Publications
Cognitive behavioral therapy normalizes fronto-parietal activation in unmedicated patients with pediatric anxiety disorders.
Haller, S., Linke, J., Grassie, H., Jones, E., Pagliaccio, D., Harrewijn, A., Abend, R., White, L, Naim, R., Mallidi, A., Berman, E., Lewis, K., Kircanski, K., Silverman, W., Kalin, N., Bar-Haim, Y., Brotman, M. (in press).
American Journal of Psychiatry (in press). [read it]
Late Positive Potential Reveals Impede Extinction Learning in Adolescents Compared to Adults.
Shner-Livne, G., Barak, N., Shitrit, I., Abend, R., Shechner, T.
Psychological Medicine (in press).
Understanding anxiety symptoms as aberrant defensive responding along the threat imminence continuum.
Abend, R.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 152 (2023). [read it]
Threat Appraisal and Pediatric Anxiety: Proof of Concept of a Latent Variable Approach.
Bernstein, R. A., Smith, A. R., Kitt, E., Cardinale, E. M., Harrewijn, A., Abend, R., Michalska, K., Pine, D. S., & Kircanski, K.
Clinical Psychological Science (in press). [read it]
The Free-Viewing Matrix Task: A Valid and Reliable Measure of Attention Bias.
Shamai-Leshem, D., Abend, R., Arad, G., Azriel, O. Chong, L., de Jong, P., Dykanb, C., Hajcak, G., Klawohnf, J., Meyerd, A., Neophytou, K., Neria, Y., Panagiotoug, G., Schneierh, F., Soleymanie, A., Yair, N., Pine, D. S., Bar-Haim, Y., Lazarov, A.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders (in press).
Precision behavioral phenotyping as a strategy for uncovering the biological correlates of psychopathology.
Tiego, J., Martin, E. A., DeYoung, C. G., Hagan, K., Cooper, S. E., Pasion, R., Satchell, L., Shackman, A. J., Bellgrove, M. A., Fornito, A., & the HiTOP Neurobiological Foundations Work Group .
Nature Mental Health, 1 (2023). [read it]
Fear-potentiated startle reveals diminished threat extinction in pathological anxiety.
Newsome, P., Ruiz, S. G., Gold, A. L., Pine, D. S., & Abend, R.
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 183 (2023). [read it]
Consensus design of a calibration experiment for human fear conditioning.
Bach, D., Sporrer, J., Abend, R., Beckers, T., Dunsmoor, J. E., Fullana, M. A., Gamer, M., Gee, D. G., Hamm, A., Hartley, C. A., Herringa, R. J., Jovanovic, T., Kalisch, R., Knight, D. C., Lissek, S., Lonsdorf, T. B., Merz, C. J., Milad, M., Morriss, J., Phelps, E. A., Pine, D. S., Olsson, A., van Reekum, C. M., & Schiller, D.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 148 (2023). [read it]
Development of brain mechanisms underlying threat bias: relations with childhood social reticence and adolescent anxiety.
Harrewijn, A., Ruiz, S., Abend, R., Haller, S. P., Subar, A., Swetlitz, C., Valadez, E. A., Brotman, M. A., Chen, G., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Leibenluft, E., Bar-Haim, Y., Fox, N. A., & Pine, D. S.
Biological Psychiatry: GOS (in press). [read it]
Neural and psychophysiological markers of intolerance of uncertainty.
Morriss, J., Abend, R., Zika, O., Bradford, D. E., & Martens, G.
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 184 (2023). [read it]
Computational Modeling of Threat Learning Reveals Links with Anxiety and Neuroanatomy in Humans.
Abend, R.*, Burk*, D., Ruiz, S. G., Gold, A., Napoli, J. G., Britton, J. C., Michalska, K. J., Winkler, A. M., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., & Averbeck, B. B.
eLife, 11:e66169 (2022). [read it]
Neural responding during uncertain threat anticipation in pediatric anxiety.
