SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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1. Díaz, D. E., Becker, H. C., Hardi, F. A., Beltz, A. M., Bilek, E. L., Russman Block, S. R., Phan, K. L., Monk, C. S. & Fitzgerald, K. D. (accepted). Exposure-focused CBT increases connectivity between the central executive and salience networks in pediatric anxiety. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 
    

2. Díaz, D. E. (in press). From Brain Lesions to Treatment Targets: Converging on a Causal Circuit for OCD. Biological Psychiatry. 
    

3. Díaz, D. E., Norman, L. J., Russman Block, S. R., Iturra-Mena, A., Luan Phan, K., Monk, C. S. & Fitzgerald, K. D. (2026). Pretreatment dACC and dlPFC activation moderate outcomes of exposure-focused CBT in pediatric anxiety. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 11(7), 802-811.   [PDF]
    

4. Qamar, P., Díaz, D. E., Benson, B., Pine, D. S., Kirk, P., Michalska, K. J. (2026). Children’s pre-scanning state anxiety and resting-state functional connectivity in salience and default mode networks: a cross-site study. Scientific Reports, 16, 4383.   [PDF]
    

5. ​Michalska, K. J. & Díaz, D. E. (2025). A multi-component model of psychobiological convergence: Implications for the development of psychopathology. Emotion Review, 17(4), 247-267.   [PDF]
    

6. Díaz, D. E. & Fitzgerald, K. D. (2025). Beyond feared outcomes: Exploring sensory phenomena as a novel therapeutic target for OCD. American Journal of Psychiatry, 182(3), 234-236.   [PDF]
    

7. Russman Block, S. R., Becker, H. C., Díaz, D. E., Duval, E. R., Clark, D. A., Al-Qawasmeh, D., Walker Van-Singel, A., Mannella, K. A. & Fitzgerald, K. D. (2025). Acute and potential threat differentially associate with pediatric anxiety. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Open, 3(4), 984-995.   [PDF]
    

8. Díaz, D. E., Russman Block, S., Becker, H. C., Luan Phan, K., Monk, C. S. & Fitzgerald, K. D. (2025). Neural substrates of emotion processing and cognitive control over emotion in youth anxiety: An RDoC-informed study across the clinical to non-clinical continuum of severity. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 64(4), 488-498.   [PDF]
    

9. Iturra-Mena, A. M., Moser, J., Díaz, D. E., Chen, S. Y. H., Rosenblum, K., Muzik, M. & Fitzgerald, K. D. (2024). Anxiety symptoms in young children are associated with a maladaptive neurobehavioral profile of error responding. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.   [PDF]
    

10.  Díaz, D. E., Tseng, W. L., Michalska, K. J. (2024). Pre-scan state anxiety is associated with greater right amygdala-hippocampal response to fearful versus happy faces among trait-anxious Latina girls. BMC Psychiatry, 24 (1).   [PDF]
    
    Glenn, D. E., Merenstein, J. L., Bennett, I. J. & Michalska, K. J. (2022). Anxiety symptoms and puberty interactively predict lower cingulum microstructure in preadolescent Latina girls. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 1-11.   [PDF] 
     

11. Glenn, D. E., Feldman, J. S., Ivie, E. J., Shechner, T., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., Peters, M. A. K., Michalska, K. J. (2021). Social relevance modulates multivariate neural representations of threat generalization in children and adults. Developmental Psychobiology, 63 (7), e22185.   [PDF]
     

12. Glenn, D. E., Fox, N. A., Pine, D. S., Peters, M. A. K., & Michalska, K. J. (2020). Divergence in cortical representations of threat generalization in affective versus perceptual circuitry in childhood: relations with anxiety. Neuropsychologia, 107416.   [PDF]

 

 

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1. Díaz, D. E. & Fitzgerald, K. D. (accepted). Developmental neurobiology of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders. In L. Fung, & L. W. Roberts (Eds.), Textbook of Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Neurodevelopmental and Biopsychosocial Bases and Clinical Practice.
    

2. Díaz, D. E., Becker, H. C., & Fitzgerald, K. D. (2024). Neural markers of treatment response in pediatric anxiety and PTSD. In B. A. Ellenbroek, T. R. E. Barnes, S. L. Andersen, M. P. Paulus, & J. Olivier (Eds.), Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences.   [PDF]