PUBLICATIONS

Assistant Professor | Department of Psychology | St Louis University

Education and Training:

Staff Scientist – Washington University in St Louis, 2019-22 – Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellow – Stony Brook University, 2015-19 – Department of Psychology

Ph.D. - Washington University in St Louis, 2008-15 - Neurosciences Program

Bachelor of Science (Magna Cum Laude) - Centre College, 2004-08 – Psychobiology/Financial Economics 

Selected Publications

KR Luking. What Is Rejection? Lexical, Experimental, and Analytical Specificity Is Needed to Drive Developmental Psychopathology Research Forward. (2023) Biological Psychiatry 94 (1), 4-5.

DM Barch, M Donohue, NM Elsayed, K Gilbert, MP Harms, L Hennefield, M Herzberg, S Kandala, NR Karcher, JJ Jackson, KR Luking, BI Rappaport, A Sanders, R Taylor, R Tillman, AC Vogel, D Whalen, JL Luby. Early Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive and Adaptive Outcomes at the Transition to Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Gray Matter Development Across 5 Scan Waves. (2021) Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging, In press.

 

KR Luking, RJ Jirsaraie, R Tillman, JL Luby, DM Barch, A Sotiras. Timing and type of early psychopathology symptoms predict longitudinal change in cortical thickness from middle childhood into early adolescence. (2021) Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging, In press.

 

KR Luking, K Gilbert, D Kelly, ES Kappenman, G Hajcak, JL Luby, DM Barch. The Relationship Between Depression Symptoms and Adolescent Neural Response During Reward Anticipation and Outcome Depends on Developmental Timing: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study. (2020) Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging, In press.

 

DM Barch, D Pagliaccio, KR Luking. Positive Valence System Dysregulation in Psychosis. (2019) The Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology: Oxford Univerity Press.

 

KR Luking, ZP Infantolino, BD Nelson, G Hajcak. Age-typical changes in neural reward response are moderated by maternal anhedonia. (2019) Psychophysiology, 56(7), e13358.

 

K Burani, EM Mulligan, J Klawohn, KR Luking, BD Nelson, G Hajcak. Longitudinal increases in reward-related neural activity in early adolescence: Evidence from event-related potentials (ERPs). (2019) Developmental cognitive neuroscience 36, 100620.

 

EM Mulligan, BD Nelson, ZP Infantolino, KR Luking, R Sharma, G Hajcak. Effects of menstrual cycle phase on electrocortical response to reward and depressive symptoms in women. (2019) Psychophysiology 55(12), e13268.

 

Barch D.M., Pagliaccio D., Luking K., Moran E.K., Culbreth A.J. (2019) Pathways to Motivational Impairments in Psychopathology: Common Versus Unique Elements Across Domains. In: Neta M., Haas I. (eds) Emotion in the Mind and Body. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, vol 66. Springer, Cham

 

KR Luking, BD Nelson, ZP Infantolino, CL Sauder, G Hajcak. Ventral Striatal Function Interacts With Positive and Negative Life Events to Predict Concurrent Youth Depressive Symptoms. (2019) Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 3 (11), 937-946.

 

ZP Infantolino, KR Luking, CL Sauder, JJ Curtin, G Hajcak. Robust is not necessarily reliable: From within-subjects fMRI contrasts to between-subjects comparisons. (2018) NeuroImage 173, 146-152.

 

DM Barch, D Pagliaccio, KR Luking. Motivational Impairments in Psychotic and Depressive Pathology: Psychological and Neural Mechanisms. (2018) Neurobiology of Abnormal Emotion and Motivated Behaviors 278-304.

 

Saxena A, Luking KR, Pagliaccio D, Barch DM. Individual differences in hedonic capacity, depressed mood, and affective states predict emotional reactivity. Motivation and Emotion 41 (3), 419-429.

 

Luking KR, Nelson BD, Infantolino ZP, Sauder CL, Hajcak G. Internal Consistency of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Electroencephalography Measures of Reward in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence. (2017) Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 2(3): 289-297.