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The impact of adversity and maternal depression on neural reward responsivity in young children

Granros, M., Engstrom, A., Sheena, M., Feurer, C., Kujawa, A., Suor, J., & Burkhouse, K. L. (in press). Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

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Neural reward responsiveness moderates the effect of a brief positive emotion-focused training on perceived stress in college students

Yao, D., Carlton, C., Long, Y., Venanzi, L., Pegg, S., Bean, C. A. L., & Kujawa, A. (in press). Biological Psychology.

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Salivary cortisol, progesterone, and estradiol levels across the perinatal period and associations with depressive symptoms

Faivre, M., Pegg, S., Bean, C. A. L., Abitante, G., Jackson, M., Cole, D. A., Humphreys, K. L. & Kujawa, A. (2026). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 192, 107982.

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Early parenting is associated with the development of neural reward responsiveness from childhood through adolescence

Hill, K. E., Bean, C. A. L., Abitante, G., Lawhead, C., Szenczy, A. K., Kessel, E., Hajcak, G., Nelson, B., Klein, D. N. & Kujawa, A. (2026). Communications Psychology.

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Neighborhood disadvantage as a moderator of children’s response to a dyadic positive affect intervention for children of mothers with depressive symptoms

Yerger, J., Cárdenas, E. F., Granros, M., Feurer, C., Patel, K. R., Moon, G., Stibor, A., Kujawa, A., & Burkhouse, K. L. (2026). Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

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Modeling rare events and nonmonotone nonignorable missingness of time-varying outcomes and predictors in binary time-series daily diary data: A Bayesian selection model

Cho, S-J., Kujawa, A., Carlton, C., Long, Y., & Marlowe, R. (2026). Psychometrika.

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Associations between new mothers’ neural reward response and perceptions of their own infant

Hill, K. E., Garon-Bissonnette, J., Greene, M. N., Cárdenas, E. F., Jackson, M., Pegg, S., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2026). Developmental Psychobiology, 68, e70164.

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Maternal outcomes of a dyadic positive affect intervention for mothers with depressive symptoms and their children: A pilot study

Bean, C. A. L., Granros, M., Moon, G. J., Argiros, A., Dao, A, Cárdenas, E.F., Dickey, L., Feurer, C., Hill, K. E., Pegg, S., Venanzi, L., Burkhouse, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2026). Cognitive Therapy and Research.

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Associations between birth-related stressors, social reward responsiveness, and postpartum internalizing symptoms

Cárdenas, E.F., Jackson, M., Garon-Bissonnette, J., Harkness, K. L., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (in press). Anxiety, Stress, & Coping.


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A pilot test of Brief Behavioral Intervention for preschool-aged children with prenatal opioid exposure

Piersiak, H. A., Molnar, A., Ravi, S., Estes, E., Roth, M., Politte-Corn, M., Hare, M., Kujawa, A., & Humphreys, K. L. (2026). Child & Family Behavior Therapy.

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Social reward responsiveness moderates the association between perceived social competence and depressive symptoms in adolescents

Patel, K. R., Carlton, C. N. Venanzi, L., Pegg, S. & Kujawa, A. (2026). Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 54, 7.

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Neural reactivity to infant faces and trait mindfulness as prospective predictors of postpartum depressive symptoms

Woronko, S. E., Cárdenas, E.F., Bean, C. A. L., Gupta, R. S., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2026). Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 26, 294-305.

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Low reward responsiveness as a moderator of chronic stress effects on depressive symptoms in adolescents: An examination of monetary and social rewards

Pegg, S., Faivre, M., Moon, G., & Kujawa, A. (2026). Journal of Affective Disorders, 405, 121534.

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Age-related differences and effects of internalizing symptoms on aperiodic neural activity in adolescents

Woronko, S., Qian, A., Carlton, C. N., Lees, T., & Kujawa, A. (2026). Psychophysiology, 63, e70226.

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Interpersonal contributors to depression in sexual minority adolescents: An examination of exposure to acute stressors and neural reactivity to interpersonal emotional images

Long, Y., Carlton, C. N.., Pegg, S., Venanzi, L., Woronko, S., Clark, K. A., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Developmental Psychobiology, 68, e70092.