Michalska, K., Benson, B., Ivie, E. J., Sachs, J. F., Haller, S. P., Abend, R., Blackford, J. U., & Pine, D. S.
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 183 (2023). [read it]
Threat imminence reveals links among unfolding of anticipatory physiological response, cortical-subcortical intrinsic functional connectivity, and anxiety.
Abend, R., Ruiz, S. G., Bajaj, M. A., Harrewijn, A., Linke, J. O., Atlas, L. Y., Winkler, A. M., & Pine, D. S.
Neurobiology of Stress, 16:100428 (2022). [read it]
A Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial of Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Subthreshold Anxiety in Youth.
Pettit, J. W., Rey, Y., Marin, C. E., Bechor, M., Lebowitz, E. R., Vasey, M. W., Jaccard, J., Abend, R., Pine, D. S., Bar-Haim, Y., Silverman, W. K.
Behavior Therapy (in press).
A Checklist for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Concurrent tES-fMRI Studies (ContES Checklist): A Consensus Study and Statement.
Ekhtiari, H., et al.
Nature Protocols, 17 (2022). [read it]
Unique Associations between Conditioned Cognitive and Physiological Threat Responses and Facets of Anxiety Symptomatology in Youth.
Klein, Z., Abend, R., Shmuel, S., & Shechner, T.
Biological Psychology, 170:108314 (2022). [read it]
Reliability of Task-Evoked Neural Activation during Face-Emotion Paradigms: Effects of Scanner and Psychological Processes.
Haller, S. P., Chen, G., Kitt, E., Smith, A. R., Stoddard, J., Abend, R., Cardenas, S. I., Revzina, O., Coppersmith, D., Feldman, J., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Pagliaccio, D.
Human Brain Mapping (2022). [read it]
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy.
Kitt, E. R., Lewis, K. M., Galbraith, J., Abend, R., Smith, A. R., Lebowitz, E. R., Pine, D. S., Gee, D. G.
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 154:104107 (2022). [read it]
Anticipatory Threat Responding: Relationships with Anxiety, Development, and Brain Structure.
Abend, R., Gold, A., Britton, J. C., Michalska, K. J., Shechner, T., Winkler, A. M., Leibenluft, E., Averbeck, B. B., & Pine, D. S.
Biological Psychiatry, 87(10) (2020). [read it]
Neural correlates of extinguished threat recall underlying the commonality between childhood anxiety and irritability.
Tseng, W.-L., Abend, R., Gold, A. L., & Brotman, M.
Journal of Affective Disorders, 295 (2021). [read it]
Attention bias to negative versus non-negative faces is related to negative affectivity in a transdiagnostic youth sample.
Harrewijn, A., Abend, R., Naim, R., Haller, S. P., Stavish, C., Bajaj, M. A., Matsumoto, C., Dombek, K., Cardinale, E. M., Kircanski, K., Brotman, M. A.
Journal of Psychiatric Research, 138 (2021). [read it]
A computational network perspective on pediatric anxiety.
Abend, R., Bajaj, M., Coppersmith, D. L., Kircanski, K., Haller, S. P., Cardinale, E. M., Salum, G. A., Wiers, R. W., Salemink, E., Pettit, J. W., Perez-Edgar, K., Lebowitz, E., Silverman, W., K., Bar-Haim, Y., Brotman, M. A., Leibenluft, E., Fried, E. I., & Pine, D. S.
Psychological Medicine, 51(10) (2021). [read it]
Shared and anxiety-specific pediatric psychopathology dimensions manifest distributed neural correlates.
Linke, J. O., Abend, R., Kircanski, K., Stavish, C., Clayton, M., Benson, B. E., Brotman, M. A., Renaud, O., Smith, S. S., Nichols, T. E., Leibenluft, E., Winkler, A. M., & Pine, D. S.
