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Professor Veena Kumari
Professor - Psychology
Quad North 148
- Email: veena.kumari@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268053
Kumari, V., Peters, E., Guinn, A., Fannon, D., Russell, T., Sumich, A., et al. (2015) 'Mapping depression in schizophrenia: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study'. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 42 (3). pp. 802 - 813. ISSN: 0586-7614 Open Access Link
Wongupparaj, P., Kumari, V. and Morris, RG. (2015) 'The relation between a multicomponent working memory and intelligence: The roles of central executive and short-term storage functions'. Intelligence, 53. pp. 166 - 180. ISSN: 0160-2896
Suzuki, A., Poon, L., Kumari, V. and Cleare, AJ. (2015) 'Fear Biases in Emotional Face Processing Following Childhood Trauma as a Marker of Resilience and Vulnerability to Depression'. Child Maltreatment, 20 (4). pp. 240 - 250. ISSN: 1077-5595
Mason, L., Peters, ER., Dima, D., Williams, SC. and Kumari, V. (2015) 'Cognitive behavioral therapy normalizes functional connectivity for social threat in psychosis'. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 42 (3). pp. 684 - 692. ISSN: 0586-7614 Open Access Link
Premkumar, P., Onwumere, J., Albert, J., Kessel, D., Kumari, V., Kuipers, E. and et al. (2015) 'The relation between schizotypy and early attention to rejecting interactions: The influence of neuroticism'. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 16 (8). pp. 587 - 601. ISSN: 1562-2975 Open Access Link
Underwood, R., Peters, E. and Kumari, V. (2015) 'Psychobiology of threat appraisal in the context of psychotic experiences: A selective review'. European Psychiatry, 30 (7). pp. 817 - 829. ISSN: 0924-9338
Kumari, V., Ettinger, U., Lee, SE., Deuschl, C., Anilkumar, AP., Schmechtig, A., et al. (2015) 'Common and distinct neural effects of risperidone and olanzapine during procedural learning in schizophrenia: A randomised longitudinal fMRI study'. Psychopharmacology, 232 (17). pp. 3135 - 3147. ISSN: 0033-3158 Open Access Link
Antonova, E., Chadwick, P. and Kumari, V. (2015) 'More meditation, less habituation? The effect of mindfulness practice on the acoustic startle reflex'. PLoS ONE, 10 (5). pp. e0123512 - e0123512. ISSN: 1932-6203 Open Access Link
Winton-Brown, T., Kumari, V., Windler, F., Moscoso, A., Stone, J., Kapur, S. and et al. (2015) 'Sensorimotor gating, cannabis use and the risk of psychosis'. Schizophrenia Research, 164 (1-3). pp. 21 - 27. ISSN: 0920-9964
Premkumar, P., Fannon, D., Sapara, A., Peters, ER., Anilkumar, AP., Simmons, A., et al. (2015) 'Orbitofrontal cortex, emotional decision-making and response to cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis'. PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING, 231 (3). pp. 298 - 307. ISSN: 0925-4927
Kumari, V. (2015) 'Psychotic disorders in DSM-5: A paradigm shift?'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 49 (3). pp. 291 - 292. ISSN: 0004-8674
Gregory, S., Blair, RJ., ffytche, D., Simmons, A., Kumari, V., Hodgins, S. and et al. (2015) 'Punishment and psychopathy: A case-control functional MRI investigation of reinforcement learning in violent antisocial personality disordered men'. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2 (2). pp. 153 - 160. ISSN: 2215-0366
Wongupparaj, P., Kumari, V. and Morris, RG. (2015) 'A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of raven's progressive matrices: Age groups and developing versus developed countries'. Intelligence, 49. pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 0160-2896
Ettinger, U. and Kumari, V. (2015) 'Effects of sleep deprivation on inhibitory biomarkers of schizophrenia: Implications for drug development'. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2 (11). pp. 1028 - 1035. ISSN: 2215-0366
Young, S., Sedgwick, O., Perkins, D., Lister, H., Southgate, K., Das, M., et al. (2015) 'Measuring victim empathy among mentally disordered offenders: Validating VERA-2'. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 60. pp. 156 - 162. ISSN: 0022-3956
Wongupparaj, P., Kumari, V. and Morris, RG. (2015) 'Executive function processes mediate the impact of working memory impairment on intelligence in schizophrenia'. European Psychiatry, 30 (1). pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 0924-9338
