Professor Veena Kumari
Professor - Psychology
Quad North 148
- Email: veena.kumari@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268053
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
Mason, L., Mansell, W., Linden, DEJ. and Kumari, V. (2021) 'Editorial: Returning to Mechanisms in Psychological Therapies: Understand the Engine Before Steaming in'. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. pp. 1 - 3. ISSN: 1664-0640 Open Access Link
Shukla, M., Pandey, R., Singh, T., Riddleston, L., Hutchinson, T., Kumari, V. and et al. (2021) 'The Effect of COVID-19 and Related Lockdown Phases on Young Peoples' Worries and Emotions: Novel Data From India'. Frontiers in Public Health, 9. pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2296-2565 Open Access Link
Raslan, N., Hamlet, A. and Kumari, V. (2021) 'Mental health and psychosocial support in conflict: children’s protection concerns and intervention outcomes in Syria'. Conflict and Health, 15 (1). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 1752-1505 Open Access Link
Antonova, E., Schlosser, K., Pandey, R. and Kumari, V. (2021) 'Coping With COVID-19: Mindfulness-Based Approaches for Mitigating Mental Health Crisis'. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 1664-0640 Open Access Link
Havsteen-Franklin, D., Tjasink, M., Kottler, JW., Grant, C. and Kumari, V. (2020) 'Arts-Based Interventions for Professionals in Caring Roles During and After Crisis: A Systematic Review of the Literature'. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. pp. 1 - 18. ISSN: 1664-1078 Open Access Link
Vanova, M., Aldridge-Waddon, L., Jennings, B., Puzzo, I. and Kumari, V. (2020) 'Reading Skills Deficits in People with Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis'. European Psychiatry, 64 (1). pp. 1 - 28. ISSN: 0924-9338 Open Access Link
Aldridge-Waddon, L., Vanova, M., Munneke, J., Puzzo, I. and Kumari, V. (2020) 'Atypical social reward anticipation as a transdiagnostic characteristic of psychopathology: A meta-analytic review and critical evaluation of current evidence'. Clinical Psychology Review, 82. pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0272-7358 Open Access Link
Latzman, RD. and Kumari, V. (2020) 'Neurobiological investigations of dimensionally conceptualized personality pathology: Mapping a way forward for the clinical neuroscience of personality disorders'. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34 (5). pp. 577 - 585. ISSN: 0885-579X Open Access Link
Kumari, V. (2020) 'Emotional abuse and neglect: time to focus on prevention and mental health consequences'. British Journal of Psychiatry, 217 (5). pp. 597 - 599. ISSN: 0007-1250 Open Access Link
Premkumar, P., Kuipers, E. and Kumari, V. (2020) 'The path from schizotypy to depression and aggression and the role of family stress'. European Psychiatry, 63 (1). pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 0924-9338 Open Access Link
Premkumar, P., Alahakoon, P., Smith, M., Kumari, V., Babu, D. and Baker, J. (2020) 'Mild-to-moderate schizotypal traits relate to physiological arousal from social stress'. Stress, 24 (3). pp. 303 - 317. ISSN: 1025-3890 Open Access Link
O'Connor, DB., Aggleton, JP., Chakrabarti, B., Cooper, CL., Creswell, C., Dunsmuir, S., et al. (2020) 'Research priorities for the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science'. British Journal of Psychology, 111 (4). pp. 603 - 629. ISSN: 0007-1269 Open Access Link
Kumari, V. and Ettinger, U. (2020) 'Controlled Sleep Deprivation as an Experimental Medicine Model of Schizophrenia: An Update'. Schizophrenia Research, 221. pp. 4 - 11. ISSN: 0920-9964 Open Access Link
