Representative Publications

A Shared Mechanism Across Youth Symptoms

In this study, we linked youth’s inhibitory control (their ability to stop a behavior to achieve a task goal) to efficiency of a specific brain network. Further, we found that difficulties in inhibitory control were a shared feature across multiple clinical problems (anxiety, irritability, and ADHD).

Cardinale et al. (2024), Psychological Science

Distinct Brain Mechanisms of Irritability and Anxiety

Symptoms of anxiety and irritability often go hand-in-hand in youth. Here, we used statistical tools to distinguish these symptoms. Our findings revealed that despite their co-occurrence, irritability and anxiety were characterized by unique patterns of activity and connectivity throughout the brain.

Kircanski et al. (2018), JAMA Psychiatry

Naming Fears to Confront Them

In this lab-based experiment, we harnessed insight from brain science and applied it to exposure therapy for fears and phobias. We found that affect labeling (putting one’s feelings into words) during exposure to a spider helped decrease participants’ physical fear responses. Benefits of affect labeling have now been replicated across other fears.

Kircanski et al. (2012), Psychological Science

* indicates trainee whom Dr. Kircanski mentored closely on this publication
† indicates equal contribution

In Press

  1. *Poe, A. D., *Khosravi, P., Kirschner, S., Frenkel, T. I., Zeytinolgu, S., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Degnan, K. A., Henderson, H. A., Kircanski, K., Fox, N. A., & Pine, D. S. (in press).  Differential developmental influences on anxiety in adulthood: Dimensions of social involvement moderate behavioral inhibition predicting anxiety in adulthood.  Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders.
  1. *Kirk, P. A., Qamar, P., Lentz, J., Zugman, A., Abend, R., †Kircanski, K., & †Pine, D. S. (in press). Linking subjective experience of anxiety to brain function using natural language processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsaf099
  1. *Korom, M., McSweeney, M., Zeytinolgu, S., Liuzzi, L., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A., & Kircanski, K. (in press).  The effects of age, sex, and depressive symptoms on change in P3 amplitude during adolescence.  Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
  1. *Lee, Y. D., Towbin, K., Pine, D. S., Stringaris, A., & Kircanski, K. (in press). Temporal predictions from anhedonia to anxiety in adolescents with major depressive disorder. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. doi: 10.1007/s10802-025-01362-6
  1. Byrne, M. E., Haller, S. P., Linke, J. O., Lewis, K. M., Berman, E., Henry, L. M., Pagliaccio, D., Quezada, D., Meyer, M., Abend, R., Kircanski, K., Silverman, W. K., Lazarov, A., Bar-Haim, Y., Brotman, M. A., & Pine, D. S. (in press). Gamified attention bias modification training to augment CBT for youth anxiety disorders: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2025.08.010
  1. Kim, K. Y., Stoddard, J., Cardenas, S., Khosravi, P., Kircanski, K., Jones, M., Pine, D. S., Brotman, M. A., & Haller, S. P. (in press). Sensitivity and bias in face-emotion labeling: Replication and extension to youth with irritability and anxiety. JAACAP Open.
  1. Naim, R., Pandya, U., Shaughnessy, S., German, R. E., Henry, L. M., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. (in press). Advancing the measurement of psychotherapy outcomes for youth with irritability using in-vivo ecological momentary assessment. Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
  1. Ricketts, E. J., Kircanski, K., Joyce, D. S., Rissman, A. J., Ottenberg, J., & Soehner, A. M. (in press). Age of onset in insomnia: A latent profile analysis. Journal of Sleep Research. doi: 10.1111/jsr.70103

