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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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Supervision signals

Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
No graduate courses on record.
138 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 9 research grants (9 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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418

Publications

22,640

Citations

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Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their McMaster University profile.

Research areas, by share of publications

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

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Eeg Neurofeedback Mindfulness Meditation Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd)Ptsd

Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.

Latest papers

Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in PTSD: Results From the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD Working Group
American Journal of Psychiatry · 2026
Racial Discrimination–Related Interoceptive Network Disruptions: A Pathway to Disconnection
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging · 2026
Structural Covariance of Early Visual Cortex Is Negatively Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Mega-Analysis From the ENIGMA PTSD Working Group
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging · 2026

All 418 publications

Latest funding

A Tale of Two Targets: A Multisite, Randomized, Sham-Controlled Neurofeedback Clinical Trial Examining Regulation of the Amygdala vs. the Posterior Cingulate Cortex in PTSD
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$948,600
Healing with PsilOcybin-Assisted Intensive Cognitive Processing ThErapy for chronic PTSD (HOPE-PTSD): A Multi-Site Randomized Placebo-Controlled Pilot Clinical Trial
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$684,676
Trauma-focused Responsive AI Using MIRA (TRAUMIRA): Development and Evaluation of a Trauma-Focused AI Conversational Agent for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Care
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$823,905

All 16 grants and awards

Researchers with similar interests

Margaret McKinnon

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Alexandra Heber

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Jenna Boyd

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Jonathan Stanley Davine

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Taylor Hatchard

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research

Benicio Frey

Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

From the 150 most recent of 418 publications.

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

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

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 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

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

Augmenting evidence-based PTSD psychotherapy with neuroscientifically informed interventions: A mind-body-brain approach

Jetly R, Frewen P, Lieberman JM, Kearney B, Al-Shamali HF, Bhat V, Lanius R, Nicholson AA

Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health20261 citations

DOI: 10.3138/jmvfh-2025-0024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Dear Professor Lanius, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in PTSD: Results From the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD Working Group" (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Healing with PsilOcybin-Assisted Intensive Cognitive Processing ThErapy for chronic PTSD (HOPE-PTSD): A Multi-Site Randomized Placebo-Controlled Pilot Clinical Trial" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Ruth Lanius

Research

Latest papers

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Researchers with similar interests

Margaret McKinnon

Alexandra Heber

Jenna Boyd

Jonathan Stanley Davine

Taylor Hatchard

Benicio Frey

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

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

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 intrathalamic and thalamocortical structural covariance networks 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

Augmenting evidence-based PTSD psychotherapy with neuroscientifically informed interventions: A mind-body-brain approach

Frequent collaborators

Margaret McKinnon

Andrew Nicholson

Paul Frewen

Alexandra Heber

Anthony Nazarov

Jenna Boyd

Kimberly Ritchie

Randi McCabe

Andrea Brown

Taylor Hatchard

Benicio Frey

Venkat Bhat

Geoffrey Hall

Bruno Losier

Yinfei Duan

Kim Ritchie

Heather Hood

Sue Becker

Heather McNeely

Christine Wekerle

Yanbo Zhang

Kathy Hegadoren

Jean Theberge

Peter Williamson

Shannon Remers

Rakesh Jetly

Andrew Greenshaw

Jeffrey Reiss

David Lloyd Streiner

Viraj Mehta

Jordana Salma

Liane Ginsburg

Divya Sharma

Elizabeth Osuch

Gary Andrew Chaimowitz

Jason Walter Busse

Gordon Guyatt

Heather Moulden

Behnam Sadeghirad

Maiko Schneider