Relevant Scientific Presentations

Keller, J. (2013, July). Life Skills and Physical Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Women: Healing from and the Prevention of Interpersonal Violence. Presented in Self-defense Research: Implications for Practice Symposium at the National Association of Women Martial Artists Annual Conference, Special Training (Self-Defense) Institute. Naperville, IL.

Keller, J., Trettin, L.J., Tai, C., Lin, G. & Raba, C.M. (2012, April). Development of Life Skills and Self-defense Training for Women and Girls. Paper presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Burlingame, CA.

Tai, C., Trettin, L.J., Lin, G. Kiely, T., Su, S., & Keller, J. (2012, April). Self-Defense and Life Skills Training for Women with Trauma Histories: The Pilot Study Sample. Paper presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Burlingame, CA.

Lin, G., Tai, C., Trettin, L.J., Bullock, K.D., & Keller, J. (2012, April). Empowerment and Self-Defense Skills Training for Women with History of Interpersonal Violence. Paper presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Burlingame, CA.

Manley-Raba, C., Rolfson, H., & Keller, J. (2012, April). Empowerment and Self-Defense Skills Training for Adolescent Girls: Program Review. Paper presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Burlingame, CA.

Weitlauf, J.C., Ruzek, J., Westrup, D., Keller, J., Lee, T., & David, W. (2004, November). Self-Defense Training as Treatment for Women with PSTD? Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

Weitlauf, J.C., Lee, T., Westrup, D., Ruzek, J., & Keller, J. (2004, November). Medical and Mental Health Care Among Female Veterans with PTSD. Poster presented at the 2004 Annual Convention of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

Weitlauf, J.C., Ruzek, J., Westrup, D., Lee, T., & Keller, J. (2004, July). Reconceptualizing Participant distress in trauma focused research. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Weitlauf, J., Ruzek, J., Walser R., Gifford, E., Keller, J., & Westrup, D. (2003, November). Why it Pays to Get Your Kicks: Mechanisms of Generalization in Action in Self-Defense Interventions. Paper presented at the Association of Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA.


Scientific Publications

Keller, J., Mboya, M.O., Sinclair, J., Githua, O.W., Mulinge, M, Sinclair, L., Bergholz, L., Golden, N.H., & Kapphahn, C.  (In Press).  A Six-week School Curriculum for High School Boys' Changes Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Kenya. Journal of Interpersonal Violence . Epub 2015 Jun 10. PMID: 26063788.

Keller, J., Gomez, R.G., Williams, G., Lembke, A., Lazzeroni, L., Murphy, Jr., G.M., Schatzberg, A.F. (In press).  HPA Axis in Major Depression: Cortisol, Clinical Symptomatology, and Genetic Variation Predict Cognition. Molecular Psychiatry .

Young, C.B., Chen, T., Nusslock, R., Keller , J., Schatzberg, A.F., & Menon ^, V.  (In Press).  Anhedonia and general distress associated with dissociable connectivity of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in major depressive disorder. Translational Psychiatry .  Epub 2016 May 17.  PMID 27187232.

Ray, A.,  Tennakoon, L., Keller, J., Sarginson, J.E., Ryan, H.S.,  Murphy, G.M.,  Lazzeroni,L., Trivedi, M.H., Kocsis, J.H., DeBattista, C., & Schatzberg, A.F.  (2015).  ABCB1 (MDR1) predicts remission on P-gp substrates in chronic depression. Pharmacogenomics , Aug;15(4):332-9.  PMID: 25487678

Sudheimer, K.,  Keller, J., Gomez, R., Tennakoon, L., Reiss ^, A., Garrett, A., Kenna,H.,  O’Hara, R., & Schatzberg, A.F.  (2015).  Decreased Hypothalamic Functional Connectivity with Subgenual Cortex in Psychotic and Non-Psychotic Major Depression. Neuropsychopharmacology ,  40(4):849-60.  PMID: 25292261.