2025

  1. *Kirk, P. A., Pine, D. S., & Kircanski, K. (2025). Extending insights from LeDoux: Using movies to study subjective, clinically meaningful experiences in neuroscience. Cerebral Cortex, 35, 58-64.
  1. *Kirk, P. A., Qamar, P., Zugman, A., Abend, R., Frank, S., Ringlein, G. V., Jett, L., DeLap, G. A. L., Harrewijn, A., Pine, D. S., & Kircanski, K. (2025). The relations among anxiety, movie-watching, and in-scanner motion. Human Brain Mapping, 46, e70163.
  1. Brown, B., Nguyen, L., Morales, I., Cardinale, E. M., Tseng, W.-L., McKay, C. C., Kircanski, K., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Linke, J. O. (2025). Associations between neighborhood resources and youth’s response to reward omission in a task modeling negatively biased environments. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 64, 463-474.
  1. Cardinale, E. M., Meigs, J., Haller, S. P., Fling, K., Pandya, U., Siegal, O., Poe, A., Shaughnessy, S., Zapp, C., Bezek, J. L., Lee, K., Khosravi, P., German, R., Jangraw, D., Henry, L. M., Byrne, M. E., Kircanski, K., Leibenluft, E., Naim, R., Pine, D. S., & Brotman, M. A. (2025). Leveraging technology to probe mechanisms of psychopathology: A proof of concept study of inhibitory control. PLOS One, 20, e0319004.
  1. Hansen, E., Naim, R., Henry, L. M., Kircanski, K., Pine, D. S., Brotman, M. A., & Byrne, M. E. (2025). Evaluating psychometric validity of ecological momentary assessment for youth irritability. Journal of Affective Disorders, 391, 119788.
  1. Kanel, D., Zugman, A., Stohr, G., Scheinberg, B., Cardinale, E., Winkler, A., Kircanski, K., Fox, N. A., Brotman, M. A., Linke, J. O., & Pine, D. S. (2025). Structure-function coupling in network connectivity and associations with negative affectivity in a group of transdiagnostic adolescents. Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 9, 100094.
  1. Lee, Y., Yuan, J. P., Winkler, A. M., Kircanski, K., Pine, D. S., & Gotlib, I. H. (2025). Task-rest reconfiguration efficiency of the reward network across adolescence and its association with early life stress and depressive symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 64, 290-300.
  1. Naim, R., German, R. E., White, J., Pandya, U., Dombek, K., Clayton, M., Perlstein, S., Henry, L., Kircanski, K., Lorenzo-Luaces, L., & Brotman, M. A. (2025). Treatment adherence, therapeutic alliance, and clinical outcomes during an exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for pediatric irritability. BMC Psychiatry, 25, 181.
  1. Uy, J. P., Shin, K., Buthmann, J. L., Kircanski, K., LeMoult, J., Berens, A., Gotlib, I. H. (2025). Exposure to diesel-related particulate matter, cortisol stress responsivity, and depressive symptoms in adolescents. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 171, 107214.

