
Christopher S Monk
Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Professor of Psychiatry, Medical School and Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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Christopher Monk uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine affective and cognitive processing during adolescent development. In particular, his research focuses on how behavioral and brain-based responses vary with age in normally developing youth as well as those with or at risk for psychopathology, such as anxiety, depression and autism. The ultimate goal of this research program is to better understand why some adolescents effectively navigate their socio-emotional environments, while others struggle and a subset experience the first onset of long-term mental disorders.
- Dana E. Díaz, Stefanie R. Russman, Hannah C. Becker, K. Luan Phan, Christopher S Monk, Kate Dimond Fitzgerald. 2025. Neural Substrates of Emotion Processing and Cognitive Control Over Emotion In Youth Anxiety: An RDoc-Informed Study Across the Clinical to Non-Clinical Continuum of Severity. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 64(4):488-498.
- Stefanie R. Russman Block , Hannah Becker , Dana E. Díaz, Elizabeth R. Duval , D. Angus Clark , Dareen Al-Qawasmeh , Alexis Walker Van-Singel , Kristin A. Mannella , K. Luan Phan , Christopher S Monk, Kate D. Fitzgerald. 2025. Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Constructs of Acute and Potential Threat Differentially Associate with Pediatric Anxiety. JAACAP Open
- Sarah Elizabeth Laurent, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Linnea Laestadius, Colter Mitchell, Luke Williamson Hyde, Christopher S Monk, Helen Carmon Spink Meier. 2025. Historic Structural Racism and Perceived Stress in Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health
- Bilek, Emily L., Iturra-Mena, Ann M., Becker, Hannah C., Phan, K. Luan, Christopher S Monk, Fitzgerald, Kate D.. 2025. Exposure-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders: Superiority Over Relaxation-Based Comparator and Predictors of Response. JAACAP Open
- Guzman, Jose M., Boone, Montana H., Suarez, Gabriela L., Colter Mitchell, Christopher Stephen Monk, Luke Williamson Hyde, Lopez-Duran, Nestor L.. 2024. Relationship between COVID-related stressors and internalizing symptoms: Gendered neuroendocrine risk profiles. Psychoneuroendocrinology 159:106668.
- Rueppel, Meryl, Becker, Hannah C., Iturra-Mena, Ann, Bilek, Emily L., Christopher Stephen Monk, Phan, K. Luan, Fitzgerald, Kate D.. 2024. Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: Baseline Prevalence, Comorbidity, and Implications in a Clinically Anxious Pediatric Sample. Child Psychiatry & Human Development
- Zhang, Yue, Hardi, Felicia, Weigard, Alexander S., Scavnicky, Maria K., Colter Mitchell, Luke Williamson Hyde, Christopher Stephen Monk. 2024. Understanding the impact of early adverse experiences on computational models of neurocognitive processes in adolescents. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 46
- Hong, Sunghyun H, Hardi, Felicia A, Tillem, Scott, Goetschius, Leigh G, Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, McLoyd, Vonnie, Lopez-Duran, Nestor L, Colter Mitchell, Luke Williamson Hyde, Christopher S Monk. 2024. Mother-child closeness and adolescent structural neural networks: a prospective longitudinal study of low-income families. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 19(1)
- Wu, Kefan C., Hong, Sunghyun, Cross, Fernanda L., Sypher, Isaiah, McLoyd, Vonnie C., Edward Huntley, Luke Williamson Hyde, Colter Mitchell, Christopher S Monk. 2024. Increasing diversity in neuroimaging research: Participant-driven recommendations from a qualitative study of an under-represented sample. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 70:101474.
- Cleanthis Michael, Arianna M. Gard, Scott Tillem, Felicia A. Hardi, Erin C. Dunn, Andrew D. A. C. Smith, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Colter Mitchell, Christopher S Monk, Luke Williamson Hyde. 2024. Developmental Timing of Associations Among Parenting, Brain Architecture, and Mental Health. JAMA Pediatrics 178(12):1326-1336.