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Denny, B. T., Lopez, R. B.*, Wu, E. L.*, Dicker, E. E.*, Goodson, P. N.*, Fan, J., Schulz, K. P., Ochsner, K. N., Trumbull, J., Lopez, M. M., Fels, S., Galitzer, H., Perez-Rodriguez, M., Goodman, M., Rosell, D. R., Hazlett, E. A., McClure, M. M., New, A. S., & Koenigsberg, H. W. (in press). Training in cognitive reappraisal normalizes whole-brain indices of emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Wu-Chung, E. L., Brandt, A. K., Bonomo, M. E., Denny, B. T., Karmonik, C., Frazier, J. T., Blench, K., & Fagundes, C. P. (in press). Feasibility and acceptability of a group music creativity intervention for adults with varying cognitive function. Creativity Research Journal.
Goodson, P. N.*, Lopez, R. B.*, & Denny, B. T. (in press). Perceived stress moderates emotion regulation success in real-world contexts: An ecologically-valid multilevel investigation. Anxiety, Stress & Coping.
Hayes, B. K., Harikumar, A., Ferguson, L. A., Dicker, E. E.*, Denny, B. T., & Leal, S. L. (in press). Emotion regulation during encoding reduces negative and enhances neutral mnemonic discrimination in individuals with depressive symptoms. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
Denny, B. T., Jungles, M. L.*, Goodson, P. N.*, Dicker, E. E.*, Chavez, J.*, Jones, J. S.*, Lopez, R. B.* (2023). Unpacking reappraisal: A systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience.
Goodson, P. N.*, Dicker, E. E.*, & Denny, B. T. (in press). Emotion regulation approaches. To appear in: C. P. Fagundes & G. Merlo (Eds.), Mental Health in Lifestyle Medicine. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.
Lopez, R. B.*, Courtney, A. L., Liang, D., Swinchoski, A., Goodson, P. N.*, & Denny, B. T. (2024). Social support and adaptive emotion regulation: links between social network indicators, emotion regulation strategy use, and health. Emotion.
Shahane, A. D.*, Godfrey, D. A.*, & Denny, B. T. (2023). Predicting real-world emotion and health from spontaneously-assessed linguistic distancing using novel scalable technology. Emotion.
Dicker, E. E.*^, Goodson, P. N.*^, & Denny, B. T. (in press). The neuroscience of emotion regulation. In D. S. Dunn (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Shahane A. D.*, Brown, R. L., Denny, B. T., & Fagundes, C. P. (2023). Lexical markers of cognitive reappraisal, bereavement, and proinflammatory cytokine production. Health Psychology.
Dicker, E. E.*, Jones, J. S.*, & Denny, B. T. (2022). Psychological distancing usage uniquely predicts reduced perceived stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology.
Shahane, A. D.*, & Denny, B. T. (in press). Emotion regulation and writing. To appear in G. L. Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & B. C. Ng (Eds.), Handbook of Language and Emotion. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Wu-Chung, E. L., Leal, S. L., Denny, B. T., Cheng, S. L., & Fagundes C. P. (2022). Spousal caregiving, widowhood, and cognition: A systematic review and a biopsychosocial framework for understanding the relationship between interpersonal losses and dementia risk in older adulthood. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 134, 104487.
Shahane, A. D.*, Pham, D. C.*, Lopez, R. B.*, & Denny, B. T. (2021). Novel computational algorithms to index lexical markers of psychological distancing and their relationship to emotion regulation efficacy over time. Affective Science, 2, 262-272.
Shahane, A. D.*, Fagundes, C. P., Buka, S. L., & Denny, B. T. (2021). Associations between linguistic markers of emotion regulation and cardiovascular disease-related inflammation. Psychoneuroimmunology Journal, 2, 1-8.
Shahane, A. D.*, LeRoy, A. S., Denny, B. T., & Fagundes, C. P. (2020). Connecting cognition, cardiology, and chromosomes: Cognitive reappraisal impacts the relationship between heart rate variability and telomere length in CD8+CD28– cells. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 112, 104517.
Lopez, R. B.*^, Brown, R. L.^, Wu, E. L.^, Murdock, K. W., Denny, B. T., Heijnen, C., & Fagundes, C. P. (2020). Emotion regulation and immune functioning during grief: testing the role of expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal in inflammation among recently bereaved spouses. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(1), 2-9.
Denny, B. T. (2020). Getting better over time: A framework for examining the impact of emotion regulation training. Emotion, 20(1), 110-114.
Rubin-Falcone, H., Weber, J., Kishon, R., Ochsner, K. N., Delaparte, L., Dore, B., Raman, S., Denny, B. T., Zanderigo, F., Oquendo, M. A., Mann, J. J., & Miller, J. M. (2020). Neural predictors and effects of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: the role of emotional reactivity and regulation. Psychological Medicine, 50(1), 146-160.
