• Knight, D. C., Smith, C. N., Stein, E. A., & Helmstetter, F. J. (1999). Functional MRI of human Pavlovian fear conditioning:  Patterns of activation as a function of learning. NeuroReport, 10 (17), 3665-3670.
  • Cheng, D. T., Knight, D. C., Smith, C. N., Stein, E. A., & Helmstetter, F. J. (2003). Functional MRI of human amygdala activity during Pavlovian fear conditioning:  Stimulus processing versus response expression. Behavioral Neuroscience, 117 (1), 3-10.
  • Knight, D. C., Nguyen, H. T., & Bandettini, P. A. (2003). Expression of conditional fear with and without awareness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100 (25), 15280-15283.
  • Knight, D. C., Cheng, D. T., Smith, C. N., Stein, E. A., & Helmstetter, F. J. (2004). Neural substrates mediating human delay and trace fear conditioning. Journal of Neuroscience, 24 (1), 218-228.
  • Knight, D. C., Smith, C. N., Cheng, D. T., Stein, E. A., & Helmstetter, F. J. (2004). Amygdala and hippocampal activity during acquisition and extinction of human fear conditioning. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4 (3), 317-325.
  • Haut, M., Kuwabara, H., Leach, S., Moran, M., Arias, R., & Knight, D. (2005). The effect of education on age-related functional activation during working memory. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 12, 216-229.
  • Knight, D. C., Nguyen, H. T., & Bandettini, P. A. (2005). The role of the human amygdala in the production of conditioned fear responses. NeuroImage, 26, 1193-1200.
  • Knight, D. C., Nguyen, H. T., & Bandettini, P. A. (2006). The role of awareness in delay and trace fear conditioning in humans. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5 (2), 157-162.
  • Cheng, D. T., Knight, D. C., Smith, C. N., Stein, E. A., & Helmstetter, F. J. (2006). Human amygdala activity during the expression of fear responses. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120 (6), 1187-1195.
  • *Dunsmoor, J. E., Bandettini, P. A., & Knight, D. C. (2007). Impact of continuous versus intermittent CS-UCS pairing on human brain activation. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121 (4), 635-642.
  • *Dunsmoor, J. E., Bandettini, P. A., & Knight, D. C. (2008). Neural correlates of UCR diminution during Pavlovian conditioning. NeuroImage, 40, 811-817.
  • Knight, D. C., *Waters, N. S., & Bandettini, P. A. (2009). Neural substrates of explicit and implicit fear memory. NeuroImage, 45, 208-214.
  • Knight, D. C., *Waters, N. S., *King, M. K., & Bandettini, P. A. (2010). Learning-related diminution of unconditioned SCR and fMRI signal responses. NeuroImage, 49, 843-848.
  • Wood, K. H., Ver Hoef, L. W., & Knight, D. C. (2012). Neural mechanisms underlying the conditioned diminution of the unconditioned fear response. NeuroImage, 60 (1), 787-799.
  • Khazaie, H., Saidi, M. R., Sepehry, A. A., Knight, D. C., Tahmasian, M., Ahmadi, M., Najafi, F., Parvizi, A. A., & Samadzadeh, S. (2013). Abnormal ECG patterns in chronic post-war PTSD patients: A pilot study. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 20, 1-6.
  • *Haritha, A. T., *Wood, K. H., Ver Hoef, L. W. & Knight, D. C. (2013). Human Trace Fear Conditioning: Right Lateralized Cortical Activity Supports Trace Interval Processes. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13 (2), 225-237.
  • *Reagh, Z. M. & Knight, D. C. (2013). Negative, but not positive emotional images modulate the startle response independent of conscious awareness. Emotion, 13(4), 782-791.
  • Tahmasian, M., Knight, D. C., Manoliu, A., Bäuml, J. Schwerthöffer, D., Meng, C., Shao, J., Khazaie, H., Drzezga, A., Wohlschläger, A. M., Riedl, V., Sorg, C. (2013). Aberrant intrinsic connectivity of hippocampus and amygdala overlap in the fronto-insular and dorsomedial-prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 639.
  • Khazaie, H., Ghadami, M. R., Knight, D. C., Emamian, F., & Tahmasian, M. (2013). Insomnia treatment in the third trimester of pregnancy prevents postpartum depression: A randomized clinical trial. Psychiatry Research, 210 (3), 901-905.
