Dr Liat Levita

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Journal articles

• Murphy J, Vallières F, Bentall RP, Shevlin M, McBride O, Hartman TK, McKay R, Bennett K, Mason L, Gibson-Miller J , Levita L et al (2021) Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Nature Communications, 12(1).
• Shevlin M, Butter S, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson-Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R , Va Stocks T et al (2021) Refuting the myth of a 'tsunami' of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: Evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogenous, not homogeneous. Psychological Medicine.
• Linton SR & Levita L (2021) Potentiated perceptual neural responses to learned threat during Pavlovian fear acquisition and extinction in adolescents.. Dev Sci, e13107.
• Zavlis O, Butter S, Bennett K, Hartman TK, Hyland P, Mason L, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson-Miller J, Levita L , Martinez AP et al (2021) How Does The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Population Mental Health? A Network Analysis of COVID Influences On Depression, Anxiety and Traumatic Stress in the UK Population.. Psychol Med, 1-31.
• Ellis R, Milne E & Levita L (2021) Reduced visual cortical plasticity in Autism Spectrum Disorder.. Brain Res Bull.
• 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 (2021) The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. Social Psychological and Personality Science. View this article in WRRO
• Whitfield A, Walsh S, Levita L & Reuber M (2020) Catastrophising and repetitive negative thinking tendencies in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures or epilepsy. Seizure, 83, 57-62.
• Aytemur A & Levita L (2020) A reduction in the implicit sense of agency during adolescence compared to childhood and adulthood. Consciousness and Cognition, 87.
• 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 (2020) Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the population : context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID‐19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. View this article in WRRO
• Shevlin M, McBride O, Murphy J, Miller JG, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R, Stocks TVA , Bennett KM et al (2020) Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic. BJPsych Open, 6(6).
• 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. View this article in WRRO
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Bentall RP, Lloyd A, Bennett K, McKay R, Mason L, Murphy J, McBride O, Hartman TK, Gibson-Miller J, Levita L , Martinez AP et al () Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0246339-e0246339.
• 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. View this article in WRRO
• 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).
• Bentall R, Lloyd A, Bennett KM, McKay R, Mason L, Murphy J, McBride O, Hartman TK, Gibson Miller J, Levita L , Martinez AP et al () Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Zavlis O, Butter S, Bennett KM, Hartman TK, Hyland P, Mason L, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson Miller J, Levita L , Martinez AP et al () How Does The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Population Mental Health? A Network Analysis of COVID Influences On Depression, Anxiety and Traumatic Stress in the UK Population.
• 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.
• McBride O, Butter S, Murphy J, Shevlin M, Hartman TK, Hyland P, McKay R, Bennett KM, Gibson Miller J, Levita L , Martinez AP et al () Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 3.
• Shevlin M, Butter S, McBride O, Murphy J, Gibson Miller J, Hartman TK, Levita L, Mason L, Martinez AP, McKay R , Stocks TVA et al () Refuting the myth of a ‘tsunami’ of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: Evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogenous, not homogeneous.
• 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.
• 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 () 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.
• Levita L & Gyurkovics M () Dynamic Adjustments of Midfrontal Control Signals in Adults and Adolescents. Cerebral Cortex.
• Lloyd A, McKay R, Hartman TK, Vincent BT, Murphy J, Gibson Miller J, Levita L, Bennett KM, McBride O, Martinez AP , Stocks TVA et al () Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict lower adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Hartman TK, Marshall M, Stocks TVA, McKay R, Bennett KM, Butter S, Gibson Miller J, Hyland P, Levita L, Martinez AP , Mason L et al () Different conspiracy theories have different psychological and social determinants: Comparison of three theories about the origins of the COVID-19 virus in a representative sample of the UK population.
• Williams IA, Reuber M & Levita L () Interoception and stress in patients with Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 1-20.
• Butter S, Murphy J, Hyland P, McBride O, Shevlin M, Hartman TK, Bennett KM, Gibson Miller J, Levita L, Martinez AP , Mason L et al () Modelling the complexity of pandemic-related lifestyle quality change and mental health: An analysis of a nationally representative UK general population sample.

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

• Smith LT, Levita L, Amico F, Fagan J, Yek JH, Brophy J, Zhang H & Arvaneh M (2020) Using Resting State Heart Rate Variability and Skin Conductance Response to Detect Depression in Adults. 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 20 July 2020 - 24 July 2020.
• 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) 44 Lifespan of negative experiences in functional neurological disorder patients. Members’ POSTER Abstracts
• 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)