Brady D. Nelson

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

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Brady D. Nelson is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Brady D. Nelson has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 62 papers in Clinical Psychology and 47 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Brady D. Nelson's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (68 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (46 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (37 papers). Brady D. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (68 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (46 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (37 papers). Brady D. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Brady D. Nelson's co-authors include Greg Hajcak, Stewart A. Shankman, Daniel N. Klein, Aline K. Szenczy, Mariah T. Hawes, Felicia Jackson, Stephanie M. Gorka, Roman Kotov, Greg Perlman and Casey Sarapas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NeuroImage and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Brady D. Nelson

111 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Increases in depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 496 citations Mariah T. Hawes, Aline K. Szenczy et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brady D. Nelson United States	35	1.8k	1.5k	1.4k	482	433	116	3.4k
Alicia E. Meuret United States	37	2.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	592 1.2×	541 1.2×	83	4.2k
Autumn Kujawa United States	40	2.0k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	1.9k 1.3×	653 1.4×	578 1.3×	133	4.0k
Lauren M. Bylsma United States	28	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	859 1.8×	401 0.9×	64	3.4k
Hannah R. Snyder United States	28	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	394 0.8×	910 2.1×	76	4.2k
Stephanie M. Gorka United States	29	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	930 0.6×	374 0.8×	320 0.7×	124	2.6k
Katharina Kircanski United States	31	2.0k 1.1×	2.4k 1.6×	1.4k 1.0×	539 1.1×	1.0k 2.4×	108	4.3k
Wiveka Ramel United States	13	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	626 1.3×	365 0.8×	15	2.9k
Miquel À. Fullana Spain	38	1.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.9×	2.4k 1.6×	576 1.2×	587 1.4×	111	4.9k
Elizabeth A. Hoge United States	35	1.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.6×	638 0.4×	889 1.8×	583 1.3×	69	4.2k
Joelle LeMoult Canada	25	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	766 0.5×	428 0.9×	230 0.5×	90	3.1k

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Szenczy, Aline K., et al.. (2025). Childhood psychopathology predicts development of error-related brain activity across adolescence. Development and Psychopathology. 37(5). 2795–2805.

Szenczy, Aline K., Amanda Levinson, Zachary P. Infantolino, et al.. (2025). Psychometric Properties of the Neural Response to Rewards and Errors Across Mid‐ to Late‐Adolescence. Developmental Psychobiology. 67(2). e70036–e70036. 1 indexed citations

Hager, Nathan, Aline K. Szenczy, Lindsay Dickey, et al.. (2025). Trajectories of the Late Positive Potential Across Childhood and Adolescence: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study. Child Development. 96(3). 1088–1097.

Burani, Kreshnik, et al.. (2024). Reward-Related Brain Activity Mediates the Relationship Between Decision-Making Deficits and Pediatric Depression Symptom Severity. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 10(2). 138–147. 2 indexed citations

Quarmley, Megan, et al.. (2023). Social feedback biases emerge during recall but not prediction and shift across the development of social anxiety. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(52). e2308593120–e2308593120. 6 indexed citations

Gallyer, Austin J., Kreshnik Burani, Elizabeth M. Mulligan, et al.. (2022). Examining Blunted Initial Response to Reward and Recent Suicidal Ideation in Children and Adolescents Using Event-Related Potentials: Failure to Conceptually Replicate Across Two Independent Samples. Clinical Psychological Science. 11(6). 1011–1025. 5 indexed citations

Burani, Kreshnik, Christopher J. Brush, Grant S. Shields, et al.. (2022). Greater Cumulative Lifetime Stressor Exposure Predicts Blunted Reward Positivity in Adolescent Girls Followed for 2 Years. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 7(10). 1017–1024. 14 indexed citations

Mackin, Daniel M., Megan C. Finsaas, Brady D. Nelson, et al.. (2022). Intergenerational transmission of depressive and anxiety disorders: Mediation via youth personality.. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. 131(5). 467–478. 3 indexed citations

Nelson, Brady D., et al.. (2021). Discrimination and psychosocial engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic.. Stigma and Health. 6(4). 380–383. 9 indexed citations

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Mulligan, Elizabeth M., Greg Hajcak, Julia Klawohn, Brady D. Nelson, & Alexandria Meyer. (2019). Effects of menstrual cycle phase on associations between the error-related negativity and checking symptoms in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 103. 233–240. 13 indexed citations

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Speed, Brittany C., Brady D. Nelson, Amanda Levinson, et al.. (2018). Extraversion, neuroticism, and the electrocortical response to monetary rewards in adolescent girls. Biological Psychology. 136. 111–118. 16 indexed citations

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Nelson, Brady D., Felicia Jackson, Nader Amir, & Greg Hajcak. (2017). Attention bias modification reduces neural correlates of response monitoring. Biological Psychology. 129. 103–110. 28 indexed citations

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Bjorkquist, Olivia A., et al.. (2016). Altered amygdala-prefrontal connectivity during emotion perception in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 175(1-3). 35–41. 37 indexed citations

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Nelson, Brady D. & Stewart A. Shankman. (2015). Visuospatial and mathematical dysfunction in major depressive disorder and/or panic disorder: A study of parietal functioning. Cognition & Emotion. 30(3). 417–429. 10 indexed citations

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Jackson, Felicia, Brady D. Nelson, & Greg Hajcak. (2015). The uncertainty of errors: Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with error-related brain activity. Biological Psychology. 113. 52–58. 46 indexed citations

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Nelson, Brady D., et al.. (2015). Anxiety sensitivity and the anticipation of predictable and unpredictable threat: Evidence from the startle response and event-related potentials. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 33. 62–71. 35 indexed citations

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Nelson, Brady D., Jeffrey R. Bishop, Casey Sarapas, Rick A. Kittles, & Stewart A. Shankman. (2014). Asians demonstrate reduced sensitivity to unpredictable threat: A preliminary startle investigation using genetic ancestry in a multiethnic sample.. Emotion. 14(3). 615–623. 13 indexed citations

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Nelson, Brady D., Sarah Kate McGowan, Casey Sarapas, et al.. (2013). Biomarkers of threat and reward sensitivity demonstrate unique associations with risk for psychopathology.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 122(3). 662–671. 62 indexed citations

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Gorka, Stephanie M., Brady D. Nelson, & Stewart A. Shankman. (2013). Startle response to unpredictable threat in comorbid panic disorder and alcohol dependence. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 132(1-2). 216–222. 42 indexed citations

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Sarapas, Casey, Andrea C. Katz, Brady D. Nelson, et al.. (2013). Are individual differences in appetitive and defensive motivation related? A psychophysiological examination in two samples. Cognition & Emotion. 28(4). 636–655. 7 indexed citations

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