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  1. Neural responses to conditioned threat during extinction predict concurrent and future anxiety in late adolescence

    Article • August 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  2. Neural correlates of error processing: Linking adverse childhood experience to adolescent inhibitory control and internalising and externalising symptoms

    Article • January 2026, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  3. The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Cognitive Control Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies

    Article • Trauma Violence & Abuse, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Liat Levita

  4. Bidirectional relationships between childhood adversities and psychosocial outcomes: A cross-lagged panel study from childhood to adolescence

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, September 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Daniel Boduszek, Dr Liat Levita

  5. Study: Predicting Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Results.

    Article • August 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  6. Tracking the psychological and socio‐economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the UK: A methodological report from Wave 5 of the COVID‐19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study

    Article • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, June 2022, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  7. 143  Catastrophising cognitions in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures compared to patients with epilepsy

    Article • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, May 2022, BMJ

    Dr Liat Levita

  8. An 18-month follow-up of the Covid-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study panel: survey design and fieldwork procedures for Wave 6

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  9. A network approach to understanding social distancing behaviour during the first UK lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Psychology & Health, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Liat Levita

  10. Testing both affordability-availability and psychological-coping mechanisms underlying changes in alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • PLOS One, March 2022, PLOS

    Dr Liat Levita

  11. Reprezent’s On The Level Mental Health Intervention: a secondary school-based feasibility study

    Article • March 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  12. Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Liat Levita

  13. Sharing data to better understand one of the world's most significant shared experiences: data resource profile of the longitudinal COVID-19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study

    Article • International Journal for Population Data Science, February 2022, Swansea University

    Dr Liat Levita

  14. Modelling the complexity of pandemic-related lifestyle quality change and mental health: an analysis of a nationally representative UK general population sample

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Liat Levita

  15. Design, content, and fieldwork procedures of the COVID‐19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 4

    Article • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, November 2021, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  16. Detecting and describing stability and change in COVID-19 vaccine receptibility in the United Kingdom and Ireland

    Article • PLOS One, November 2021, PLOS

    Dr Liat Levita

  17. Sharing data to better understand one of the world’s most significant shared experiences: An overview of the openly accessible longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study data

    Article • October 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  18. Shame in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizure: A narrative review

    Article • Seizure, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  19. Shame in the treatment of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: The elephant in the room

    Article • Seizure, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  20. Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Liat Levita

  21. Psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are heterogeneous but have stabilised over time: 1 year longitudinal follow-up of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) study

    Article • Psychological Medicine, September 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Liat Levita

  22. Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  23. Psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are heterogeneous but have stabilised over time: One year longitudinal follow-up of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  24. Factors impacting resilience as a result of exposure to COVID-19: The ecological resilience model

    Article • PLOS One, August 2021, PLOS

    Dr Liat Levita, Marco Bertamini

  25. Tracking the psychological and socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a methodological report from Wave 5 of the Covid-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  26. Neural correlates of implicit agency during the transition from adolescence to adulthood: An ERP study

    Article • Neuropsychologia, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  27. Different Conspiracy Theories Have Different Psychological and Social Determinants: Comparison of Three Theories About the Origins of the COVID-19 Virus in a Representative Sample of the UK Population

    Article • Frontiers in Political Science, June 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Liat Levita

  28. Psychological Factors Influencing Protective Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Capability, Opportunity and Motivation

    Article • May 2021, IntechOpen

    Dr Liat Levita

  29. Testing both affordability-availability and psychological-coping mechanisms underlying changes in alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • May 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  30. Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID‐19 psychological research consortium study–wave 3

    Article • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  31. Reduced visual cortical plasticity in autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  32. Refuting the myth of a ‘tsunami’ of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous

    Article • Psychological Medicine, April 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Liat Levita

  33. Potentiated perceptual neural responses to learned threat during Pavlovian fear acquisition and extinction in adolescents

    Article • Developmental Science, April 2021, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  34. How does the COVID-19 pandemic impact on population mental health? A network analysis of COVID influences on depression, anxiety and traumatic stress in the UK population

    Article • Psychological Medicine, March 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Liat Levita

  35. Modelling the complexity of pandemic-related lifestyle quality change and mental health: An analysis of a nationally representative UK general population sample

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  36. Design, content, and fieldwork procedures of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 4

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  37. Refuting the myth of a ‘tsunami’ of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: Evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogenous, not homogeneous

