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PUBLISHED WORK
References and Links to Papers
2023
Prizeman, K. , McCabe, C. , Weinstein, N. (2024) Stigma and its impact on disclosure and mental health secrecy in young people with clinical depression symptoms: a qualitative analysis. PLoS ONE , 19 (1). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296221
Prizeman, K. , Weinstein, N. , McCabe, C. (2023) Effects of mental health stigma on loneliness, social isolation, and relationships in young people with depression symptoms. BMC Psychiatry , 23 ISSN: 1476-1793 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04991-7
Frey, A. , Kaya, M. , Adeniyi, I. , McCabe, C. (2023) Anhedonia in relation to reward and effort learning in young people with depression symptoms. Brain Sciences , 13 (2). ISSN: 2076-3425 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13020341
2022
Kaya, S & McCabe C (2022) Effects COVID-19 on Adolescent Mental Health and Internet Use by Ethnicity and Gender: A Mixed–Method Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, In Press.
McCabe, C. , Keast, K. , Kaya, S. (2022) Barriers and facilitators to university access in disadvantaged UK adolescents by ethnicity: a qualitative study. Journal of Further and Higher Education ISSN: 0309-877X
2021
Keast, K., Bull, N., McCabe, C (2021) The Pioneers Report: Barriers & Facilitators to University entry by
ethnicity https://www.studyhigher.ac.uk/outreach-provision/pioneers-project/Watson, R. , McCabe, C. , Harvey, K. , Reynolds, S. (2021) Development and validation of a new adolescent self-report scale to measure loss of interest and pleasure: the anhedonia scale for adolescents (ASA). Psychological Assessment , 33 (3). pp. 201-217. ISSN: 1939-134X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000977
Watson, R. , Harvey, K. , Pass, L. , McCabe, C. , Reynolds, S. (2021) A qualitative study exploring adolescents’ experience of brief behavioural activation for depression and its impact on the symptom of anhedonia. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice , 94 (2). pp. 266-288. ISSN: 2044-8341 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/papt.12307
2020
Frey, A.-L. and McCabe, C. (2020) Effects of serotonin and dopamine depletion on neural prediction computations during social learning. Neuropsychopharmacology. ISSN 0893-133X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-0678-z
Frey, A.-L. and McCabe, C. (2020) Impaired social learning predicts reduced real-life motivation in individuals with depression: a computational fMRI study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 263. pp. 698-706. ISSN 0165-0327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.11.049
Watson, R., Harvey, K., McCabe, C. and Reynolds, S. (2020) Understanding anhedonia: a qualitative study exploring loss of interest and pleasure in adolescent depression. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 29 (4). pp. 489-499. ISSN 1435-165X doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-019-01364-y
2019
Frey, A.-L., Frank, M. J. and McCabe, C. (2019) Social reinforcement learning as a predictor of real-life experiences in individuals with high and low depressive symptomatology. Psychological Medicine. pp. 1-8. ISSN 1469-8978 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719003222
Kaya, S. and McCabe, C. (2019) Can understanding reward help illuminate anhedonia? Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. ISSN 2196-2979 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-019-00186-1
Kaya, S. and McCabe, C. (2019) What role does the prefrontal cortex play in the processing of negative and positive stimuli in adolescent depression? Brain Sciences, 9 (5). 104. ISSN 2076-3425 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9050104
Rzepa, E. and McCabe, C. (2019) Dimensional anhedonia and the adolescent brain: reward and aversion anticipation, effort and consummation. British Journal of Psychiatry, 5 (6). e99. ISSN 0007-1250 doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.68
2018
Rzepa, E. and McCabe, C. (2018) Anhedonia and depression severity dissociated by dmPFC resting-state functional connectivity in adolescents. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 32 (10). pp. 1067-1074. ISSN 1461-7285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881118799935
McCabe, C. (2018) Linking anhedonia symptoms with behavioural and neural reward responses in adolescent depression. Current opinion in behavioural sciences, 22. pp. 143-151. ISSN 2352-1546 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.07.001
2017
Rzepa, E., Dean, Z. and McCabe, C. (2017) Bupropion administration increases resting-state functional connectivity in dorso-medial prefrontal cortex. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 20 (6). pp. 455-462. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyx016