Schatzberg, A.F., Keller, J., Tennakoon, L., Lazzaroni, L., Lembke, A., Williams, G., Kramer, F.B., Sarginson, J.E., & Murphy, G.  (2014).  HPA Axis Genetic Variation, Cortisol, and Psychosis in Major Depression. Molecular Psychiatry, 19(2), 220-7 .  PMID: 24166410.

Yuen, K.W., Garner, J.P., Carson, D.S., Keller, J., Lembke, A., Hyde, S.A., Kenna, H.A., Tennakoon, L., Schatzberg, A.F ., & Parker, K.J . (2014).   Plasma Oxytocin Concentrations are Lower in Depressed vs. Healthy Control Women and are Independent of Cortisol. J Psychiatric Research, 51, 30-36 . PMID:  24405552.

Keller*,  J., Young*, C., Kelley, E., Prater, K., Levitin, D.J., & Menon, V.  (2013).  Anhedonia is Associated with Reduced Reactivity and Connectivity of Mesolimbic and Paralimbic Reward Pathways. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 47(10):1319-28 .   PMID:23791396. *equal contributions

Cohen, J.D., Nichols, T., Keller, J., Gomez, R.G., Schatzberg, A.F., & Reiss, A.L. (2013). Insular Cortex Abnormalities in Psychotic Major Depression: Relationship to Gender and Symptoms. Neuroscience Research, Apr;75(4):331-9.

Kelley, R., Garrett, A., Cohen, J., Keller, J., Gomez, R.G., Lembke, A., Tennakoon, L., Reiss, A.L., & Schatzberg, A.F. (In press). Altered brain function underlying verbal memory encoding and retrieval in psychotic major depression. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 211(2), 119-26.

Lembke, A., Gomez, R.G., Tenakoon, L., Keller, J. Cohen, G., Williams, G.H., Kraemer, F.B., & Schatzberg, A.F. (In Press). The mineralocorticoid receptor agonist, fludrocortisone, differentially inhibits pituitary-adrenal activity in humans with psychotic major depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(1),115-21.

Che, A., Gomez, R.G., Keller, J., Lembke, A., Tennakoon, L. & Schatzberg, A.F. (2012). The relationships of positive and negative symptoms with neuropsychological functioning and their ability to predict verbal memory in psychotic major depression. Psychiatric Research, 198(1), 34-8.

Garrett, A., Kelly, R., Gomez, R. G., Keller, J., Reiss, A., & Schatzberg, A.F. (2011). Aberrant brain activation during a working memory task in psychotic major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 168(2), 173-82.

Parker, K.J., Kenna, H., Zeitzer, J.M., Keller, J., Blasey, C.M., Amico, J.A., & Schatzberg, A.F. (2010). Preliminary evidence that plasma oxytocin levels are elevated in major depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 178(2), 359-62.

Klumpp, H. Keller, J., Miller, G.A., Casas, B.R., Best, J.L., & Deldin, P. J. (2010). Semantic Processing of Emotional Words in Depression and Schizophrenia. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 75(2), 211-5.

Gomez, R.G., Posner, J., Keller, J., DeBattista, C., Solvason, H.B., & Schatzberg, A.F. (2009). Effects of Major Depression Diagnosis and Cortisol Levels on Indices of Neurocognitive Function. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34(7), 1012-1018.

Keller, J., Shen, L., Gomez, R.G., Garrett, A., Solvason, H.B., Reiss, A.L. & Schatzberg, A.F. (2008). Hippocampal and amygdalar volumes in psychotic and nonpsychotic unipolar depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 165(7), 872-80.

Lee, T., Westrup, D., Ruzek, J., Keller, J., & Weitlauf, J. (2007). Impact of clinician gender on examination anxiety among female veterans with sexual trauma: a pilot study. Journal of Women’s Health, 16(9), 1291-9.

Weitlauf, J.C., Ruzek, J.I., Westrup, D.A., Lee, T.T., & Keller, J. (2007). Empirically assessing participant perceptions of the research experience in a randomized clinical trial: The Women's Self-Defense Project as a Case Example. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2(2), 11-23.

Keller, J., Schatzberg, A.F., & Maj, M. (2007). Issues in the Classification of Psychotic Major Depression. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33(4), 877-85.