2024

  1. *Bernstein, R. A., *Smith, A. R., Kitt, E., Cardinale, E. M., Harrewijn, A., Abend, R., Michalska, K., Pine, D. S., & Kircanski, K. (2024). Threat appraisal and pediatric anxiety: Proof of concept of a latent variable approach. Clinical Psychological Science, 12, 772-781.
  1. *Cardinale, E. M., Bezek, J., Linke, J. O., Siegal, O., Freitag, G. F., Subar, A., Khosravi, P., Mallidi, A., Peterson, O., Morales, I., Haller, S. P., Filippi, C., Lee, K., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Kircanski, K. (2024). Multivariate assessment of inhibitory control in youth: Links with psychopathology and brain function. Psychological Science, 35, 376-389.
  1. *McKay, C. C., *Vittali De Jesus, A., *Peterson, O., Leibenluft, E., & Kircanski, K. (2024). Cross-sectional and longitudinal relations among irritability, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms, and inhibitory control. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 63, 1014-1023.
  1. Kircanski, K. (2024). Editorial: Baby steps on challenging ground: Understanding how early-life irritability impacts mental health outcomes. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 63, 117-119.
  1. †Amelio, P., †Antonacci, C., Khosravi, P., Haller, S., Kircanski, K., Berman, E., Cullins, L., Lewis, K., Davis, M., Engel, C., Towbin, K., Stringaris, A., & Pine, D. S. (2024). Evaluating the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA) in pediatric anxiety and depression. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 18, 12.
  1. Archer, C., Meza-Cervera, T., Scheinberg, B., Kircanski, K., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Linke, J. O. (2024). Irritability, negative life events and the course of anxiety and depressive symptoms in a clinical sample of youth: A longitudinal study. JAACAP Open, 2, 45-54.
  1. Benito, K., Pittig, A., Abramowitz, J., Arch, J., Chavira, D., de Kleine, R., De Nadai, A., Hermans, D., Hofmann, S. G., Hoyer, J., Huppert, J. D., Kircanski, K., McEvoy, P. M., Meyer, H., Monfils, M. H., Papini, S., Rief, W., Rosenfield, D., Storch, E. A., Telch, M. J., Otto, M. W., Smiths, J. A., for the Exposure Therapy Consortium. (2024). Mechanisms of change in exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders: A research agenda. Clinical Psychological Science, 13, 687-719.
  1. Byrne, M. E., Kirschner, S., Harrewijn, A., Abend, R., Lazarov, A., Liuzzi, L., Kircanski, K., Haller, S., Bar-Haim, Y., & Pine, D. S. (2024). Eye-tracking measurement of attention bias to social threat among youth: A replication and extension study. Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 8, 100075.
  1. Haller, S. P., Linke, J. O., Grassie, H., Jones, E., Pagliaccio, D., Harrewijn, A., White, L., Naim, R., Mallidi, A., Berman, E., Lewis, K., Kircanski, K., Silverman, W. K., Kalin, N., Bar-Haim, Y., & Brotman, M. A. (2024). Normalization of fronto-parietal activation by cognitive-behavioral therapy in unmedicated pediatric patients with anxiety disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 181, 201-212.
  1. Haller, S. P., Stoddard, J., Cardenas, S. I., Dombek, K., MacGillivray, C., Zapp, C., Bui, H., Stavish, C., Kircanski, K., Jones, M., & Brotman, M. A. (2024). Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: A computational approach. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19, nsae034.
  1. Henry, L. M., Hansen, E., Chimoff, J., Pokstis, K., Kiderman, M., Naim, R., Kossowsky, J., Byrne, M. E., Lopez-Guzman, S., Kircanski, K., Pine, D. S., & Brotman, M. A. (2024). Selecting an ecological momentary assessment platform: A tutorial for researchers. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, e51125.
  1. Leibenluft, E., Althoff, R., Brotman, M. A., Burke, J., Carlson, G., Dickstein, D., Dougherty, L., Evans, S., Kircanski, K., Klein, D., Malone, E., Mazefsky, C., Nigg, J. T., Perelman, S., Pine, D. S., Roy, A., Salum, G., Shakeshaft, A., Silver, J., Stoddard, J., Thapar, A., Tseng, W.-L., Vidal-Ribas, P., Wakschlag, L., & Stringaris, A. (2024). Irritability in youths: A critical integrative review. American Journal of Psychiatry, 181, 275-290.
  1. McKay, C. C., Scheinberg, B., Xu, E. P., Kircanski, K., Pine, D. S., Brotman, M. A., Leibenluft, E., Linke, J. O. (2024). Modeling shared and specific variances of irritability, inattention, and hyperactivity yields novel insights into white matter perturbations. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 63, 1239-1250.
  1. Meigs, J. M., Kiderman, M., Kircanski, K., Cardinale, E. M., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., & Naim, R. (2024). Sleepless nights, sour moods: Daily sleep-irritability links in a pediatric clinical sample. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65, 1175-1883.
  1. Naim, R., Dombek, K., German, R. E., Haller, S. P., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. A. (2024). An exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth with severe irritability: Feasibility and preliminary efficacy. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 53, 260-276.

2023

  1. *Byrne, M. E., *Bernstein, R. A., Pine, D. S., & Kircanski, K. (2023). Ecological momentary assessment of youth anxiety: Evaluation of psychometrics for use in clinical trials. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 33, 409-417.
  1. *Cardinale, E. M., *Bezek, J., Morales, S., Filippi, C., Smith, A. R., Haller, S., Valadez, E. A., Harrewijn, A., Phillips, D., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Brotman, M. A., Fox, N. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Kircanski, K. (2023). Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of anxiety and irritability with adolescents’ neural responses to cognitive conflict. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 8, 436-444.
  1. *Linke, J. O., Haller, S., Xu, E., Nguyen, L., *Chue, A., Zapp, C., Revzina, O., Perlstein, S., Ross, A. J., Tseng, W-L., Shaw, P., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Gotts, S., †Leibenluft, E., & †Kircanski, K. (2023). Persistent frustration-induced reconfigurations of brain networks predict individual differences in irritability. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62, 684-695.
  1. Brotman, M. A., & Kircanski, K. (2023). Editorial: A cry for help: We need nonpharmacological randomized controlled trials for pediatric irritability. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62, 292-293.
  1. Berens, A., LeMoult, J., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2023). ADHD symptoms and diurnal cortisol in adolescents: The importance of comorbidities. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 148, 105990.
  1. Lee, K. S., Hagan, C. N., Hughes, M., Cotter, G., Freud, E. M., Kircanski, K., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., Tseng, W-L. (2023). Systematic review and meta-analysis: Task-based fMRI studies in youths with irritability. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62, 208-229.
  1. Mallidi, A., Meza-Cervera, T., Kircanski, K., Stringaris, A., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Linke, J. O. (2023). Robust caregiver-youth discrepancies in irritability ratings on the Affective Reactivity Index: An investigation of its origins. Journal of Affective Disorders, 332, 185-193.
  1. Ravi, S., Havewala, M., Kircanski, K., Brotman, M. A., Schneider, L., Fox, N. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Filippi, C. (2023). Parenting and childhood irritability: Negative emotion socialization and parental control moderate the development of irritability. Development and Psychopathology, 35, 1444-1453.
  1. Tseng, W-L., *Naim, R., *Chue, A., Shaughnessy, S., *Meigs, J., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. A. (2023). Network analysis of ecological momentary assessment identifies frustration as a central node in irritability. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64, 1212-1221.

