Jens Pruessner, McGill University

Research

Alpha-Amylase Attentional Bias Cortisol Gender Psychoneuroendocrinology Sex Stress Emotional Memory

Latest papers

A novel stress-based intervention reduces cigarette use in non-treatment seeking smokers.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023
The repeated Montreal Imaging Stress Test (rMIST): Testing habituation, sensitization, and anticipation effects to repeated stress induction.
Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021
Stress-induced cortical dopamine response is altered in subjects at clinical high risk for psychosis using cannabis.
Addiction biology · 2020

All 29 publications

Latest funding

The impact of sex, menopausal status and +APOE4 risk for Alzheimer's Disease on the neural correlates of episodic memory in healthy middle aged adults.
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$833,850
Metabolic effects on attention, emotion and cognition
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$41,000
The effect of chronic anti-hypertensive treatment on emotional and autobiographical memory
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$439,589

All 21 grants and awards

29 publications.

01

A novel stress-based intervention reduces cigarette use in non-treatment seeking smokers.

Barnabe A, Gamache K, de Camargo JVP, Allen-Flanagan E, Rioux M, Pruessner J, Leyton M, Nader K

Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41386-022-01455-6 PMID: 36175551

02

The repeated Montreal Imaging Stress Test (rMIST): Testing habituation, sensitization, and anticipation effects to repeated stress induction.

De Calheiros Velozo J, Vaessen T, Pruessner J, Van Diest I, Claes S, Myin-Germeys I

Psychoneuroendocrinology2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105217 PMID: 33882371

03

Stress-induced cortical dopamine response is altered in subjects at clinical high risk for psychosis using cannabis.

Schifani C, Pruessner J, Tseng HH, Rao N, Tagore A, Wilson AA, Houle S, Rusjan PM, Mizrahi R

Addiction biology2020

DOI: 10.1111/adb.12812 PMID: 31389139

04

Brain Marker Links Stress and Nicotine Abstinence.

Allenby C, Falcone M, Ashare RL, Cao W, Bernardo L, Wileyto EP, Pruessner J, Loughead J, Lerman C

Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2020

DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntz077 PMID: 31120113

05

Academic stress and personality interact to increase the neural response to high-calorie food cues.

Neseliler S, Tannenbaum B, Zacchia M, Larcher K, Coulter K, Lamarche M, Marliss EB, Pruessner J, Dagher A

Appetite2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.05.016 PMID: 28487246

06

A comparison of accurate automatic hippocampal segmentation methods.

Zandifar A, Fonov V, Coupé P, Pruessner J, Collins DL, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

NeuroImage2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.018 PMID: 28404458

07

Triathletes Lose Their Advantageous Pain Modulation under Acute Psychosocial Stress.

Geva N, Pruessner J, Defrin R

Medicine and science in sports and exercise2017

DOI: 10.1249/mss.0000000000001110 PMID: 27669445

08

Dissociating patterns of anterior and posterior hippocampal activity and connectivity during distinct forms of category fluency.

Sheldon S, McAndrews MP, Pruessner J, Moscovitch M

Neuropsychologia2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.06.028 PMID: 27343687

09

Examining cortical thickness in male and female DWI offenders.

Dedovic K, Pruessner J, Tremblay J, Nadeau L, Ouimet MC, Lepage M, Brown TG

Neuroscience letters2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.03.034 PMID: 27016386

10

In vivo characterization of metabotropic glutamate receptor type 5 abnormalities in behavioral variant FTD.

Leuzy A, Zimmer ER, Dubois J, Pruessner J, Cooperman C, Soucy JP, Kostikov A, Schirmaccher E, Désautels R, Gauthier S, Rosa-Neto P

Brain structure & function2016

DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0978-3 PMID: 25596865

The impact of sex, menopausal status and +APOE4 risk for Alzheimer's Disease on the neural correlates of episodic memory in healthy middle aged adults.

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Rajah, Maria N

Keywords: Apolipoprotein E E4; Episodic Memory; Family History Of Ad; Fmri; Late-Onset Alzheimer'S Disease Risk; Menopause; Middle Aged Adults; Mri; Sex Differences

$833,850

Metabolic effects on attention, emotion and cognition

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Pruessner, Jens

$41,000

The effect of chronic anti-hypertensive treatment on emotional and autobiographical memory

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Pruessner, Jens C

Keywords: Emotional Memory; Hypertension; Memory Consolidation; Neuroimaging; Propranolol

$439,589

Imaging-genetics biomarkers for disease risk in Alzheimer's Disease.