Pandey, R., Gupta, S., Upadhyay, A., Gupta, RP., Shukla, M., Mishra, RC., et al. (2020) 'Childhood maltreatment and its mental health consequences among Indian adolescents with a history of child work'. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 54 (5). pp. 496 - 508. ISSN: 0004-8674 Open Access Link
Shukla, M., Lau, JYF., Lissek, S., Pandey, R. and Kumari, V. (2020) 'Reduced emotional responsiveness in individuals with marginal elevation in blood pressure within the normal range: Evidence from altered affect-modulated startle response'. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 153. pp. 18 - 26. ISSN: 0167-8760 Open Access Link
Antoniades, M., Nenadic, I., Kircher, T., Krug, A., Meller, T., Grotegerd, D., et al. (2020) 'CORTICAL NEUROANATOMICAL SIGNATURE OF SCHIZOTYPY IN 2,695 INDIVIDUALS ASSESSED IN A WORLDWIDE ENIGMA STUDY'. SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, 46. pp. S195 - S195. ISSN: 0586-7614
Wongupparaj, P., Wongupparaj, R., Kumari, V. and Morris, RG. (2020) 'Verbal and visuospatial short-term and working memory data across a 43-year period (1973–2016) worldwide: Flynn and anti-Flynn effects'. Data in Brief, 29. pp. 1 - 5. ISSN: 2352-3409 Open Access Link
Wongupparaj, P., Kumari, V. and Morris, RG. (2019) 'IQ score gains over 65 years worldwide: Cross-temporal meta-analysis datasets'. Data in Brief, 28. pp. 104884 - 104884. ISSN: 2352-3409 Open Access Link
Dovey, T., Kumari, V. and Blissett, J. (2019) 'Eating behaviour, behavioural problems and sensory profiles of children with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), autistic spectrum disorders or picky eating: same or different?'. European Psychiatry, 61. pp. 56 - 62. ISSN: 0924-9338 Open Access Link
Dhakal, S., Niraula, S., Sharma, NP., Sthapit, S., Bennett, E., Vaswani, A., et al. (2019) 'History of abuse and neglect and their associations with mental health in rescued child labourers in Nepal'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53 (12). pp. 1199 - 1207. ISSN: 0004-8674 Open Access Link
Premkumar, P., Santo, MGE., Onwumere, J., Schürmann, M., Kumari, V., Blanco, S., et al. (2019) 'Neural responses to criticism and praise vary with schizotypy and perceived emotional support'. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 145. pp. 109 - 118. ISSN: 0167-8760 Open Access Link
Meyhöfer, I., Ettinger, U., Faiola, E., Petrovsky, N. and Kumari, V. (2019) 'The effects of positive schizotypy and sleep deprivation on prepulse inhibition'. Schizophrenia Research, 209. pp. 284 - 285. ISSN: 0920-9964 Open Access Link
Puzzo, I., Sedgwick, O., Kelly, R., Greer, B., Kumari, V., Gudjonsson, G. and et al. (2019) 'Attention Problems Predict Risk of Violence and Rehabilitative Engagement in Mentally Disordered Offenders'. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10 (MAY). pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 1664-0640 Open Access Link
Heym, N., Heasman, BC., Hunter, K., Blanco, SR., Wang, GY., Siegert, R., et al. (2019) 'The role of microbiota and inflammation in self-judgement and empathy: implications for understanding the brain-gut-microbiome axis in depression.'. Psychopharmacology, 236 (5). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 0033-3158 Open Access Link
Kumari, V. (2019) 'Is clinical psychiatry about to get smarter? A commentary on ‘Objective smartphone data as a potential diagnostic marker of bipolar disorder’'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53 (4). pp. 361 - 362. ISSN: 0004-8674 Open Access Link