Biological Psychiatry, 89(6) (2021). [read it]
Threat-anticipatory psychophysiological response is enhanced in pediatric anxiety and correlates with prefrontal cortex structure.
Abend, R., Bajaj, M. A., Harrewijn, A., Matsumoto, C., Michalska, K. J., Necka, E., Palacios-Barrios, E., Leibenluft, E., Atlas, L. Y., & Pine, D. S.
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 46(2) (2021). [read it]
Deliberative Choice Strategies in Youth: Relevance to Transdiagnostic Anxiety Symptoms.
Cardinale, E. M., Pagliaccio, D., Swetlitz, C., Grassie, H., Abend, R., Costa, V., Averbeck, B., Brotman, M., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., Kircanski, K.
Clinical Psychological Science, 9(5) (2021). [read it]
Comparing neural correlates of conditioned inhibition between children with and without anxiety disorders.
Harrewijn, A., Kitt, E. R., Abend, R., Matsumoto, C., Odriozola, P., Winkler, A. M., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., & Gee, D. G.
Behavioural Brain Research, 399 (2021). [read it]
Converging multi-modal evidence for implicit threat-related biases in pediatric anxiety disorders.
Abend, R., Bajaj, M. A., Matsumoto, C., Yetter, M., Harrewijn, A., Cardinale, E., Kircanski, K., Lebowitz, E. R., Silverman, W. K., Bar-Haim, Y., Lazarov, A., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M., & Pine, D. S.
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49(2) (2021). [read it]
Age differences in the neural correlates of anxiety disorders: An fMRI study of response to learned threat.
Gold, A., Abend, R., Britton, J., Behrens, B., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. S.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 177(5) (2020). [read it]
Combining fMRI during resting state and an attention bias task in children.
Harrewijn, A., Abend, R., Linke, J., Brotman, M., Fox, N. A., Leibenluft, E., Winkler, A., & Pine, D. S.
Neuroimage, 205 (2020). [read it]
Ruminative Tendency Relates to Ventral Striatum Functionality: Evidence from Task and Resting-State fMRI.
Erdman*, A., Abend*, R., Jalon, I., Artzi, M., Gazit, T., Levokovitz, H., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., Hendler, T., & Harel, E.
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11(67) (2020). [read it]
Levels of early-childhood behavioral inhibition predict distinct neurodevelopmental pathways to pediatric anxiety.
Abend, R., Swetlitz, C., White, L. K., Shechner, T., Bar-Haim, Y., Filippi, C., Kircanski, K., Haller, S. P., Benson, B. E., Chen, G., Leibenluft, E., Fox, N. A., & Pine, D. S.
Psychological Medicine, 50(1) (2020). [read it]
Does attention bias modification induce structural brain changes? A commentary on Abend et al. (2019) – Response.
Abend R., Rosenfelder, A., Shamai, D., Pine, D. S., Assaf, Y., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Biological Psychology, 146 (2020). [read it]
The Nosology and Symptom Structure of Clinical PTSD and Co-Morbid Depressive Symptoms - A Network Analysis Approach.
Lazarov, A., Suarez-Jimenez, B., Levy, O., Coppersmith, D., Bar-Haim, Y., Pine, D. S., Abend*, R. & Neria*, Y.
Psychological Medicine, 50(13) (2020). [read it]
Attentional Bias in specific cleaning and ordering dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
De Mathis, M. A., Batistuzzo, M. C., Bar-Haim, Y., Abend, R., Miguel, E. C., Moraes, N., Requena, G., Pine, D. S., Salum, G. A., & Shavitt, R., G.
Journal of Affective Disorders, 73 (2020).
Brain Structure Changes Induced by Attention Bias Modification Training.
Abend R., Rosenfelder, A., Shamai, D., Pine, D. S., Assaf, Y., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Biological Psychology, 146 (2019). [read it]
Developmental pathways to social anxiety and irritability: Error monitoring as a moderator.
