B.J. Casey

42.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
145 papers, 23.3k citations indexed

About

B.J. Casey is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, B.J. Casey has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 23.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Clinical Psychology and 22 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in B.J. Casey's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (51 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (44 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (21 papers). B.J. Casey is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (51 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (44 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (21 papers). B.J. Casey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. B.J. Casey's co-authors include Todd A. Hare, Nim Tottenham, Adriana Galván, Kathleen M. Thomas, Leah H. Somerville, Sarah Durston, Jay N. Giedd, Rebecca M. Jones, Sarah J Getz and Conor Liston and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

B.J. Casey

145 papers receiving 22.5k citations

Hit Papers

The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from unt... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2009 2008 2000 2009 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants
    2009 2.7k citations Nim Tottenham, James W. Tanaka et al. Psychiatry Research profile →
  2. The adolescent brain
    2008 1.2k citations B.J. Casey, Adriana Galván et al. profile →
  3. Structural and functional brain development and its relation to cognitive development
    2000 1.1k citations B.J. Casey, Jay N. Giedd et al. profile →
  4. Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation
    2009 605 citations Nim Tottenham, Todd A. Hare et al. profile →
  5. Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control
    2009 588 citations Conor Liston, Bruce S. McEwen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Default Mode Network Mechanisms of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Depression
    2014 511 citations Conor Liston, Benjamin Zebley et al. Biological Psychiatry profile →
  7. Beyond Simple Models of Self-Control to Circuit-Based Accounts of Adolescent Behavior
    2014 508 citations B.J. Casey profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
B.J. Casey United States 66 11.7k 6.3k 5.2k 4.5k 3.5k 145 23.3k
Eveline A. Crone Netherlands 76 10.8k 0.9× 5.6k 0.9× 5.2k 1.0× 2.3k 0.5× 4.7k 1.3× 270 21.2k
Monique Ernst United States 77 9.6k 0.8× 6.9k 1.1× 7.4k 1.4× 3.8k 0.8× 2.5k 0.7× 268 20.1k
Thomas Elbert Germany 96 16.5k 1.4× 8.7k 1.4× 3.2k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 2.8k 0.8× 519 33.2k
Ahmad R. Hariri United States 75 10.4k 0.9× 6.7k 1.1× 6.6k 1.3× 3.4k 0.8× 3.9k 1.1× 241 24.2k
Nim Tottenham United States 54 7.5k 0.6× 6.2k 1.0× 3.8k 0.7× 2.0k 0.4× 3.3k 0.9× 150 16.1k
B. J. Casey United States 43 7.0k 0.6× 4.3k 0.7× 2.8k 0.5× 2.5k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 80 14.1k
Susan Y. Bookheimer United States 82 16.4k 1.4× 3.0k 0.5× 3.4k 0.7× 6.2k 1.4× 2.6k 0.7× 335 26.2k
Deanna M. Barch United States 91 28.2k 2.4× 6.3k 1.0× 9.9k 1.9× 11.0k 2.4× 3.2k 0.9× 530 42.1k
Ronald E. Dahl United States 99 10.4k 0.9× 13.2k 2.1× 12.4k 2.4× 4.8k 1.1× 5.5k 1.5× 336 32.9k
Todd A. Hare Switzerland 42 9.1k 0.8× 5.1k 0.8× 4.5k 0.9× 1.5k 0.3× 3.0k 0.8× 77 17.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B.J. Casey

