Principal Investigators //
- Corey Hill Allen, PhD >
- Nathaniel Anderson, PhD >
- Felicha Candelaria-Cook, PhD >
- Arvind Caprihan, PhD >
- Aparna Gullapalli, PhD >
- Carla Harenski, PhD
- Jon Houck, Ph.D. >
- Kent A. Kiehl, PhD >
- J. Michael Maurer, PhD >
- Andrew R. Mayer, PhD >
- John Phillips, MD >
- Sephira Ryman, PhD, MS >
- Julia M. Stephen, PhD >
- Andrei Vakhtin, Ph.D. >
- Claire E. Wilcox, MD >
Carla Harenski, PhD
Associate Professor of Translational Neuroscience
Dr. Harenski studies the neuroscience of mental health conditions that are related to criminal behavior. She has led several federally-funded research projects that use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate social and emotional processing in criminal offenders characterized by psychopathic personality and other externalizing conditions and behaviors. This research is conducted in incarcerated populations, which is made possible with the Mind Research Network’s mobile MRI system and partnerships with correctional facilities across New Mexico and other states.
Selected Publications //
- Machine learning classification of chronic traumatic brain injury using diffusion tensor imaging and NODDI: A replication and extension study >
- The prevalence, characteristics, and psychiatric correlates of traumatic brain injury in incarcerated individuals: an examination in two independent samples >
- Childhood Trauma Predicts Sadistic Traits and Violent Behavior in Incarcerated Youth >
- Neural Correlates of Moral Judgment in Criminal Offenders with Sadistic Traits >
- Source-Based Morphometry Reveals Gray Matter Differences Related to Suicidal Behavior in Criminal Offenders >
- Functional Connectivity during Affective Mentalizing in Criminal Offenders with Psychotic Disorders: Associations with Clinical Symptoms >
- Neural correlates of moral and non-moral emotion in female psychopathy >
- Neural processing of moral violations among incarcerated adolescents with psychopathic traits >
- Neuroprediction of future rearrest >
- Increased fronto-temporal activation during pain observation in sexual sadism: Preliminary findings >
- Neural development of mentalizing in moral judgment from adolescence to adulthood >
- Emotion and morality in psychopathy and paraphilias >
- Aberrant neural processing of moral violations in criminal psychopaths >
- Reactive aggression in psychopathy and the role of frustration: Susceptibility, experience, and cont >
- A functional imaging investigation of moral deliberation and moral intuition >
- Gender differences in neural mechanisms underlying moral sensitivity >
- Neural correlates of regulating negative emotions related to moral violations >
