Publications
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*Shared first authorship; **Shared senior authorship; +Current/former mentee.
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Romer, A. L. Signs and symptoms of internalizing and externalizing disorders and opportunities for translation.
(2025). Neuropsychopharmacology—Digit Psychiatry Neurosci, 3, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44277-025-00031-2
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Breithaupt, L., Slattery, M., Lauze, M., Petterway, F., Lindman, L., Cravitz, M., Naticchia, S., Seenivasa, S., Powers,
M., Javaras, K. N., Alperovitz, D. J., Halperin, J., Dechant, E., Thomas, J. J., Lawson, E. A., Lee, H., Pizzagalli, D.,
Romer, A. L., Kumar, P., Plessow, F.**, Misra, M.**, & Eddy, K. T.** (2025). Study protocol for a randomized,
placebo-controlled, double-masked mechanistic clinical trial of transdermal estrogen replacement in hypoestrogenic
eating disorders to explore the role of estrogen on cognitive flexibility and reward processing. Contemporary
Clinical Trials, 154, 107924 (published online). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2025.107924
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Romer, A. L., Arenson, M., & Parisi, T. (2024). Transdiagnostic approaches to the study of psychopathology and
translation to clinical practice. Translational Issues of Psychological Science, 10, 367-373. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000448
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Carlisi, C. O., Fielder, J., Knodt, A. R., Romer, A. L., Hariri, A.R., & Viding, E. (2024). Differential mapping of
psychopathic traits and general psychopathology in a large young adult sample. Journal of Personality Disorders,
38, 535-558. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2024.38.6.535
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Romer, A.L.*, Bertocci, M. A.*, Phillips, M.L.**, Pizzagalli, D.A.** (2024). Neuroimaging and circuit mechanisms
of depression. In D.S. Charney, E.J. Nestler, P. Sklar, & J.D., Buxbaum (Eds.), Charney & Nestler's Neurobiology of
Mental Illness. Oxford University Press, pp. 375-392.
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Romer, A. L., Ren, B., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2023). Brain structure relations with psychopathology trajectories in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study®. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62, 895-907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.02.002
Giusto, A.,* Romer, A. L.,* Lovero, K., Fortunado dos Santos, P., Greene, C., Gouveia, L., Suleman, A., Feliciano, P., Oquendo, M., Mootz, J., & Wainberg, M. L. (2023). Examination of the factor structure of psychopathology in a Mozambican sample. Clinical Psychological Science, 11, 409-424. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221122773
Yang, Y., Shields, G. S., Zhang, Y., Wu, H., Chen, H., & Romer, A. L. Child executive function and future externalizing and internalizing problems: A meta-analysis of prospective longitudinal studies. Clinical Psychology Review, 97, (published online). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102194
Romer, A. L.,* Bertocci, M. A.,* Phillips, M. L.,** & Pizzagalli, D. A.** Neuroimaging and circuit mechanisms of depression. In D. S. Charney, E. J. Nestler, P. Sklar, & J. D., Buxbaum (Eds.), Charney & Nestler's Neurobiology of Mental Illness. Oxford University Press, (in press).
