In Press
Ahangi, A., Ruocco, A. C., Carnovale, M., & Eskandari, H. (in press). Association of overgeneral autobiographical memory with personality impairment, pathological trait domains, and the borderline pattern specifier in a female psychiatric sample. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
Ruocco, A. C., & Traynor, J. M. (in press). Mapping brain networks in borderline personality disorder and related personality traits. In S. E. Sauer-Zavala, & M. W. Southward (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Borderline Personality Disorder. Oxford University Press.
Lam, J., Infante, E., & Ruocco, A. C. (in press). Borderline personality disorder, violence and the brain. In J. Fabian (Ed.), Forensic neuroscience and violence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Ruocco, A. C., Taggar, A., Cheema, A., & Rodrigo, A. H. (in press). Personality disorders. In M. Uljaveric, & A. Hardan (Eds.), Textbook of social functioning in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. American Psychiatric Association.
2025
Nikolova, Y. S., Ruocco A. C., Felsky, D. Lange, S., Prevot, T., Vieira, E., Voineskos, D., Wardell, J. D., Blumberger, D. M., Clifford, K. P., Dharavath, R. N., Gerretsen, P., Hassan, A., Jennings, S. K., Le Foll, B., Melamed, O. C., Orson, J., Pangarov, P. T., Quigley, L., Russell, C., Shield, K., Sloan, M. W., Smoke, A. S., Tang, V. M., Valdés Cabrera, D., Wang, W., Wells, S., Wickramatunga, R., Sibille, E., & Quilty, L. C. (2025). Cognitive Dysfunction in the Addictions (CDiA): Protocol for a neuron-to-neighbourhood collaborative research program. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1455968
Behzad, D., Patel, S., Besa, R., Chan, A. W. H., Sheng, C., Rueda, S., Ruocco, A. C., & Di Ciano, P. (2025). Effects of different methods of cannabis use on cognition and blood THC: A systematic review. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 111399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2025.111399
Tennenhouse, R., Ruocco, A. C., McMain, S. F., & Sonley, A. (2025). Suicidal and self-harming behaviours in patients with borderline personality disorder with and without eating disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 39(1), 48-60. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2025.39.1.48
Le Duc, W., Butler, C., Argyropoulos, G., Chu, S., Hutcherson, C., Ruocco, A. C., Ito, R., & Lee, A. C. H. (2025). Hippocampal damage disrupts the latent decision-making processes underlying approach-avoidance conflict processing. PLOS Biology, 23(2), e3003033. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003033
2024
Ruocco, A. C., & Marceau, E. M. (2024). Update on the neurobiology of borderline personality disorder: A review of structural, resting-state and task-based brain imaging studies. Current Psychiatry Reports, 26, 807-815. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-024-01553-w
Danayan, K., Newman, J., Benitah, K., Meshkat, S., Mansur, R. B., Ruocco, A. C., Lipsitz, O., McMain, S. F., Mcintyre, R. S., & Rosenblat, J. D. (2024). The impact of comorbid cluster B traits/personality disorders on depression treatment outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nature Mental Health, 2, 1392–1407 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00340-z
Amestoy, M. E., Best, M. W., Ruocco, A. C., & Uliaszek, A. A. (2024). Borderline personality disorder stigma: Examining the effects of diagnostic disclosure, behavior, and gender as sources of stigma in the general population. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 15(4), 254–263. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000672
Guerriero, G., Liljedahl, S., Lopez Muñoz, M., Daros, A. R., Ruocco, A. C., Steingrimsson, S. (2024). Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation to acutely reduce emotional vulnerability and improve emotional regulation in borderline personality disorder (tVNS-BPD): Study protocol for a randomized, single-blind, sham-controlled trial. Trials, 25, 397.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08230-6
Traynor, J. M., McMain, S. F., Chapman, A., Kuo, J., Labrish, C., & Ruocco, A. C. (2024). Pretreatment cognitive performance is associated with differential self-harm outcomes in six v. 12-months of dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder. Psychological Medicine, 54(7), 1350-1360. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291723003197
Lipsitz, O., Daros, A. R., Taggar, A., & Ruocco, A. C. (2024). Change in emotion appraisal and reappraisal in psychotherapy. In A. C. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health (pp. 259-283). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95604-8.00004-6
