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Ruben P Alvarez

Program Director, Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD
Verified email at nih.gov
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Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

…, MC Neale, M Herting, ER Sowell, RP Alvarez… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is an ongoing, nationwide
study of the effects of environmental influences on behavioral and brain development in …

Generalization of conditioned fear-potentiated startle in humans: experimental validation and clinical relevance

…, AL Biggs, SJ Rabin, BR Cornwell, RP Alvarez… - Behaviour research and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Though generalization of conditioned fear has been implicated as a central feature of
pathological anxiety, surprisingly little is known about the psychobiology of this learning …

Contextual fear conditioning in humans: cortical-hippocampal and amygdala contributions

RP Alvarez, A Biggs, G Chen, DS Pine… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
Functional imaging studies of cued fear conditioning in humans have mostly confirmed findings
in animals, but it is unclear whether the brain mechanisms that underlie contextual fear …

Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity

RP Alvarez, G Chen, J Bodurka, R Kaplan, C Grillon - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Aversive events are typically more debilitating when they occur unpredictably than predictably.
Studies in humans and animals indicate that predictable and unpredictable aversive …

[HTML][HTML] Self-regulation of amygdala activation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

V Zotev, F Krueger, R Phillips, RP Alvarez… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rtfMRI) with neurofeedback allows
investigation of human brain neuroplastic changes that arise as subjects learn to modulate …

Neural substrates of classically conditioned fear-generalization in humans: a parametric fMRI study

S Lissek, DE Bradford, RP Alvarez… - Social cognitive and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Recent research on classical fear-conditioning in the anxiety disorders has identified
overgeneralization of conditioned fear as an important conditioning correlate of anxiety pathology. …

Cerebral blood flow in immediate and sustained anxiety

G Hasler, S Fromm, RP Alvarez… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
The goal of this study was to compare cerebral blood flow (CBF) changes associated with
phasic cued fear versus those associated with sustained contextual anxiety. Positron emission …

Accessing word meaning in two languages: An event-related brain potential study of beginning bilinguals

RP Alvarez, PJ Holcomb, J Grainger - Brain and language, 2003 - Elsevier
Twenty-eight native-English speakers enrolled in beginning and intermediate university
Spanish courses participated in a mixed language semantic categorization task in which critical …

[HTML][HTML] Ambient particulate matter source apportionment using receptor modelling in European and Central Asia urban areas

…, L Samek, E Hristova, K Šega, RP Alvarez… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
This work presents the results of a PM2.5 source apportionment study conducted in urban
background sites from 16 European and Asian countries. For some Eastern Europe and …

[HTML][HTML] Increased anterior insula activity in anxious individuals is linked to diminished perceived control

RP Alvarez, N Kirlic, M Misaki, J Bodurka… - Translational …, 2015 - nature.com
Individuals with high-trait anxiety frequently report decreased perceived control. However, it
is unclear how these processes are instantiated at a neural level. Prior research suggests …