
Professor Veena Kumari
Professor - Psychology
Quad North 148
- Email: veena.kumari@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268053
Evans, SL., Kumari, V., Kempton, MJ., Rogers, J., Upthegrove, R. and Allen, P. (2025) 'MRI data sharing in psychosis: Key challenges and a new Open Access resource for researchers'. Schizophrenia Research, 277. pp. 185 - 187. ISSN: 0920-9964 Open Access Link
Allen, P., Zurita, M., Easmin, R., Bucci, S., Kempton, MJ., Rogers, J., et al. (2025) 'The Psychosis MRI Shared Data Resource (Psy-ShareD)'. Human brain mapping, 46 (3). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 1065-9471 Open Access Link
Kennedy, E., Vadlamani, S., Lindsey, HM., Lei, P-W., Jo-Pugh, M., Thompson, PM., et al. (2024) 'Bridging big data in the ENIGMA consortium to combine non-equivalent cognitive measures'. Scientific Reports, 14 (1). pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 2045-2322 Open Access Link
Kumari, V. (2024) 'Towards a unified theory of the aetiology of schizophrenia†: commentary, Kumari'. British Journal of Psychiatry, 225 (2). pp. 341 - 342. ISSN: 0007-1250
Chauhan, S., Faßbender, K., Pandey, R., Norbury, R., Ettinger, U. and Kumari, V. (2024) 'Sleep Matters in Chronotype and Mental Health Association: Evidence from the UK and Germany'. Brain Sciences, 14 (10). pp. 1 - 18. ISSN: 2076-3425 Open Access Link
Vakani, K., Norbury, R., Vanova, M., Ratto, M., Parton, A., Antonova, E. and et al. (2024) 'Cognitive function and brain structure in COVID-19 survivors: The role of persistent symptoms'. Behavioural Brain Research, 476. pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 0166-4328 Open Access Link
Alkan, E., Kumari, V. and Evans, SL. (2024) 'Frontal brain volume correlates of impaired executive function in schizophrenia'. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 178. pp. 397 - 404. ISSN: 0022-3956 Open Access Link
Naysmith, LF., O’Daly, O., Solana, AB., Wiesinger, F., Hill, S., Williams, SCR. and et al. (2024) 'Investigating acoustic startle habituation and prepulse inhibition with silent functional MRI and electromyography in young, healthy adults'. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18. pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 1662-5161 Open Access Link
Kumari, V., Tailor, U., Saifullah, A., Pandey, R. and Antonova, E. (2024) 'Non-dual awareness and sensory processing in meditators: Insights from startle reflex modulation'. Consciousness and Cognition, 123. pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 1053-8100 Open Access Link
Kennedy, E., Liebel, SW., Lindsey, HM., Vadlamani, S., Lei, PW., Adamson, MM., et al. (2024) 'Verbal Learning and Memory Deficits across Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Insights from an ENIGMA Mega Analysis'. Brain Sciences, 14 (7). pp. 1 - 21. ISSN: 2076-3425 Open Access Link
Chauhan, S., Pandey, R., Vakani, K., Norbury, R., Ettinger, U. and Kumari, V. (2024) 'Sleep quality mediates the association between chronotype and mental health in young Indian adults'. npj Mental Health Research, 3 (1). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2731-4251 Open Access Link
Cheang, RTS., Skjevling, M., Blakemore, AIF., Kumari, V. and Puzzo, I. (2024) 'Do you feel me? Autism, empathic accuracy and the double empathy problem'. Autism, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 1362-3613 Open Access Link
Jogia, J., Anwahi, F., Aburehaima, S., Sharif, A. and Kumari, V. (2024) 'Understanding Mental Health Needs and Predictors of Anxiety in Emirati Female Students in Higher Education'. OBM Neurobiology, 8 (2). pp. 1 - 15.Open Access Link
See, QR., Raheel, K., Duncan, I., Biabani, N., Di Giulio, I., Romigi, A., et al. (2024) 'Dreaming Characteristics in Non-Rapid Eye Movement Parasomnia and Idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behaviour Disorder: Similarities and Differences'. Nature and Science of Sleep, 2024. pp. 263 - 277. ISSN: 1179-1608 Open Access Link
Cooper, H., Jennings, BJ., Kumari, V., Willard, AK. and Bennetts, RJ. (2024) 'The association between childhood trauma and emotion recognition is reduced or eliminated when controlling for alexithymia and psychopathy traits'. Scientific Reports, 14 (1). pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 2045-2322 Open Access Link
Vakani, K., Ratto, M., Sandford-James, A., Antonova, E. and Kumari, V. (2024) 'Cognitive and Mental Health Trajectories of COVID-19: Role of Hospitalisation and Long-COVID Symptoms'. European Psychiatry, 67 (1). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 0924-9338 Open Access Link
Sen, P. and Kumari, V. (2024) 'Editorial: Objective and measurable predictors of violence risk and outcome among forensic patients with psychosis'. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. pp. 1 - 2. ISSN: 1664-0640 Open Access Link
