13-20.

• Simmons, A Matthews, SC, Feinstein, JS, Hitchcock, C, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB  (2008). Anxiety vulnerability is associated with altered anterior cingulate response to an affective appraisal task. NeuroReport, 19(10):1033-7.

• Strigo, IA, Simmons, AN, Craig, AD, Matthews, SC, & Paulus, MP  (2008). Increased affective bias during graded heat stimulation in young depressed adults: evidence of "emotional allodynia". Psychosomatic Medicine, 70(3):338-44.

• Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, Stein, M B, & Paulus, MP  (2008). Intolerance of uncertainty correlates with insula activation during affective ambiguity. NeuroScience Letters. 430(2):92-7.

• Arce, E, Simmons, AN, Lovero, KL, Stein, M B, & Paulus, MP  (2008). Escitalopram effects on insula and amygdala BOLD activation during emotional processing. Psychopharmacology, 196(4):661-72.

• Frank, GKW, Oberndorfer, TA, Simmons, AN, Paulus, MP, Fudge, JL, Yang, TT, & Kaye, WH  (2008). Sucrose activates human taste pathways differently from artificial sweetener. NeuroImage, 39(4):1559-69.

• Yang, TT, Simmons, AN, Matthews, SC, Tapert, SF, Bischoff-Grethe, A, Frank, G, Arce, E, & Paulus, MP  (2007). Increased amygdala activation is related to heart rate during emotion processing in adolescent subjects. Neuroscience Letters, 428(2-3):109-14.

• Matthews, SC, Simmons, AN, Strigo, I, Jang, K, & Paulus, MP  (2007). Heritability of anterior cingulate response to conflict: an fMRI study in female twins. NeuroImage, 38(1):223-7.

• Stein, MB, Simmons, AN, Feinstein, JS, & Paulus, MP  (2007). Increased amygdala and insula activation during emotion processing in anxiety-prone subjects. american journal of psychiatry, 164(2), 318-327.

• Simmons, A, Strigo, I, Matthews, SC, Paulus, MP, & Stein, MB (2006). Anticipation of aversive visual stimuli is associated with increased insula activation in anxiety-prone subjects. Biological Psychiatry, 60(4):402-9.

• Arce, E, Leland, DS, Miller, DA, Simmons, AN, Winternheimer, KC, & Paulus, MP  (2006). Individuals with schizophrenia present hypo- and hyperactivation during implicit cueing in an inhibitory task. NeuroImage, 32(2):704-13.

• Simmons, A, Stein, MB, Matthews, SC, Feinstein, JS, & Paulus, MP  (2006). Affective ambiguity for a group recruits ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Neuroimage, 29(2), 655-61.

• Ng, B, Camacho, A, Simmons, A, & Matthews SC  (2006). Ethnicity and use of alternative products in psychiatric patients. Psychosomatics;47(5), 408-13.

• Simmons, A, Miller, D, Feinstein, JS, Goldberg, TE, & Paulus, MP  (2005). Left inferior prefrontal cortex activation during a semantic decision-making task predicts the degree of semantic organization. Neuroimage, 28(1), 30-8.

• Matthews, SC, Simmons, AN, Arce, E, & Paulus, MP  (2005). Dissociation of inhibition from error processing using a parametric inhibitory task during fMRI. NeuroReport, 16(7), 755-60.

• Paulus, MP, Feinstein, JS, Leland, D, & Simmons, AN  (2005). Superior temporal gyrus and insula provide response and outcome-dependent information during assessment and action selection in a decision-making situation. NeuroImage, 25(2), 607-615.

• Paulus, MP, Feinstein, JS, Castillo, G, Simmons, AN, & Stein, MB  (2005). Dose-dependent decrease of activation in bilateral amygdala and insula by lorazepam during emotion processing. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 282-288.

• Filoteo, JV, Maddox, WT, Simmons, AN, Ing, AD, Cagigas, XE, Matthews, S, & Paulus, MP   (2005). Cortical and subcortical brain regions involved in rule-based category learning. NeuroReport, 16(2), 111-115.

• Paulus, MP, Feinstein, JS, Simmons, A, & Stein, MB  (2004). Anterior cingulated activation in high trait anxious subjects is related to altered error processing during decision making. Biological Psychiatry, 55, 1179-1187.

• Simmons, A, Matthews, SC, Stein, MB, & Paulus, MP  (2004). Anticipation of emotionally aversive visual stimuli activates right insula. NeuroReport, 15(14), 2261-5.

• Matthews, SC, Simmons, AN, Lane, SD, & Paulus, MP  (2004). Selective activation of the nucleus accumbens during risk-taking decision making. NeuroReport, 15(13), 2123-7.

• Matthews, SC, Paulus, MP, Simmons, AN, Nelesen, RA, & Dimsdale, JE  (2004). Functional subdivisions within anterior cingulate cortex and their relationship to autonomic nervous system function. NeuroImage, 22(3), 1151-6.

• Paulus, MP, Rogalsky, C, Simmons, A, Feinstein, JS, & Stein, MB  (2003). Increased activation in the right insula during risk-taking decision making is related to harm avoidance and neuroticism.. Biological Psychiatry, 19, 1439-48.

• Sweet, JJ, King, JH, Malina, AC, Bergman, MA, & Simmons, A  (2002). Documenting the prominence of forensic neuropsychology at national meetings and in relevant professional journals from 1990 to 2000. Clinical Neuropsychology, 16, 481-94.

• Gallagher-Thompson, D, O'Hara, R, Simmons, A, Kraemer, H C, & Murphy, G M  (2001). Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele affects the relationship between stress and depression in caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease.. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 14, 115-119.