  • *Wood, K. H., *Kuykendall, D., Ver Hoef, L. W., & Knight, D. C. (2013). Neural substrates underlying learning-related changes in the unconditioned fear response. The Open Neuroimaging Journal, 7, 41-52.
  • *Wood, K. H., Ver Hoef, L. W., & Knight, D. C. (2014). The Amygdala Mediates the Emotional Modulation of the Startle Response. Emotion, 14 (4), 693-700.
  • *Wheelock, M. D., Sreenivasan, K. R., *Wood, K. H., Ver Hoef, L. W., Desphande, G., Knight, D. C. (2014). Threat-related learning relies on distinct dorsal prefrontal cortex network connectivity. NeuroImage, 102, 904-912.
  • Grant, M. M., *Wood, K., Sreenivasan, K., *Wheelock, M., White, D.,Thomas, J., Knight, D. C., Deshpande, G. (2015). Influence of early life stress on intra- and extra-amygdaloid causal connectivity. Neuropsychopharmacology, 40 (7), 1782-1793.
  • *Wood, K. H., *Wheelock, M. D., *Shumen, J. R., *Bowen, K. H., Ver Hoef, L. W., & Knight, D. C. (2015). Controllability modulates the neural response to predictable but not unpredictable threat in humans. NeuroImage, 119, 371-381.
  • *Harnett, N. G., *Wheelock. M. D., *Wood, K. H., *Ladnier, J. C., Mrug, S., & Knight, D. C. (2015). Affective State and Locus of Control Modulate the Neural Response to Threat. NeuroImage, 121, 217-226.
  • Kraguljac, N. V., White, D. M., Hadley, J. A., Visscher, K., Knight, D., Ver Hoef L., & Lahti, A. C. (2016). Abnormalities in Large Scale Functional Networks in Unmedicated Patients with Schizophrenia and Effects of Risperidone. NeuroImage: Clinical, 10, 146-158.
  • *Grady, A. K., *Bowen, K. H., *Hyde, A. T, *Totsch, S. K, & Knight, D. C. (2016). Effect of continuous and partial reinforcement on the acquisition and extinction of human conditioned fear. Behavioral Neuroscience, 130, 36-43.
  • *Harnett, N. G., *Shumen, J. R., *Wagle, P. A., *Wood, K. H., *Wheelock, M. D., Banos, J. H., & Knight, D. C. (2016). Neural Mechanisms of Human Temporal Fear Conditioning. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, 136, 97-104.
  • *Goodman, A. M., *Wheelock, M. D., *Harnett, N. G., Mrug, S., Granger, D. A., & Knight, D. C. (2016). The hippocampal response to psychosocial stress varies with salivary uric acid level. Neuroscience, 339, 396-401.
  • Dretsch, M. N., *Wood, K. H., Daniel, T. A., Katz, J. S., Deshpande G., *Goodman, A. M., *Wheelock, M. D., *Wood, K. B., Denney, T. S., Traynham, S., & Knight, D. C. (2016). Exploring the neurocircuitry underpinning predictability of threat in soldiers with PTSD compared to deployment exposed controls. The Open Neuroimaging Journal, 10, 111-124.
  • *Wheelock, M.D., *Harnett, N.G., *Wood, K.H., *Orem, T.R., Granger, D.A., Mrug, S., & Knight, D.C. (2016). Prefrontal cortex activity associated with biobehavioral components of the stress response. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10:583. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00583
  • Tahmasian, M., Hamidreza, J., Mina, A., Ghadami, M. R., Majtaba, Z., Sepehry, A. A., Knight, D. C., Khazaie, H., (2017). Differentiation of chronic post traumatic stress disorder patients from healthy subjects using objective and subjective sleep-related parameters. Neuroscience Letters, 650, 174-179.
  • Guo, J., Mrug, S., & Knight, D. C. (2017). Emotion socialization as a predictor of physiological and psychological responses to stress. Physiology & Behavior, 175, 119-129.
  • *Harnett, N. G., *Wood, K. H., *Ference III, E. D., Reid, M. A., Lahti, A. C., Knight, A. J., and Knight, D. C. (2017). Glutamate/glutamine concentrations in the dorsal anterior cingulate vary with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 91, 169-176.
