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Christine Larson PhD

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Associate Professor

Institution: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Department: Psychology

Member of the Neuroscience Research Center

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Research Experience

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Electroencephalography
  • Emotions
  • Event-Related Potentials, P300
  • Galvanic Skin Response
  • Limbic System
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    • Methodologies and Techniques

  • Electromyography
  • Event-Related Potentials, P300
  • Galvanic Skin Response
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    • MCW Program / Core Facilities

  • Center for Imaging Research

    • Publications (20)

  • State rumination enhances elaborative processing of negative material as evidenced by the late positive potential. (Lewis KL, Taubitz LE, Duke MW, Steuer EL, Larson CL) Emotion 2015 Dec;15(6):687-93 PMID: 26147861 PMCID: PMC5827937 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84949727909 07/07/2015       19 Citations
  • Imbalance of default mode and regulatory networks during externally focused processing in depression. (Belleau EL, Taubitz LE, Larson CL) Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2015 May;10(5):744-51 PMID: 25274576 PMCID: PMC4420753 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85003238713 10/03/2014       45 Citations
  • Worry is associated with impaired gating of threat from working memory. (Stout DM, Shackman AJ, Johnson JS, Larson CL) Emotion 2015 Feb;15(1):6-11 PMID: 25151519 PMCID: PMC4324005 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84925615648 08/26/2014       69 Citations
  • Brain, body, and cognition: neural, physiological and self-report correlates of phobic and normative fear. (Schaefer HS, Larson CL, Davidson RJ, Coan JA) Biol Psychol 2014 Apr;98:59-69 PMID: 24561099 PMCID: PMC4251669 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84899933123 02/25/2014       35 Citations
  • The interplay of attention and emotion: top-down attention modulates amygdala activation in psychopathy. (Larson CL, Baskin-Sommers AR, Stout DM, Balderston NL, Curtin JJ, Schultz DH, Kiehl KA, Newman JP) Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2013 Dec;13(4):757-70 PMID: 23712665 PMCID: PMC3806893 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84883634474 05/29/2013       101 Citations
  • Failure to filter: anxious individuals show inefficient gating of threat from working memory. (Stout DM, Shackman AJ, Larson CL) Front Hum Neurosci 2013;7:58 PMID: 23459454 PMCID: PMC3586709 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84933676527 03/06/2013       102 Citations
  • Modulation of the startle reflex across time by unpleasant pictures distinguishes dysphoric from non-dysphoric women. (Taubitz LE, Robinson JS, Larson CL) Int J Psychophysiol 2013 Feb;87(2):124-9 PMID: 23147394 PMCID: PMC5828007 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84875086098 11/14/2012       14 Citations
  • Characterizing the anomalous cognition-emotion interactions in externalizing. (Baskin-Sommers AR, Curtin JJ, Larson CL, Stout D, Kiehl KA, Newman JP) Biol Psychol 2012 Sep;91(1):48-58 PMID: 22579718 PMCID: PMC3407296 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84862331244 05/15/2012       23 Citations
  • MAOA T941G polymorphism and the time course of emotional recovery following unpleasant pictures. (Larson CL, Taubitz LE, Robinson JS) Psychophysiology 2010 Sep;47(5):857-62 PMID: 20374544 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-77955164048 04/09/2010       14 Citations
  • Do aggression and rule-breaking have different interpersonal correlates? A study of antisocial behavior subtypes, negative affect, and hostile perceptions of others. (Burt SA, Mikolajewski AJ, Larson CL) Aggress Behav 2009;35(6):453-61 PMID: 19780037 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-73049089162 09/26/2009       43 Citations
  • The possible influence of impulsivity and dietary restraint on associations between serotonin genes and binge eating. (Racine SE, Culbert KM, Larson CL, Klump KL) J Psychiatr Res 2009 Dec;43(16):1278-86 PMID: 19493540 PMCID: PMC2870529 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-70449526560 06/06/2009       57 Citations
  • Recognizing threat: a simple geometric shape activates neural circuitry for threat detection. (Larson CL, Aronoff J, Sarinopoulos IC, Zhu DC) J Cogn Neurosci 2009 Aug;21(8):1523-35 PMID: 18823242 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-67650462277 10/01/2008       92 Citations
  • The shape of threat: simple geometric forms evoke rapid and sustained capture of attention. (Larson CL, Aronoff J, Stearns JJ) Emotion 2007 Aug;7(3):526-34 PMID: 17683209 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-34548843376 08/09/2007       104 Citations
  • Full scenes produce more activation than close-up scenes and scene-diagnostic objects in parahippocampal and retrosplenial cortex: an fMRI study. (Henderson JM, Larson CL, Zhu DC) Brain Cogn 2008 Feb;66(1):40-9 PMID: 17606317 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-38749104311 07/04/2007       62 Citations
  • Common and distinct patterns of affective response in dimensions of anxiety and depression. (Larson CL, Nitschke JB, Davidson RJ) Emotion 2007 Feb;7(1):182-91 PMID: 17352573 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-33947191016 03/14/2007       72 Citations
  • Cortical activation to indoor versus outdoor scenes: an fMRI study. (Henderson JM, Larson CL, Zhu DC) Exp Brain Res 2007 May;179(1):75-84 PMID: 17123070 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-34247545568 11/24/2006       34 Citations
  • Fear is fast in phobic individuals: amygdala activation in response to fear-relevant stimuli. (Larson CL, Schaefer HS, Siegle GJ, Jackson CA, Anderle MJ, Davidson RJ) Biol Psychiatry 2006 Aug 15;60(4):410-7 PMID: 16919528 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-33747066841 08/22/2006       130 Citations
  • Stability of emotion-modulated startle during short and long picture presentation. (Larson CL, Ruffalo D, Nietert JY, Davidson RJ) Psychophysiology 2005 Sep;42(5):604-10 PMID: 16176383 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-33644876339 09/24/2005       42 Citations
  • Functional coupling of simultaneous electrical and metabolic activity in the human brain. (Oakes TR, Pizzagalli DA, Hendrick AM, Horras KA, Larson CL, Abercrombie HC, Schaefer SM, Koger JV, Davidson RJ) Hum Brain Mapp 2004 Apr;21(4):257-70 PMID: 15038007 PMCID: PMC6871925 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-1842778949 03/24/2004       188 Citations
  • Functional but not structural subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in melancholia. (Pizzagalli DA, Oakes TR, Fox AS, Chung MK, Larson CL, Abercrombie HC, Schaefer SM, Benca RM, Davidson RJ) Mol Psychiatry 2004 Apr;9(4):325, 393-405 PMID: 14699431 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-2042478062 12/31/2003       76 Citations
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