    Article • February 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  38. How Does The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Population Mental Health? A Network Analysis of COVID Influences On Depression, Anxiety and Traumatic Stress in the UK Population

    Article • January 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  39. Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • PLOS One, January 2021, PLOS

    Dr Liat Levita

  40. How the threat of COVID-19 affects political attitudes and outcomes

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Liat Levita

  41. Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Liat Levita

  42. A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  43. Subjective versus objective measures of distress, arousal and symptom burden in patients with functional seizures and other functional neurological symptom disorder presentations: A systematic review

    Article • Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  44. Interoception and stress in patients with Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Liat Levita

  45. Different conspiracy theories have different psychological and social determinants: Comparison of three theories about the origins of the COVID-19 virus in a representative sample of the UK population

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  46. Catastrophising and repetitive negative thinking tendencies in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures or epilepsy

    Article • Seizure, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  47. Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 3

    Article • November 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  48. Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID‐19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study

    Article • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  49. Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • BJPsych Open, October 2020, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Dr Liat Levita

  50. Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict lower adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  51. Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • August 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  52. Using Resting State Heart Rate Variability and Skin Conductance Response to Detect Depression in Adults

    Article • July 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Liat Levita

  53. Report1: Impact of Covid-19 on young people aged 13-24 in the UK- preliminary findings

    Article • June 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  54. Report2: Impact of Covid-19 on young people aged 13-24 in the UK- preliminary findings

    Article • June 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  55. The psychological wellbeing of frontline workers in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: First and second wave findings from the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study

    Article • June 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  56. An overview of the context, design and conduct of the first two waves of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study

    Article • June 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  57. Preparing for a COVID-19 vaccine: Identifying and psychologically profiling those who are vaccine hesitant or resistant in two general population samples

    Article • June 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  58. COVID‐19‐related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  59. Preparing for a COVID-19 vaccine: Identifying and psychologically profiling those who are vaccine hesitant or resistant in two general population samples

    Article • May 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  60. Capability, opportunity, and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID‐19 outbreak in the United Kingdom

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  61. Demographic, Health and Mental Health Predictors of Face Mask Wearing in the UK Population During the COVID-19 Lockdown Period.

    Article • May 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  62. The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

    Article • May 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  63. COVID-19-Related Anxiety Predicts Somatic Symptoms in the UK Population

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  64. Capability, opportunity and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  65. Anxiety, Depression, Traumatic Stress, and COVID-19 Related Anxiety in the UK General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  66. A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  67. Monitoring the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the general population: an overview of the context, design and conduct of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  68. Evaluation of LiNES: A New Measure of Trauma, Negative Affect, and Relationship Insecurity Over the Life Span in Persons With FND

    Article • Journal of Neuropsychiatry, January 2020, American Psychiatric Association

    Dr Liat Levita

  69. OUP accepted manuscript

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, January 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Liat Levita

  70. Modelling Changes in Anxiety-Depression and Traumatic Stress During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK: Evidence for Population Heterogeneity in Longitudinal Change

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  71. Cognitive control across adolescence: Dynamic adjustments and mind-wandering.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, October 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Liat Levita

  72. Early life stress is associated with reduced avoidance of threatening facial expressions

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, August 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Liat Levita

  73. 24 Relationship between interoception and stress in patients with functional neurological symptom disorder

    Article • May 2019, BMJ

    Dr Liat Levita

  74. 44 Lifespan of negative experiences in functional neurological disorder patients

    Article • May 2019, BMJ

    Dr Liat Levita

  75. Developmental changes in the cortical sources of spontaneous alpha throughout adolescence

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  76. Emotion dysregulation in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A systematic review based on the extended process model

    Article • Epilepsy & Behavior, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  77. A brief new measure of trauma, relationship security, and affect across the lifespan: Development and initial validation of the Lifespan Negative Experiences Scale (LiNES)

    Article • August 2018, Center for Open Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  78. Updating Beliefs under Perceived Threat

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, August 2018, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Liat Levita

  79. Comorbid depression and associated factors in PNES versus epilepsy: Systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Seizure, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  80. Cortical thickness and gyrification patterns in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  81. Human behavioural discrimination of human, chimpanzee and macaque affective vocalisations is reflected by the neural response in the superior temporal sulcus

    Article • Neuropsychologia, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  82. Changes in Emotion Processing following Brief Augmented Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Functional Neurological Symptoms

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Liat Levita

  83. Updating Beliefs Under Perceived Threat

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  84. 7 Changes in emotion processing associated with brief augmented psychodynamic interpersonal therapy for functional neurological symptoms