  • Guo, J., Mrug, S., & Knight, D. C. (2017). Factor Structure of the Emotions as a Child Scale in Late Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood. Psychological Assessment, 29 (9), 1082-1095.
  • *Goodman, A. M., *Harnett, N. G., & Knight, D. C. (2018). Pavlovian conditioned diminution of the neurobehavioral response to threat. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 84, 218-224.
  • tZhang, Y. Taub, E., Salibi, N., Uswatte, G., Maudsley, A. A., Sheriff, S., Womble, B., Mark V. W., Knight, D. C. (2018). Comparison of reproducibility of single voxel spectroscopy and whole brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging at 3T. NMR in Biomedicine, 31(4), e3898.
  • *Gossett, E. W., *Wheelock, M. D., *Goodman, A. M., *Orem, T. R., *Harnett, N. G., *Wood, K. H., Mrug, S., Granger, D. A., & Knight, D. C. (2018). Anticipatory stress associated with functional magnetic resonance imaging: Implications for psychosocial stress research. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 125, 35-41.
  • *Goodman, A. M., *Harnett, N. G., *Wheelock, M. D., *Hurst, D. R., *Orem, T. R., *Gossett, E. W., *Dunaway, C. A., Mrug, S., & Knight, D. C. (2018). Anticipatory prefrontal cortex activity underlies stress-induced changes in Pavlovian fear conditioning. NeuroImage, 174, 237-247.
  • *Harnett, N. G., *Ference III, E. W., *Wood, K. H., *Wheelock, M. D., Knight, A. J., and Knight, D. C. (2018). Trauma exposure acutely alters neural function during Pavlovian fear conditioning. Cortex, 109, 1-13.
  • Adams, J., Mrug, S., & Knight, D. C. (2018). Characteristics of child physical and sexual abuse as predictors of psychopathology. Child Abuse and Neglect, 86, 167-177.
  • *Wheelock, M. D., Rangaprakash, D., *Harnett, N. G., *Wood, K. H., *Orem, T. R., Mrug, S., Granger, D. A., Deshpande, G., & Knight, D. C. (2018). Psychosocial stress reactivity is associated with decreased whole brain network efficiency and increased amygdala centrality. Behavioral Neuroscience, 132, 561-572.
  • *Orem, T. R., *Wheelock, M. D., *Goodman, A. M., *Harnett, N. G., *Wood, K. H., *Gossett, E. W., Granger, D. A., Mrug, S. & Knight, D. C. (2019). Amygdala and prefrontal cortex activity varies with individual differences in the emotional response to psychosocial stress. Behavioral Neuroscience, 133 (2), 203-211.
  • Guo, J., Mrug, S., & Knight, D.C. (2019). Emotion socialization and internalizing problems in late adolescence and emerging adulthood: Coping styles as mediators. International Journal of Developmental Science, 13, 41-51.
  • *Harnett, N. G., *Wheelock, M. D., *Wood, K. H., *Goodman, A. M., Mrug, S., Elliot, M., Schuster, M., Tortolero, S., and Knight, D. C. (2019). Negative life experiences contribute to racial differences in the neural response to threat. NeuroImage, 202.
  • t Zhang, Y., Taub, E., Mueller, C., Younger, J., Uswatte, G., DeRamus, T. P., & Knight, D. C. (2020). Reproducibility of whole-brain temperature mapping and metabolite quantification using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. NMR in Biomedicine, 33 (7), 34213.
  • *Harnett, N. G., *Goodman, A. M., and Knight, D. C. (2020). PTSD-related neuroimaging abnormalities in brain function, structure, and biochemistry. Experimental Neurology, 330, 113331.
  • *Harnett, N. G., *Ference, E. W., 3rd, Knight, A. J., & Knight, D. C. (2020). White matter microstructure varies with post-traumatic stress severity following medical trauma. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 14(4), 1012-1024. DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9995-9.
  • *Dark, H. E., *Harnett, N. G., *Goodman, A. M., *Wheelock, M. D., Mrug, S., Schuster, M. A., Elliott, M. N., Tortolero Emery, S., & Knight, D. C. (2020). Violence exposure, affective style, and stress-induced changes in resting state functional connectivity. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(6), 1261-1277. DOI: 10.3758/s13415-020-00833-1.