Waltmann, M., O'Daly, O., Egerton, A., McMullen, K., Kumari, V., Barker, GJ., et al. (2018) 'Multi-echo fMRI, resting-state connectivity, and high psychometric schizotypy'. NeuroImage: Clinical, 21. pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 2213-1582 Open Access Link
Baker, HM., Barry, TJ., Kumari, V., Pandey, R., Niraula, S. and Lau, JYF. (2018) 'Problematic attention processing and fear learning in adolescent anxiety: Testing a combined cognitive and learning processes model'. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 62. pp. 146 - 153. ISSN: 0005-7916 Open Access Link
Wongupparaj, P., Sumich, A., Wickens, M., Kumari, V. and Morris, RG. (2018) 'Individual differences in working memory and general intelligence indexed by P200 and P300: A latent variable model'. Biological Psychology, 139. pp. 96 - 105. ISSN: 0301-0511 Open Access Link
Faiola, E., Meyhöfer, I., Steffens, M., Kasparbauer, A-M., Kumari, V. and Ettinger, U. (2018) 'Combining trait and state model systems of psychosis: The effect of sleep deprivation on cognitive functions in schizotypal individuals'. Psychiatry Research, 270. pp. 638 - 648. ISSN: 0165-1781 Open Access Link
Kumari, V., Tolmeijer, E., Peters, E., Williams, SCR. and Mason, L. (2018) 'Using fMRI and machine learning to predict symptom improvement following cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis'. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20. pp. 1053 - 1061. ISSN: 2213-1582 Open Access Link
Ettinger, U., Aichert, DS., Wöstmann, N., Dehning, S., Riedel, M. and Kumari, V. (2018) 'Response inhibition and interference control: Effects of schizophrenia, genetic risk, and schizotypy'. Journal of Neuropsychology, 12 (3). pp. 484 - 510. ISSN: 1748-6645
Modinos, G., Egerton, A., McMullen, K., McLaughlin, A., Kumari, V., Barker, GJ., et al. (2018) 'Increased resting perfusion of the hippocampus in high positive schizotypy: A pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling study'. Human Brain Mapping, 39 (10). pp. 4055 - 4064. ISSN: 1065-9471 Open Access Link
Ettinger, U., Meyhöfer, I., Mehta, MA., Kumari, V., Corr, PJ., Williams, SCR. and et al. (2018) 'Effects of lorazepam on saccadic eye movements: the role of sex, task characteristics and baseline traits'. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 32 (6). pp. 678 - 690. ISSN: 0269-8811 Open Access Link
Lisk, SC., Pile, V., Haller, SPW., Kumari, V. and Lau, JYF. (2018) 'Multisession Cognitive Bias Modification Targeting Multiple Biases in Adolescents with Elevated Social Anxiety'. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 42 (5). pp. 581 - 597. ISSN: 0147-5916 Open Access Link
Sumich, A., Harris, A., Whitford, T., Hermens, D., Heym, N., Anderson, J., et al. (2018) 'Neurophysiological correlates of excitement in men with recent-onset psychosis'. Psychiatria Danubina, 30 (1). pp. 64 - 71. ISSN: 0353-5053 Open Access Link
Premkumar, P., Bream, D., Sapara, A., Fannon, D., Anilkumar, AP., Kuipers, E. and et al. (2018) 'Pituitary volume reduction in schizophrenia following cognitive behavioural therapy'. Schizophrenia Research, 192. pp. 416 - 422. ISSN: 0920-9964 Open Access Link
Quednow, BB., Ejebe, K., Wagner, M., Giakoumaki, SG., Bitsios, P., Kumari, V. and et al. (2017) 'Meta-analysis on the association between genetic polymorphisms and prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response'. Schizophrenia Research, 198. pp. 52 - 59. ISSN: 0920-9964 Open Access Link
Modinos, G., Egerton, A., McLaughlin, A., McMullen, K., Kumari, V., Lythgoe, DJ., et al. (2017) 'Neuroanatomical changes in people with high schizotypy: Relationship to glutamate levels'. Psychological Medicine, 48 (11). pp. 1880 - 1889. ISSN: 0033-2917 Open Access Link