    Article • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, July 2017, BMJ

    Dr Liat Levita

  85. Anticipatory representations of reward and threat in perceptual areas from preadolescence to late adolescence

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  86. Neuroimaging studies in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: A systematic meta-review

    Article • NeuroImage Clinical, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  87. Longitudinal changes in hippocampal volume in the Edinburgh High Risk Study of Schizophrenia

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  88. Interaction with the Paro robot may reduce psychophysiological stress responses

    Article • March 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Liat Levita

  89. Facets of clinicians' anxiety and the delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  90. Cortical Surface Area Differentiates Familial High Risk Individuals Who Go on to Develop Schizophrenia

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  91. Borderline personality disorder: patterns of self-harm, reported childhood trauma and clinical outcome

    Article • BJPsych Open, June 2015, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Dr Liat Levita

  92. Hippocampal, amygdala and nucleus accumbens volume in first-episode schizophrenia patients and individuals at high familial risk: A cross-sectional comparison

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  93. Applying imagined contact to improve physiological responses in anticipation of intergroup interactions and the perceived quality of these interactions

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  94. Potentiation of the early visual response to learned danger signals in adults and adolescents

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Liat Levita

  95. Poster #T26 A CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF GLOBAL CORTICAL MORPHOLOGY IN THE EDINBURGH HIGH RISK STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  96. The Behavioural Inhibition System, anxiety and hippocampal volume in a non-clinical population

    Article • Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Liat Levita

  97. Enhancing positive affect and divergent thinking abilities: Play some music and dance

    Article • The Journal of Positive Psychology, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Liat Levita

  98. Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger’s Syndrome

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Liat Levita

  99. Avoidance of harm and anxiety: A role for the nucleus accumbens

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  100. Midbrain Activation During Pavlovian Conditioning and Delusional Symptoms in Schizophrenia

    Article • Archives of General Psychiatry, December 2010, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Liat Levita

  101. Correction: Attention Enhances the Retrieval and Stability of Visuospatial and Olfactory Representations in the Dorsal Hippocampus

    Article • PLoS Biology, October 2010, PLOS

    Dr Liat Levita

  102. Correction: Attention Enhances the Retrieval and Stability of Visuospatial and Olfactory Representations in the Dorsal Hippocampus

    Article • PLoS Biology, October 2010, PLOS

    Dr Liat Levita

  103. Role of the hippocampus in goal-oriented tasks requiring retrieval of spatial versus non-spatial information

    Article • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, May 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  104. A Genetic Variant BDNF Polymorphism Alters Extinction Learning in Both Mouse and Human

    Article • Science, January 2010, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Liat Levita

  105. The storm and stress of adolescence: Insights from human imaging and mouse genetics

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr Liat Levita

  106. Bi-directional modulation of bed nucleus of stria terminalis neurons by 5-HT: molecular expression and functional properties of excitatory 5-HT receptor subtypes

    Article • Neuroscience, December 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  107. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor as a model system for examining gene by environment interactions across development

    Article • Neuroscience, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  108. Attention Enhances the Retrieval and Stability of Visuospatial and Olfactory Representations in the Dorsal Hippocampus

    Article • PLoS Biology, June 2009, PLOS

    Dr Liat Levita

  109. The bivalent side of the nucleus accumbens

    Article • NeuroImage, February 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Henning U Voss, Dr Liat Levita

  110. 5-hydroxytryptamine1a-likereceptor activation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: Electrophysiological and behavioral studies

    Article • Neuroscience, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  111. Subtypes of substance P receptor immunoreactive interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala

    Article • Brain Research, August 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  112. Sulpiride alleviates the attentional impairments of rats with medial prefrontal cortex lesions

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, January 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  113. Nucleus accumbens dopamine and learned fear revisited: a review and some new findings

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, December 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  114. Disruption of Pavlovian contextual conditioning by excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus accumbens core.

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Liat Levita

  115. Disruption of Pavlovian contextual conditioning by excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus accumbens core.

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Liat Levita

  116. Distinct Changes in Cortical Acetylcholine and Noradrenaline Efflux during Contingent and Noncontingent Performance of a Visual Attentional Task

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, July 2001, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Liat Levita

  117. Spatial learning and hippocampal long-term potentiation are not impaired in mdx mice

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, June 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Liat Levita

  118. BOLD fMRI: an update with emphasis on pediatric applications

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Liat Levita