Publications

Publications 

Brassard, S. L., Dosanjh, J., Cooper, J.A., Weber, J., Zald, D., MacKillop, J., & Balodis, I. M. (In Press) A behavioural and neurobiological assessment of effort-based decision-making in cannabis use disorder: An initial/preliminary investigation. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Goldsmith, D. R., Ning, C., Strauss, G., Gross, R., Cooper, J. A., Wommack, E. C., Haroon, E., Felger, J. C., Walker, E. F., Treadway, M. T., & Miller, A. H. (In Press). Inflammation is associated with avolition and reduced resting state functional connectivity in corticostriatal reward circuitry in patients with schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology.

Treadway, M.T., Betters, S., Cooper, J.A., Li, C., Zhang, X, Michopolous, V. (In Press). Medial prefrontal glutamate response to acute stress is associated with social subordination in female rhesus macaques. Translational Psychiatry.

Kuhn, M., Palermo, E. H., Pagnier, G., Blank, J. M., Steinberger, D. C., Long, Y., Nowicki, G. P., Cooper, J. A., Treadway, M. T., Frank, M. J., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (In Press). Computational Phenotyping of Effort-Based Decision Making in Unmedicated Adults with Remitted Depression. Biological Psychiatry: CNNI.

Migo, M., Cooper, J.A., Kragel, P.A., & Treadway, M.T. (2025) Spontaneous thought separates into clusters of negative, positive, and flexible thinking. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 21.

Treadway, M.T., Etuk, S.M., Cooper, J.A., Kragel, P.A., Hossein, S., Hahn, E.C., DeVries, B. A M., Irfan, N., Nuutinen, M.R., Arulpragasam, A.R., Wommack, E.C., Woolwine, B.J., Bekhbat, M., Felger, J.C., Haroon, E., and Miller, A.H. (2024). A randomized proof-of-mechanism trial of TNF antagonism for motivational anhedonia and related corticostriatal circuitry in depressed patients with high inflammation. Molecular Psychiatry.

Whitton, A.E., Cooper, J.A., Merchant, J., Lampropoulos, E., Treadway, M.T., & Lewandowski, K.E. (2024). Using a computational phenotyping approach to identify divergent strategies for effort allocation across the psychosis spectrum. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Hossein, S., Cooper, J.A., DeVries, B.A.M, Nuutinen. M.R., Hahn, E.C., Kragel, P.A., & Treadway, M.T. (2023). Effects of Acute Stress and Depression on Functional Connectivity between Prefrontal Cortex and the Amygdala. Molecular Psychiatry. 1-11.

Swales, D. A., Lozza-Fiacco, S., Andersen, E. H., Cooper, J. A., Treadway, M. T., Xia, K., Schiller, C. E., Girdler, S. S., & Dichter, G. S. (2023). Hormone sensitivity predicts the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on reward-seeking behaviors in perimenopausal women: A randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 156, 106339.

Seaman, K. L., Christensen, A. P., Senn, K. D., Cooper, J. A., & Cassidy, B. S. (2023). Age Differences in the Social Associative Learning of Trust Information. Neurobiology of Aging. 125, 32-40. 

Cooper, J.A., Nuutinen, M.R., Lawlor, V.L., DeVries, B.A.M, Barrick, E.M., Hossein, S., Cole, D.J., Leonard, C.V., Hahn, E.C., Teer, A.P., Shields, G.S., Slavich, G.M., Ongur, D., Jensen, J.E., Du, F., Pizzagalli, D.A. & Treadway, M.T. (2021). Reduced adaptation of glutamatergic stress response is associated with pessimistic expectations in depression. Nature Communications. 12(1), 1-12.

Hoots, J.K., Webber, H.E., Nunez, C., Cooper, J.A., Lopez-Gamundi, P., Lawlor, V.M., Lane, S.D., Treadway, M.T. & Wardle, M.C. (2021). Acute drug effects differentially predict desire to take amphetamine again for work and recreation. Psychopharmacology. 238(10), 2815-2826.

Suzuki, S., Lawlor, V.M., Cooper, J.A., Arulpragasam, A.R., Treadway, M.T. (2021). Distinct regions of the striatum underlying effort, movement initiation and effort discounting. Nature Human Behavior, 5(3), 378-388.