2022

  1. Haller, S. P., Stoddard, J., Botz-Zapp, C., Clayton, M., MacGillivray, C., Perhamus, G., Stiles, K., Kircanski, K., Penton-Voak, I., Bar-Haim, Y., Munafò, M., Towbin, K. W., & Brotman, M. A. (2022). A randomized controlled trial of computerized interpretation bias training for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: A fast-fail study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61, 37-45.
  1. Naim, R., Haller, S. P., Linke, J., Jaffe, A., Stoddard, J., Jones, M., Harrewijn, A., Kircanski, K., Bar-Haim, Y., & Brotman, M. A. (2022). Context-dependent amygdala-prefrontal connectivity during the dot-probe task varies by irritability and attention bias to angry faces. Neuropsychopharmacology, 47, 2283-2291.
  1. Naim, R., Shaughnessy, S., Smith, A., Karalunas, S. L., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. A. (2022). Real-time assessment of positive and negative affective fluctuations and mood lability in a transdiagnostic sample of youth. Depression and Anxiety, 39, 870-880.
  1. Smith, A. R., Jones, E. L., Subar, A. R., Do, Q. B., Kircanski, K., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., & Silk, J. S. (2022). The role of anxiety and gender in anticipation and avoidance of naturalistic anxiety-provoking experiences during adolescence: An ecological momentary assessment study. JCCP Advances, 2, e12084.
  1. Sugaya, L. S., Kircanski, K., Stringaris, A., Polanczyk, G. V., & Leibenluft, E. (2022). Validation of an irritability measure in preschoolers in school-based and clinical Brazilian samples. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 31, 577-587.
  1. Zik, J., Deveney, C., Ellingson, J. M., Haller, S. P., Kircanski, K., Cardinale, E., Brotman, M. A., & Stoddard, J. (2022). Understanding irritability in relation to anger, aggression, and informant in a pediatric clinical population. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61, 711-720.

