Moriah E. Thomason

11.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Moriah E. Thomason is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Moriah E. Thomason has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 44 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 25 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Moriah E. Thomason's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (51 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (28 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (22 papers). Moriah E. Thomason is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (51 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (28 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (22 papers). Moriah E. Thomason collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Moriah E. Thomason's co-authors include John D. E. Gabrieli, Ian H. Gotlib, Gary H. Glover, Hilary A. Marusak, Silvia A. Bunge, Chandan J. Vaidya, Nicole M. Dudukovic, J. Paul Hamilton, Catie Chang and Paul M. Thompson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Moriah E. Thomason

118 papers receiving 7.4k citations

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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.

Immature Frontal Lobe Contributions to Cognitive Control in Children

2002 1.0k citations Moriah E. Thomason, John D. E. Gabrieli et al. profile →
Default-Mode and Task-Positive Network Activity in Major Depressive Disorder: Implications for Adaptive and Maladaptive Rumination

2011 613 citations Moriah E. Thomason, Emily L. Dennis et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Moriah E. Thomason United States	48	4.4k	1.6k	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	122	7.5k
Christian K. Tamnes Norway	46	4.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	932 0.8×	112	8.0k
Armin Raznahan United States	42	4.9k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	2.2k 1.4×	996 0.8×	803 0.7×	133	8.4k
Kelly N. Botteron United States	41	3.8k 0.9×	683 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	108	7.1k
Maarten Mennes Netherlands	42	6.6k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	92	9.5k
Mónica Luciana United States	47	3.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	615 0.4×	964 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	124	7.7k
Bonnie J. Nagel United States	45	3.3k 0.7×	945 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	878 0.7×	124	6.6k
Eileen Lüders United States	45	2.7k 0.6×	736 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	742 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	103	5.7k
Cheryl Lacadie United States	50	5.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	936 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	2.4k 2.0×	133	10.2k
Sarah Whittle Australia	53	3.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	906 0.6×	906 0.7×	3.0k 2.4×	222	8.5k
David R. Roalf United States	48	4.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	2.4k 1.5×	584 0.4×	766 0.6×	153	8.0k

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Ji, Lanxin, et al.. (2025). Whole Brain MRI Assessment of Age and Sex‐Related R2* Changes in the Human Fetal Brain. Human Brain Mapping. 46(2). e70073–e70073. 1 indexed citations

Janecka, Magdalena, et al.. (2025). Complications After Maternal Traumatic Brain Injury During Pregnancy. JAMA Network Open. 8(2). e2459877–e2459877. 1 indexed citations

Werchan, Denise M., Moriah E. Thomason, & Natalie H. Brito. (2022). OWLET: An automated, open-source method for infant gaze tracking using smartphone and webcam recordings. Behavior Research Methods. 55(6). 3149–3163. 16 indexed citations

Havens, Kathryn L., Catherine P. Starnes, Trevor A. Pickering, et al.. (2021). Changes in social support of pregnant and postnatal mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Midwifery. 103. 103162–103162. 51 indexed citations

Cioffredi, Leigh‐Anne, Ellen Stewart, Hugh Garavan, et al.. (2021). Factors associated with parent views about participation in infant MRI research provide guidance for the design of the Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 50. 100986–100986. 3 indexed citations

Rajagopalan, Vidya, Sean Deoni, Ashok Panigrahy, & Moriah E. Thomason. (2021). Is fetal MRI ready for neuroimaging prime time? An examination of progress and remaining areas for development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 51. 100999–100999. 10 indexed citations

Turk, Elise, Marion I. van den Heuvel, Manon J.N.L. Benders, et al.. (2019). Functional Connectome of the Fetal Brain. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(49). 9716–9724. 92 indexed citations

Heuvel, Marion I. van den, Elise Turk, Janessa H. Manning, et al.. (2018). Hubs in the human fetal brain network. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 30. 108–115. 66 indexed citations

Thomason, Moriah E., Dustin Scheinost, Janessa H. Manning, et al.. (2017). Weak functional connectivity in the human fetal brain prior to preterm birth. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 39286–39286. 114 indexed citations

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Marusak, Hilary A., Moriah E. Thomason, Craig Peters, et al.. (2016). You say ‘prefrontal cortex’ and I say ‘anterior cingulate’: meta-analysis of spatial overlap in amygdala-to-prefrontal connectivity and internalizing symptomology. Translational Psychiatry. 6(11). e944–e944. 71 indexed citations

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Thomason, Moriah E. & Hilary A. Marusak. (2016). Toward understanding the impact of trauma on the early developing human brain. Neuroscience. 342. 55–67. 62 indexed citations

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Heuvel, Marion I. van den & Moriah E. Thomason. (2016). Functional Connectivity of the Human Brain in Utero. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 20(12). 931–939. 87 indexed citations

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Hardy, Joseph L., et al.. (2015). Enhancing Cognitive Abilities with Comprehensive Training: A Large, Online, Randomized, Active-Controlled Trial. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0134467–e0134467. 102 indexed citations

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Marusak, Hilary A., et al.. (2014). Childhood Trauma Exposure Disrupts the Automatic Regulation of Emotional Processing. Neuropsychopharmacology. 40(5). 1250–1258. 238 indexed citations

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Marusak, Hilary A., Justin M. Carré, & Moriah E. Thomason. (2013). The stimuli drive the response: An fMRI study of youth processing adult or child emotional face stimuli. NeuroImage. 83. 679–689. 42 indexed citations

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Swartz, Johnna R., Melisa Carrasco, Jillian Lee Wiggins, Moriah E. Thomason, & Christopher S. Monk. (2013). Age-related changes in the structure and function of prefrontal cortex–amygdala circuitry in children and adolescents: A multi-modal imaging approach. NeuroImage. 86. 212–220. 110 indexed citations

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Dennis, Emily L., Ian H. Gotlib, Paul M. Thompson, & Moriah E. Thomason. (2011). Anxiety Modulates Insula Recruitment in Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Youth and Adults. Brain Connectivity. 1(3). 245–254. 48 indexed citations

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Thomason, Moriah E., Christian E. Waugh, Gary H. Glover, & Ian H. Gotlib. (2009). COMT genotype and resting brain perfusion in children. NeuroImage. 48(1). 217–222. 11 indexed citations

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Canli, Turhan, Rebecca Cooney, Philippe R. Goldin, et al.. (2005). Amygdala reactivity to emotional faces predicts improvement in major depression. Neuroreport. 16(12). 1267–1270. 135 indexed citations

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Canli, Turhan, et al.. (2004). Brain activation to emotional words in depressed vs healthy subjects. Neuroreport. 15(17). 2585–2588. 135 indexed citations

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