Soder, H.E., Cooper, J.A., Lopez-Gamundi, P., Hoots, J.K., Nunez, C., Lawlor, V.M., Lane, S.D., Treadway, M.T. & Wardle, M.C. (2021). Dose-response effects of d-amphetamine on effort-based decision-making and reinforcement learning. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46(6), 1078-1085.

Cooper, J.A., Barch, D.M., Reddy, L.F., Horan, W.P., Green, M.F, & Treadway, M.T. (2019). Effortful goal-directed behavior in schizophrenia: computational subtypes and associations with cognition. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 128(7), 710.

Treadway, M.T., Cooper, J.A., & Miller, A.H. Can’t or Won’t? (2019). Immunometabolic Constraints on Dopaminergic Drive. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 23(5), 435-448

Cooper, J.A., Arulpragasam, A.R. & Treadway, M.T. (2018). Anhedonia in depression: biological mechanisms and computational models. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 22, 128-135.

Arulpragasam, A.R., Cooper, J.A., Nuutinen, M.R. & Treadway, M.T. (2018). Cortico-insular circuits encode subjective value expectation and violation for effortful goal directed behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.115(22), E5233-E5242.

Treadway, M.T., Admon, R., Arulpragasam, A.R., Mehta, M.M., Douglas, S., Vitaliano, G., Olson, D.O., Cooper, J.A., Pizzagalli, D.A. (2017). Association between interleukin-6 and striatal prediction-error signals following acute stress in healthy females. Biological Psychiatry, 82(8), 570-577.

Cooper, J.A., Blanco, N. & Maddox, W.T. (2017). Framing Matters: Effects of Framing on Older Adults' Exploratory Decision-Making. Psychology & Aging. 

Worthy, D.A., Davis, T., Gorlick, M.A., Cooper, J.A., Bakkour, A., Mumford, J., Poldrack, R.A., & Maddox, W.T. (2016). Neural Correlates of State-Based Decision-Making in Younger and Older Adults. NeuroImage.

Cooper, J.A., Worthy, D.A., & Maddox, W.T. (2016). Information about forgone rewards impedes dynamic decision-making in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. 3(1). 103-16.  PDF

Cooper, J.A., Worthy, D.A., & Maddox, W.T. (2015). Chronic Motivational State Interacts with Task Reward Structure in Dynamic Decision-Making. Cognitive Psychology. 80, 40-53. PDF

Cooper, J.A., & Marsh, J.K. (2015). The influence of expertise on essence beliefs for mental and medical disorder categories. Cognition, 144, 67-75. PDF

Blanco, N.J., Love, B.C., Cooper, J.A., McGeary, J.E., Knopik, V.S., & Maddox, W.T. (2015). A Frontal Dopamine System for Reflective Exploratory Behavior. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 123, 84-91.  PDF

Worthy, D.A., Cooper, J.A., Byrne, K.A., Gorlick, M.A., Maddox, W.T. (2014). State-Based Versus Reward-Based Motivation in Younger and Older Adults. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(4), 1208-20. PDF

Cooper, J.A., Gorlick, M.A., Denny, T., Worthy, D.A., Beevers, C.G., & Maddox, W.T. (2014). Training Attention Improves Decision Making in Individuals with Elevated Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(2), 729-41. PDF

Cooper, J.A., Worthy, D.A., Gorlick, M.A., & Maddox, W.T. (2013). Scaffolding Across the Lifespan in History-Dependent Decision Making. Psychology and Aging, 28(2), 505-514. PDF

Preprints 

Seaman, K. L., Christensen, A. P., Senn, K., Cooper, J.A., & Cassidy, B. S. (2022, January 5). Age Differences in the Social Associative Learning of Trust Information. https://psyarxiv.com/b38rd

Entries & Chapters 

Cooper, J.A., Worthy, D.A., & Maddox, W.T. (2017). Decision Making. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development.

Smayda, K., Cooper, J.A., & Maddox, W.T. (2017). Cognitive Training. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development.

Media

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201906/does-chronic-inflammation-reduce-motivation

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190604131153.htm

http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2018/05/study-reveals-how-brain-decides-to-make.html

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