2021

  1. *Cardinale, E. M., *Freitag, G. F., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Kircanski, K. (2021). Phasic versus tonic irritability: Differential associations with ADHD symptoms. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 60, 1513-1523.
  1. *†Cardinale, E. M., †Pagliaccio, D., Swetlitz, C., *Grassie, H., Abend, R., Costa, V., Averbeck, B., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Kircanski, K. (2021). Deliberative choice strategies in youth: Relevance to transdiagnostic anxiety symptoms. Clinical Psychological Science, 9, 979-989.
  1. *Naim-Aricha, R., Smith, A., *Chue, A., Grassie, H., Linke, J. O., Dombek, K., Shaughnessy, S., McNeil, C., Cardinale, E., Agorsor, C., Cardenas, S., Brooks, J., Subar, A. R., Jones, E. L., Do, Q. B., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., & Kircanski, K. (2021). Using ecological momentary assessment to enhance irritability phenotyping in a transdiagnostic sample of youth. Development and Psychopathology, 33, 1734-1746.
  1. Leibenluft, E., & Kircanski, K. (2021). Chronic irritability in youth: A reprise on challenges and opportunities toward meeting unmet clinical needs. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 30, 667-683.
  1. Abend, R., Bajaj, M. A., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Kircanski, K., Haller, S. P., Cardinale, E. M., Salum, G. A., Wiers, R. W., Salemink, E., Pettit, J. W., Pérez-Edgar, K., Lebowitz, E., Silverman, W. K., Bar-Haim, Y., Brotman, M. A., Leibenluft, E., Fried, E. I., & Pine, D. S. (2021). A computational network perspective on pediatric anxiety symptoms. Psychological Medicine, 51, 1752-1762.
  1. Abend, R., Bajaj, M. A., Mastumoto, C., Yetter, M., Harrewijn, A., Cardinale, E. M., Kircanski, K., Lebowitz, E., Silverman, W. K., Bar-Haim, Y., Lazarov, A., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., & Pine, D. S. (2021). Converging multi-modal evidence for implicit threat bias in pediatric anxiety disorders. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 49, 227-240.
  1. Harrewijn, A., Abend, R., Naim, R., Haller, S. P., Stavish, C. M., Bajaj, M. A., Matsumoto, C., Dombek, K., Cardinale, E. M., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. A. (2021). Attention bias to negative versus non-negative faces is related to negative affectivity in a transdiagnostic youth sample. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 138, 514-518.
  1. Jha, M. K., Minhajuddin, A., Chin Fatt, C., Shoptaw, S., Kircanski, K., Stringaris, A., Leibenluft, E., & Trivedi, M. (2021). Irritability as an independent predictor of concurrent and future suicidal ideation in adults with stimulant use disorder: Findings from the STRIDE study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 292, 108-113.
  1. Linke, J. O., Abend, R., Kircanski, K., Clayton, M., Stavish, C., Benson, B. E., Brotman, M. A., Renaud, O., Smith, S. M., Nichols, T. E., Leibenluft, E., Winkler, A. M., & Pine, D. S. (2021). Shared and anxiety-specific pediatric psychopathology dimensions manifest distributed neural correlates. Biological Psychiatry, 89, 579-587.
  1. Naim-Aricha, R., Kircanski, K., Gold, A. L., German, R. E., Davis, M., *Perlstein, S., *Clayton, M., *Revzina, O., & Brotman, M. A. (2021). An across-subjects multiple baseline trial of exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for severe irritability: A study protocol. BMJ Open, 11, e039169.

2020

  1. Abend, R., Swetlitz, C., White, L. K., Schechner, T., Bar-Haim, Y., Filippi, C., Kircanski, K., Benson, B. E., Chen, G., Leibenluft, E., Fox, N. A., & Pine, D. S. (2020). Levels of early-childhood behavioral inhibition predict distinct neurodevelopmental pathways to pediatric anxiety. Psychological Medicine, 50, 96-106.
  1. Filippi, C., Subar, A. R., Sachs, J. F., Kircanski, K., Winkler, A., Buzzell, G., Pagliaccio, D., Abend, R., Fox, N. A., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. S. (2020). Developmental pathways to social anxiety and irritability: The role of the ERN. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 897-907.
  1. Haller, S. P., Kircanski, K., Stringaris, A., Clayton, M., Bui, H., Agorsor, C., Cardenas, S. I., Towbin, K. E., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Brotman, M. A. (2020). The Clinician Affective Reactivity Index: Validity and reliability of a clinician-rated assessment of irritability. Behavior Therapy, 51, 283-293.
  1. Ho, T. C., Pham, H., Miller, J. G., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2020). Sympathetic nervous system dominance during stress recovery mediates associations between stress sensitivity and social anxiety symptoms in female adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 1914-1925.
  1. Jha, M. K., Minhajuddin, A., Chin Fatt, C., Kircanski, K., Stringaris, A., Leibenluft, E., & Trivedi, M. (2020). Association between irritability and suicidal ideation in three clinical trials of adults with major depressive disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45, 2147-2154.
  1. Linke, J., Kircanski, K., Brooks, J., Gold, A. L., & Brotman, M. A. (2020). Exposure-based CBT for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: An evidence-based case study. Behavior Therapy, 51, 320-333.
  1. Miller, J. G., Gillette, J. S., Kircanski, K., LeMoult, J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2020). Air pollution is associated with elevated HPA-axis response to stress in anxious adolescent girls. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 4, 100015.
  1. Smith, A. R., Nelson, E. E., Kircanski, K., Rappaport, B. I., Do, Q. B., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., & Jarcho, J. M. (2020). Social anxiety and age are associated with neural response to social evaluation during adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 42, 100768.
  1. Thompson, R. J., Borenstein, J. B., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2020). Standards for socially- and achievement-oriented roles in major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 44, 1025-1033.