Sedgwick, O., Young, S., Baumeister, D., Greer, B., Das, M. and Kumari, V. (2017) 'Neuropsychology and emotion processing in violent individuals with antisocial personality disorder or schizophrenia: The same or different? A systematic review and meta-analysis'. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 51 (12). pp. 1178 - 1197. ISSN: 0004-8674
Wongupparaj, P., Wongupparaj, R., Kumari, V. and Morris, RG. (2017) 'The Flynn effect for verbal and visuospatial short-term and working memory: A cross-temporal meta-analysis'. Intelligence, 64. pp. 71 - 80. ISSN: 0160-2896
Meyhöfer, I., Steffens, M., Faiola, E., Kasparbauer, AM., Kumari, V. and Ettinger, U. (2017) 'Combining two model systems of psychosis: The effects of schizotypy and sleep deprivation on oculomotor control and psychotomimetic states'. Psychophysiology, 54 (11). pp. 1755 - 1769. ISSN: 0048-5772 Open Access Link
Sedgwick, O., Young, S., Greer, B., Arnold, J., Parsons, A., Puzzo, I., et al. (2017) 'Sensorimotor gating characteristics of violent men with comorbid psychosis and dissocial personality disorder: Relationship with antisocial traits and psychosocial deprivation'. Schizophrenia Research, 198. pp. 21 - 27. ISSN: 0920-9964 Open Access Link
Dhanani, S., Kumari, V., Puri, BK., Treasaden, I., Young, S. and Sen, P. (2017) 'A systematic review of the heritability of specific psychopathic traits using Hare's two-factor model of psychopathy'. CNS Spectrums, 23 (1). pp. 29 - 38. ISSN: 1092-8529
Modinos, G., McLaughlin, A., Egerton, A., McMullen, K., Kumari, V., Barker, GJ., et al. (2017) 'Corticolimbic hyper-response to emotion and glutamatergic function in people with high schizotypy: A multimodal fMRI-MRS study'. Translational Psychiatry, 7 (4). pp. e1083 - e1083. ISSN: 2158-3188 Open Access Link
Meyhöfer, I., Kumari, V., Hill, A., Petrovsky, N. and Ettinger, U. (2017) 'Sleep deprivation as an experimental model system for psychosis: Effects on smooth pursuit, prosaccades, and antisaccades'. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 31 (4). pp. 418 - 433. ISSN: 0269-8811
Ettinger, U., Faiola, E., Kasparbauer, AM., Petrovsky, N., Chan, RCK., Liepelt, R. and et al. (2017) 'Effects of nicotine on response inhibition and interference control'. Psychopharmacology, 234 (7). pp. 1093 - 1111. ISSN: 0033-3158
Mortlock, AM., Puzzo, I., Taylor, S., Kumari, V., Young, S., Sengupta, S. and et al. (2017) 'Enrichment activities in the medical school psychiatry programme - could this be a key to engaging medical students in psychiatry? A study from a high secure forensic psychiatric UK hospital'. BMC Psychiatry, 17 (1). pp. 83. ISSN: 1471-244X Open Access Link
Mason, L., Peters, E., Williams, SC. and Kumari, V. (2017) 'Brain connectivity changes occurring following cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis predict long-term recovery'. Translational Psychiatry, 7 (1). pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 2158-3188 Open Access Link
Kumari, V., Antonova, E., Wright, B., Hamid, A., Hernandez, EM., Schmechtig, A. and et al. (2016) 'The mindful eye: Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements in meditators and non-meditators'. Consciousness and Cognition, 48. pp. 66 - 75. ISSN: 1053-8100 Open Access Link
Sapara, A., Ffytche, DH., Cooke, MA., Williams, SCR. and Kumari, V. (2016) 'Voxel-based magnetic resonance imaging investigation of poor and preserved clinical insight in people with schizophrenia'. World Journal of Psychiatry, 6 (3). pp. 311 - 311. ISSN: 2220-3206 Open Access Link