Tamara J. Sussman, PhD

Peer-Reviewed Research Publications

• Sussman, T.J. , Baker, B. H., Wakhloo, A. J., Gillet, V., Abdelouahab, N., Whittingstall, K., Lepage, 
  J.F., St-Cyr, L., Boivin, A., Gagnon, A., Baccarelli, A.A., Takser, L. & Posner, J. (2021). The relationship between persistent organic pollutants and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder phenotypes: Evidence from task-based neural activity in an observational study of a community sample of Canadian mother-child dyads. Environmental Research, 112593. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112593
• Im, S., Marder, M. A., Imbriano, G., Sussman, T.J., & Mohanty, A. (2021). Effects of a 
  Brief Mindfulness-Based Attentional Intervention on Threat-Related Perceptual Decision-Making. Mindfulness, 12(4), 959-969. DOI: 10.1007/s12671-020-01562-9
• Margolis, A. E., Pagliaccio, D., Ramphal, B., Banker, S., Thomas, L., Robinson, M., Honda, 
  M., Sussman, T.J., Posner, J., Kannan, K. Herbsman, J., Rauh, V, & Marsh, R. 
  (2021). Prenatal environmental tobacco smoke exposure alters children’s cognitive 
  control circuitry: A preliminary study. Environment International, 155, 106516.
• Sussman, T.J., Santaella-Tenorio, J., Duarte, C. S., Wall, M. M., Ramos-
  Olazagasti, M., Suglia, S. F., ... & Martins, S. S. (2020). Do trajectories of sensation seeking vary by sex and child maltreatment subtypes?. Journal of interpersonal violence, 0886260520943722. DOI: 10.1177/0886260520943722. PMID: 32783490.
• Imbriano, G., Sussman, T.J., Jin, J., & Mohanty, A. (2020). The role of imagery in threat-
  related perceptual decision making. Emotion, 20(8), 1495. 
  DOI: 10.1037/emo0000610
• Uniacke, B., Wang, Y., Biezonski, D., Sussman, T.J., Lee, S., Posner, J., & Steinglass, J. 
  (2019). Resting-state connectivity within and across neural circuits in anorexia 
  nervosa. Brain and behavior, 9(1), e01205.
• Sussman, T.J., Weinberg, A., Szekely, A., Hajcak, G., & Mohanty, A. (2017). Here comes 
  trouble: prestimulus brain activity predicts enhanced perception of threat. Cerebral Cortex, 27(4), 2695-2707. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw104
  *Dr. Sussman designed the task used, oversaw data collection, analyzed behavioral data, preprocessed and analyzed fMRI data, analyzed processed ERP data and wrote the manuscript.
• Sussman, T.J., Szekely, A., Hajcak, G.H., & Mohanty, A. (2015). It’s all in the
   anticipation: How perception of threat is enhanced in anxiety. Emotion, 16(30),
  320-327. DOI:10.1037/emo0000098
  *Dr. Sussman designed the tasks used, oversaw data collection, analyzed behavioral data, and wrote the manuscript.
• O’Connor, M.F., Sussman, T.J. (2014). Developing the yearning in situations of loss scale: 
  Convergent and discriminant validity for bereavement, romantic breakup, and 
  homesickness. Death Studies, (38), 7, 450-8. DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2013.782928.
  *Dr. Sussman co-developed the scales, collected data, analyzed the data, and co-wrote the manuscript.
• Sussman, T.J., Heller, W., Miller, G.A., & Mohanty, A. (2013). Emotional Distractors Can 
  Enhance Attention. Psychological Science, 24 (11), 2322-8. DOI:10.1177/0956797613492774
  *Dr. Sussman performed the analyzed behavioral data (which had already been collected) and wrote the manuscript.

Reviews, Chapters, Commentary

• Sussman, T.J., Jin, J., Mohanty, A., (2020), The impact of top-down factors on threat 
  perception biases in health and anxiety, In T. Aue & H. Okon-Singer (Eds.), 
  Cognitive biases in health and psychiatric disorders, Elsevier.
• Sussman, T.J., & Posner, J. (2019). Neural Correlates of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo: 
  Biological Evidence of a Distinct Clinical Entity?. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(2), 164. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.08.015
• Sussman, T.J., Jin, J., & Mohanty, A. (2016). Top-down and bottom-up factors in threat-
  related perception and attention in anxiety. Biological psychology, 121, 160-172.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.08.006
• Mohanty., A., & Sussman, T.J. (2013). Top-down modulation of attention by emotion. 
  Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7: 102. DOI:  10.3389/fnhum.2013.00102