2019

  1. Kircanski, K., Craske, M. G., Averbeck, B. B., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Brotman, M. A. (2019). Exposure therapy for pediatric irritability: Theory and potential mechanisms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 118, 141-149.
  1. †Kircanski, K., †*Sisk, L. M., Ho, T. C., Humphreys, K. L., King, L. S., Colich, N. L., Ordaz, S. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2019). Early life stress, cortisol, frontolimbic connectivity, and depressive symptoms during puberty. Development and Psychopathology, 31, 1011-1022.
  1. Kircanski, K., Williams, L. M., & Gotlib, I. H. (2019). Heart rate variability as a biomarker of anxious depression response to antidepressant medication. Depression and Anxiety, 36, 63-71.
  1. *Cardinale, E. M., Kircanski, K., *Brooks, J., Gold, A. L., Towbin, K. E., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Brotman, M. A. (2019). Parsing neurodevelopmental features of irritability and anxiety: Replication and validation of a latent variable approach. Development and Psychopathology, 31, 917-929.
  1. *Cardinale, E. M., Subar, A. R., Brotman, M. A., Leibenluft, E., Kircanski, K., & Pine, D. S. (2019). Inhibitory control and emotion dysregulation: A framework for research on anxiety. Development and Psychopathology, 31, 859-869.
  1. Humphreys, K. L., Schouboe, S. N. F., Kircanski, K., Leibenluft, E., Stringaris, A., & Gotlib, I. H. (2019). Irritability, externalizing, and internalizing psychopathology in adolescence: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations and moderation by sex. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 48, 781-789.
  1. Miller, J. G., Gillette, J. S., Manczak, E. M., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2019). Fine particle air pollution is associated with increased social stress reactivity in adolescence: The moderating role of anxiety and depression. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81, 641-648.
  1. Ricketts, E., Snorrason, Í., Kircanski, K., Alexander, J. R., Stiede, J. T., Thamrin, H., Flessner, C. A., Franklin, M. E., Piacentini, J. C., Stein, D. J., & Woods, D. W. (2019). A latent profile analysis of age of onset in trichotillomania. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 31, 169-178.
  1. Schwartz, J., Ordaz, S. J., Kircanski, K., Ho, T. C., Davis, E. G., Camacho, M. C., & Gotlib, I. H. (2019). Resting-state functional connectivity and inflexibility of daily emotions in major depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 249, 26-34.
  1. Smith, A. R., Kircanski, K., Brotman, M., Do, Q. B., Subar, A., Silk, J. S., Engel, S., Crosby, R. D., Harrewijn, A., White, L. K., Haller, S. P., Cardinale, E., Buzzell, G. A., Barker, T., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. S. (2019). Advancing clinical neuroscience through enhanced tools: Pediatric social anxiety as an example. Depression and Anxiety, 36, 701-711.
  1. Tseng, W-L., Deveney, C., Stoddard, J., Kircanski, K., Frackman, A., Yi, J., Hsu, D., Moroney, E., Machlin, L., Donahue, L., Roule, A., Perhamus, G., Reynolds, R., Roberson-Nay, R., Hettema, J., Towbin, K. E., Pine, D. S., Brotman, M. A., & Leibenluft, E. (2019). Brain mechanisms of attention orienting following frustration: Associations with irritability and age in youth. American Journal of Psychiatry, 176, 67-76.

