July 2014 - Present: Tenure Track Investigator, NIH/NCCIH
Chief, Section on Affective Neuroscience and Pain / Neuroimaging Section
2011 - 2014: Postdoctoral fellow, New York University
Supervisor: Elizabeth A. Phelps, Ph.D.
2006 - 2011: Ph.D. in Psychology, Columbia University
Advisor: Tor D. Wager, Ph.D.
Dissertation, awarded With Distinction: "Brain mechanisms of expectancy effects on pain experience."
2004 - 2006: FMRI Project Coordinator, Stanford University
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory (P.I. Ian Gotlib)
Symbiotic Project on Affective Neuroscience (P.I. Brian Knutson)
2003: B.A. in Psychology, University of Chicago
Advisor: John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D.
Honors Thesis:"Loneliness and Coping: Cardiovascular and Subjective Responses to Active and Passive Coping Tasks”
--2017--
Woo C-W, Schmidt L, Krishnan A, Jepma M, Roy M, Lindquist M, Atlas LY, Wager TD. (2017). Quantifying cerebral contributions to pain beyond nociception. Nature Communications; 8; 14211.
--2016--
Atlas LY, Doll BB, Li J, Daw NE & Phelps EA (2016). Instructed knowledge shapes feedback-driven aversive learning in striatum and orbitofrontal cortex, but not the amygdala. eLife: 5:e15192.
Wager TD, Atlas LY, Botvinick M, Chang L, Coghill R, Davis K, Iannetti GD, Poldrack RA, Shackman AJ, Yarkoni T (2016). Pain in the ACC? Commentary on Lieberman and Eisenberger. PNAS, 113(18): 10.1073/pnas.1600282113.
Lindquist MA, Krishnan A, Lopez-Sola M, Jepma M, Woo CW, Koban L, Roy M, Atlas LY, Chang LJ, Losin L, Eisenbarth H, Ashar Y, Delk Z, Wager TD (2016). Group-regularized individual prediction: Theory and application to pain. Neuroimage: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.074. [Link to paper].
--2015--
Robinson, L.F.*, Atlas, L.Y*. & Wager, T.D. (2015). Dynamic functional connectivity using State-based Dynamic Community Structure: Method and application to opioid analgesia. Neuroimage, 108: 274-291. * = Equal authorship contributions. [Link to paper].
--2014--
Atlas, L.Y. & Wager, T.D. (2014). A meta-analysis of brain mechanisms of placebo analgesia: Consistent findings and unanswered questions. In Benedetti et al (Eds.) Placebo, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology - 225 (37-69). [Link to chapter on Springer.] Download PDF.
Atlas, L.Y. Lindquist, M.A., Bolger, N., & Wager, T.D. (2014). Brain mediators of the effects of noxious heat on pain. Pain. 155(8): 1632-1648. [Link to paper].
Atlas, L.Y. Wielgosz, J., Whittington, R.A., & Wager, T.D. (2014). Specifying the non-specific factors underlying opioid analgesia: Expectancy, attention, and affect. Psychopharmacology, 231(5):813-823. [Link to paper].
Hamid H, Blackmon K, Cong X, Dziura J, Atlas LY, Vickrey BG, Berg AT, Bazil CW, Langfitt JT, Walczak TS, Sperling MR, Shinnar S, & O Devinsky O. (2014. Depression, anxiety, and incomplete seizure control independently impact quality of life after epilepsy surgery: A prospective multicenter study. Neurology, 82(10): 887-894. [Link to paper]
--2013--
Wager, T.D., Atlas, L.Y., Lindquist, M.A., Roy, M, Woo, C., & Kross, E. (2013). An fMRI-based neurologic signature of physical pain. The New England Journal of Medicine, 368(15), 1388-1397. [Link to paper].
--2012--
Atlas, L.Y., Whittington, R.A., Lindquist, M.A., Wielgosz, J., Sonty, N., & Wager, T.D. (2012). Dissociable influences of opiates and expectations on pain. The Journal of Neuroscience 32(23), 8053-8064. [Link to paper]. Supplementary Materials.
Johnston, N.E.*, Atlas, L.Y.*, & Wager, T.D. (2012). Opposing effects of expectancy and somatic focus on pain. PLOS One 7(6), e38854. * = Equal authorship contributions. [Link to paper].
Cribben, I., Haraldsdottir, R., Atlas, L.Y., Wager, T.D., & Lindquist, M.A. (2012). Dynamic connectivity regression: Determining state-related changes in brain connectivity. Neuroimage 61(4), 907-920.
Buhle, J., Kober, H., Ochsner, K.N., Mende-Siedlecki, P., Weber, J., Hughes, B., Kross, E., Atlas, L.Y., McRae, K., & Wager, T.D. (2012). Common representation of pain and negative emotion in the midbrain periaqueductal gray. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
--2011--
Wager, T.D., Atlas, L.Y., Leotti, L.A., and Rilling, J.K. (2011). Predicting individual differences in placebo analgesia: Contributions of brain activity during anticipation and pain experience. The Journal of Neuroscience 31(2), 439-452. [Link to paper].
