Publications

Linton S and Levita L (2021). Potentiated Perceptual Neural Responses to Learned Threat during Pavlovian Fear Acquisition and Extinction in Adolescents. Developmental Science 

Gyurkovics M and Levita L (2021). Dynamic Adjustments of Midfrontal Control Signals in Adults and Adolescents. Cerebral Cortex, 31(2), 795-808. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhaa258

Aytemur A and Levita L (2021). A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood. Conscious Cogn, 87, 103060. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2020.103060

Ellis R, Milne E & Levita L (2021) Reduced visual cortical plasticity in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Brain Res Bull.   

Butter S, Murphy J, Hyland P, McBride O, Shevlin M, Hartman TK, Bennett K, Gibson-Miller J, Levita L, Martinez AP , Mason L et al (2021) Modelling the complexity of pandemic-related lifestyle quality change and mental health: an analysis of a nationally representative UK general population sample. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.   

Murphy J, Vallières F, Bentall RP, Shevlin M, McBride O, Hartman TK, McKay R, Bennett K, Mason L, Gibson-Miller J , Levita L et al (2021) Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Nature Communications, 12(1).   

Lloyd A, McKay R, Hartman TK, Vincent BT, Murphy J, Gibson-Miller J, Levita L, Bennett K, McBride O, Martinez AP , Stocks TVA et al (2021) Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 11(1).   

Reuber M, Roberts NA, Levita L, Gray C & Myers L (2021) Shame in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizure: A narrative review. Seizure.  

Panzeri A, Bertamini M, Butter S, Levita L, Gibson-Miller J, Vidotto G, Bentall RP & Bennett KM (2021) Factors impacting resilience as a result of exposure to COVID-19 : the ecological resilience model. PLoS ONE, 16(8).  

Shevlin M, Butter S, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson-Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R , Va Stocks T et al (2021) 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. Psychological Medicine.   

Zavlis O, Butter S, Bennett K, Hartman TK, Hyland P, Mason L, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson-Miller J, Levita L , Martinez AP et al (2021) 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.. Psychol Med, 1-31.  RIS download Bibtex download

Hartman TK, Stocks TVA, McKay R, Gibson Miller J, Levita L, Martinez AP, Mason L, McBride O, Murphy J, Shevlin M , Bennett KM et al (2021) The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. Social Psychological and Personality Science. View this article in WRRO   

Myers L, Gray C, Roberts N, Levita L & Reuber M (2021) Shame in the treatment of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: The elephant in the room. Seizure.  

Adewusi J, Levita L, Gray C & Reuber M (2021) 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. Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 16, 100502-100502.   

Aytemur A & Levita L (2020) A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood. Consciousness and Cognition, 87. RIS download  Bibtex download

McBride O, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Gibson‐Miller J, Hartman TK, Hyland P, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R , Stocks TVA et al (2020) 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. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. View this article in WRRO  RIS download  Bibtex download

Shevlin M, Nolan E, Owczarek M, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP , McKay R et al (2020) COVID‐19‐related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population. British Journal of Health Psychology, 25(4), 875-882. View this article in WRRO  RIS download  Bibtex download

Shevlin M, McBride O, Murphy J, Miller JG, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R, Stocks TVA , Bennett KM et al (2020) Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic. BJPsych Open, 6(6).  RIS download  Bibtex download

Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Martinez AP, Mason L, McBride O, McKay R, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Stocks TVA , Bennett KM et al (2020) Capability, opportunity, and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID‐19 outbreak in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Health Psychology.

Kirkham E J and Levita L (2019). Early life stress is associated with reduced avoidance of threatening facial expressions. Development and Psychopathology, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S095457941900110X

Howsley P, Levita L. (2018). Developmental changes in the cortical sources of spontaneous alpha throughout adolescence. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 133, 91-101. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.08.003 Link here.

Walsh S, Levita L and Reuber M (2018). Comorbid depression and associated factors in PNES versus epilepsy: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Seizure, 60, 44-56. doi:10.1016/j.seizure.2018.05.014 Link here.

Mcsweeney M, Reuber M, Hoggard N and Levita L (2018). Cortical thickness and gyrification patterns in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Neuroscience Letters, 678, 124-130. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.04.056. Link here.