2018

  1. Kircanski, K., *Clayton, M. E., Leibenluft, E., & Brotman, M. A. (2018). Psychosocial treatment of irritability in youth. Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, 5, 129-140.
  1. Kircanski, K., Notthoff, N., DeLiema, M., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., Shadel, D., Mottola, G., Carstensen, L. L., & Gotlib, I. H. (2018). Emotional arousal may increase susceptibility to fraud in older and younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 33, 325-337.
  1. Kircanski, K., Thompson, R. J., Sorenson, J., Sherdell, L., & Gotlib, I. H. (2018). The everyday dynamics of rumination and worry: Precipitant events and affective consequences. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 1424-1436.
  1. Kircanski, K., White, L. K., Tseng, W-L., Wiggins, J. L., *Frank, H., Sequeira, S., *Zhang, S., Abend, R., Towbin, K. E., Stringaris, A., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Brotman, M. A. (2018). A latent variable approach to differentiating neural mechanisms of irritability and anxiety in youth. JAMA Psychiatry, 75, 631-639.
  1. †Haller, S. P., †Kircanski, K., Stoddard, J., White, L. K., *Donahue, L., Sharif-Askary, B., *Zhang, S., Towbin, K. E., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2018). Reliability of neural activation and connectivity during implicit face emotion processing in youth. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 67-73.
  1. Chen, G., Taylor, P. A., Haller, S. P., Kircanski, K., Stoddard, J., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., & Cox, R. W. (2018). Intraclass correlation: Improved modeling approaches and applications for neuroimaging. Human Brain Mapping, 39, 1187-1206. (Human Brain Mapping 2019 Editors’ Choice Collection)
  1. Ricketts, E., Snorrason, Í., Kircanski, K., Alexander, J. R., Thamrin, H., Flessner, C. A., Franklin, M. E., Piacentini, J. C., & Woods, D. W. (2018). A latent profile analysis of age of onset in pathological skin picking. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 87, 46-52.

2017

  1. Kircanski, K., Brotman, M. A., & Leibenluft, E. (2017). Severe irritability and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. In C. A. Essau, S. Leblanc, & T. H. Ollendick (Eds.), Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents (pp. 281-301). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  1. Kircanski, K., LeMoult, J., Ordaz, S., & Gotlib, I. H. (2017). Investigating the nature of co-occurring depression and anxiety: Comparing diagnostic and dimensional research approaches. Journal of Affective Disorders, 216, 123-135.
  1. Kircanski, K., *Zhang, S., Stringaris, A., Wiggins, J. L., Towbin, K. E., Pine, D. S., Leibenluft, E., & Brotman, M. A. (2017). Empirically derived patterns of psychiatric symptoms in youth: A latent profile analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 216, 109-116.
  1. Brotman, M. A., Kircanski, K., & Leibenluft, E. (2017). Irritability in children and adolescents. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 13, 317-341.
  1. Brotman, M. A., Kircanski, K., Stringaris, A., Pine, D. S., & Leibenluft, E. (2017). Irritability in youths: A translational model. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174, 520-532.
  1. LeMoult, J., Kircanski, K., Prasad, G., & Gotlib, I. H. (2017). Negative self-referential processing predicts the recurrence of major depressive episodes. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 174-181.

2016

  1. Kircanski, K., Johnson, D. C., *Mateen, M., Bjork, R. A., & Gotlib, I. H. (2016). Impaired retrieval inhibition of threat material in generalized anxiety disorder. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 320-327.
  1. Kircanski, K., Waugh, C. E., *Camacho, M. C., & Gotlib, I. H. (2016). Aberrant parasympathetic stress responsivity in pure and co-occurring major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 38, 5-19.
  1. Humphreys, K. L., Kircanski, K., Colich, N. L., & Gotlib, I. H. (2016). Attentional avoidance of fearful facial expressions following early life stress is associated with impaired social functioning. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 1174-1182.
  1. LeMoult, J., Joormann, J., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2016). Attentional bias training in girls at risk for depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 1326-1333.
  1. Safren, S. A., Kircanski, K., & Craske, M. G. (2016). Introduction to ABCT’s 50th anniversary special series of commentaries by selected past presidents of the association. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 23, 413-414.
  1. Thompson, R. J., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2016). The grass is not as green as you think: Affect evaluation in people with internalizing disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 203, 233-240.