Oliogu, E., & Ruocco, A. C. (2024). DSM-5 suicidal behavior disorder: A systematic review of research on clinical utility, diagnostic boundaries, measures, pathophysiology and interventions. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1278230. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1278230
Chang, C.-H., Drobotenko, N., Ruocco, A. C.,† Lee, A. C. H.,† & Nestor, A.† (2024). Perception and memory-based representations of facial emotions: Associations with personality functioning, affective states and recognition abilities. Cognition, 245, 105724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105724
†Equal contribution
Coelho, S. G., Hendershot, C. H., Aston, E. R., Ruocco, A. C., Quilty, L. C., Tyndale, R. F., & Wardell, J. D. (2024). Executive functions and behavioural economic demand for cannabis among young adults: Indirect associations with cannabis consumption and cannabis use disorder. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 32(3), 305-315. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000678
2023
Traynor, J. M.,† Ruocco, A. C.,† McMain, S. F., Hermanto, N., Cardish, R., Blumberger, D. M., & Daskalakis, Z. J. (2023). A feasibility trial of conjoint magnetic seizure therapy and dialectical behavior therapy for suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder and treatment-resistant depression. Nature Mental Health, 1, 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-022-00003-x
†Equal contribution
Traynor, J. M., Wrege, J., Walter, M., & Ruocco, A. C. (2023). Dimensional personality impairment is associated with disruptions in intrinsic intralimbic functional connectivity. Psychological Medicine, 53(4), 1323-1333. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721002865
Pasion, R., Ribes-Guardiola, P., Patrick, C. J., Stewart, R. A., Paiva, T. O., Macedo, I., Barbosa, F., Brislin, S. J., Martin, E. A., Blain, S. D., Cooper, S. R., Ruocco, A. C., Tiego, J., Wilson, S., Goghari, V. M., & HiTOP Neurobiological Foundations Workgroup. (2023). Modeling relations of ERP factors with broader versus narrower dimensions of externalizing psychopathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 132(7), 867–880. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000856
Parsapoor, M., Koudys, J. W., & Ruocco, A. C. (2023). Suicide risk detection using artificial intelligence: The promise of creating a benchmark dataset for research on the detection of suicide risk. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1186569. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1186569
Ruocco, A. C., Infante, E., & Wright, L. (2023). Personality disorders. In G. J. Boyle, Y. Stern, D. J. Stein, B. J. Sahakian, C. J. Golden, T. M. C. Lee, & S. H. A. Chen (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of clinical neuropsychology: Clinical neuropsychological disorders (pp. 612-625). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529789522
Abdullah, M., Khalily, M. T., Ruocco, A. C., & Hallahan, B. (2023). Impulsivity, suicidal thoughts, psychological distress and religiosity in adolescents and young adults. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1137651
Koudys, J. W., Cane, C., Nikolova, Y. S., & Ruocco, A. C. (2023). Transdiagnostic impulsivity-relevant phenotypes and the comorbidity of personality disorders with substance and alcohol use disorders. Current Addiction Reports, 10, 122–130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-023-00483-6
Cane, C., Carcone, D., Gardhouse, K., Lee, A. C. H., & Ruocco, A. C. (2023). An exploratory study of functional brain activation underlying response inhibition in major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder. PLoS One, 18(1), e0280215. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280215
Marceau, E. M., Ruocco, A. C., & Grenyer, B. F. S. (2023). Improving treatment outcomes for borderline personality disorder: What can we learn from biomarker studies of psychotherapy? Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 36(1), 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1097/yco.0000000000000820
Dharavath, R. N., Pina-Leblanc, C., Tang, V. M., Sloan, M. E., Nikolova, Y. S., Pangarov, P., Ruocco, A. C., Shield, K., Voineskos, D., Blumberger, D. M., Boileau, I., Gerretsen, P., Vieira, E., Bozinoff, N., Melamed, O. C., Sibille, E., Quilty, L. C., & Prevot, T. D. (2023). GABAergic signaling in alcohol use disorder and withdrawal: Pathological involvement and therapeutic potential. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2023.1218737
2022