Williams I A, Howlett S, Levita L, and Reuber, M. (2018). Changes in Emotion Processing following Brief Augmented Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Functional Neurological Symptoms. Behav Cogn Psychother, 1-17. doi:10.1017/S1352465717000807 Link here.

Fritz T, Mueller K, Guha A, Gouws A, Levita L, Andrews T J and Slocombe K E (2018). Human Behavioural Discimination of Human, Chimpanzee and Macaque Affective Vocalisations Is Reflected by the Neural Response in the Superior Temporal Sulcus. Neuropsychologia. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.026. Link here.

McSweeney, M, Reuber M and Levita L. (2017). Neuroimaging studies in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: A systematic meta-review. NeuroImage: Clinical, 16, 210-221. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2017.07.025

Howsley P and Levita L (2017) Anticipatory representations of reward and threat in perceptual areas from preadolescence to late adolescence. Dev Cogn Neurosci. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.03.001

Levita, L., Salas Duhne, P. G., Girling, C., & Waller, G. (2016). Facets of clinicians’ anxiety and the delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 77, 157-161. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2015.12.015

Levita, L., Howsley, P., Jordan, J., & Johnston, P. (2015). Potentiation of the early visual response to learned danger signals in adults and adolescents. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 269-277. link.

McFetridge, M. A., Milner, R., Gavin, V., & Levita, L. (2015). Borderline personality disorder: patterns of self-harm, reported childhood trauma and clinical outcome. British Journal of Psychiatry Open, 1(1), 18-20. http://bjpo.rcpsych.org/content/1/1/18.abstract

West, K., Turner, R., & Levita, L. (2015). Applying imagined contact to improve physiological responses in anticipation of intergroup interactions and the perceived quality of these interactions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45(8), 425-436. link.

Bois, C., Ronan, L., Levita, L., Whalley, H. C., Giles, S., McIntosh, A. M., Fletcher, P. C., Owens, D. C., Johnstone, E. C., & Lawrie, S. M. (2015). Cortical Surface Area Differentiates Familial High Risk Individuals Who Go on to Develop Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 78(6), 413-20. link.

Bois, C., Levita, L., Ripp, I., Owens, D. C., Johnstone, E. C., Whalley, H. C., & Lawrie, S. S. (2015). Hippocampal, amygdala and nucleus accumbens volume in first-episode schizophrenia patients and individuals at high familial risk: A cross-sectional comparison. Schizophrenia Research, 165(1), 45–51. link.

Levita, L., Bois, C., Healey, A., Smyllie, E., Papakonstantinou, E., Hartley, T., & Lever, C. (2014). The Behavioural Inhibition System, anxiety and hippocampal volume in a non-clinical population. Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders 4:4. link.

Bois, C., Levita, L., Ripp, I., Owens, D.C.G., Johnstone, E.C., Whalley, H.C., & Lawrie, S.M. (2014). Longitudinal changes in hippocampal volume in the Edinburgh High Risk Study of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. [Epub ahead of print – link].

Slocombe, K. E., Alvarez, I., Branigan, H. P., Jellema, T., Burnett, H. G., Fischer, A., . . . Levita, L. (2013). Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger’s Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(6), 1423-1436. doi:10.1007/s10803-012-1698-2 link.

Campion, M., & Levita, L. (2014). Enhancing positive affect and divergent thinking abilities: Play some music and dance. Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(2),137-145. link.

Levita, L., Hoskin, R., & Champi, S. (2012). Avoidance of harm and anxiety: a role for the nucleus accumbens. Neuroimage, 62(1), 189-198. link.

Romaniuk, L., Honey, G. D., King, J. R., Whalley, H. C., McIntosh, A. M., Levita, L., Hughes, M., Johnstone, E. C., Day, M., Lawrie, S. M., & Hall, J. (2010). Midbrain activation during Pavlovian conditioning and delusional symptoms in schizophrenia. Archive of General Psychiatry, 67(12), 1246-1254. link.

Levita, L., & Muzzio, I. A. (2010). Role of the hippocampus in goal-oriented tasks requiring retrieval of spatial versus non-spatial information. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 93(4), 581-588. link.

