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

Dr. Kircanski’s h-index = 42
* indicates trainee whom Dr. Kircanski mentored closely on this publication
† indicates equal contribution

In Press

  1. *Giampetruzzi, E., *Khosravi, P., Kircanski, K., Antonacci, C., Pine, D. S., & Gotlib, I. H. (in press).  Reward-network connectivity in childhood predicts emotion dysregulation in adolescence.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.70143  PubMed
  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   PubMed
  1. †Freitag, G. F., †Shaughnessy, S., Meigs, J. M., Khosravi, P., Linke, J. O., Evans, S. C., Leibenluft, E., Brotman, M. A., Pine, D. S., Kircanski, K., & Cardinale, E. M. (in press). An investigation of inhibitory control as a mechanism differentiating tonic and phasic irritability. Child Psychiatry & Human Development.  PubMed
  1. Khosravi, P., Poe, A., Malone, E., Bezek, J., Meyer, M. L., Siegal, O., Cardinale, E., Kircanski, K., Brotman, M. A., Haller, S., & Pine, D. S. (in press). Neural responses to error in youth: The impact of social context, anxiety, and worry. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.   PubMed Central

2026

  1. *Kirk, P. A., Qamar, P., Lentz, J., Zugman, A., Abend, R., †Kircanski, K., & †Pine, D. S. (2026). Linking subjective experience of anxiety to brain function using natural language processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 21, nsaf099.  PubMed Central
  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. (2026). Differential developmental influences on anxiety in adulthood: Behavioral inhibition moderates the dimensions of social involvement predicting anxiety in adulthood. Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 13, 100161.  PubMed Central
  1. Kim, K. Y., Stoddard, J., Cardenas, S., Khosravi, P., Kircanski, K., Jones, M., Pine, D. S., Brotman, M. A., & Haller, S. P. (2026).  Sensitivity and bias in face-emotion labeling: Replication and extension to youth with irritability and anxiety.  JAACAP Open, 4, 42-52.   PubMed Central
  1. Naim, R., Pandya, U., Shaughnessy, S., German, R. E., Henry, L. M., Kircanski, K., & Brotman, M. (2026).  Advancing the measurement of psychotherapy outcomes for youth with irritability using in-vivo ecological momentary assessment: an exploratory observational study.  Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 31, 33-40.  PubMed Central
  1. Ricketts, E. J., Kircanski, K., Joyce, D. S., Rissman, A. J., Ottenberg, J., & Soehner, A. M. (2026).  Age of onset in insomnia: A latent profile analysis.  Journal of Sleep Research, 35, e70103.  PubMed Central

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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  1. *Korom, M., McSweeney, M., Zeytinolgu, S., Liuzzi, L., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A., & Kircanski, K. (2025). Age and sex, but not depression or anxiety, predict P3 amplitude during adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 76, 101640.   PubMed Central
  1. *Lee, Y. D., Towbin, K., Pine, D. S., Stringaris, A., & Kircanski, K. (2025). Temporal predictions from anhedonia to anxiety in adolescents with major depressive disorder. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 53, 1595-1610.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed
  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. PubMed Central
  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.     PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central

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. PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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). Cognitive behavioral therapy normalizes fronto-parietal activation in unmedicated patients with pediatric anxiety disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 181, 201-212.   PubMed Central
  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.    PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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. PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central

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.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   Pub Med Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.    PubMed Central

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). 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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed
  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.    PubMed Central

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.  PubMed Central
  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.   Sage Journals
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.    PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  1. Naim-Aricha, R., Kircanski, K., Gold, A. L., German, R. E., Davis, M., *Perlstein, S., *Clayton, M., *Revzina, O., & Brotman, M. A. (2021). Across-subjects multiple baseline trial of exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for severe irritability: a study protocol. BMJ Open, 11, e039169. PubMed Central

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. PubMed Central
  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. PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.    PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central

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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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. PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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. PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  1. Miller, J. G., Gillette, J. S., Manczak, E. M., Kircanski, K., & Gotlib, I. H. (2019). Fine particle air pollution and physiological reactivity to social stress in adolescence: The moderating role of anxiety and depression. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81, 641-648.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.    PubMed Central

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.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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)   PubMed Central
  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.    PubMed Central

2017

  1. Kircanski, K., Brotman, M. A., & Leibenluft, E. (2017). Emotion regulation in 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.Oxford Academic
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  1. Brotman, M. A., Kircanski, K., & Leibenluft, E. (2017). Irritability in children and adolescents. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 13, 317-341.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central

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.    PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.    PubMed Central
  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.  Science Direct
  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.  PubMed Central

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.  PubMed Central
  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.    PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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. PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed Central
  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. PubMed Central
  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 major depression. Development and Psychopathology, 26, 1401-1409.   PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed Central
  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.  Springer Nature
  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.  PubMed
  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.  PubMed Central
  1. Kircanski, K., Joormann, J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2012). Cognitive aspects of depression. Wiley Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Cognitive Science, 3, 301-313.  PubMed Central
  1. Kircanski, K., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2012). Feelings into words: Contributions of language to exposure therapy. Psychological Science, 23, 1086-1091.  PubMed Central
  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.  PubMed
  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.   PubMed
  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.   PubMed Central
  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.   PubMed
  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.   PubMed
  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.  PubMed
  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)   PubMed