Carcone, D., Gardhouse, K., Goghari, V. M., Lee, A. C. H., & Ruocco, A. C. (2022). The transdiagnostic relationship of cumulative lifetime stress with memory, the hippocampus, and personality psychopathology. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 155, 483-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.09.005
Wrege, J. S., Carcone, D., Lee, A. C. H., Cane, C., Lang, U. E., Borgwardt, S., Walter, M., & Ruocco, A. C. (2022). Attentional salience and the neural substrates of response inhibition in borderline personality disorder. Psychological Medicine, 52(15), 3451-3459. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721000118
Koudys, J. W., & Ruocco, A. C. (2022). Executive functioning in adults with borderline personality disorder and first-degree biological relatives. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 23(5), 387-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/15622975.2021.2012396
Lam, J., & Ruocco, A. C. (2022). Biological risk factors for antisocial personality disorder. In D. W. Black and N. J. Kolla (Eds.), Textbook of antisocial personality disorder (pp. 161-183). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
Rodrigo, A. H., Di Domenico, S. I., Wright, L., Page-Gould, E., Fournier, M. A., Ayaz, H., & Ruocco, A. C. (2022). Interpersonal traits and the neural representations of cognitive control in the prefrontal cortex. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 22, 1001-1020. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-022-00986-1
Di Domenico, S. I., Fournier, M. A., Rodrigo, A. H., Dong, M., Ayaz, H., Ryan, R. M., & Ruocco, A. C. (2022). Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment. Social Neuroscience, 173 (3), 236-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2074135
St-Amour, S., Ruocco, A. C., Cailhol, L., & Bernard, P. (2022). Acute effect of physical exercise on negative affect in borderline personality disorder: A pilot study. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 4(2), 1-24 https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.7495
Daros, A. R., Pereira, B. J., Khan, D., Ruocco, A. C., Quilty, L. C., & Wardell, J. D. (2022). Daily associations between cannabis use and alcohol use in young adults: The moderating role of self-report and behavioral measures of impulsivity. Addiction Research & Theory, 30(2), 79-88 https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2021.1939314
2021
Ruocco, A. C., Rodrigo, A. H., Lam, J., Ledochowski, J., Chang, J., Wright, L., & McMain, S. F. (2021). Neurophysiological biomarkers of response inhibition and the familial risk for borderline personality disorder. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 111, 110115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110115
Wrege, J., Ruocco, A. C., Carcone, D., Lang, U. E., Lee, A. C. H., & Walter, M. (2021). Facial emotion perception in borderline personality disorder: Differential neural activation to ambiguous and threatening expressions and links to impairments in self and interpersonal functioning. Journal of Affective Disorders, 284, 126-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.01.042
Gardhouse, K., Carcone, C., & Ruocco, A. C. (2021). Stressed, sick, and sad: Neuroendoimmune pathways between subjective lifetime stress and depression. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health, 14, 100249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2021.100249
Gulamani, T., Rodrigo, A. H., Uliaszek, A. A., & Ruocco, A. C. (2021). Facial emotion perception in families affected with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 35(Suppl. A), 132–148. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2021_35_514
Daros, A. R., & Ruocco, A. C. (2021). Which emotion regulation strategies are most associated with trait emotion dysregulation? A multi-method transdiagnostic approach. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 43, 478–490. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-020-09864-x
St-Amour, S., Cailhol, L., Ruocco, A. C., & Bernard, P. (2021). Could physical exercise be an effective treatment for adults with borderline personality disorder? Psychiatry Research, 295, 113625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113625
2020
Carcone, D., Lee, A. C. H., & Ruocco A. C. (2020). Disrupted relationship between hippocampal activation and subsequent memory performance in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 274, 1041-1048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.05.050
Koudys, J. W., & Ruocco, A. C. (2020). A neurocognitive model of the comorbidity of substance-related and personality disorders. In A. Verdejo-Garcia (Ed.), Cognition and addiction: A researcher’s guide from mechanisms towards interventions (pp. 79-89). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815298-0.00006-X
