Cecilia Olin, Ph.D.

 Recent Publications & Presentations

Olin, C.C., McDevitt-Murphy, M.E., Leonard, S.J., & Acuff, S.F. (2021). Wanting, liking, and missing out: Exploring the role of reward functioning in the overlap between PTSD and depression. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 210(7), 497–503. https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0000000000001456

Olin, C. C., McDevitt-Murphy, M. E., Murphy, J. G., Zakarian, R. J., Roache, J. D., Young-McCaughan, S., Litz, B. T., Keane, T. M., & Peterson, A. L., for the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD. (2022). The associations between posttraumatic stress disorder and delay discounting, future orientation, and reward availability: A behavioral economic model. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 35(4), 1252–1262. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22820

McDevitt-Murphy, M. E., Olin, C. C., Bowen, M. E., Buckley, B. E., Zakarian, R. J., Voss, M., & Clausel, N. (2020). Exposure to Community Violence, Gun Violence, PTSD Symptoms, and Academic Functioning in a Sample of American Undergraduates. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department of Psychology, The University of Memphis.

Ramirez, J. J., Lee, C. M., Rhew, I. C., Olin, C. C., Abdallah, D. A., & Lindgren, K. P. (2020). What’s the harm in getting in high? Evaluating associations between marijuana and harm as predictors of concurrent and prospective marijuana use and misuse. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 81(1), 81-88. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2020.81.81

Olin, C.C., McDevitt-Murphy, M.E., Voss, M.A., & Zakarian, R.J. (2019, November). The relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and reward functioning among individuals with extensive trauma histories. In J.L. Williams (Chair), Reward Sensitivity and Trauma-Related Psychopathology: Understanding Key Mechanisms in the Development and Maintenance of Trauma-Related Mental Health Problems. Symposium presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Boston, MA.

McDevitt-Murphy, M. E., Zakarian, R. J., Luciano, M. T., Olin, C. C., Mazzulo, N. N., & Neimeyer, R. A. (2021). Alcohol use and coping in a cross-sectional study of African American homicide survivors. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 20(1), 135–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2019.1598905

Olin, C.C., McDevitt-Murphy, M.E., Luciano, M.T., Zakarian, R.J. & J. G. Murphy (2018, November).  The effect of combat experiences and post-deployment support on future orientation and access to environmental reward. In M.E. McDevitt-Murphy (Chair), Novel applications of behavioral economic theory: Alcohol misuse and PTSD. Symposium presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, D.C.