Kumari, V., Hamid, A., Brand, A. and Antonova, E. (2014) 'Acoustic prepulse inhibition: One ear is better than two, but why and when?'. Psychophysiology, 52 (5). pp. 714 - 721. ISSN: 0048-5772 Open Access Link
Suzuki, A., Poon, L., Papadopoulos, AS., Kumari, V. and Cleare, AJ. (2014) 'Long term effects of childhood trauma on cortisol stress reactivity in adulthood and relationship to the occurrence of depression'. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 50. pp. 289 - 299. ISSN: 0306-4530
Petrovsky, N., Ettinger, U., Hill, A., Frenzel, L., Meyho, I., Wagner, M., et al. (2014) 'Sleep deprivation disrupts prepulse inhibition and induces psychosis-like symptoms in healthy humans'. Journal of Neuroscience, 34 (27). pp. 9134 - 9140. ISSN: 0270-6474
Cutsuridis, V., Kumari, V. and Ettinger, U. (2014) 'Antisaccade performance in schizophrenia: A neural model of decision making in the superior colliculus'. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8 (8 FEB). pp. 13. ISSN: 1662-4548 Open Access Link
Kumari, V., Uddin, S., Premkumar, P., Young, S., Gudjonsson, GH., Raghuvanshi, S., et al. (2014) 'Lower anterior cingulate volume in seriously violent men with antisocial personality disorder or schizophrenia and a history of childhood abuse'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48 (2). pp. 153 - 161. ISSN: 0004-8674
Sumich, A., Anilkumar, APP. and Kumari, V. (2014) 'Sex specific event-related potential (ERP) correlates of depression in schizophrenia'. Psychiatria Danubina, 26 (1). pp. 27 - 33. ISSN: 0353-5053
Premkumar, P., Onwumere, J., Wilson, D., Sumich, A., Castro, A., Kumari, V. and et al. (2014) 'Greater positive schizotypy relates to reduced N100 activity during rejection scenes'. Neuropsychologia, 61 (1). pp. 280 - 290. ISSN: 0028-3932
Wright, B., Peters, E., Ettinger, U., Kuipers, E. and Kumari, V. (2014) 'Understanding noise stress-induced cognitive impairment in healthy adults and its implications for schizophrenia'. Noise and Health, 16 (70). pp. 166 - 176. ISSN: 1463-1741
Sumich, A., Castro, A. and Kumari, V. (2014) 'N100 and N200, but not P300, amplitudes predict paranoia/suspiciousness in the general population'. Personality and Individual Differences, 61-62. pp. 74 - 79. ISSN: 0191-8869
Sapara, A., ffytche, DH., Birchwood, M., Cooke, MA., Fannon, D., Williams, SCR., et al. (2013) 'Preservation and compensation: The functional neuroanatomy of insight and working memory in schizophrenia'. Schizophrenia Research, 152 (1). pp. 201 - 209. ISSN: 0920-9964 Open Access Link
Wandschneider, B., Centeno, M., Vollmar, C., Stretton, J., O'Muircheartaigh, J., Thompson, PJ., et al. (2013) 'Risk-taking behavior in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy'. Epilepsia, 54 (12). pp. 2158 - 2165. ISSN: 0013-9580 Open Access Link
Sumich, A., Castro, A., Anilkumar, APP., Zachariah, E. and Kumari, V. (2013) 'Neurophysiological correlates of excitement in schizophrenia'. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 46. pp. 132 - 138. ISSN: 0278-5846
De Brito, SA., Viding, E., Kumari, V., Blackwood, N. and Hodgins, S. (2013) 'Cool and Hot Executive Function Impairments in Violent Offenders with Antisocial Personality Disorder with and without Psychopathy'. PLoS ONE, 8 (6). pp. e65566 - e65566. ISSN: 1932-6203
Kumari, V., Gudjonsson, GH., Raghuvanshi, S., Barkataki, I., Taylor, P., Sumich, A., et al. (2013) 'Reduced thalamic volume in men with antisocial personality disorder or schizophrenia and a history of serious violence and childhood abuse'. European Psychiatry, 28 (4). pp. 225 - 234. ISSN: 0924-9338
Reagu, S., Jones, R., Kumari, V. and Taylor, PJ. (2013) 'Angry affect and violence in the context of a psychotic illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature'. Schizophrenia Research, 146 (1-3). pp. 46 - 52. ISSN: 0920-9964
Perkins, AM., Ettinger, U., Weaver, K., Schmechtig, A., Schrantee, A., Morrison, PD., et al. (2013) 'Advancing the defensive explanation for anxiety disorders: Lorazepam effects on human defense are systematically modulated by personality and threat-type'. Translational Psychiatry, 3 (4). pp. e246 - e246. ISSN: 2158-3188 Open Access Link
Ettinger, U., Corr, PJ., Mofidi, A., Williams, SCR. and Kumari, V. (2013) 'Dopaminergic basis of the psychosis-prone personality investigated with functional magnetic resonance imaging of procedural learning'. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7 (MAR). pp. 130. ISSN: 1662-5161