Lopez, R. B.*, & Denny, B. T. (2019). Negative affect mediates the relationship between use of emotion regulation strategies and general health in college-aged students. Personality and Individual Differences, 151, 109529.
Shahane, A. D.*, & Denny, B. T. (2019). Predicting emotional health indicators from linguistic evidence of psychological distancing. Stress and Health, 35(2), 200-210.
Shahane, A. D.*^, Lopez, R. B.*^, & Denny, B. T. (2019). Implicit reappraisal as an emotional buffer: Reappraisal-related neural activity moderates the relationship between inattention and perceived stress during exposure to negative stimuli. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 19(2), 355-365.
Lopez, R. B.*, Denny, B. T., & Fagundes, C. P. (2018). Neural mechanisms of emotion regulation and their role in endocrine and immune functioning: A review with implications for treatment of affective disorders. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 95, 508-514.
Reader, S.*, Lopez, R. B.*, & Denny, B. T. (2018). Cognitive reappraisal of low-calorie food predicts real-world craving and consumption of high- and low-calorie foods in daily life. Appetite, 131, 44-52.
Denny, B. T., & Ochsner, K. N. (2018). Minding the emotional thermostat: Integrating social cognitive and affective neuroscience evidence to form a model of the cognitive control of emotion. In C. Schmahl, K. L. Phan, & R. O. Friedel (Eds.), Neurobiology of Personality Disorders (pp. 95-109). New York: Oxford University Press.
Denny, B. T., Fan, J., Fels, S., Galitzer, H., Schiller, D., Siever, L. J., & Koenigsberg, H. W. (2018). Sensitization of the Neural Salience Network to Repeated Emotional Stimuli Following Initial Habituation in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 175(7), 657-664. Supplemental Material.
Shahane, A.D.*, Fagundes, C.P., & Denny, B. T. (2018). Mending the heart and mind during times of loss: A review of interventions to improve emotional well-being during spousal bereavement. Bereavement Care, 37(2), 44-54.
Denny, B. T., Fan, J., Liu, X., Guerreri, S., Mayson, S. J., Rimsky, L., McMaster, A., Alexander, H., New, A. S., Goodman, M., Perez-Rodriguez, M., Siever, L. J., & Koenigsberg, H. W. (2016). Brain structural anomalies in borderline and avoidant personality disorder patients and their associations with disorder-specific symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorders, 200, 266-274. Supplemental Material.
Denny, B. T., Inhoff, M. C., Zerubavel, N., Davachi, L., & Ochsner, K. N. (2015). Getting over it: Long-lasting effects of emotion regulation on amygdala response. Psychological Science, 26(9), 1377-1388. Supplemental Material.
Denny, B. T., Fan, J., Liu, X., Ochsner, K. N., Guerreri, S., Mayson, S. J., Rimsky, L., McMaster, A., New, A. S., Goodman, M., Siever, L. J., & Koenigsberg, H. W. (2015). Elevated amygdala activity during reappraisal anticipation predicts anxiety in avoidant personality disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 172, 1-7. Supplemental Material.
Denny, B. T., Fan, J., Liu, X., Guerreri, S., Mayson, S. J., Rimsky, L., New, A. S., Siever, L. J., & Koenigsberg, H. W. (2014). Insula-amygdala functional connectivity is correlated with habituation to repeated negative images. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(11), 1660-1667. Supplemental Material.
Denny, B. T., & Ochsner, K. N. (2014). Behavioral effects of longitudinal training in cognitive reappraisal. Emotion, 14(2), 425-433.
Denny, B. T., Ochsner, K. N., Weber, J., & Wager, T. D. (2014). Anticipatory brain activity predicts the success or failure of subsequent emotion regulation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(4), 403-411. Supplemental Material.
Koenigsberg, H. W., Denny, B. T., Fan, J., Liu, X., Guerreri, S., Mayson, S. J., Rimsky, L., New, A. S., Goodman, M., & Siever, L. J. (2014). The neural correlates of anomalous habituation to negative emotional pictures in borderline and avoidant personality disorder patients. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 171(1), 82-90. Supplemental Material.
Denny, B. T., Kober, H., Wager, T. D., & Ochsner, K. N. (2012). A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of self- and other judgments reveals a spatial gradient for mentalizing in medial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(8), 1742-1752. Supplemental Material.
Denny, B. T., Silvers, J. A., & Ochsner, K. N. (2009). How we heal what we don’t want to feel: The functional neural architecture of emotion regulation. In A. M. Kring & D. M. Sloan (Eds.), Emotion regulation and psychopathology: A transdiagnostic approach to etiology and treatment (pp. 59-87). New York: Guilford Press.
Heatherton, T. F., Wyland, C. L., Macrae, C. N., Demos, K. E., Denny, B. T., & Kelley, W. M. (2006). Medial prefrontal activity differentiates self from close others. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1, 18-25.