2015 and Earlier

  1. Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2015). Processing of emotional information in major depressive disorder: Toward a dimensional understanding. Emotion Review, 7, 256-264.
  1. Kircanski, K., Joormann, J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2015). Attention to emotional information in social anxiety disorder with and without co-occurring depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39, 153-161.
  1. Kircanski, K., & Peris, T. S. (2015). Exposure and response prevention process predicts treatment outcome in youth with OCD. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 543-552.
  1. Kircanski, K., Thompson, R. J., Sorenson, J., Sherdell, L., & Gotlib, I. H. (2015). Rumination and worry in daily life: Examining the naturalistic validity of theoretical constructs. Clinical Psychological Science, 3, 926-939.
  1. *Colich, N. L., Kircanski, K., Foland-Ross, L. C., & Gotlib, I. H. (2015). HPA-axis reactivity interacts with stage of pubertal development to predict the onset of depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 55, 94-101.
  1. LeMoult, J., Ordaz, S., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2015). Predicting first onset of depression in young girls: Interaction of diurnal cortisol and negative life events. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124, 850-859.
  1. Pe, M. L., Kircanski, K., Thompson, R. J., Bringmann, L., Tuerlinckx, F., Mata, J., Jaeggi, S. M., Buschkuehl, M., Jonides, J., Kuppens, P., & Gotlib, I. H. (2015). Emotion-network density in major depressive disorder. Clinical Psychological Science, 3, 292-300.
  1. Kircanski, K., *Wu, M., & Piacentini, J. C. (2014). Reduction of subjective distress in CBT for childhood OCD: Nature of change, predictors, and relation to clinical outcomes. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 28, 125-132.
  1. Foland-Ross, L. C., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2014). Coping with having a depressed mother: The role of stress and coping in HPA-axis dysfunction in girls at familial risk for depression. Development and Psychopathology, 26, 1401-1409.
  1. Kircanski, K., & Craske, M. G. (2013). Anxiety Disorder Not Elsewhere Classified. In Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
  1. Kircanski, K., & Craske, M. G. (2013). Panic Attack. In Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
  1. Kircanski, K., *Mazur, H., & Gotlib, I. H. (2013). Behavioral activation system moderates self-referent processing following recovery from depression. Psychological Medicine, 43, 1909-1920.
  1. Kircanski, K., Peris, T. S., & Piacentini, J. C. (2013). Assessment of tics and comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptoms. In D. McKay & E. A. Storch (Eds.), Handbook of assessing variants and complications in anxiety disorders (pp. 63-75). New York: Springer Press.
  1. Craske, M. G., Kircanski, K., Epstein, A., Wittchen, H. U., Pine, D. S., Lewis-Fernandez, R., Hinton, D., & Roy-Byrne, P. P. (2013). Panic disorder. In DSM-5 Sourcebook. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
  1. McGuire, J. F.,Nyirabahizi, E., Kircanski, K., Piacentini, J., Peterson, A. L., Woods, D. W., Wilhelm, S., Walkup, J. T., & Scahill, L. (2013). A cluster analysis of tic symptoms in children and adults with Tourette Syndrome: Clinical correlates and treatment outcome. Psychiatry Research, 210, 1198-1204.
  1. Kircanski, K., Joormann, J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2012). Cognitive aspects of depression. Wiley Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Cognitive Science, 3, 301-313.
  1. Kircanski, K., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2012). Feelings into words: Contributions of language to exposure therapy. Psychological Science, 23, 1086-1091.
  1. Kircanski, K., *Mortazavi, A., Castriotta, N., Baker, A. S., Mystkowski, J. L., Yi, R., & Craske, M. G. (2012). Challenges to the traditional exposure paradigm: Variability in exposure therapy for contamination fears. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 745-751.
  1. Kircanski, K., Peris, T. S., & Piacentini, J. C. (2011). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 20, 239-254.
  1. Kircanski, K., Woods, D. M., Chang, S. W., Ricketts, E. J., & Piacentini, J. C. (2010). Cluster analysis of the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS): Symptom dimensions and clinical correlates in an outpatient youth sample. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38, 777-788.
  1. Craske, M. G., Kircanski, K., Epstein, A., Wittchen, H. U., Pine, D. S., Lewis-Fernandez, R., & Hinton, D. (2010). Panic disorder: A review of DSM-IV panic disorder and proposals for DSM-V. Depression and Anxiety, 27, 93-112.
  1. Kircanski, K., Craske, M. G., Epstein, A. M., & Wittchen, H. U. (2009). Subtypes of panic attacks: A critical review of the empirical literature. Depression and Anxiety, 26, 878-887.
  1. Kircanski, K., Craske, M. G., & Bjork, R. A. (2008). Thought suppression enhances memory bias for threat material. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 462-476.
  1. Craske, M. G., Kircanski, K., Zelikowski, M., Mystkowski, J., Chowdhury, N., & Baker, A. (2008). Optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 5-27. (Behaviour Research and Therapy Top-10 Most Cited Article from 2007-2011)