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Ruth Lanius

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Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)Psychiatry & Behavioural NeurosciencesMcMaster University

Ruth Lanius

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct)

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Faculty of Health Sciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

In this role since 2020

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
No graduate courses on record.
137 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 54 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 CIHR grants, most recently in 2019.

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417

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laniusr@mcmaster.ca

Research

Research areas, by share of publications

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ResearchPsychology
Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesNeuroscience
Memory and Neural MechanismsNeuroscience

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From the 150 most recent of 417 publications.

Mind over chatter: plastic up-regulation of the fMRI alertness network by EEG neurofeedback

Lanius R, Ros T, Theberge J, Frewen P, Kluetsch R, Densmore M, Calhoun V

3 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1038/npre.2012.7060.1

Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in PTSD: Results From the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD Working Group

Hinojosa CA, Sun D, Russell C, Baird CL, Hussain A, Sendi M, Jahanshad N, Salminen LE, Olff M, Frijling JL

American Journal of Psychiatry20267 citations

DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20250062

Racial Discrimination–Related Interoceptive Network Disruptions: A Pathway to Disconnection

Elbasheir A, Bond R, Harnett NG, Guelfo A, Karkare MC, Fulton TM, Ely TD, McDermott TJ, Lanius RA, Ahluwalia V

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging20266 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.12.011

Structural Covariance of Early Visual Cortex Is Negatively Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Mega-Analysis From the ENIGMA PTSD Working Group

Harnett NG, Joshi S, Kumar P, Russell C, Dillon DG, Baker JT, Pizzagalli DA, Kaufman ML, Nickerson LD, Jahanshad N

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging20265 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2025.07.005

Volumetric Differences of Thalamic Nuclei Are Associated With Posttrauma Psychopathology

Steele N, Hussain A, Baird CL, Haswell CC, Sun D, Rangel-Jimenez L, Abdallah CG, Angstadt M, May G, Berg H

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging20264 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2025.10.016

The Impact of Military Sexual Misconduct on the Deployment Experiences of Woman-Identifying Canadian Veterans

Lade S, Brown A, Ritchie K, Milman H, Park R, Heber A, Lanius R, Davis KD, McNeely HE, McKinnon M

Armed Forces and Society20264 citations

DOI: 10.1177/0095327x241312206

Disrupted thalamocortical functional connectivity and canonical resting-state network integration in posttraumatic stress disorder

Steele N, Hussain A, Sun D, Russell C, Huggins AA, Davenport ND, Disner SG, Sponheim SR, Straube T, Hofmann D

NeuroImage: Clinical20264 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2025.103927

Childhood Maltreatment and Deviations From Normative Brain Structure: A Mega-Analysis of 3711 Individuals From the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder and ENIGMA Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Working Groups

Wang HR, Liu Z-Q, Pozzi E, Hussain A, Sigar P, Abdallah C, Alexander N, Baker J, Bauer J, Blackford JU

Biological Psychiatry20262 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2026.02.016

Bridging the self to the world: resting-state functional connectivity of the temporoparietal junction in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype

Narikuzhy S, Harricharan S, Rabellino D, Densmore M, Théberge J, Lieberman J, McKinnon MC, Nicholson AA, Lanius RA

NeuroImage: Clinical20262 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2025.103920

Disrupted intrathalamic and thalamocortical structural covariance networks in posttraumatic stress disorder

Steele N, Hussain A, Sun D, Baird CL, Russell C, Jahanshad N, Salminen LE, Olff M, Frijling JL, Veltman DJ

Network Neuroscience20262 citations

DOI: 10.1162/netn.a.535

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Research

Mind over chatter: plastic up-regulation of the fMRI alertness network by EEG neurofeedback

Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in PTSD: Results From the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD Working Group

Racial Discrimination–Related Interoceptive Network Disruptions: A Pathway to Disconnection

Structural Covariance of Early Visual Cortex Is Negatively Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Mega-Analysis From the ENIGMA PTSD Working Group

Volumetric Differences of Thalamic Nuclei Are Associated With Posttrauma Psychopathology

The Impact of Military Sexual Misconduct on the Deployment Experiences of Woman-Identifying Canadian Veterans

Disrupted thalamocortical functional connectivity and canonical resting-state network integration in posttraumatic stress disorder

Childhood Maltreatment and Deviations From Normative Brain Structure: A Mega-Analysis of 3711 Individuals From the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder and ENIGMA Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Working Groups

Bridging the self to the world: resting-state functional connectivity of the temporoparietal junction in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype

Disrupted intrathalamic and thalamocortical structural covariance networks in posttraumatic stress disorder