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PUBLICATIONS

Professor Margaret C. McKinnon

Peer Reviewed

  1. Goegan, S.A., Hasey, G., King, J.P., Losier, B., Gojmerac, C., Ballantyne, E., MacKillop, E., Bieling, P., McKinnon, M.C., & McNeely, HE. (2021).  Naturalistic study on the effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on depressive symptoms.  Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2021 Dec 13:7067437211064020. doi: 10.1177/07067437211064020. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34903092.

  2. Roth, S.L., Andrews, K, Protopopescu, A, Lloyd, C, O'Connor, C, Losier, B.J., Lanius, R.A., McKinnon, M.C. Mental health symptoms in Public Safety Personnel: Examining the effects of adverse childhood experiences and moral injury. Child Abuse Negl. 2021 Nov 19;123:105394. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105394. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34808481.

  3. Brown, A., Millman, H., Easterbrook, B., Park, R., Heber, A., Lanius, R.A., Nazarov, A., Jetly, R., Stanley-Aikens, R., Hutchins, C., Sanderson, C., Darte, K., Hall, A., Brémault-Phillips, S., Byerlay, C., Meehan, M., Cameron, R., Doak, D., Oakley, T., & McKinnon, M.C. (2021). Working together to address sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. The Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health. doi: 10.3138/jmvfh-2021-0033. Epub 2021 Oct. 27.

  4. Plouffe*, R.A., Easterbrook, B.*, Liu, A., McKinnon, M.C., Richardson, J.D., & Nazarov, A. Psychometric Evaluation of the Moral Injury Events Scale in Two Canadian Armed Forces Samples. Assessment. 2021 Sep 13:10731911211044198. doi: 10.1177/10731911211044198. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34515535.

  5. Park, A. H., Protopopescu, A., Pogue, M., Boyd, J.E., O’Connor. C., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2021). Dissociative symptoms predict severe illness presentation in Canadian public safety personnel with presumptive post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 12(1). doi: 10.1080/20008198.2021.1953789. Epub 03Sep2021.

  6. Roth, S., Qureshi, A., Moulden, H.M., Chaimowitz, G.A., Lanius, R.A., Losier, B., & McKinnon, M.C. (2021).  Trapped in their shame: A qualitative investigation of moral injury in forensic psychiatry patients.  Criminal Justice and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548211039877 Online ahead of print.

  7. Olive, I., Makris, N., Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C. & Lanius, R.  (2021).  Altered basal forebrain BOLD signal variability at rest in posttraumatic stress disorder: A potential candidate vulnerability mechanism for neurogeneration in PTSD. Hum Brain Mapp. 2021 Aug 1;42(11):3561-3575. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25454. Epub 2021 May 7. PMID: 33960558; PMCID: PMC8249881.

  8. Protopopescu, A., Boyd, J.E., O’Connor, C., Rhind, S., Jetly, R., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2021). Examining the associations among moral injury, difficulties with emotion regulation, symptoms of PTSD, depression, anxiety, and stress within Canadian military members and Veterans: A preliminary study. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health 2021 7 (2), 71-80, doi: 10.3138/jmvfh-2020-0036

  9. Harricharan, S., McKinnon, M.C.,  & Lanius, R.A. (2021).  How processing of sensory information from the internal and external worlds shapes perception and engagement with the world in the aftermath of trauma: Implications for PTSD. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2021 Apr 16;15:625490. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.625490. PMID: 33935627; PMCID: PMC8085307.

  10. Patel, H., Holshausen, K., Oshri, A., Andrews, K., Penta, S., Raymond, H., McKinnon, M.C., Brasch, J., MacKillop, J., Amlung, M. (2021). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology and substance use in an outpatient concurrent disorders sampemle. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2021 Sep;66(9):788-797. doi: 10.1177/07067437211011851. Epub 2021 Apr 20.

  11. Bhaskar Shaw, S., McKinnon, M.C., Heisz, J. & Becker, S. (2021). Dynamic task-linked switching between brain networks – A Tri-Network perspective. Brain and Cognition 2021 Jul;151:105725. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105725. Epub 2021 Apr 28. PMID: 33932747.

  12. Lloyd, C.S., McKinnon, M.C., D’Andrea, W., Thome, J., Neufeld, R.W.J., Densmore, M., & Lanius, R.A. (2021). Mapping alexithymia: Level of emotional awareness differentiates emotion-specific somatosensory maps. Child Abuse and Neglect, 113, 104919.  doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104919.