Romer, A. L., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2022). Associations between brain structural alterations, executive dysfunction, and general psychopathology in a healthy and cross-diagnostic adult patient sample. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 2, 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.06.002
Romer, A. L., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2021). Is executive dysfunction a risk marker or consequence of psychopathology? A test of executive function as a prospective predictor and outcome of general psychopathology in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study®. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 51, (published online). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100994
Romer, A. L., Hariri, A. R., & Strauman, T. J. (2021). Regulatory focus and the p factor: Evidence for self-regulatory dysfunction as a transdiagnostic feature of general psychopathology. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 137, 178-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.02.051 
Romer, A. L., Elliott, M. L.,+ Knodt, A. R., Sison, M. L., Ireland, D., Houts, R., Ramrakha, S., Poulton, R., Keenan, R., Melzer, T. R., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., & Hariri, A. R. (2021). Pervasively thinner neocortex as a transdiagnostic feature of general psychopathology. American Journal of Psychiatry, 178, 174-182.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19090934
Romer, A. L., Knodt, A. R., Sison, M., Ireland, D., Ramrakha, S., Poulton, R., Keenan, R., Melzer, T. R., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., & Hariri, A. R. (2021). Replicability of structural brain alterations associated with general psychopathology: Evidence from a population-representative birth cohort. Molecular Psychiatry, 26, 3839-3846.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0621-z
Esterman, M., Stumps, A., Jagger-Rickels, A., Rothlein, D., DeGutis, J., Fortenbaugh, F., Romer, A. L., Milberg, W., Marx, B. P., & McGlinchey, R. (2020). Evaluating the evidence for a neuroimaging subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder. Science Translational Medicine, 12 (published online). https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaz9343
Avinun, R., Romer, A. L., & Israel, S. (2020). Vitamin D polygenic score is associated with neuroticism and the general psychopathology factor. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 100 (published online). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.109912
Harris, A., Romer, A. L., Hanna, E., Keeling, L., Labar, K., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Strauman, T., Wagner, H. R., Marcus, M. D., & Zucker, N. (2019). The central role of disgust in disorders of food avoidance. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 52, 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23047
Romer, A. L.,* Kang, M. S.,*+ Nikolova, Y. S., Gearhardt, A., & Hariri, A. R. (2019). Dopamine genetic risk is related to food addiction and body mass through reduced reward-related ventral striatum activity. Appetite, 133, 24-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.09.010
Farber, M. J.,+ Romer, A. L., Kim, J., M., Knodt, A. R., Elsayed, N., Williamson, D.E., & Hariri, A. R. (2019). Paradoxical associations between familial affective responsiveness, stress, and amygdala reactivity. Emotion, 19, 645-654. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000467
Romer, A. L., Knodt, A. R., Houts, R., Brigidi, B. D., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A. C., & Hariri, A. R. (2018). Structural alterations within cerebellar circuitry are associated with general liability for common mental disorders. Molecular Psychiatry, 23, 1084-1090. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2017.57
Chen, Q., Ursini, G., Romer, A. L., Knodt, A. R., Straub, R. E., Mezeivtch, K., Xiao, E., Pergola, G., Blasi, G., Callicott, J. H., Berman, K. F., Hariri, A. R., Bertolino, A., Mattay, V. S., & Weinberger, D. R. (2018). Schizophrenia polygenic risk score predicts mnemonic hippocampal activity in healthy volunteers. Brain, 141, 1218-1228. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy004
Elliott, M.L.,+ Romer, A. L., Knodt, A. R., & Hariri, A. R. (2018). A connectome wide functional signature oftransdiagnostic risk for mental illness. Biological Psychiatry, 84, 452-459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.03.012
Romer, A. L., Reyna, V. F., & Pardo, S. T. (2016). Are rash impulsive and reward sensitive traits distinguishable?: A test in young adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 99, 308-312.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.027
Salazar, E., Nikolova, Y., Lian, W., Rai, P., Romer, A. L., Hariri, A. R., & Carin, L. (2016). A Bayesian framework for multi-modality analysis of mental health. Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA).
Jarcho, J. M., Romer, A. L., Shechner, T., Galvan, A., Guyer, A. E., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., & Nelson, E. E. (2015). Predicting the worst and forgetting the best: Unique neural circuits promote adolescent social anxiety. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 21-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2015.03.002
Jarcho, J. M., Tanofsky-Kraff, M., Nelson, E. E., Engel, S. G., Vannucci, M. S., Field, S. A., Romer, A. L., Hanallah, L., Brady, S. M., Demidowich, A. P., Shomaker, L. B., Courville, A., Pine, D. S., & Yanovski, J. A. (2015). Neural activation during social stress and laboratory meal intake in overweight girls with and without loss of control eating. NeuroImage, 108, 343-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.054