Dr Liat Levita

All publications

Journal articles

• Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Martinez AP, Mason L, McBride O, McKay R, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Stocks TVA , Bennett KM et al (2020) Capability, opportunity, and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID‐19 outbreak in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Health Psychology.
• Levita L, Mayberry E, Mehmood A & Reuber M (2019) Evaluation of LiNES : a new measure of trauma, negative affect, and relationship insecurity over the life span in persons with FND. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. View this article in WRRO
• Gyurkovics M, Stafford T & Levita L (2019) Cognitive control across adolescence : dynamic adjustments and mind-wandering. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. View this article in WRRO
• Kirkham EJ & Levita L (2019) Early life stress is associated with reduced avoidance of threatening facial expressions. Development and Psychopathology. View this article in WRRO
• Garrett N, González-Garzón AM, Foulkes L, Levita L & Sharot T (2018) Updating Beliefs under Perceived Threat. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(36), 7901-7911. View this article in WRRO
• Williams IA, Levita L & Reuber M (2018) Emotion dysregulation in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A systematic review based on the extended process model. Epilepsy and Behavior, 86, 37-48. View this article in WRRO
• Howsley P & Levita L (2018) Developmental changes in the cortical sources of spontaneous alpha throughout adolescence. International Journal of Psychophysiology. View this article in WRRO
• Mcsweeney M, Reuber M, Hoggard N & Levita L (2018) Cortical thickness and gyrification patterns in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Neuroscience Letters, 678(Epilepsia 54 2013), 124-130. View this article in WRRO
• Walsh S, Levita L & Reuber M (2018) Comorbid depression and associated factors in PNES versus epilepsy: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Seizure, 60, 44-56. View this article in WRRO
• Fritz T, Mueller K, Guha A, Gouws A, Levita L, Andrews TJ & Slocombe KE (2018) Human behavioural discrimination of human, chimpanzee and macaque affective vocalisations is reflected by the neural response in the superior temporal sulcus. Neuropsychologia, 111, 145-150. View this article in WRRO
• Williams IA, Howlett S, Levita L & Reuber M (2018) Changes in Emotion Processing following Brief Augmented Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy for Functional Neurological Symptoms. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 46(3), 350-366. View this article in WRRO
• Mcsweeney M, Reuber M & Levita L (2017) Neuroimaging studies in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: A systematic meta-review. NeuroImage: Clinical, 16, 210-221. View this article in WRRO
• Howsley P & Levita L (2017) Anticipatory representations of reward and threat in perceptual areas from preadolescence to late adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 246-259. View this article in WRRO
• Bois C, Levita L, Ripp I, Owens DCG, Johnstone EC, Whalley HC & Lawrie SM (2016) Longitudinal changes in hippocampal volume in the Edinburgh High Risk Study of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 173(3), 146-151. View this article in WRRO
• Levita L, Salas Duhne PG, Girling C & Waller G (2016) Facets of clinicians' anxiety and the delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 77, 157-161. View this article in WRRO
• Bois C, Ronan L, Levita L, Whalley HC, Giles S, McIntosh AM, Fletcher PC, Owens DC, Johnstone EC & Lawrie SM (2015) Cortical Surface Area Differentiates Familial High Risk Individuals Who Go on to Develop Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 78(6), 413-420. View this article in WRRO
• McFetridge MA, Milner R, Gavin V & Levita L (2015) Borderline personality disorder: patterns of self-harm, reported childhood trauma and clinical outcome. British Journal of Psychiatry Open, 1(1), 18-20. View this article in WRRO
• Bois C, Levita L, Ripp I, Owens DCG, Johnstone EC, Whalley HC & Lawrie SM (2015) Hippocampal, amygdala and nucleus accumbens volume in first-episode schizophrenia patients and individuals at high familial risk: A cross-sectional comparison. Schizophrenia Research, 165(1), 45-51.
• Levita L, Howsley P, Jordan J & Johnston P (2015) Potentiation of the early visual response to learned danger signals in adults and adolescents.. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 10(2), 269-277.
• West K, Turner R & Levita L (2015) Applying imagined contact to improve physiological responses in anticipation of intergroup interactions and the perceived quality of these interactions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45(8), 425-436.
• Bois CL, Levita L, Ronan L & Lawrie S (2014) Poster #T26 A CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF GLOBAL CORTICAL MORPHOLOGY IN THE EDINBURGH HIGH RISK STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA. Schizophrenia Research, 153, S298-S298.
• Levita L, Bois C, Healey A, Smyllie E, Papakonstantinou E, Hartley T & Lever C (2014) The Behavioural Inhibition System, anxiety and hippocampal volume in a non-clinical population.. Biol Mood Anxiety Disord, 4(1), 4. View this article in WRRO
• Campion M & Levita L (2013) Enhancing positive affect and divergent thinking abilities: Play some music and dance. Journal of Positive Psychology.
• Levita L, Hoskin R & Champi S (2012) Avoidance of harm and anxiety: a role for the nucleus accumbens.. Neuroimage, 62(1), 189-198.
• Romaniuk L, Honey GD, King JRL, Whalley HC, McIntosh AM, Levita L, Hughes M, Johnstone EC, Day M, Lawrie SM & Hall J (2010) Midbrain activation during Pavlovian conditioning and delusional symptoms in schizophrenia.. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 67(12), 1246-1254.
• Levita L & Muzzio IA (2010) Role of the hippocampus in goal-oriented tasks requiring retrieval of spatial versus non-spatial information.. Neurobiol Learn Mem, 93(4), 581-588.
• Casey BJ, Jones RM, Levita L, Libby V, Pattwell SS, Ruberry EJ, Soliman F & Somerville LH (2010) The storm and stress of adolescence: insights from human imaging and mouse genetics.. Dev Psychobiol, 52(3), 225-235.