Seeley, W.W., Menon, V., Schatzberg, A.F., Keller, J., Glover, G.H., Kenna, H., Reiss, A.L. & Greicius, M.D. (2007). Dissociable intrinsic connectivity networks for salience processing and executive control. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27(9), 2349-2356.

Keller, J. & Schatzberg, A.F. (2006) Reply: Clinical and Biological Effects of Mifepristone Treatment for Psychotic Depression. Neuropsychopharmacology, 31, 2795-2797.

Wroolie, T.E., Williams, K.E., Keller, J., Zappert, L., Shelton S.D., Kenna, H., & Rasgon, N.L. (2006). Mood and Neuropsychological Changes in Women with Mid-Life Depression Treated with Escitalopram. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26(4), 361-6.

Gomez, R.G., Fleming, S.H., Keller, J., Flores, B., Kenna, H., DeBattista, C., Solvason, H.B., & Schatzberg, A.F. (2006). Neuropsychological Profile and Its Relation to Cortisol in Psychotic Major Depression. Biological Psychiatry, 60(5), 472-8.

Keller, J., Flores, B., Gomez, R.G., Solvason, H.B., Kenna, H., Williams, G., & Schatzberg, A.F. (2006). Cortisol Circadian Rhythm Alterations in Psychotic Major Depression. Biological Psychiatry, 60(3), 275-281.

Flores, B., Kenna, H., Keller, J., Solvason, H.B., & Schatzberg, A.F. (2006). Clinical and Biological Effects of Mifepristone Treatment for Psychotic Depression. Neuropsychopharmacology, 31(3), 628-636.

Keller, J., Gomez, R.G., Kenna, H., Schatzberg, A.F., Poesner, J., DeBattista, C., & Flores, B. (2006). Detecting psychotic major depression using psychiatric rating scales. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 40(1), 22-29.

Deldin, P.J., Keller, J., Casas, B.R., Best, J., Gergen, J.A., & Miller, G.A. (2006). Normal N400 in Mood Disorders. Biological Psychology, 71(1), 74-79.

Westrup, D., Weitlauf, J., & Keller, J. (2005). I got my life back! Making a case for self defense training for older women with PTSD. The Clinical Gerontologist, 26(3), 113-118.

Deldin, P.J., Keller, J., Gergen, J.A. & Miller, G.A. (2001). Cognitive bias and emotion in neuropsychological models of depression. Cognition and Emotion, 15(6), 787-802.

Miller, G.A. & Keller, J. (2000). Psychology and clinical neuroscience: Making peace.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 212-215.
Reprinted in T.S. Oltmanns & R.E. Emery, Editors (2004), Current Directions in abnormal psychology (pp. 3-9). New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Keller, J., Nitschke, J.B., Bhargava, T., Deldin, P.J., Gergen, J.A., Miller, G.A., & Heller, W. (2000). Neuropsychological differentiation of depression and anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 3-10.

Deldin, P.J., Keller, J., Gergen, J.A. & Miller, G.A. (2000). Right posterior N200 anomaly in depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 116-121.

Fernandes, L.O.L., Keller, J., Giese-Davis, J.E., Hicks, B.D., Klein, D.N., & Miller, G.A. (1999). Converging evidence for a cognitive anomaly in early psychopathology. Psychophysiology, 36, 1-11.

Book Chapters

Edgar, J.C., Keller, J., Heller, W., & Miller, G.A. (2007). Psychophysiology in Research on Psychopathology. In J.T. Cacioppo, L.G. Tassinary, & G.G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of psychophysiology (3rd edition). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Keller, J., Buckley, T.M., & Schatzberg, A.F. (2004). Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity in Mood and Cognition in the Elderly: Implications for Symptoms and Outcomes. In S. Roose and H.A. Sackeim (Eds.) Late-Life Depression. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Keller, J., Hicks, B.D., & Miller, G.A. (2000). Psychophysiology in the study of psychopathology. In L.G. Tassinary, J.T. Cacioppo, & G.G. Berntson (Eds.), Principles of psychophysiology: Physical, social, and inferential elements (2nd edition). New York: Cambridge University Press.