Daros, A. R., Rodrigo, A. H., Norouzian, N., Darboh, B., McRae, K., & Ruocco, A. C. (2020). Cognitive reappraisal of negative emotional images in borderline personality disorder: Content analysis, perceived effectiveness and diagnostic specificity. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34, 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2018_32_390
Perkins, E. R., Joyner, K. J., Patrick, C. J., Bartholow, B. D., Latzman, R. D., DeYoung, C. G., Kotov, R., Reininghaus, U., Cooper, S. E., Afzali, M. H., Docherty, A. R., Dretsch, M. N., Eaton, N. R., Goghari, V. M., Haltigan, J. D., Krueger, R. F., Martin, E. A., Michelini, G., Ruocco, A. C., ... Zald, D. H. (2020). Neurobiology and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology: Progress toward ontogenetically informed and clinically useful nosology. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 22, 51-63. https://dx.doi.org/10.31887%2FDCNS.2020.22.1%2Feperkins
Latzman R. D., DeYoung, C. G., & HiTOP Neurobiological Foundations Workgroup (Collaborators: Afzali, M. H., Allen, T. A., Althoff, R. R., DeYoung, C. G., Docherty, A. R., Dretsch, M., Eaton, N. R., Goghari, V. M., Grazioplene, R. G., Hallquist, M. N., Haltigan, J. D., Heller, A. S., Holmes, A. J., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., Latzman, R. D., Martin, E. A., Michelini, G., Patrick, C. J., Ruocco, A. C., Shackman, A. J., Tackett, J. L., Treadway, M. T., Venables, N. C., Waldman, I. D., & Zald, D. H.). (2020). Using empirically-derived dimensional phenotypes to accelerate clinical neuroscience: The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) framework. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45, 1083-1085. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-0639-6
2019
Ruocco, A. C., Daros, A. R., Chang, J., Rodrigo, A. H., Lam, J., Ledochowski, J., & McMain, S. F. (2019). Clinical, personality and neurodevelopmental phenotypes in borderline personality disorder: A family study. Psychological Medicine, 49, 2069-2080. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718002908
Koudys, J. W., Traynor, J. M., Rodrigo, A. H., Carcone, D., & Ruocco, A. C. (2019). The NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative and its implications for research on personality disorder. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-019-1023-2
Wrege, J., Ruocco, A. C., Euler, S., Preller, K., Busmann, M., Lenz, C., Meya, L., Schmidt, A., Lang, U. E., Borgwardt, S., & Walter, M. (2019). Negative affect moderates the effect of social rejection on frontal and anterior cingulate cortex activation in borderline personality disorder. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1273–1285. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-019-00716-0
Safar, K., Sato, J., Ruocco, A. C., Korenblum, M. S., O’Halpin, H., & Dunkley, B. T. (2019). Disrupted emotional neural circuitry in adolescents with borderline personality traits. Neuroscience Letters, 701, 112-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2019.02.021
Di Domenico, S., Rodrigo, A. H., Dong, M., Fournier, M. A., Ayaz, H., Ryan, R. M., & Ruocco, A. C. (2019). Functional near-infrared spectroscopy: Proof of concept for its application in social neuroscience. In H. Ayaz & F. Dehais (Eds.), Neuroergonomics. The brain at work and in everyday life (pp. 169-173). London, UK: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811926-6.00028-2
2018
Koudys, J. W., Gulamani, T., & Ruocco, A. C. (2018). Borderline personality disorder: Refinements in phenotypic and cognitive profiling. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 5, 102-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40473-018-0145-x
Daros, A. R., Guevara, M. A., Uliaszek, A. A., McMain, S. F., & Ruocco, A. C. (2018). Cognitive emotion regulation strategies in borderline personality disorder: Diagnostic comparisons and associations with potentially harmful behaviors. Psychopathology, 51,83-95. https://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000487008
Daros, A. R., Williams, G. E., Jung, S., Turabi, M., Uliaszek, A. A., & Ruocco, A. C. (2018). More is not always better: Strategies to regulate negative mood induction in women with borderline personality disorder and depressive and anxiety disorders. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9, 530-542. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000296
Thomsen, M. S., Ruocco, A. C., Mathiesen, B. B., & Simonsen, E. (2018). Neuropsychological perspectives. In W. J. Livesley & R. Larstone (Eds.), Handbook of personality disorders. Theory, research, and treatment. Second edition (pp. 283-300). New York, NY: Guilford.