• Soliman F, Glatt CE, Bath KG, Levita L, Jones RM, Pattwell SS, Jing D, Tottenham N, Amso D, Somerville LH , Voss HU et al (2010) A genetic variant BDNF polymorphism alters extinction learning in both mouse and human.. Science, 327(5967), 863-866.
• Guo J-D, Hammack SE, Hazra R, Levita L & Rainnie DG (2009) Bi-directional modulation of bed nucleus of stria terminalis neurons by 5-HT: molecular expression and functional properties of excitatory 5-HT receptor subtypes.. Neuroscience, 164(4), 1776-1793.
• Casey BJ, Glatt CE, Tottenham N, Soliman F, Bath K, Amso D, Altemus M, Pattwell S, Jones R, Levita L , McEwen B et al (2009) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor as a model system for examining gene by environment interactions across development.. Neuroscience, 164(1), 108-120.
• Muzzio IA, Levita L, Kulkarni J, Monaco J, Kentros C, Stead M, Abbott LF & Kandel ER (2009) Attention enhances the retrieval and stability of visuospatial and olfactory representations in the dorsal hippocampus.. PLoS Biol, 7(6), e1000140. View this article in WRRO
• Levita L, Hare TA, Voss HU, Glover G, Ballon DJ & Casey BJ (2009) The bivalent side of the nucleus accumbens.. Neuroimage, 44(3), 1178-1187.
• Levita L, Hammack SE, Mania I, Li X-Y, Davis M & Rainnie DG (2004) 5-hydroxytryptamine1A-like receptor activation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: electrophysiological and behavioral studies.. Neuroscience, 128(3), 583-596.
• Levita L, Mania I & Rainnie DG (2003) Subtypes of substance P receptor immunoreactive interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala.. Brain Res, 981(1-2), 41-51.
• Passetti F, Levita L & Robbins TW (2003) Sulpiride alleviates the attentional impairments of rats with medial prefrontal cortex lesions.. Behav Brain Res, 138(1), 59-69.
• Levita L, Dalley JW & Robbins TW (2002) Nucleus accumbens dopamine and learned fear revisited: a review and some new findings.. Behav Brain Res, 137(1-2), 115-127.
• Levita L, Dalley JW & Robbins TW (2002) Disruption of Pavlovian contextual conditioning by excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus accumbens core.. Behav Neurosci, 116(4), 539-552.
• Dalley JW, McGaughy J, O'Connell MT, Cardinal RN, Levita L & Robbins TW (2001) Distinct changes in cortical acetylcholine and noradrenaline efflux during contingent and noncontingent performance of a visual attentional task.. J Neurosci, 21(13), 4908-4914.
• Levita L, Dalley JW & Robbins TW (2000) Excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus accumbens core impair contextual but not discrete cue pavlovian aversive conditioning. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 12, 88-88.
• Sesay AK, Errington ML, Levita L & Bliss TV (1996) Spatial learning and hippocampal long-term potentiation are not impaired in mdx mice.. Neurosci Lett, 211(3), 207-210.
• Shevlin M, Nolan E, Owczarek M, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP , McKay R et al () COVID-19-Related Anxiety Predicts Somatic Symptoms in the UK Population. View this article in WRRO
• Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Martinez AP, Mason L, McBride O, McKay R, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Stocks TVA , Bennett KM et al () Capability, opportunity and motivation to enact hygienic practices in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK.
• Muzzio IA, Levita L, Kulkarni J, Monaco J, Kentros C, Stead M, Abbott LF & Kandel ER () Correction: Attention Enhances the Retrieval and Stability of Visuospatial and Olfactory Representations in the Dorsal Hippocampus. PLoS Biology, 8(10).
• Muzzio IA, Levita L, Kulkarni J, Monaco J, Kentros C, Stead M, Abbott LF & Kandel ER () Correction: Attention Enhances the Retrieval and Stability of Visuospatial and Olfactory Representations in the Dorsal Hippocampus. PLoS Biology, 8(10).
• McBride O, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Hyland P, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R , Stocks TVA et al () Monitoring the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the general population: an overview of the context, design and conduct of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study.
• AYTEMUR A & Levita L () A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood.
• Shevlin M, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R, Stocks TVA , Bennett KM et al () Anxiety, Depression, Traumatic Stress, and COVID-19 Related Anxiety in the UK General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic..
• Slocombe KE, Alvarez I, Branigan HP, Jellema T, Burnett HG, Fischer A, Hei Li Y, Garrod S & Levita L () Linguistic Alignment in Adults with and Without Asperger’s Syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord.
• Hartman TK, Stocks TVA, McKay R, Gibson Miller J, Levita L, Martinez AP, Mason L, McBride O, Murphy J, Shevlin M , bennett KM et al () The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment.
• Shevlin M, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R, Stocks TVA , bennett KM et al () Demographic, Health and Mental Health Predictors of Face Mask Wearing in the UK Population During the COVID-19 Lockdown Period..
• McBride O, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Hyland P, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R , Stocks TVA et al () An overview of the context, design and conduct of the first two waves of the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study.
• Murphy J, Spikol E, McBride O, Shevlin M, bennett KM, Hartman TK, Hyland P, Karatzias T, Levita L, Martinez AP , Mason L et al () The psychological wellbeing of frontline workers in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic: First and second wave findings from the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study.
• Levita L, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Murphy J, Shevlin M, McBride O, Mason L, Martinez AP, bennett KM, Stocks TVA , McKay R et al () Report2: Impact of Covid-19 on young people aged 13-24 in the UK- preliminary findings.
• Levita L, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Murphy J, Shevlin M, McBride O, McKay R, Mason L, Martinez AP, Stocks TVA , bennett KM et al () Report1: Impact of Covid-19 on young people aged 13-24 in the UK- preliminary findings.