Aldridge-Waddon, L., Vanova, M., Elbers, L., Puzzo, I., Muneke, J. and Kumari, V. (2023) 'Scenario-specific aberrations of social reward processing in dimensional schizotypy and psychopathy'. Scientific Reports, 12 (1). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 2045-2322 Open Access Link
Pandey, R., Mandal, SP., Shukla, M., Tripathi, V., Antonova, E. and Kumari, V. (2023) 'Attenuated maladaptive emotion processing as a potential mediator of the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and mental health'. Heliyon, 9 (11). pp. 1 - 112. ISSN: 2405-8440 Open Access Link
Vanova, M., Ettinger, U., Aldridge-Waddon, L., Jennings, B., Norbury, R. and Kumari, V. (2023) 'Positive schizotypy and motor impulsivity correlate with response aberrations in ventral attention network during inhibitory control'. Cortex, 169 (December 2023). pp. 235 - 248. ISSN: 0010-9452 Open Access Link
Biabani, N., Birdseye, A., Higgins, S., Delogu, A., Rosenzweig, J., Cvetkovic, Z., et al. (2023) 'The neurophysiologic landscape of the sleep onset: a systematic review'. Journal of Thoracic Disease, 15 (8). pp. 4530 - 4543. ISSN: 2072-1439 Open Access Link
Kumari, V., Chauhan, S., Vakani, K., Antonova, E. and Jacky, B. (2023) 'Camera-Based Visual Feedback Learning Aid for Recovering Sense of Smell and Taste in COVID-19 Survivors: A Proof-of-Concept Study'. Frontiers in Psychology - Cognitive Science, 14. pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 1664-1078 Open Access Link
Shukla, M., Crew, A., Wu, A., Riddleston, L., Hutchinson, T., Kumari, V., et al. (2023) 'Self-Reported Worries in Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic'. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47 (4). pp. 531 - 542. ISSN: 0147-5916 Open Access Link
Drakatos, P., O’Regan, D., Liao, Y., Panayiotou, C., Higgins, S., Kabiljo, R., et al. (2023) 'Profile of sleep disturbances in patients with recurrent depressive disorder or bipolar affective disorder in a tertiary sleep disorders service'. Scientific Reports, 13 (1). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 2045-2322 Open Access Link
Chauhan, S., Barbanta, A., Ettinger, U. and Kumari, V. (2023) 'Pineal Abnormalities in Psychosis and Mood Disorders: A Systematic Review'. Brain Sciences, 13 (5). pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 2076-3425 Open Access Link
Vakani, K., Ratto, M., Sandford-James, A., Antonova, E. and Kumari, V. (2023) 'COVID-19 and Cognitive Function: Evidence for Increased Processing Speed Variability in COVID-19 Survivors and Multifaceted Impairment with Long-COVID Symptoms'. European Psychiatry, 66 (1). pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 0924-9338 Open Access Link
Wongupparaj, P., Wongupparaj, R., Morris, RG. and Kumari, V. (2023) 'Seventy years, 1000 samples, and 300,000 SPM scores: A new meta-analysis of Flynn effect patterns'. Intelligence, 98. pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 0160-2896 Open Access Link
Chauhan, S., Norbury, R., Faßbender, KC., Ettinger, U. and Kumari, V. (2023) 'Beyond Sleep: A Multidimensional Model of Chronotype'. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 148. pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 0149-7634 Open Access Link
Laroche, M., Biabani, N., Drakatos, P., Selsick, H., Leschziner, G., Steier, J., et al. (2023) 'Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Non-Rapid Eye Movement Parasomnias: Long-Term Outcomes and Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown'. Brain Sciences, 13 (2). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 2076-3425 Open Access Link
Dhakal, S., Gupta, S., Sharma, NP., Upadhyay, A., Oliver, A., Sumich, A., et al. (2023) 'Can we challenge attention and interpretation threat biases in rescued child labourers with a history of physical abuse using a computerised cognitive training task? Data on feasibility, acceptability and target engagement'. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 162. pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 0005-7967 Open Access Link
Kumari, V., Antonova, E., Mahmood, S., Shukla, M., Saifullah, A. and Pandey, R. (2022) 'Dispositional mindfulness, alexithymia and sensory processing: Emerging insights from habituation of the acoustic startle reflex response'. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 184. pp. 20 - 27. ISSN: 0167-8760 Open Access Link
Naysmith, LF., Williams, SCR. and Kumari, V. (2022) 'The influence of stimulus onset asynchrony, task order, sex and hormonal contraception on prepulse inhibition and prepulse facilitation: Methodological considerations for drug and imaging research'. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 36 (11). pp. 1234 - 1242. ISSN: 0269-8811 Open Access Link
Sharma, NP., Dhakal, S., Oliver, A., Gupta, S., Kumari, V., Pandey, R., et al. (2022) 'Threat biases associate with anxiety and depression in physically-abused young people with a history of child labour'. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 77. pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 0005-7916 Open Access Link