Rodrigo, A. H., & Ruocco, A. C. (2018). Social cognition and perception in the interpersonal situation: Implications for the study of personality disorder. [Comment on "Interpersonal dynamics in personality and personality disorders".] European Journal of Personality, 32, 577-578. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2174
Di Domenico, S. I., Fournier, M. A., Rodrigo, A. H., Dong, M., Ayaz, H., & Ruocco, A. C. (2018). Identity integration across time: Examining the roles of need fulfillment and the medial prefrontal cortex using optical neuroimaging. Self and Identity, 17, 259-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2017.1327452
2017
Thomsen, M. S., Ruocco, A. C., Carcone, D., Mathiesen, B. B., & Simonsen, E. (2017). Neurocognitive deficits in borderline personality disorder: Associations with childhood trauma and dimensions of personality psychopathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31,503-521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2016_30_265
Thomsen, M. S., Ruocco, A. C., Uliaszek, A., Mathiesen, B. B., & Simonsen, E. (2017). Changes in neurocognitive functioning after six months of mentalization based treatment for borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 31, 306-324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2016_30_250
Carcone, D., & Ruocco, A. C. (2017). Six years of research on the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative: A systematic review. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2017.00046
Carcone, D., Zanarini, M. C., & Ruocco, A. C. (2017). Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines. In V. Zeigler-Hill and T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences (pp. 1-3). Cham: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_71-1
Irani, F., Ruocco, A. C., & Shima, L. C. (2017). Delusion. In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca & B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology. Second Edition (pp. 1-6). Cham: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_1286-2
Berezuk, C., & Zakzanis, K. K., Ramirez, J., Ruocco, A. C., Edwards, J. D., Callahan, B. L., & Black, S. E. (2017). Functional reserve: Experience participating in instrumental activities of daily living is associated with gender and functional independence in mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 58, 425-434. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-161227
2016
Ruocco, A. C., & Carcone, D. (2016). A neurobiological model of borderline personality disorder: Systematic and integrative review. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 24, 311-329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000123
Ruocco, A. C., Rodrigo, A. H., McMain, S. F., Page-Gould, E., Ayaz, H., & Links, P. S. (2016). Predicting treatment outcomes from prefrontal cortex activation for self-harming patients with borderline personality disorder: A preliminary study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00220
Ruocco, A. C., Rodrigo, A. H., Carcone, D., McMain, S. F., Jacobs, G., & Kennedy, J. L. (2016). Tryptophan hydroxylase 1 gene polymorphisms alter prefrontal cortex activation during response inhibition. Neuropsychology, 30, 18-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/neu0000237
Rodrigo, A. H., Di Domenico, S. I., Graves, B., Lam, J., Ayaz, H., Bagby, R. M., & Ruocco, A. C. (2016). Linking trait-based phenotypes to prefrontal cortex activation during inhibitory control. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 55-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv091
Ruocco, A. C. (2016). Compliance on neuropsychological performance validity testing in patients with borderline personality disorder. Psychological Assessment, 28, 345-350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039481
Rubin, L. H., Connelly, J. J., Reilly, J. L., Carter, C. S., Drogos, L. L., Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Ruocco, A. C., Keedy, S. K., Matthew, I., Tandon, N., Pearlson, G. D., Clementz, B. A., Tamminga, C. A., Gershon, E. S., Keshavan, M. S., Bishop, J. R., & Sweeney, J. A. (2016). Sex and diagnosis specific associations between DNA methylation of the oxytocin receptor gene with emotion processing and temporal-limbic and prefrontal brain volumes in psychotic disorders. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 1, 141-151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2015.10.003
Manasse, S. M., Goldstein, S. P., Wyckoff, E. P., Forman, E. M., Butryn, M. L., Juarascio, A. S., Ruocco, A. C., & Nederkoorn, C. (2016). Slowing down and taking a second look: Inhibitory deficits in binge eating disorder are not food-specific. Appetite, 96, 555-559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.10.025
Glassman, L. H., Forman, E. M., Herbert, J. D., Bradley, L. E., Foster, E. E., Izzetoglu, M., & Ruocco, A. C. (2016). The effects of a brief acceptance-based behavioral treatment vs. traditional cognitive-behavioral treatment for public speaking anxiety: An exploratory trial examining differential effects on performance and neurophysiology. Behavior Modification, 40,748-776. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145445516629939
Rodrigo, A. H., Ayaz, H., & Ruocco, A. C. (2016). Examining the neural correlates of incidental facial emotion encoding within the prefrontal cortex using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. In D. D. Schmorrow & C. M. Fidopiastis (Eds.), Foundations of augmented cognition: Neuroergonomics and operational neuroscience (pp. 102-112). Switzerland: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39955-3_10
