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Katie Insel

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Cohen, A. O. & Insel, C. (2023) More than just a phase: adolescence as a window into how the brain generates behavior. PsyArXiv.

Insel C.*, Tabashneck, S.*, Shen, F.X., Edersheim, J.G., & Kinscherff, R.T. (2022). White Paper on the Science of Late Adolescence: A Guide for Judges, Attorneys, and Policy Makers. Center for Law, Brain, & Behavior.

Rodman A., Powers K.E., Insel C., Kastman E.K., Stark A., Kabotyanski K.E., & Somerville L.H. (2021). How adolescents and adults translate value to action: Age-related shifts in strategic physical effort exertion for monetary rewards. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(1), 103-113.

Kearns, J.C.*, Coppersmith, D.D.L.*, Santee, A.C., Insel, C., Pigeon, W.R., & Glenn, C.R. (2020). Sleep problems and suicide risk in youth: A systematic review, developmental framework, and implications for hospital treatment. General Hospital Psychiatry, 63, 141-151.

Insel, C., Charifson, M., & Somerville, L. H. (2019). Neurodevelopmental shifts in learned value transfer on cognitive control during adolescence. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 40, 100730.

Martin, R.E., Silvers, J.A., Hardi, F., Stephano, T., Helion, C., Insel, C., Franz, P.J., Ninova, E., Lander, J.P., Mischel, W., Casey, B.J., & Ochsner, K.N. (2019). Longitudinal Changes in Brain Structures Related to Appetitive Reactivity and Regulation Across Development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 100675.

Insel, C.*, Glenn, C.*, Nock, M., & Somerville, L.H. (2019). Aberrant striatal tracking of reward magnitude in youth with current or past-year depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(1), 44-56.

Insel, C. & Somerville, L.H. (2018). Asymmetric neural tracking of gain and loss magnitude during adolescence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(8), 785-796.

Insel, C., Davidow, J.Y., & Somerville, L.H. (2018). Neurodevelopmental processes that shape the emergence of value-guided goal directed behavior. Forthcoming in The Cognitive Neurosciences VI (Gazzaniga, Mangun, & Poeppel, Eds.).

Davidow, J.Y.*, Insel, C.*, & Somerville, L.H. (2018). Adolescent development of value-guided goal pursuit. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(8), 725-736.

Lee, N.C.*, Weeda, W.D.*, Insel, C., Krabbendam, L., Somerville, L.H., & Huizinga, M. (2018). The influence of emotional cues on cognitive control in high and low risk-taking adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 20-34.

Insel, C., Kastman, E.K., Glenn, C.R., & Somerville, L.H. (2017). Development of corticostriatal connectivity constrains goal directed behavior during adolescence. Nature communications, 8, 1605.

Somerville, L.H., Sasse, S.F., Garrad, M.C., Drysdale, A.T., Akar, N.A., Insel, C., & Wilson, R.C. (2017). Charting the expansion of strategic exploratory behavior during adolescence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146 (2), 155.

Silvers, J.A., Insel, C., Powers, A., Franz, P., Helion, C., Weber, J., Casey, B.J., Mischel, W., & Ochsner, K.N. (2017). The transition from childhood to adolescence is marked by a general decrease in amygdala reactivity and an affect-specific ventral-to-dorsal shift in medial prefrontal recruitment. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 128-137.

Silvers, J.A., Insel, C., Powers, A., Franz, P., Helion, C., Weber, J., Casey, B.J., Mischel, W., & Ochsner, K.N. (2016). vlPFC-vmPFC-amygdala circuit underlies age-related differences in cognitive regulation of emotion. Cerebral Cortex, 27(7), 3502-3514.

Silvers, J.A., Insel, C., Powers, A., Franz, P., Weber, J., Casey, B.J., Mischel, W., & Ochsner, K.N. (2014). Curbing craving: Behavioral and brain evidence that children regulate craving when instructed to do so but have higher baseline craving that adults. Psychological Science, 25(10), 1932-1942.

Insel, C., Reinen, J., Weber, J., Wager, T. D., Jarskog, L. F., Shohamy, D., & Smith, E. E. (2014). Antipsychotic dose modulates behavioral and neural responses to feedback during reinforcement learning in schizophrenia. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(1), 189-201.

Reinen, J., Smith, E. E., Insel, C., Kribs, R., Shohamy, D., Wager, T. D., & Jarskog, L. F. (2014). Patients with schizophrenia are impaired when learning in the context of pursuing rewards. Schizophrenia Research, 152(1), 309.

Eich, T. S., Nee, D. E., Insel, C., Malapani, C., & Smith, E. E. (2013). Neural correlates of impaired cognitive control over working memory in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 76(2), 146–153.