Dr Elena Makovac
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Quad North 132
- Email: elena.makovac@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 2667655
Makovac, E., Carnevali, L., Medina, S., Sgoifo, A., Petrocchi, N. and Ottaviani, C. (2021) 'Safe in my heart: resting heart rate variability longitudinally predicts emotion regulation, worry, and sense of safeness during COVID-19 lockdown'. Stress, 25 (1). pp. 9 - 13. ISSN: 1025-3890 Open Access Link
Makovac, E., Venezia, A., Hohenschurz-Schmidt, D., Dipasquale, O., Jackson, JB., Medina, S., et al. (2021) 'The association between pain-induced autonomic reactivity and descending pain control is mediated by the periaqueductal grey'. Journal of Physiology, 599 (23). pp. 5243 - 5260. ISSN: 0022-3751 Open Access Link
Hohenschurz-Schmidt, DJ., Calcagnini, G., Dipasquale, O., Jackson, JB., Medina, S., O’Daly, O., et al. (2020) 'Linking Pain Sensation to the Autonomic Nervous System: The Role of the Anterior Cingulate and Periaqueductal Gray Resting-State Networks'. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14. pp. 147. ISSN: 1662-4548
Makovac, E., Fagioli, S., Rae, CL., Critchley, HD. and Ottaviani, C. (2020) 'Can't get it off my brain: Meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on perseverative cognition'. Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging, 295. pp. 111020 - 111020. ISSN: 0925-4927
Makovac, E., Fagioli, S., Watson, DR., Meeten, F., Smallwood, J., Critchley, HD. and et al. (2019) 'Response time as a proxy of ongoing mental state: A combined fMRI and pupillometry study in Generalized Anxiety Disorder'. NeuroImage, 191. pp. 380 - 391. ISSN: 1053-8119
Makovac, E., Garfinkel, S., Bassi, A., Basile, B., Macaluso, E., Cercignani, M., et al. (2018) 'Fear processing is differentially affected by lateralized stimulation of carotid baroreceptors'. Cortex, 99. pp. 200 - 212. ISSN: 0010-9452
Makovac, E., Smallwood, J., Watson, DR., Meeten, F., Critchley, HD. and Ottaviani, C. (2018) 'The verbal nature of worry in generalized anxiety: Insights from the brain'. NeuroImage: Clinical, 17. pp. 882 - 892. ISSN: 2213-1582
Makovac, E., Meeten, F., Watson, DR., Herman, A., Garfinkel, SN., D. Critchley, H. and et al. (2016) 'Alterations in Amygdala-Prefrontal Functional Connectivity Account for Excessive Worry and Autonomic Dysregulation in Generalized Anxiety Disorder'. Biological Psychiatry, 80 (10). pp. 786 - 795. ISSN: 0006-3223
Meeten, F., Davey, GCL., Makovac, E., Watson, DR., Garfinkel, SN., Critchley, HD. and et al. (2016) 'Goal directed worry rules are associated with distinct patterns of amygdala functional connectivity and vagal modulation during perseverative cognition'. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10 (NOV2016). pp. 553. ISSN: 1662-5161
Serra, L., Cercignani, M., Mastropasqua, C., Torso, M., Spanò, B., Makovac, E., et al. (2016) 'Longitudinal changes in functional brain connectivity predicts conversion to Alzheimer's disease'. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 51 (2). pp. 377 - 389. ISSN: 1387-2877
Makovac, E., Meeten, F., Watson, DR., Garfinkel, SN., Critchley, HD. and Ottaviani, C. (2016) 'Neurostructural abnormalities associated with axes of emotion dysregulation in generalized anxiety'. NeuroImage: Clinical, 10. pp. 172 - 181. ISSN: 2213-1582
Makovac, E., Garfinkel, SN., Bassi, A., Basile, B., Macaluso, E., Cercignani, M., et al. (2015) 'Effect of parasympathetic stimulation on brain activity during appraisal of fearful expressions'. Neuropsychopharmacology, 40 (7). pp. 1649 - 1658. ISSN: 0893-133X