Casey, B. J., Jones, R. M., Levita, L., Libby, V., Pattwell, S. S., Ruberry, E. J., Soliman, F., & Somerville, L. H. (2010). The storm and stress of adolescence: insights from human imaging and mouse genetics. Developmental Psychobiology, 52(3), 225-235. link.

Soliman, F., Glatt, C. E., Bath, K. G., Levita, L., Jones, R. M., Pattwell, S. S., Jing, D., Tottenham, N., Amso, D., Somerville, L. H., Voss, H. U., Glover, G., Ballon, D. J., Liston, C., Teslovich, T., Van Kempen, T., Lee, F.S., & Casey, B.J. (2010). A genetic variant BDNF polymorphism alters extinction learning in both mouse and human. Science, 327(5967), 863-866. link.

Casey, B. J., Glatt, C. E., Tottenham, N., Soliman, F., Bath, K., Amso, D., Altemus, M., Pattwell, S., Jones, R., Levita, L., McEwen, B., Magariños, A. M., Gunnar, M., Thomas, K. M., Mezey, J., Clark, A. G., Hempstead, B. L., & Lee, F. S. (2009). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor as a model system for examining gene by environment interactions across development. Neuroscience, 164(1), 108-120. link.

Muzzio, I. A., Levita, L., Kulkarni, J., Monaco, J., Kentros, C., Stead, M., Abbott, L. F., & Kandel, E. R. (2009). Attention enhances the retrieval and stability of visuospatial and olfactory representations in the dorsal hippocampus. PLoS Biology, 7(6), e1000140. link.

Guo, J. D., Hammack, S. E., Hazra, R., Levita, L., & Rainnie, D. G. (2009). Bi-directional modulation of bed nucleus of stria terminalis neurons by 5-HT: molecular expression and functional properties of excitatory 5-HT receptor subtypes. Neuroscience, 164(4), 1776-1793. link.

Levita, L., Hare, T. A., Voss, H. U., Glover, G., Ballon, D. J., & Casey, B. J. (2009). The bivalent side of the nucleus accumbens. Neuroimage, 44(3), 1178-1187. link.

Levita, L., Hammack, S. E., Mania, I., Li, X. Y., Davis, M., & Rainnie, D. G. (2004). 5-hydroxytryptamine1A-like receptor activation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: electrophysiological and behavioral studies. Neuroscience, 128(3), 583-596. link.

Passetti, F., Levita, L., & Robbins, T. W. (2003). Sulpiride alleviates the attentional impairments of rats with medial prefrontal cortex lesions. Behavioral Brain Research, 138(1), 59-69. link.

Levita, L., Mania, I., & Rainnie, D. G. (2003). Subtypes of substance P receptor immunoreactive interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala. Brain Research, 981(1-2), 41-51. link.

Levita, L., Hammack, S. E., Mania, I., Li, X. Y., Davis, M., & Rainnie, D. G. (2004). 5-hydroxytryptamine1A-like receptor activation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: electrophysiological and behavioral studies. Neuroscience, 128(3), 583-596. link.

Passetti, F., Levita, L., & Robbins, T. W. (2003). Sulpiride alleviates the attentional impairments of rats with medial prefrontal cortex lesions. Behavioral Brain Research, 138(1), 59-69. link.

Levita, L., Mania, I., & Rainnie, D. G. (2003). Subtypes of substance P receptor immunoreactive interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala. Brain Research, 981(1-2), 41-51. link.

Levita, L., Dalley, J. W., & Robbins, T. W. (2002). Nucleus accumbens dopamine and learned fear revisited: a review and some new findings. Behavioral Brain Research, 137(1-2), 115-127. link.

Levita, L., Dalley, J. W., & Robbins, T. W. (2002). Disruption of Pavlovian contextual conditioning by excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus accumbens core. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116(4), 539-552. link.

Dalley, J. W., McGaughy, J., O’Connell, M. T., Cardinal, R. N., Levita, L., & Robbins, T. W. (2001). Distinct changes in cortical acetylcholine and noradrenaline efflux during contingent and noncontingent performance of a visual attentional task. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(13), 4908-4914. link.

Sesay, A. .K, Errington, M. L., Levita, L., & Bliss, T. V. (1996). Spatial learning and hippocampal long-term potentiation are not impaired in mdx mice. Neuroscience Letters, 211(3), 207-210. link.