Principal investigatorCIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Chakravarty, Mallar; Pruessner, Jens C

Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Computational Neuroanatomy; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Mri; Temporal Lobes

$449,447

Neurobehavioral determinants of weight gain in young adults.

Co-investigatorCIHR2014Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Dagher, Alain

Keywords: Fmri; Neuroscience; Obesity; Stress

$679,569

Assessing the dynamics of connectivity.

SupervisorCIHR2013Canada Graduate Scholarships - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements

Principal investigators: Dickinson, Philip G

Keywords: Fmri Signal Changes; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Modeling; Resting State Fluctuations

$6,000

Systematic Investigations into psychological, physiological and endocrinological effects of stress in the brain

Nominated PICIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Pruessner, Jens C

Keywords: Alpha-Amylase; Attentional Bias; Cortisol; Gender; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Sex; Stress

$290,928

Systematic Investigations into psychological, physiological and endocrinological effects of stress

Nominated PICIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Pruessner, Jens C

Keywords: Alpha-Amylase; Attentional Bias; Cortisol; Gender; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Sex; Stress

$448,090

Structural and functional neuro-anatomical correlates of memory for context across the adult lifespan.

Co-investigatorCIHR2012Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Rajah, Maria N

Keywords: Adult Lifespan; Context Memory; Episodic Memory; Healthy Aging; Hippocampus; Middle Age; Neuroimaging; Prefrontal Cortex

$619,428

Functional connectivity of resting state activity as a neuroimaging biomarker for Alzheimer's disease

SupervisorCIHR2011Doctoral Award - Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Dickinson, Philip G

Keywords: Aging; Alzheimer'S Disease; Biomarkers; Brain Networks; Fmri; Functional Connectivity; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neurodegenerative Disorders; Neuroimaging; Resting State

$105,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Psychiatry
Neurology and Neurosurgery
Psychology
Institut de génie biomédical
Psychiatrie
Rotman Research Institute
Positron, Emission Tomography (PET Centre)
Other

Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Alain Dagher

Neurology and Neurosurgery

3 shared papers, latest 2017

Serge Gauthier

Neurology and Neurosurgery

2 shared papers, latest 2016

Pedro Rosa-Neto

Neurology and Neurosurgery

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Jean-Paul Soucy

Institut de génie biomédical

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Alexey Kostikov

Neurology and Neurosurgery

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Romina Mizrahi

Positron, Emission Tomography (PET Centre)

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Morris Moscovitch

Rotman Research Institute

1 shared papers, latest 2016

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Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

A novel stress-based intervention reduces cigarette use in non-treatment seeking smokers.

The repeated Montreal Imaging Stress Test (rMIST): Testing habituation, sensitization, and anticipation effects to repeated stress induction.

Stress-induced cortical dopamine response is altered in subjects at clinical high risk for psychosis using cannabis.

Brain Marker Links Stress and Nicotine Abstinence.

Academic stress and personality interact to increase the neural response to high-calorie food cues.

A comparison of accurate automatic hippocampal segmentation methods.

Triathletes Lose Their Advantageous Pain Modulation under Acute Psychosocial Stress.

Dissociating patterns of anterior and posterior hippocampal activity and connectivity during distinct forms of category fluency.

Examining cortical thickness in male and female DWI offenders.

In vivo characterization of metabotropic glutamate receptor type 5 abnormalities in behavioral variant FTD.

Metabolic effects on attention, emotion and cognition

Frequent collaborators

Alain Dagher

Martin Lepage

Martin Lepage

Ridha Joober

Ridha Joober

Michael Bodnar

Serge Gauthier

Serge Gauthier

Mimi Israel

Pedro Rosa-Neto

Signy Sheldon

Jean-Paul Soucy

Marco Leyton

Christin Schifani

Claire-Dominique Walker

Alexey Kostikov

Romina Mizrahi

Judes Poirier

Blaine Ditto

Marco Leyton

Howard Steiger

Karim Nader

Morris Moscovitch