  • *Dark, H. E., *Harnett, N. G., Knight, A. J., & Knight, D. C. (2021). Hippocampal volume varies with acute posttraumatic stress symptoms following medical trauma. Behavioral Neuroscience, 135(1), 71-78.
  • *Purcell, J. B., *Goodman, A. M., *Harnett, N. G., *Davis, E. S., *Wheelock, M. D., Mrug, S., Elliott, M. N., Emery, S. T., Schuster, M. A., & Knight, D. C. (2021). Stress-elicited neural activity in young adults varies with childhood sexual abuse. Cortex, 137, 108-123.
  • *Wheelock, M. D., *Goodman, A. M., *Harnett, N. G., *Wood, K. H., Mrug, S., Granger, D. A., & Knight, D. C. (2021). Sex-related differences in stress reactivity and cingulum white matter. Neuroscience, 459, 118-128.
  • *Bell, K. L., *Purcell, J. B., *Harnett, N. G., *Goodman, A. M., Mrug, S., Schuster, M. A., Elliott, M. N., Emery, S. T., & Knight, D. C. (2021). White matter microstructure in the young adult brain varies with neighborhood disadvantage in adolescence. Neuroscience, 466, 162-172.
  • *Goodman, A. M., *Wheelock, M. D., *Harnett, N. G., *Davis, E. S., A., Mrug, S., Deshpande, G., & Knight, D. C. (2022). Stress-induced changes in effective connectivity during regulation of the emotional response to threat. Brain Connectivity, 12 (7), 629-638.
  • *Dark, H. E., *Harnett, N. G., *Hurst, D. R., *Wheelock, M. D., *Wood, K. H., *Goodman, A. M., Mrug, S., Elliott, M. N., Emery, S. T., Schuster, M. A., & Knight, D. C. (2022). Sex-related differences in Violence Exposure, Neural Reactivity to Threat, and Mental Health. Neuropsychopharmacology, 47 (13), 2221-2229.
  • Ahmadi, R., Rahimi, S., Olfati, M., Javaheripour, N., Emamian, F., Rasoul, M., Khazaie, H., Knight, D. C., Tahmasian, M., & Sepehry, A. A. (2022). Insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis on interrelated association (n=57,618) and prevalence (n=573,665). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 141, 104850.
  • Kongsuk, J., Perumean-Chaney, S. E., Knight, D. C., Brown, C. J., Amara, A. W., & Hurt, C. P. (2022). Development of dynamic measures to assess balance confidence and state anxiety while walking at increasing speeds in young and older adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 30(6), 995-1002.
  • Mrug, S., Pollock, J., Pollock, D., Seifert, M., & Knight, D. C. (2023). Early life stress, coping, and cardiovascular reactivity to acute social stress. Psychosomatic Medicine, 85(2), 118-129.
  • Bach, D. R., Sporrer, J., Abend, R., Beckers, T., Dunsmoor, J. E., Fullana, M. A., Gamer, M., Gee, D. G., Hamm, A., Hartley, C. A., Herringa, R. J., Jovanovic, T., Kalisch, R., Knight, D. C., Lissek, S., Lonsdorf, T. B., Merz, C. J., Milad, M., Morriss, J., Phelps, E. A., Pine, D. S., Olsson, A., van Reekum, C. M., & Schiller, D. (2023). Consensus design of a calibration experiment for human fear conditioning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 148, 105146.
  • *Dark, H. E., *Harnett, N. G., *Goodman, A. M., *Wheelock, M. D., Mrug, S., Schuster, M. A., Elliott, M. N., Tortolero Emery, S., Knight, D. C. (2023). Stress-induced changes in autonomic reactivity vary with adolescent violence exposure and resting state functional connectivity. Neuroscience, 522, 81-97.

Editorials & Book Chapters

  • *Harnett, N. G., *Wood, K. H., *Wheelock, M. D., Knight, A. J., and Knight, D. C. (2017). Anticipation and the Neural Response to Threat. In M. Nadin (Ed.), Anticipation and Medicine (pp. 219-228). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
  • Knight, D. C. (2021). Neurocognitive profiles predict susceptibility and resilience to posttraumatic stress. American Journal of Psychiatry, 178, 991-993.

* Indicates a trainee; t Indicates a co-mentored trainee