Rzepa, E., Fisk, J. and McCabe, C. (2017) Blunted neural response to anticipation, effort and consummation of reward and aversion in adolescents with depression symptomatology. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 31 (3). pp. 303-311. ISSN 1461-7285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116681416
2016
McCabe, C. and Rocha-Rego, V. (2016) Investigating the predictive value of functional MRI to appetitive and aversive stimuli: a pattern classification approach. PLoS ONE, 11 (11). e0165295. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165295
Setterfield, M., Walsh, M., Frey, A.-L. and McCabe, C. (2016) Increased social anhedonia and reduced helping behaviour in young people with high depressive symptomatology. Journal of Affective Disorders, 205. pp. 372-377. ISSN 0165-0327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.08.020
Rzepa, E. and McCabe, C. (2016) Decreased anticipated pleasure correlates with increased salience network resting state functional connectivity in adolescents with depressive symptomatology. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 82. pp. 40-47. ISSN 0022-3956 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2016.07.013
McCabe, C. (2016) Neural signals of “intensity” but not “wanting” or “liking” of rewards may be trait markers for depression. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 30 (10). pp. 1020-1027. ISSN 1461-7285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116653079
Dean, Z., Horndasch, S., Giannopoulos, P. and McCabe, C. (2016) Enhanced neural response to anticipation, effort and consummation of reward and aversion during Bupropion treatment. Psychological Medicine, 46 (11). pp. 2263-2274. ISSN 1469-8978 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329171600088X
Horndasch, S., Okeefe, S. ., Lamond, A., Brown, K. and McCabe, C. (2016) Increased anticipatory but decreased consummatory brain responses to food in sisters of Anorexia Nervosa patients. British Journal of Psychiatry Open, 2 (4). pp. 255-261. ISSN 2056-4724 doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjpo.bp.115.002550
Rzepa, E., Tudge, L. and McCabe, C. (2016) Resting-state functional connectivity following a single dose treatment with CB1 neutral antagonist tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCv) in healthy volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 19 (2). pyv092. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyv092
2015
Frey, A.-L., Malinowska, L., Harley, K., Salhi, L., Sharma, S. and McCabe, C. (2015) Investigating subtypes of reward processing deficits as trait markers for depression. Translational Developmental Psychiatry, 3. 27517. ISSN 2001-7022 doi: https://doi.org/10.3402/tdp.v3.27517
Thomas, J. M., Higgs, S., Dourish, C.T., Hansen, P. C., Harmer, C. J. and McCabe, C. (2015) Satiation attenuates BOLD activity in brain regions involved in reward and increases activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: an fMRI study in healthy volunteers. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 101 (4). pp. 697-704. ISSN 0002-9165 doi: https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.114.097543
Williams, C. M., Whalley, B. J. and McCabe, C. (2015) Cannabinoids & appetite (dys)regulation (obesity). In: Fattore, L. (ed.) Cannabinoids in Neurologic and Mental Disease. Academic Press, pp. 315-342. ISBN 9780124170414
Tudge, L., Williams, C., Cowen, P. J. and McCabe, C. (2015) Neural effects of cannabinoid CB1 neutral antagonist tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCv) on food reward and aversion in healthy volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 18 (6). pyu094. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyu094
2014
Murray, E., Brouwer, S., McCutcheon, R., Harmer, C. J., Cowen, P. J. and McCabe, C. (2014) Opposing neural effects of naltrexone on food reward and aversion: implications for the treatment of obesity. Psychopharmacology, 231 (22). pp. 4323-4335. ISSN 0033-3158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-014-3573-7
Cowdrey, F. A., Filippini, N., Park, R. J., Smith, S. M. and McCabe, C. (2014) Increased resting state functional connectivity in the default mode network in recovered anorexia nervosa. Human Brain Mapping, 35 (2). pp. 483-491. ISSN 1065-9471 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22202
McCabe, C. (2014) Neural correlates of anhedonia as a trait marker for depression. In: Ritsner, M. (ed.) Anhedonia: A Comprehensive Handbook Volume II. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, pp. 159-174. ISBN 9787401768096
2013
McCabe, C. (2013) Reward, rest, and antidepressant drug action. In: Stimulating New Research on Serotonergic Neurotransmission from a Developmental Perspective.
