Recent relevant publications.
See a complete list of publications by Dr. Damme and colleagues.
Women’s Health and Adolescent Brain Development
Damme, K.S.F., Hernandez, J., & Mittal, V.A. (2024). The impact of menarche on hippocampal mechanisms of severity of psychotic-like experiences in the ABCD Study. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Damme, K. S. F., Ristanovic, I., Vargas, T., & Mittal, V. A. (2020). Timing of menarche and abnormal hippocampal connectivity in youth at clinical-high risk for psychosis. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 117, 104672.
Early Life Span Neurodevelopment and Psychopathology
Damme, K. S. F., Vargas, T., & Bauer, J. (currently under review) The accumulating impact of fine particulate exposure on hippocampal volume and working memory: Insights from prenatal and adolescent exposures.
Damme, K. S. F., Ristanovic, I., & Mittal, V. A. (2024). Reduced hippocampal volume unmasks distinct impacts of cumulative adverse childhood events (ACEs) on psychotic-like experiences in late childhood and early adolescence. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 169, 107149.
Damme, K. S. F., Norton, E. S., Briggs-Gowan, M. J., Wakschlag, L. S., & Mittal, V. A. (2022). Developmental patterning of irritability enhances prediction of psychopathology in preadolescence: Improving RDoC with developmental science. Journal of psychopathology and clinical science, 131(6), 556-566.
Sensorimotor Deficits Predict Psychopathology
Damme, K. S. F., Han, Y. C., Han, Z., Reber, P. J., & Mittal, V. A. (2024). Motor precision deficits in clinical high risk for psychosis. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 274(6), 1427–1435.
Damme, K. S. F., Park, J. S., Walther, S., Vargas, T., Shankman, S. A., & Mittal, V. A. (2022). Depression and Psychosis Risk Shared Vulnerability for Motor Signs Across Development, Symptom Dimensions, and Familial Risk. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 48(4), 752–762.
Damme, K. S. F., Park, J. S., Vargas, T., Walther, S., Shankman, S. A., & Mittal, V. A. (2022). Motor abnormalities, depression risk, and clinical course in adolescence. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 2(1), 61–69.
Damme, K. S. F., Schiffman, J., Ellman, L. M., & Mittal, V. A. (2021). Sensorimotor and Activity Psychosis-Risk (SMAP-R) Scale: An Exploration of Scale Structure with Replication and Validation. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47(2), 332–343.
Promoting Mental Health and Physical Health
Damme, K. S. F., Vargas, T. G., Walther, S., Shankman, S. A., & Mittal, V. A. (2024). Physical and mental health in adolescence: novel insights from a transdiagnostic examination of FitBit data in the ABCD study. Translational psychiatry, 14(1), 75.
Damme, K. S. F., Gupta, T., Ristanovic, I., Kimhy, D., Bryan, A. D., & Mittal, V. A. (2022). Exercise intervention in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: benefits to fitness, symptoms, hippocampal volumes, and functional connectivity. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 48(6), 1394-1405.
Damme, K. S. F., Sloan, R. P., Bartels, M. N., Ozsan, A., Ospina, L. H., Kimhy, D., & Mittal, V. A. (2021). Psychosis-risk individuals show poor fitness and discrepancies with objective and subjective measures. Scientific reports, 11(1), 9851.
Practical Publications – For Scientists
Damme, K.S.F. & Mittal, V.A. (in press) Managing clinical heterogeneity in psychopathology: Perspectives from brain research. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
Saragosa-Harris, N. M., Chaku, N., MacSweeney, N., Williamson, V. G., Scheuplein, M., Feola, B., Damme, K.S.F. & Mills, K. L. (2022). A practical guide for researchers and reviewers using the ABCD Study and other large longitudinal datasets. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 55, 101115.
MacNeill, L. A., Allen, N. B., Poleon, R. B., Vargas, T., Osborne, K. J., Damme, K. S. F., Mittal, V.A., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2021). Translating RDoC to real-world impact in developmental psychopathology: A neurodevelopmental framework for the application of mental health risk calculators. Development and Psychopathology, 33(5), 1665-1684.
