Publications (Selected Articles)

  

Thorton-Wells, TA, Avery, SN, Blackford, JU (2011). Using novel control groups to dissect the amygdala's role in Williams syndrome. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 295-304.[PubMed]
  
Clauss, JA, Cowan, RL, and Blackford, JU (2011). Expectation and temperament moderate amygdala and dorsal anterion cingulate responses to fear faces. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience,11(1),13-21. [PubMed] [CABN] 
 
Blackford, JU & Love, R. (2011). Dialectical behavior therapy group skills training in a community mental health setting: A pilot study. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 61(4), 645-657.
 
Blackford, JU, Avery, SN, Cowan, RL, Shelton, RC & Zald, DH (2010). Sustained amygdala response to both novel and newly familiar faces characterizes inhibited temperament. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsq073  [Pre-Print PDF] [PubMed] [SCAN]
 
Bauernfeind, AL, Dietrich, MS, Blackford, JU,  Charboneau, EJ, Lillevig, JG,  Cannistraci, CJ, Woodward, ND, Cao, A, Watkins, T,  Di Iorio, CR, Cascio, C, Salomon, RM, Cowan, RL (2010).  Human Ecstasy use is associated with increased cortical excitability: an fMRI study. Neuropsychopharmacology, 36, 1127-1141.  [NPP]
  
Blackford, JU, Buckholtz, JW, Avery SN, and Zald, DH (2010). A unique role for the human amygdala in novelty detection. Neuroimage, 50(3), 1188-1193. [PubMed] [PubMedCentral]
 
Salomon, R, Blackford JU, Rosenbloom, ST, Seidel, S., Clayton, EW, Dilts, DM, Finder SG. (2010). Openness of patients’ reporting with use of electronic records: psychiatric clinicians’ views. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17, 54-60. [PubMedCentral]
 
Blackford, JU, Avery, SN, Shelton, RC and Zald, DH (2009). Amygdala temporal dynamics: Temperamental differences in the timing of amygdala response to familiar and novel faces. BMC Neuroscience:10(1): 145. [BMC Neuroscience] [PubMed] [PubMedCentral]
 
Blackford, JU.  (2009). Propensity Scores: A method for matching on multiple confounding variables in Down syndrome research. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 47(5), 348-357.  [PubMedCentral] [IDD]
 
Blackford, JU, Salomon RM, Waller, NG (2009). Detecting change in biological rhythms: A multivariate permutation test approach to Fourier-transformed data. Chronobiology International, 26(2), 258-281.     MPT Fourier(zip file, 4kb) [PubMedCentral]
 
Karageorgiou, J, Dietrich, MS, Charboneau, EJ, Woodward, ND, Blackford, JU, Salomon, RM, Cowan, RL (2009). Prior MDMA (Ecstasy) use is associated with increased basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit activation during motor task performance in humans: an fMRI study.Neuroimage,46, 817-826.[PubMedCentral]  
 
Hahn, MK, Blackford, JU, Haman, K, Mazei-Robison, M, English, B, Prasad, H, Steele, A, Hazelwood, L, Fentress, H, Myers, R, Blakely, RD, Sanders-Bush, E., Shelton, R. (2008).  Multivariate permutation analysis associates multiple polymorphisms with subphenotypes of major depression.. Genes, Brain, and Behavior, 7(4), 487-495.   [PubMedCentral] 
 
Blackford, JU (2007) Statistical Issues in Development Epidemiology and Developmental Disabilities research: Confounding Variables, Small sample size, and Numerous Outcome variables. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 33, 93-120.
 
 
Yoder, P, Blackford, JU, Waller, N, & Young, G (2004).  Enhancing power while controlling family-wise error: an illustration of the issues using electrocortical studies.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 26(3), 320-331.
 
Blackford, JU & Walden, TA (1998).   Individual differences in social referencing:  Effects of temperamental fear on referencing, regulation, and parent messages.   Infant Behavior and Development, 21(1), 89-102.
 
 
Statistical Programs

 
Blackford JU.  Multivariate permutation testing for independent t-tests [computer program]. Nashville, TN:  Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development, 2002.  (Requires R Project statistical software.) 
 
Blackford JU.  Multivariate permutation testing for paired t-tests [computer program]. Nashville, TN:  Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development, 2002.  (Requires R Project statistical software.) 
 
 Blackford JU.  Multivariate permutation testing for bivariate correlations [computer program and manual]. Version 1.2. Nashville, TN:  Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development, 2002.  (Requires R Project statistical software.
 
 Blackford, JU. Fourier transform and multivariate permutation testing for paired t-tests [computer program]. Nashville, TN. Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development, 2008. (Requires R Project statistical software).
 MPT Fourier(zip file, 4kb)

 

 

 

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