Chapters

• Levita L, Jones RM & Casey BJ () BOLD fMRI: an update with emphasis on pediatric applications, Neuroimaging in Developmental Clinical Neuroscience (pp. 281-295). Cambridge University Press

Conference proceedings papers

• Williams IA, Reuber M & Levita L (2019) Relationship between interoception and stress in patients with functional neurological symptom disorder. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Vol. 90(Suppl 2) (pp A11-A11), 7 March 2019 - 8 March 2019. View this article in WRRO
• Mehmood A, Levita L, Reuber M & Mayberry E (2019) LIFESPAN OF NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES IN FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER PATIENTS. JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY, Vol. 90 (pp A21-A21)
• Williams IA, Howlett S, Levita L & Reuber M (2017) Changes in emotion processing associated with brief augmented psychodynamic interpersonal therapy for functional neurological symptoms. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Vol. 88(8) (pp A15-A15) View this article in WRRO
• Aminuddin R, Sharkey A & Levita L (2016) Interaction with the Paro robot may reduce psychophysiological stress responses. 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 7 March 2016 - 10 March 2016.
• Aminuddin R, Sharkey A, Levita L & ACM (2016) Interaction With the Paro Robot May Reduce Psychophysiological Stress Responses. ELEVENTH ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION (HRI'16) (pp 593-594)
• Bois CL, Levita L, Ronan L & Lawrie SM (2014) A Longitudinal Study of Global Cortical Morphology in the Edinburgh High Risk Study of Schizophrenia. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, Vol. 75(9) (pp 372S-373S)
• Bois CL, Levita L, Ronan L & Lawrie S (2014) A CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF GLOBAL CORTICAL MORPHOLOGY IN THE EDINBURGH HIGH RISK STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA. SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH, Vol. 153 (pp S298-S298)