Trofimova, I., Bajaj, S., Bashkatov, SA., Blair, J., Brandt, A., Chan, RCK., et al. (2022) 'What is next for the neurobiology of temperament, personality and psychopathology?'. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 45. pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 2352-1546 Open Access Link
Vanova, M., Aldridge-Waddon, L., Norbury, R., Jennings, B., Puzzo, I. and Kumari, V. (2022) 'Distinct neural signatures of schizotypy and psychopathy during visual word-nonword recognition'. Human Brain Mapping, 43 (12). pp. 3620 - 3632. ISSN: 1065-9471 Open Access Link
Yassari, A., Karageorghis, C., Moritz, S., Ohls, I., Gallinat, J. and Kumari, V. (2022) 'Introducing a novel music medicine for depression'. Music and Medicine, 14 (2). pp. 108 - 114. ISSN: 1943-8621 Open Access Link
DeLuca, M., Low, D., Kumari, V., Parton, A., Davis, J. and Mohagheghi, AA. (2022) 'A systematic review with meta-analysis of the StartReact effect on motor responses in stroke survivors and healthy individuals'. Journal of Neurophysiology, 127 (4). pp. 938 - 945. ISSN: 0022-3077 Open Access Link
Murray, T., O'Brien, J., Sagiv, N. and Kumari, V. (2022) 'Changes in functional connectivity associated with facial expression processing over the working adult lifespan'. Cortex, 151. pp. 211 - 223. ISSN: 0010-9452
Premkumar, P. and Kumari, V. (2022) 'Rejection sensitivity and its relationship to schizotypy and aggression: current status and future directions'. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 44. pp. 1 - 6. ISSN: 2352-1546 Open Access Link
Puzzo, I., Aldridge-Waddon, L., Stokes, N., Rainbird, J. and Kumari, V. (2022) 'The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on forensic mental health services and clinical outcomes: A longitudinal study'. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 1664-0640 Open Access Link
Wang, Y-M., Egerton, A., McMullen, K., McLaughlin, A., Kumari, V., Lythgoe, DJ., et al. (2022) 'Relationship between cortical glutamatergic metabolite levels and hippocampal activity in schizotypy'. Schizophrenia Research, 240. pp. 132 - 134. ISSN: 0920-9964 Open Access Link
Vanova, M., Aldridge-Waddon, L., Jennings, B., Elbers, L., Puzzo, I. and Kumari, V. (2021) 'Clarifying the Roles of Schizotypy and Psychopathic Traits in Lexical Decision Performance'. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 27. pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 2215-0013 Open Access Link
Kirschner, M., Hodzic-Santor, B., Antoniades, M., Nenadic, I., Kircher, T., Krug, A., et al. (2021) 'Cortical and subcortical neuroanatomical signatures of schizotypy in 3004 individuals assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study'. Molecular Psychiatry, 27 (2). pp. 1167 - 1176. ISSN: 1359-4184 Open Access Link
Kaur, H., Duncan, K., Dhakal, S., Sharma, N., Niraula, S., Pandey, R., et al. (2021) 'Recognising and healing emotional wounds of child labourers: call to action based on the evidence and stakeholder views from India and Nepal'. BJPsych International, 19 (2). pp. 47 - 50. ISSN: 2056-4740 Open Access Link
Underwood, R., Mason, L., O’Daly, O., Dalton, J., Simmons, A., Barker, GJ., et al. (2021) 'You read my mind: fMRI markers of threatening appraisals in people with persistent psychotic experiences'. npj Schizophrenia, 7 (1). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2334-265X Open Access Link
Naysmith, LF., Kumari, V. and Williams, SCR. (2021) 'Neural mapping of prepulse-induced startle reflex modulation as indices of sensory information processing in healthy and clinical populations: A systematic review'. Human Brain Mapping, 42 (16). pp. 5495 - 5518. ISSN: 1065-9471 Open Access Link
Heym, N., Mudholkar, S., Sumich, AL. and Kumari, V. (2021) 'The Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended in 2007) reform – How proposed changes potentially impact personality disorder services'. Forensic Science International: Mind and Law, 2. pp. 1 - 4. ISSN: 2666-3538 Open Access Link
Sen, P., Adewusi, D., Blakemore, A. and Kumari, V. (2021) 'How do lipids influence risk of violence, self-harm and suicidality in people with psychosis? A systematic review'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 56 (5). pp. 451 - 488. ISSN: 0004-8674 Open Access Link
O'Regan, D., Nesbitt, A., Biabani, N., Drakatos, P., Selsick, H., Leschziner, GD., et al. (2021) 'A Novel Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approach to Adult Non-rapid Eye Movement Parasomnias'. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 1664-0640 Open Access Link
Bipin, M., Premkumar, P., Das, MK., Lau, JY., Sumich, AL. and Kumari, V. (2021) 'Pituitary volume in people with chronic schizophrenia: Clarifying the roles of serious violence and childhood maltreatment'. Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging, 314. pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 0925-4927 Open Access Link