Daros, A. R., Ruocco, A. C., & Rule, N. O. (2016). Identifying mental disorder from the faces of women with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 40, 255-281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10919-016-0237-9
2015
Carcone, D., Tokarz, V. L., & Ruocco, A. C. (2015). A systematic review on the reliability and validity of semi-structured diagnostic interviews for borderline personality disorder. Canadian Psychology, 56, 208-226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cap0000026
Williams, G., Daros, A. R., Graves, B., McMain, S. F., Links, P. S., & Ruocco, A. C. (2015). Executive functions and social cognition in highly lethal self-injuring patients with borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6, 107-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000105
Ruocco, A. C., Hudson, J. I., Zanarini, M. C. & Gunderson, J. G. (2015). Familial aggregation of candidate phenotypes for borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6, 75-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000079
Di Domenico, S. I., Rodrigo, A. H., Ayaz, H., Fournier, M. A., & Ruocco, A. C. (2015). Decision-making conflict and the neural efficiency hypothesis of intelligence: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy investigation. NeuroImage, 109, 307-317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.039
Manasse, S. M., Espel, H. M., Forman, E. M., Juarascio, A. S., Butryn, M. L., Ruocco, A. C., Zhang, F. & Lowe, M. R. (2015). The independent and interacting effects of hedonic hunger and executive function on binge eating. Appetite, 89, 16-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.01.013
Manasse, S. M., Forman, E. M., Ruocco, A. C., Butryn, M. L., Juarascio, A. S., & Fitzpatrick, K. K. (2015). Do executive functioning deficits underpin binge eating disorder? A comparison of overweight women with and without binge eating pathology. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 48, 677-683. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eat.22383
2014
Ruocco, A. C., Reilly, J. L., Rubin, L. H., Daros, A. R., Gershon, E. S., Tamminga, C. A., Pearlson, G. D., Hill, K. S., Keshavan, M. S., Gur, R. C., & Sweeney, J. A. (2014). Emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and psychotic bipolar disorder: Findings from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP) study. Schizophrenia Research, 158, 105-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2014.07.001
Ruocco, A. C., & Bahl, N. (2014). Material-specific discrepancies in verbal and visual episodic memory in borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Research, 220, 694-697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.07.010
Glassman, L. H., Herbert, J. D., Forman, E. M., Bradley, L. E., Izzetoglu, M., Ruocco, A. C., & Goldstein, S. P. (2014). Near-infrared spectroscopic assessment of in-vivo prefrontal activation in public speaking anxiety: A preliminary study. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 1, 271-283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cns0000009
Manasse, S. M., Juarascio, A. S., Forman, E. M., Berner, L. A., Butryn, M. L., & Ruocco, A. C. (2014). Executive functioning in overweight individuals with and without loss-of-control eating. European Eating Disorders Review, 22, 373-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/erv.2304
Rubin, L. H., Carter, C. S., Bishop, J. R., Pournajafi-Nazarloo, H., Drogos, L. L., Hill, S. K., Ruocco, A. C., Keedy, S. K., Reilly, J. L., Keshavan, M. S., Pearlson, G. D., Tamminga, C. A., Gershon, E. S., & Sweeney, J. A. (2014). Reduced levels of vasopressin and reduced behavioral modulation of oxytocin in psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 40, 1374-1384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu027
Ruocco, A. C., Lam, J., & McMain, S. F. (2014). Subjective cognitive complaints and functional disability in patients with borderline personality disorder and their non-affected first-degree relatives. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 59, 335-344. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4079146/
Ruocco, A. C., Rodrigo, A. H., Lam, J., Di Domenico, S. I., Graves, B., & Ayaz, H. (2014). A problem-solving task specialized for functional neuroimaging: Validation of the Scarborough adaptation of the Tower of London (S-TOL) using near-infrared spectroscopy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00185
Daros, A. R., Ruocco, A. C., Reilly, J. L., Harris, M. S., & Sweeney, J. A. (2014). Facial emotion recognition in first-episode schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 153,32-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2014.01.009
Daros, A. R., Uliaszek, A. A., & Ruocco, A. C. (2014). Perceptual biases in facial emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 5, 79-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/per0000056
Rodrigo, A. H., Di Domenico, S. I., Ayaz, H., Gulrajani, S. G., Lam, J. & Ruocco, A. C. (2014). Differentiating functions of the lateral and medial prefrontal cortex in motor response inhibition. Neuroimage, 85, 423-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.059
2013
Daros, A. R., Zakzanis, K. K., & Ruocco, A. C. (2013). Facial emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder. Psychological Medicine, 43, 1953-1963. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291712002607
Ruocco, A. C., Amirthavasagam, S., Choi-Kain, L. W., & McMain, S. F. (2013). Neural correlates of negative emotionality in borderline personality disorder: An activation-likelihood-estimation meta-analysis. Biological Psychiatry, 73, 153-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.07.014
