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Alexandra O. Cohen

Assistant Professor, Emory University
Verified email at emory.edu
Cited by 3424

[HTML][HTML] The adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study: imaging acquisition across 21 sites

BJ Casey, T Cannonier, MI Conley, AO Cohen… - Developmental cognitive …, 2018 - Elsevier
… for the contrast of reward success vs fail (signed Cohen’sd) show reliable activation of expected
… 4b depicts signed effect sizes (Cohen’sd) for the contrast of rewarded trials versus failed …

Development of the emotional brain

BJ Casey, AS Heller, DG Gee, AO Cohen - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, we highlight the importance of dynamic reorganization of neural circuitry during
adolescence, as it relates to the development of emotion reactivity and regulation. We offer …

Rewiring juvenile justice: the intersection of developmental neuroscience and legal policy

AO Cohen, BJ Casey - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2014 - cell.com
The past decade has been marked by historic opinions regarding the culpability of juveniles
by the US Supreme Court. In 2005, the death penalty was abolished, 5 years later, life …

When is an adolescent an adult? Assessing cognitive control in emotional and nonemotional contexts

AO Cohen, K Breiner, L Steinberg… - Psychological …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (to AO Cohen). Preparation of this article
AO Cohen and BJ Casey drafted the manuscript, and all authors provided critical revisions …

Slope of free energy plots in chemical kinetics

AO Cohen, RA Marcus - The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1968 - ACS Publications
In currentelectron-transfer theory, an activation free energy term, AF*, depends in a simple
way on the “standard” free energy of reaction, AF0', in the prevailing medium. Namely, AF*= …

Teens impulsively react rather than retreat from threat

…, AT Drysdale, NE Johnston, AO Cohen… - Developmental …, 2014 - karger.com
There is a significant inflection in risk taking and criminal behavior during adolescence, but
the basis for this increase remains largely unknown. An increased sensitivity to rewards has …

[HTML][HTML] The racially diverse affective expression (RADIATE) face stimulus set

…, DV Dellarco, E Rubien-Thomas, AO Cohen… - Psychiatry …, 2018 - Elsevier
Faces are often used in psychological and neuroimaging research to assess perceptual and
emotional processes. Most available stimulus sets, however, represent minimal diversity in …

When does a juvenile become an adult: implications for law and policy

AO Cohen, RJ Bonnie, K Taylor-Thompson, BJ Casey - Temp. L. Rev., 2015 - HeinOnline
The US Supreme Court has issued a series of landmark decisions regarding the culpability
of juveniles under the age of eighteen and has increasingly referenced developmental …

[HTML][HTML] At risk of being risky: The relationship between “brain age” under emotional states and risk preference

MD Rudolph, O Miranda-Domínguez, AO Cohen… - Developmental cognitive …, 2017 - Elsevier
… used in previously published analyses cited within the current report (Cohen et al., 2016). …
Specifically, in a related study, Cohen et al. found that under negative emotional contexts …

Individual differences in frontolimbic circuitry and anxiety emerge with adolescent changes in endocannabinoid signaling across species

…, CE Glatt, AT Drysdale, AO Cohen… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Anxiety disorders peak in incidence during adolescence, a developmental window that is
marked by dynamic changes in gene expression, endocannabinoid signaling, and frontolimbic …