Premkumar, P., Williams, SCR., Lythgoe, D., Andrew, C., Kuipers, E. and Kumari, V. (2013) 'Neural processing of criticism and positive comments from relatives in individuals with schizotypal personality traits'. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 14 (1). pp. 57 - 70. ISSN: 1562-2975
Corr, PJ. and Kumari, V. (2013) 'Effect of d-amphetamine on emotion-potentiated startle in healthy humans: Implications for psychopathy and antisocial behaviour'. Psychopharmacology, 225 (2). pp. 373 - 379. ISSN: 0033-3158
Perkins, AM., Cserjesi, R., Ettinger, U., Kumari, V., Martin, NG. and Arden, R. (2013) 'Personality and occupational markers of 'solid citizenship' are associated with having fewer children'. Personality and Individual Differences, 55 (8). pp. 871 - 876. ISSN: 0191-8869
Farmer, AD., Coen, SJ., Kano, M., Paine, PA., Shwahdi, M., Jafari, J., et al. (2013) 'Psychophysiological responses to pain identify reproducible human clusters'. Pain, 154 (11). pp. 2266 - 2276. ISSN: 0304-3959
Perkins, AM., Leonard, AM., Weaver, K., Dalton, JA., Mehta, MA., Kumari, V., et al. (2013) 'A Dose of ruthlessness: Interpersonal moral judgment is hardened by the anti-anxiety drug lorazepam'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142 (3). pp. 612 - 620. ISSN: 0096-3445
Corr, PJ., Munafo, M., Moore, R. and Kumari, V. (2013) 'Applying neuroscience to mental disorder'. Psychologist, 26 (1). pp. 26 - 29. ISSN: 0952-8229
Jogia, J., Dima, D., Kumari, V. and Frangou, S. (2012) 'Frontopolar cortical inefficiency may underpin reward and working memory dysfunction in bipolar disorder'. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 13 (8). pp. 605 - 615. ISSN: 1562-2975
Völter, C., Riedel, M., Wöstmann, N., Aichert, DS., Lobo, S., Costa, A., et al. (2012)
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Ettinger, U., Williams, SCR., Meisenzahl, EM., Möller, HJ., Kumari, V. and Koutsouleris, N. (2012) 'Association between brain structure and psychometric schizotypy in healthy individuals'. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 13 (7). pp. 544 - 549. ISSN: 1562-2975
Centeno, M., Vollmar, C., O'Muircheartaigh, J., Stretton, J., Bonelli, SB., Symms, MR., et al. (2012) 'Memory in frontal lobe epilepsy: An fMRI study'. Epilepsia, 53 (10). pp. 1756 - 1764. ISSN: 0013-9580
Gregory, S., Ffytche, D., Simmons, A., Kumari, V., Howard, M., Hodgins, S. and et al. (2012) 'The antisocial brain: Psychopathy matters: A structural mri investigation of antisocial male violent offenders'. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69 (9). pp. 962 - 972. ISSN: 0003-990X
Vollmar, C., O'Muircheartaigh, J., Symms, MR., Barker, GJ., Thompson, P., Kumari, V., et al. (2012) 'Altered microstructural connectivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy The missing link'. Neurology, 78 (20). pp. 1555 - 1559. ISSN: 0028-3878
Premkumar, P., Ettinger, U., Inchley-Mort, S., Sumich, A., Williams, SCR., Kuipers, E. and et al. (2012) 'Neural processing of social rejection: The role of schizotypal personality traits'. Human Brain Mapping, 33 (3). pp. 695 - 706. ISSN: 1065-9471
Vyas, NS., Shamsi, SA., Malhotra, AK., Aitchison, KJ. and Kumari, V. (2012) 'Can genetics inform the management of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia?'. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 26 (3). pp. 334 - 348. ISSN: 0269-8811
Kumari, V., Premkumar, P., Fannon, D., Aasen, I., Raghuvanshi, S., Anilkumar, AP., et al. (2012) 'Sensorimotor gating and clinical outcome following cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis'. Schizophrenia Research, 134 (2-3). pp. 232 - 238. ISSN: 0920-9964
Aichert, DS., Williams, SCR., Möller, HJ., Kumari, V. and Ettinger, U. (2012) 'Functional neural correlates of psychometric schizotypy: An fMRI study of antisaccades'. Psychophysiology, 49 (3). pp. 345 - 356. ISSN: 0048-5772
O'Muircheartaigh, J., Vollmar, C., Barker, GJ., Kumari, V., Symms, MR., Thompson, P., et al. (2012) 'Abnormal thalamocortical structural and functional connectivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy'. Brain, 135 (12). pp. 3635 - 3644. ISSN: 0006-8950
Ettinger, U., Schmechtig, A., Toulopoulou, T., Borg, C., Orrells, C., Owens, S., et al. (2012) 'Prefrontal and striatal volumes in monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for schizophrenia'. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 38 (1). pp. 192 - 203. ISSN: 0586-7614