Ruocco, A. C., & Direkoglu, E. (2013). Delineating the contributions of sustained attention and working memory to individual differences in mindfulness. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 226-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.08.037
Di Domenico, S., Fournier, M., A., Ayaz, H., & Ruocco, A. C.(2013). In search of integrative processes: Basic psychological need satisfaction predicts medial prefrontal activation during decisional conflict. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 967-978. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0030257
2012
Ruocco, A. C., Laporte, L., Russell, J., Guttman, H., & Paris, J. (2012). Response inhibition deficits in unaffected first-degree relatives of patients with borderline personality disorder. Neuropsychology, 26, 473-482. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028715
Ruocco, A. C., Amirthavasagam, S., & Zakzanis, K. K. (2012). Amygdala and hippocampal volume reductions as candidate endophenotypes for borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis of magnetic resonance imaging studies. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 201, 245-252. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.02.012
< 2010
Ruocco, A. C., Medaglia, J. D., Tinker, J. R., Ayaz, H., Forman, E. M., Newman, C. F., Williams, J. M., Hillary F. G., Platek, S. M., Onaral, B., & Chute, D. L. (2010). Medial prefrontal cortex hyperactivation during social exclusion in borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 181, 233-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.12.001
Ruocco, A. C., Medaglia, J. D., Ayaz, H., & Chute, D. L. (2010). Abnormal prefrontal cortical response during affective processing in borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 182, 117-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.01.011
Ruocco, A. C., Kunchandy, E., & Lacy, M. (2010). Psychopathological conditions: Adults. In S. J. Hunter & J. Donders (Eds.), Principles and practice of lifespan developmental neuropsychology (pp. 455-268). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511674815.035
Kleiner-Fisman, G., Liang, G. S., Moberg, P. J., Ruocco, A. C., Hurtig, H. I., Baltuch, G. H., . . . Stern, M. B. (2007). Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for severe idiopathic dystonia: Impact on severity, neuropsychological status, and quality of life. Journal of Neurosurgery, 107, 29-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/JNS-07/07/0029
Ruocco, A. C., & Lacy, M. (2010). Neuropsychological findings in a case of neurosarcoidosis. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 22, 123 E136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.22.1.123-w.e36
Ruocco, A. C., McCloskey, M. S., Lee, R., & Coccaro, E. F. (2009). Indices of orbitofrontal and prefrontal function in Cluster B and Cluster C personality disorders. Psychiatry Research, 170, 282-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2008.12.003
Ruocco, A. C. (2009). When borderline personality disorder meets traumatic brain injury: A commentary on 'Head trauma, dissociation and possible development of multiple personalities'. Personality and Mental Health, 3, 313-316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/Pmh.99
Ruocco, A. C., Swirsky-Sacchetti, T., Chute, D. L., Mandel, S., Platek, S. M., & Zillmer, E. A. (2008). Distinguishing between neuropsychological malingering and exaggerated psychiatric symptoms in a neuropsychological setting. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 22, 547-564. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13854040701336444
Schatz, P., Ruocco, A. C., Medaglia, J. D., & Chute, D. L. (2008). Observing neural networking in vivo. In L. T. Benjamin, Jr. (Ed.), Favorite activities for the teaching of psychology (pp. 46-51). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Ruocco, A. C., Swirsky-Sacchetti, T., & Choca, J. P. (2007). Assessing personality and psychopathology after traumatic brain injury with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III. Brain Injury, 21, 1233-1244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699050701716919
Irani, F., Platek, S. M., Bunce, S., Ruocco, A. C., & Chute, D. L. (2007). Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS): An emerging neuroimaging technology with important applications for the study of brain disorders. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 21, 9-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13854040600910018
Bialystok, E., Craik, F. I., & Ruocco, A. C. (2006). Dual-modality monitoring in a classification task: The effects of bilingualism and ageing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1968-1983. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210500482955
Ruocco, A. C., & Platek, S. M. (2006). Executive function and language deficits associated with aggressive-sadistic personality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 239-240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X06399050
Ruocco, A. C. (2005). Re-evaluating the distinction between Axis I and Axis II disorders: The case of borderline personality disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61, 1509-1523. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20205
Ruocco, A. C. (2005). The neuropsychology of borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis and review. Psychiatry Research, 137, 191-202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2005.07.004