Filippi, C., Subar, A. R., Sachs, J. F., Kircanski, K., Winkler, A., Buzzell, G., Pagliaccio, D., Abend, R., Fox, N. A., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. S.
Development and Psychopathology, 32(3) (2020). [read it]
Age Moderates Learning Processes during Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder.
Abend, R., Pergamin-Hight, L., Naim, R., Fox, N. A., Pine, D. S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(5) (2019). [read it]
A randomized controlled trial of attention bias modification treatment in youth with treatment-resistant anxiety disorders.
Pettit, J.W., Bechor, M., Rey, Y., Vasey, M.W., Abend, R., Pine, D.S., Bar-Haim, Y., Jaccard, J., & Silverman, W.K.
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2019). [read it]
A computational approach to differentiating neural mechanisms of irritability and anxiety in youth.
Kircanski, K., White, L. K., Tseng, W-L., Wiggins, J. L., Frank, H., Sequeira, S., Zhang, S., Abend, R., Towbin, K. E., Stringaris, A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Brotman, M. A.
JAMA Psychiatry, 75(6) (2018). [read it]
Anticipatory effects on perceived pain in healthy and anxious children.
Michalska, K. J., Feldman, J., Abend, R., Gold, A., Dildine, T., Palacios-Barrios, E., Leibenluft, E., Towbin, K., Pine, D. S., & Atlas, L. Y.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 80(9) (2018). [read it]
The anger-infused Ultimatum Game: a reliable and valid paradigm to induce and assess anger.
Gilam*, G., Abend*, R., Shani, H., Ben-Zion, Z., & Hendler, T.
Emotion, 19(1) (2019). [read it]
A Neuromarker of Clinical Outcome in Attention Bias Modification Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder.
Arad, G., Abend, R., Pine, D. S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Depression and Anxiety, 36(3) (2019). [read it]
Modulating emotional experience using electrical stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex: a preliminary tDCS-fMRI study.
Abend, R., Sar-el, R., Gonen, T., Vaisvaser, S., Bar-Haim, Y., & Hendler, T.
Neuromodulation, 22(8) (2019). [read it]
Attenuating anger and aggression with neuromodulation of the vmPFC: a simultaneous tDCS-fMRI study.
Gilam*, G., Abend*, R., Gurevitch, G., Erdman, A., Baker, H., Ben-Zion, Z., & Hendler, T.
Cortex, 109 (2018). [read it]
Bias-Contingent Attention Bias Modification and Attention Control Training in Treatment of PTSD: A Randomized Control Trial.
Lazarov, A., Suarez-Jimenez , B., Abend, R., Naim, R., Shvil, E., Helpman, L., Zhu, X., Papini, S., Duroski, A., Rom, R., Schneier, F., Pine, D. S., Bar-Haim, Y., & Neria, Y.
Psychological Medicine, 1-9 (2018). [read it]
Commentary: Augmentation of Fear Extinction by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).
Abend R., & van ‘t Wout, M.
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12:121 (2018). [read it]
Attention bias modification and cognitive behavioral therapy for childhood anxiety disorders: a factorial randomized trial of efficacy.
Salum, G.A., Petersen, C.S., Jarros, R.B., Toazza, R., DeSousa, D., Borba, L. N., Castro, S., Gallegos, J., Barrett, P., Abend, R., Bar-Haim, Y., Pine, D.S., Koller, S.H., & Manfro, G.G.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 28(9) (2018). [read it]
Attention bias to threat and symptoms of anxiety in children and adolescents.
Abend, R., de Voogd, L., Salemink, E., Wiers, R., Perez-Edgar, K., Fitzgerald, A., White, L.K., Salum, G.A., He, J., Silverman, W.K., Pettit, J.W., Pine, D.S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Depression and Anxiety, 35(3) (2018). [read it]
The Effects of Training Contingency Awareness during Attention Bias Modification on Learning and Stress-Reactivity.