Pringle, A., McCabe, C., Cowen, P. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2013) Antidepressant treatment and emotional processing: can we dissociate the roles of serotonin and noradrenaline? Journal of Psychopharmacology, 27 (8). pp. 719-731. ISSN 1461-7285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881112474523
McCabe, C., Harwood, J., Brouwer, S., Harmer, C. J. and Cowen, P. J. (2013) Effects of pramipexole on the processing of rewarding and aversive taste stimuli. Psychopharmacology, 228 (2). pp. 283-290. ISSN 0033-3158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-013-3033-9
2012
McCabe, C., Woffindale, C., Harmer, C. J. and Cowen, P. J. (2012) Neural processing of reward and punishment in young people at increased familial risk of depression. Biological Psychiatry, 72 (7). pp. 588-594. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.04.034
Cowdrey, F. A., Park, R. J., Harmer, C. J. and McCabe, C. (2012) Reply to: punishing food: what brain activity can tell us about the representation of food in recovered anorexia nervosa. Biological Psychiatry, 71 (8). e33. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.11.008
Cowdrey, F. A., Harmer, C. J., Park, R. J. and McCabe, C. (2012) Neural responses to emotional faces in women recovered from anorexia nervosa. Psychiatry Research, 201 (3). pp. 190-195. ISSN 0165-1781 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.08.009
2011
Cowdrey, F. A., Park, R. J., Harmer, C. J. and McCabe, C. (2011) Increased neural processing of rewarding and aversive food stimuli in recovered anorexia nervosa. Biological Psychiatry, 70 (8). pp. 736-743. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.05.028
McCabe, C., Huber, A., Harmer, C. J. and Cowen, P. J. (2011) The D2 antagonist sulpiride modulates the neural processing of both rewarding and aversive stimuli in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology, 217 (2). pp. 271-278. ISSN 0033-3158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-011-2278-4
McCabe, C. and Mishor, Z. (2011) Antidepressant medications reduce subcortical-cortical resting-state functional connectivity in healthy volunteers. NeuroImage, 57 (4). pp. 1317-1323. ISSN 1053-8119 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.051
McCabe, C., Mishor, Z., Filippini, N., Cowen, P. J., Taylor, M. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2011) SSRI administration reduces resting state functional connectivity in dorso-medial prefrontal cortex. Molecular Psychiatry, 16 (6). pp. 592-594. ISSN 1476-5578 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2010.138
Bilderbeck, A. C., McCabe, C., Wakeley, J., McGlone, F., Harris, T., Cowen, P. J. and Rogers, R. D. (2011) Serotonergic activity influences the cognitive appraisal of close intimate relationships in healthy adults. Biological Psychiatry, 69 (8). pp. 720-725. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.12.038
2010
Horder, J., Harmer, C. J., Cowen, P. J. and McCabe, C. (2010) Reduced neural response to reward following 7 days treatment with the cannabinoid CB1 antagonist rimonabant in healthy volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 13 (8). pp. 1103-1113. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1461145710000453
McCabe, C., Mishor, Z., Cowen, P. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2010) Diminished neural processing of aversive and rewarding stimuli during selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment. Biological Psychiatry, 67 (5). pp. 439-445. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.11.001
2009
McCabe, C., Cowen, P. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2009) NK1 receptor antagonism and the neural processing of emotional information in healthy volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 12 (9). pp. 1261-1274. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1461145709990150
McCabe, C., Cowen, P. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2009) Neural representation of reward in recovered depressed patients. Psychopharmacology, 205 (4). pp. 667-677. ISSN 0033-3158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-009-1573-9
2008
McCabe, C., Rolls, E. T., Bilderbeck, A. and McGlone, F. (2008) Cognitive influences on the affective representation of touch and the sight of touch in the human brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3 (2). pp. 97-108. ISSN 1749-5024 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsn005
Rolls, E. T., McCabe, C. and Redoute, J. (2008) Expected value, reward outcome, and temporal difference error representations in a probabilistic decision task. Cerebral Cortex, 18 (3). pp. 652-663. ISSN 1460-2199 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhm097
2007
Rolls, E. T. and McCabe, C. (2007) Enhanced affective brain representations of chocolate in cravers vs. non-cravers. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 26 (4). pp. 1067-1076. ISSN 0953-816X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05724.x
McCabe, C. and Rolls, E. T. (2007) Umami: a delicious flavor formed by convergence of taste and olfactory pathways in the human brain. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 25 (6). pp. 1855-1864. ISSN 0953-816X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05445.x
Grabenhorst, G., Rolls, E. T., McCabe, C. and Bilderbeck, A. (2007) In linking affect to action: critical contributions of the orbitofrontal cortex. In: Linking affect to Action, New York.
2005
Czoty, P. W., McCabe, C. and Nader, M. A. (2005) Effects of the 5-HT(1A) agonist (+/-)-8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) on cocaine choice in cynomolgus monkeys. Behavioural Pharmacology, 16 (3). pp. 187-191. ISSN 0955-8810
Czoty, P. W., McCabe, C. and Nader, M. A. (2005) Assessment of the relative reinforcing strength of cocaine in socially housed monkeys using a choice procedure. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 312 (1). pp. 96-102. ISSN 0022-3565 doi: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.104.073411
2004
Shaw, D., Dawson, G. R., Reynolds, D. S., McCabe, C. and Leslie, J. C. (2004) Effects of chlordiazepoxide on extinction and re-acquisition of operant behaviour in mice. Behavioural Pharmacology, 15 (3). pp. 225-232. ISSN 0955-8810
Leslie, J. C., Shaw, D., McCabe, C., Reynolds, D. S. and Dawson, G. R. (2004) Effects of drugs that potentiate GABA on extinction of positively-reinforced operant behaviour. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28 (3). pp. 229-238. ISSN 0149-7634 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.01.003
McCabe, C., Shaw, D., Atack, J. R., Street, L. J., Wafford, K. A., Dawson, G. R., Reynolds, D. S. and Leslie, J. C. (2004) Subtype-selective GABAergic drugs facilitate extinction of mouse operant behaviour. Neuropharmacology, 46 (2). pp. 171-178. ISSN 0028-3908 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2003.09.004
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