--2010--
Atlas, L.Y., Bolger, N., Lindquist, M.A., and Wager, T.D. (2010). Brain mediators of predictive cue effects on perceived pain. The Journal of Neuroscience 30(39), 12964-12977. [Link to paper]. Additional information.
Eugene, F., Joormann, J., Cooney, R.E., Atlas, L.Y., and Gotlib, I.H. (2010) Neural correlates of inhibitory deficits in depression. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 181(1), 30-35.
--2009--
Lindquist, M.A., Loh, J.M., Atlas, L.Y., and Wager, T.D, (2009). Modeling the Hemodynamic Response Function in fMRI: Efficiency, Bias, and Mis-modeling. Neuroimage 45(1), S187-198.
--pre-2009--
Knutson, B., Bhanji, J., Cooney, R.E., Atlas, L.Y., and Gotlib, I.H. (2008). Neural responses to monetary incentives in major depression. Biological Psychiatry 63(7), 686-692.
Cooney, R.E., Joormann, J., Atlas, L.Y., Eugene, F., & Gotlib, I.H. (2007). Remembering the Good Times: Neural Correlates of Affect Regulation. NeuroReport,18(17), 1771-1774.
Cooney, R.E., Atlas, L.Y., Joormann, J., Eugene, F., & Gotlib, I.H. (2006). Amygdala activation in the processing of neutral faces in social anxiety disorder: is neutral really neutral? Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 148, 55-59.
--In Press--
Mischkowski D, Palacios-Barrios E, Banker LA, Dildine T, & Atlas LY. (In press). Pain or nociception? Subjective experience mediates the effects of heat on autonomic responses. Pain.
Atlas LY & Phelps EA (In press). Prepared stimuli enhance aversive learning without weakening the impact of verbal instructions. Learning and Memory.
--In press--
Necka EA & Atlas LY (In press). The role of social and interpersonal factors in placebo. In L. Colloca (Ed.) The neurobiology of placebo effects.
Atlas LY (In press). How are emotions regulated by context and cognition? The role of context and cognition in the placebo effect. R Davidson, A Shackman, A Fox, & R Lapate (Eds). The Nature of Emotion (Second edition). Oxford University Press.
--2015--
Wager, T.D. and Atlas, L.Y. (2015). The neuroscience of placebo effects: Connecting context, learning, and health. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(7): 403-418. [Link to paper].
--2013--
Atlas, L.Y. and Wager, T.D. (2013). Expectations and beliefs: Insights from cognitive neuroscience. In K.N. Ochsner and S. Kossyln (Eds). Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 2 (359-381). Download proof.
Wager, T.D. and Atlas, L.Y. (2013). How is pain influenced by cognition? Neuroimaging weighs in. Perspectives in Psychological Science 8(1), 91-97.
--2012--
Atlas, L.Y. and Wager, T.D. (2012). How expectations shape pain. Neuroscience Letters, 520(2), 140-148. [Link to paper].
--2009--
Atlas, L.Y., Wager, T.D., Dahl, K., and Smith, E.E. (2009). Placebo Effects. In J.T. Cacioppo and G.G Berntson (Eds.) Handbook of Neuroscience for Behavioral Psychologists (1236-1259). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Atlas, L.Y. and Wager, T.D. (2009). “The Placebo Response.” In W. Banks (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Consciousness (201-216). Elsevier Ltd.
Atlas, L.Y. and Wager, T.D. (2009). The neural bases of placebo effects in pain. In S. Aizenstat and R. Bosnak (Eds). Imagination and Medicine (107-134). New Orleans: Spring Journal, Inc.
2014
Pilot grant, New York University Center for Brain Imaging
2011
Doctoral dissertation awarded with Distinction: Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Invited junior investigator, Travel Award: NIH 6th Annual Symposium on Advances in Pain Research
Notable poster award, Travel Award: IBSC Conference ("How do executive function and emotion interact?"), Boulder, CO
2010
Trainee abstract award: Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain
Invited scholar: European Pain School, Siena, Italy
2009
Society for Neuroscience Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award: Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
2008
Honorable Mention: National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship
2007
Fellow at the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience: University of California, Santa Barbara
2017
Dec Stanford University. The power of minds. (Workshop)
Nov Society for Social Neuroscience. The social transmission of pain and threat: Implications for understanding social communication, social behavior, and social relationships. (Symposium)
July Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan). Tohoku University Neuroscience Summer School.
July Japan Neuroscience Society annual meeting (Chiba-city, Japan). Prefrontal cortex: its role in expectation, decision making, and future planning. (Symposium)
July Japan Neuroscience Society annual meeting satellite symposium (Chiba-city, Japan). Insight, foresight, and decision-making: Frontiers of higher brain function research. (Symposium)
April NIMHD/NIH. Intramural research program seminar.
