Ahmad Hariri
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Overview
Integrating psychology, neuroimaging, pharmacology and molecular genetics in the search for biological pathways mediating individual differences in behavior and related risk for psychopathology.
Selected Grants
Evaluating neurodegenerative risk in middle-aged adults exposed to lead as children awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co-Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2021
Evaluating neurodegenerative risk in middle-aged adults exposed to lead as children awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co-Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2021
Neural signatures of healthy and unhealthy aging awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2020
A Compute Cluster for Brain Imaging and Analysis awarded by National Institutes of Health (Major User). 2016 to 2017
Neurogenetic Pathways to Drug Use in Young Adults awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2017
Instructed Activation of the Human Dopaminergic Midbrain using Real-Time fMRI awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co-Sponsor). 2014 to 2016
Self-Regulation Failure: Identifying and Modifying a Risk Phenotype awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co-Principal Investigator). 2010 to 2014
From Phenotype to Mechanism: Mapping the Pathways underlying Risky Choice awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co Investigator). 2009 to 2011
Development of Amygdala-Prefrontal Interactions awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (Principal Investigator). 2005 to 2010
Faig, K. E., et al. “Genetic Neuroimaging of Social Perception.” Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, vol. 3, 2015, pp. 97–105. Scopus, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-397025-1.00161-5. Full Text
Lam, Max, et al. “Pleiotropic Meta-Analysis of Cognition, Education, and Schizophrenia Differentiates Roles of Early Neurodevelopmental and Adult Synaptic Pathways..” Am J Hum Genet, vol. 105, no. 2, Aug. 2019, pp. 334–50. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.06.012. Full Text
Lai, Dongbing, et al. “Genome-wide association studies of alcohol dependence, DSM-IV criterion count and individual criteria..” Genes, Brain, and Behavior, vol. 18, no. 6, July 2019. Epmc, doi:10.1111/gbb.12579. Full Text
Hariri, Ahmad R. “The Emerging Importance of the Cerebellum in Broad Risk for Psychopathology..” Neuron, vol. 102, no. 1, Apr. 2019, pp. 17–20. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.02.031. Full Text
Puetz, V. B., et al. “Investigating patterns of neural response associated with childhood abuse v. childhood neglect.” Psychological Medicine, Jan. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1017/S003329171900134X. Full Text
Avinun, R., et al. “Divergence of an association between depressive symptoms and a dopamine polygenic score in Caucasians and Asians.” European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Jan. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s00406-019-01040-x. Full Text
Sethi, Arjun, et al. “Primary and Secondary Variants of Psychopathy in a Volunteer Sample Are Associated With Different Neurocognitive Mechanisms..” Biological Psychiatry. Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 2018, pp. 1013–21. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.04.002. Full Text
Lam, Max, et al. “Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS and Biological Insights Into Cognition: A Response to Hill (2018)..” Twin Res Hum Genet, vol. 21, no. 5, Oct. 2018, pp. 394–97. Pubmed, doi:10.1017/thg.2018.46. Full Text
Elliott, Maxwell L., et al. “A Connectome-wide Functional Signature of Transdiagnostic Risk for Mental Illness..” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 84, no. 6, Sept. 2018, pp. 452–59. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.03.012. Full Text Open Access Copy
d’Arbeloff, Tracy C., et al. “Microstructural integrity of a pathway connecting the prefrontal cortex and amygdala moderates the association between cognitive reappraisal and negative emotions..” Emotion (Washington, D.C.), vol. 18, no. 6, Sept. 2018, pp. 912–15. Epmc, doi:10.1037/emo0000447. Full Text
Hanson, Jamie L., et al. “Heightened connectivity between the ventral striatum and medial prefrontal cortex as a biomarker for stress-related psychopathology: understanding interactive effects of early and more recent stress..” Psychological Medicine, vol. 48, no. 11, Aug. 2018, pp. 1835–43. Epmc, doi:10.1017/S0033291717003348. Full Text