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Casey, B.J., Alexandra O. Cohen, & Adriana Galván. (2025). The beautiful adolescent brain: An evolutionary developmental perspective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1546(1). 58–74. 1 indexed citations
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Pecheva, Diliana, Diana M. Smith, B.J. Casey, et al.. (2024). Sex and mental health are related to subcortical brain microstructure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(31). e2403212121–e2403212121. 7 indexed citations
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Rubien-Thomas, Estée, Kristina M. Rapuano, Lena J. Skalaban, et al.. (2023). Uncertain threat is associated with greater impulsive actions and neural dissimilarity to Black versus White faces. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 23(3). 944–956. 2 indexed citations
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Conley, May I., Kristina M. Rapuano, Monica D. Rosenberg, et al.. (2023). Executive Network Activation Moderates the Association between Neighborhood Threats and Externalizing Behavior in Youth. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. 51(6). 789–803. 3 indexed citations
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Rapuano, Kristina M., Link Tejavibulya, Anfei Li, et al.. (2023). Heightened sensitivity to high-calorie foods in children at risk for obesity: insights from behavior, neuroimaging, and genetics. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 17(5). 461–470. 3 indexed citations
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Skalaban, Lena J., Alexandra O. Cohen, May I. Conley, et al.. (2022). Adolescent-specific memory effects: evidence from working memory, immediate and long-term recognition memory performance in 8–30 yr olds. Learning & Memory. 29(8). 223–233. 5 indexed citations
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Baskin–Sommers, Arielle, Cortney Simmons, May I. Conley, et al.. (2021). Adolescent civic engagement: Lessons from Black Lives Matter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(41). 37 indexed citations
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Rapuano, Kristina M., Jennifer Laurent, Donald J. Hagler, et al.. (2020). Nucleus accumbens cytoarchitecture predicts weight gain in children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(43). 26977–26984. 45 indexed citations
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Conley, May I., Lena J. Skalaban, Kristina M. Rapuano, et al.. (2020). Altered hippocampal microstructure and function in children who experienced Hurricane Irma. Developmental Psychobiology. 63(5). 864–877. 5 indexed citations
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Conley, May I., et al.. (2020). The importance of social factors in the association between physical activity and depression in children. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. 14(1). 28–28. 30 indexed citations
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Rapuano, Kristina M., Monica D. Rosenberg, Abigail S. Greene, et al.. (2020). Behavioral and brain signatures of substance use vulnerability in childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 46. 100878–100878. 23 indexed citations
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Conley, May I., Danielle V. Dellarco, Estée Rubien-Thomas, et al.. (2018). The racially diverse affective expression (RADIATE) face stimulus set. Psychiatry Research. 270. 1059–1067. 85 indexed citations
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Dyke, Jonathan P., Dolan Sondhi, Henning U. Voss, et al.. (2016). Brain Region–Specific Degeneration with Disease Progression in Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (CLN2 Disease). American Journal of Neuroradiology. 37(6). 1160–1169. 20 indexed citations
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Liston, Conor, Benjamin Zebley, Andrew T. Drysdale, et al.. (2014). Default Mode Network Mechanisms of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Depression. Biological Psychiatry. 76(7). 517–526. 511 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tottenham, Nim, Todd A. Hare, & B.J. Casey. (2011). Behavioral Assessment of Emotion Discrimination, Emotion Regulation, and Cognitive Control in Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood. Frontiers in Psychology. 2. 39–39. 243 indexed citations
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SOLIMAN, F. S. G., Charles E. Glatt, Kevin G. Bath, et al.. (2010). A Genetic Variant BDNF Polymorphism Alters Extinction Learning in Both Mouse and Human. Science. 327(5967). 863–866. 463 indexed citations
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Casey, B.J., Charles E. Glatt, Nim Tottenham, et al.. (2009). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor as a model system for examining gene by environment interactions across development. Neuroscience. 164(1). 108–120. 111 indexed citations
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Tottenham, Nim, James W. Tanaka, Andrew C. Leon, et al.. (2009). The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants. Psychiatry Research. 168(3). 242–249. 2726 indexed citations breakdown →
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Davidson, Matthew C., Jon C. Horvitz, Nim Tottenham, et al.. (2004). Differential cingulate and caudate activation following unexpected nonrewarding stimuli. NeuroImage. 23(3). 1039–1045. 44 indexed citations
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Giedd, Jay N., F. Xavier Castellanos, Patricia Kozuch, et al.. (1994). Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of human brain development: ages 4–18. Biological Psychiatry. 35(9). 713–713. 13 indexed citations

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