April University of Maryland (Baltimore, MD). Pain neuroimaging advances and controversies.
April Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies first annual meeting (Leiden, NL). The neurobiology of placebo and nocebo effects.
Feb NIMH/NIH. NIMH Clinical Fellows’ Seminar.
Jan Society for personality and Social Psychology annual meeting (San Antonio, TX). Emotion preconference.
Jan NIH Intramural Research Program. NIH Annual Intramural Clinical Neurosciences Retreat.
2016
Dec American College of Neuropsychopharmacology annual meeting (Hollywood, FL). Computational psychiatry: A bridge between neuroscience and the bedside. (Panel)
Oct American Psychosomatic Society workshop. Neuroscience of Pain: Early Life Adversity, Mechanisms and Treatment.
July International Society for Behavioural Neuroscience annual meeting (Dubrovnik, Croatia). Prefrontal network contributions to cognition (Symposium).
June Attention & Performance meeting on “The Power of Instructions” (Belgium).
June NIAAA/NIH. Section on Human Psychopharmacology seminar.
May International Congress of Integrative Medicine and Health (Las Vegas, NV). Can Complementary & Integrative Approaches for Pain Management Engage Brain Circuitry of Endogenous Pain Modulation? (Symposium).
Feb University College-London, Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging. Weekly Brain Meeting.
Feb University of Reading, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics. Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience Brownbag.
Feb Oxford University. FMRIB PAIN Group seminar.
Feb NIDA/NIH. Neuroimaging Research Branch seminar.
2015
Oct Society for Neuroscience (Chicago, IL). Mood and reward networks in chronic pain conditions. (Minisymposium).
May Association for Psychological Science annual meeting (New York, NY). When “Thinking Makes It So”: Uncovering the Effects and Mechanisms of Mindsets from Pain and Pleasure to Energy Drinks and Sleep. (Symposium).
April Social and Affective Neuroscience Society annual meeting (Boston, MA). Faculty data blitz.
April Society for Affective Sciences annual meeting (Oakland, CA). Pre-conference workshop: Neuroimaging for affective science: New methods and
approaches.
April NIH Clinical Center. Pain and Palliative Care Seminar.
March University of Maryland - College Park, Department of Psychology. Maryland Neuroimaging Center seminar.
Feb University College London, Department of Psychology. Affective Brain Lab Online Talk Series.
Jan NIH/NIMH. Affective Neuroscience Study Group (ANGST) seminar series.
2014
Dec Center for Information and Neural Networks (Osaka, Japan). New Directions in Pain Neuroscience.
May Association for Psychological Science Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA). Quantitative models of higher order cognition (Symposium, Co-chair).
May Stanford University, Department of Psychology. Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory Meeting.
May Mt Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience. Cognition Club seminar series.
April Yale University, Department of Psychology. Current Works in Behavior, Genetics, and Neuroscience Seminar Series.
March Computational and Systems Neuroscience (CoSyNe; Salt Lake City, UT). Computational psychiatry workshop.
Jan New York University, Department of Psychology/ Center for Neuroeconomics. Decision-making Joint Lab Meeting.
2013
Nov Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences. Social Brain Sciences Seminar Series.
Nov Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, CA), Neuroimaging: Emotion, Reward and Decision-making (Nanosymposium).
May New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit Annual Meeting (Hollywood, FL), Placebo analgesia: Psychological neurophysiological, and neurobiochemical
aspects (Symposium).
May New York University, Center for Brain Imaging. Going beyond the blobs. (Path analysis workshop).
May National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Invited seminar.
March Weill Cornell Medical School, Sackler Science Brownbag.
March Rutgers University, Delgado Lab Meeting.
Jan International Placebo Conference (Tübingen, Germany). Placebo and nocebo imaging and recording (Symposium).
2012
Sept Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. BrainMap Seminar Series.
Sept Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Program in Placebo Studies Seminar Series.
Jan Weill Cornell Medical School, Sackler Science Brownbag.
2011
Sept Society for Neuroeconomics Preconference. Scientific research network on decision neuroscience
and aging (SRNDNA). Methods Workshop: Multilevel Modeling. (Workshop).
April Cognitive Neuroscience Society (San Francisco, CA). Thinking and Decision Making (Slide session).
April Columbia University, Department of Psychology. Analysis of change statistics course (Guest lecture).
2010
Nov Society for Neuroscience (San Diego, CA). Seeing and Feeling (Nanosymposium)
Nov University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Department of Neurology (Hamburg, Germany). Invited seminar.
Oct Duke University, Department of Psychology (Durham, NC). Invited seminar.
Oct Yale University, Magnetic Resonance Research Center. fMRI Seminar Series.
June New York University, Center for Brain Imaging. Advanced fMRI Analysis Workshop.
June Organization for Human Brain Mapping (Barcelona, Spain). Oral session.
May Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences. fMRI Brownbag Series.
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