Lazarov*, A., Abend*, R., Seidner, S., Pine, D. S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Behavior Therapy, 48(5) (2017). [read it]
Complementary Features of Attention Bias Modification Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
White, L. K., Sequeira, S., Britton, J. C., Brotman, M. A., Gold, A. L., Berman, E., Towbin, K., Abend, R., Fox, N. A., Bar-Haim, Y., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. S.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(8) (2017). [read it]
Attention allocation to facial expressions of emotion among persons with Williams and Down syndromes.
Goldman, K. J., Shulman, C., Bar-Haim, Y., Abend, R., & Burack, J. A.
Development and Psychopathology, 29(4) (2107). [read it]
Modulation of Fear Extinction Processes using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation.
Abend, R., Jalon, I., Gurevitch, G., Sar-el, R., Shechner, T., Pine, D. S., Hendler, T., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Translational Psychiatry, 6(10) (2016). [read it]
Distraction versus training attention away from threat: How to best wait for the dentist?
Horovitz, O., Roitburd, B. L., Abend, R., Ziskind, D., & Shechner, T.
Australian Journal of Psychology, 68(3) (2016). [read it]
Social Anxiety is Related to Increased Dwell Time on Socially Threatening Faces.
Lazarov, A., Abend, R., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Journal of Affective Disorders, 193 (2016). [read it]
Threat-Related Attention Bias Variability and Post Traumatic Stress.
Naim, R., Abend, R., Wald, I., Eldar, S., Levi, O., Fruchter, E., Ginat, K., Halpern, P., Sipos, M. L., Adler, A. B., Bliese, P. D., Quartana, P. J., Pine, D. S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 172:12 (2015). [read it]
Effect of Attention Training on Attention Bias Variability and PTSD Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trials in Israeli and U.S. Combat Veterans.
Badura-Brack, A., Naim, R., Ryan, T., Levy, O., Abend, R., Khanna, M. M., McDermott, T. J., Pine, D. S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 172:12 (2015). [read it]
Learning and Memory Consolidation Processes of Attention-Bias Modification in Anxious and Nonanxious Individuals.
Abend, R., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Clinical Psychological Science, 2 (2014). [read it]
Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity of a Computerized Visual Analog Scale Measuring State Anxiety.
Abend, R., Dan, O., Maoz, K., Raz, S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 45(4) (2014). [read it]
Attention Bias Variability and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
Iacoviello*, B.M., Wu*, G., Abend*, R., Murrough, J.W., Feder, A., Fruchter, E., Levinstein, Y., Wald, I., Bailey, C.R., Pine, D., Neumeister, A., Bar‐Haim, Y., & Charney, D.S.
Journal of Traumatic Stress, 27(2) (2014). [read it]
Attention bias modification treatment for children with anxiety disorders who do not respond to cognitive behavioral therapy: A case series.
Bechor, M., Pettit, J. W., Silverman, W. K., Bar-Haim, Y., Abend, R., Pine, D.S., Vasey, M., & Jaccard, J.
Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 28(2) (2014). [read it]
Post-Deployment Threat-Related Attention Bias Interacts with Combat Exposure to Account for PTSD and Anxiety Symptoms in Soldiers.
Sipos, M., Bar-Haim, Y., Abend, R., Adler, A. B., & Bliese, P.D.
Depression and Anxiety, 31(2) (2014). [read it]
Subliminal Attention Bias Modification Training in Socially Anxious Individuals.
Maoz, K., Abend, R., Fox, N.A., Pine, D.S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(389) (2013). [read it]
Threat-Related Attention Bias in the Early Stages of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy Action for Panic Disorder.
Abend, R., & Bar-Haim, Y.
Biological Psychiatry, 73(11) (2013). [read it]
Learning to Attend to Threat Accelerates and Enhances Memory Consolidation.
Abend, R., Karni, A., Sadeh, A., Fox, N. A., Pine, D. S., & Bar-Haim, Y.
PLOS One, 8(4) (2013). [read it]