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Social reward responsiveness as a moderator of the association between perceived bonding with infants and depressive symptoms in postpartum women

Cárdenas, E. F., Jackson, M., Garon-Bissonnette, J., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 25, 1181-1191.

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A pilot randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention targeting positive valence systems function to prevent internalizing symptoms in college students

Long, Y., Bean, C. A. L., Venanzi, L., Boldwyn, E., Dao, A., Dickey, L., Jackson, M., Mueller, R., Pegg, S., Winglass, M., Weis, V., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 93, 281-292.

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A systematic review of associations between hormone levels in hair and peripartum depression

Hill, K. E., Cárdenas, E. F., Yu, E., Hammond, R., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 171, 107194.

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Longitudinal associations between prenatal internalizing symptoms and mindfulness with postpartum bonding difficulties

Garon-Bissonnette, J., Bean, C. A. L., Cárdenas, E. F., Jackson, M., Abitante, G., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 28, 583-592.

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Concurrent and prospective prediction of suicidal ideation in adolescents using multimethod data and machine learning: A pilot study

Dickey, L., Murch, G., Pegg, S., Dao, A., Venanzi, L., Politte-Corn, M., Abitante, G., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) Open, 3, 1046-1059.

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Associations between maternal birth complications and postpartum depressive symptoms: A systematic narrative review and meta-analysis

Cárdenas, E. F., Yu, E., Jackson, M., Humphreys, K.L., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Women’s Health, 21.

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Trajectories of the late positive potential across childhood and adolescence: A 9-year longitudinal study

Calentino, A. E., Hager, N. M., Adams, E. A., Szenczy, A. K., Dickey, L., Kujawa, A., Hajcak, G., Nelson, B. D., & Klein, D. N. (2025). Child Development, 96, 1088-1097.

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Longitudinal investigation of neurobiological changes across pregnancy

Niu, Y., Conrad, B. N., Camacho, M. C., Ravi, S., Piersiak, H. A., Bailes, L. G., Barnett, W., Manhard, M. K., Cole, D. A., Clayton, E. W., Osmundson, S. S., Smith, S. A., Kujawa, A., & Humphreys, K. L. (2025). Communications Biology, 8, 82.

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Exploring facial expression processing with fast periodic visual stimulation and diverse stimuli

Vandenheever, D., Davidson, H., Kemp, J., Murphy, Z., Kujawa, A., Shi, J., Nadorff, M. R., Bates-Brantley, K. & Sidwell, M. (2025). Brain and Cognition, 189, 106338.

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Preliminary evidence for anxiety-linked neural sensitivity to emotional faces using fast periodic visual stimulation

Vandenheever, D., Davidson, H., Kemp, J., Murphy, Z., Kujawa, A., Shi, J., Nadorff, M. R., Bates-Brantley, K. & Sidwell, M. (2025). International Journal of Psychophysiology, 214, 113212.

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Study protocol for a multimethod investigation of the development of social and nonsocial reward responsivity and depression in autistic adolescents: Reward and Depression in Autism (RDA)

Schwartzman, J. M., Kujawa, A., Jeste, S. S., Corbett, B. A., Xu, W., Monachino, A. D., Castro, M. A., Cardenas-Quintero, K., Dao, A., Durazo-Arvizu, R., & Morales, S. (2025). BMC Psychology, 13, 603.

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The incremental validity of level of personality functioning over borderline personality features in associations with early adolescent social reward processing

Boone, K., Babinski, D. E., Kujawa, A., Pegg, S., & Sharp, C. (2025). Personality and Mental Health, 19, e70000.

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Altered social processing as a potential mechanism of BPD risk in girls with ADHD: A call for multi-method developmental research

Alacha, H. F., Sharp, C., Kujawa A., & Babinski, D. E. (2025). Journal of Psychiatry and Brain Science, 10, e250001.

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Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool age cognitive functioning

Ravi, S., Molnar, A. E., Cárdenas, E. F., Kujawa, A., & Humphreys, K. L. (2025). International Journal of Behavioral Development, 49, 101-108.

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Time-domain and time-frequency neural responses to monetary and social rewards across three different tasks

Lawhead, C. Kujawa, A., Klein, D. N., & Nelson, B. D. (2025). Biological Psychology, 200, 109103.

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