  13. Lloyd, C.S., Nicholson, A.A., Densmore, M., Théberge, J.,Neufeld, R.W.J., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2021). Shame on the brain: Neural correlates of moral injury event recall in posttraumatic stress disorder. Depression and Anxiety. 2021 Jun;38(6):596-605. doi: 10.1002/da.23128. Epub 2020 Dec 28. PMID: 33369799.

  14. Rabellino D., Frewen, P.A., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2020). Peripersonal Space and Bodily Self-Consciousness: Implications for Psychological Trauma-Related Disorders. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2020 Dec 10;14:586605. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.586605.

  15. Lanius, R.A., Terpou, B.A., McKinnon, M.C. (2020). The sense of self in the aftermath of trauma: lessons from the default mode network in posttraumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2020 Oct 23;11(1):1807703. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2020.1807703.

  16. Boyd, J.E., O'Connor, C., Protopopescu, A., Jetly, R., Lanius, R.A., McKinnon, M.C. (2020). The contributions of emotion regulation difficulties and dissociative symptoms to functional impairment among civilian inpatients with posttraumatic stress symptoms. Psychological Trauma. 2020 Oct;12(7):739-749. doi: 10.1037/tra0000576. Epub 2020 Mar. 23.

  17. Cameron, D., McCabe, R., Rowa, K., O’Connor, C. & McKinnon, M.C. (2020). A pilot study examining the use of Goal Management Training in individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 2020 Oct; 6:151. doi: 10.1186/s40814-020-00684-0.

  18. Restivo, R.R., Hall, G.B., Frey, B.N., McKinnon, M.C., & Taylor, V.H. (2020). Neural correlates of verbal recognition memory in obese adults with and without major depressive disorder. Brain and Behaviour. 2020 Sep 20:e01848. doi: 10.1002/brb3.1848. Online ahead of print.

  19. Terpou, B.A., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., Frewen, P., McKinnon, M.C., Nicholson, A., & Lanius, R. (2020). The hijacked self: Disrupted functional connectivity between the periaqueductal gray and the default mode network in posttraumatic stress disorder using dynamic causal modeling. NeuroImage: Clinical. 2020 Jul 10;27:102345. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102345. Online ahead of print.

  20. Jetly, R., Vermetten, E., Easterbrook, B., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M.C. (2020). Going to “war”: Military approach as the antidote to defeating COVID-19. Military Behavioral Health. 2020 May 14. DOI: 10.1080/21635781.2020.1765911

  21. Protopopescu A., Boyd, J.E., O’Connor C., Rhind, S., Jetly, R., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2020). Moral injury in Canadian military members and Veterans: Implications for military and healthcare sector response during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health. 2020 June 9; 6(S2):17-20. doi: 10.3138/jmvfh-CO19-008.

  22. Morris, V., Goodgame Huffman, L., Naish, K., Holshausen, K., Oshri, A., McKinnon, M.C., & Amlung, M. (2020). Impulsivity as a mediating factor in the association between post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and substance use. Psychol Trauma. 2020 May 14. doi: 10.1037/tra0000588. [epub ahead of print]

  23. Renoult, L., Armson, M.J., Diamond, N.B., Fan, C.L., Levesque L., Oliva, L., McKinnon, M.C., Papadopoulos, A., St Jacques, P.L., & Levine, B. (2020). Classification of general and personal semantic details in the Autobiographical Interview. Neuropsychologia, 2020 May 20:107501. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107501. [epub ahead of print]

  24. Nicholson, A.A., Harricharan, S., Densmore, M., Neufeld, R., Ros, T., McKinnon, M.C., Frewen, P., Theberge, J., Jetly, R., Pedlar, D., Lanius R.A. (2020). Classifying Heterogeneous Presentations of PTSD via the Default Mode, Central Executive, and Salience Networks with Machine Learning. NeuroImage: Clinical. 2020 Apr 22;27:102262. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102262.

  25. Nicholson, A.A., McKinnon, M.C., Jetly, R., Lanius, R.A. (2020). Uncovering the heterogeneity of posttraumatic stress disorder: towards a personalized approach to medicine. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Special Issue. doi:10.3138/jmvfh.2019-0031

  26. Cameron, D.H., Rowa, K., McKinnon, M.C., Rector, N.A., & McCabe, R.E. (2020). Neuropsychological performance across symptom dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A comment on the state and critical review of the literature. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2020 May;20(5):425-438. doi: 10.1080/14737175.2020.1746644.

  27. Taylor, V.H., Yathan, L.N., Lam, R.W., Kennedy, S.H., Beaulieu, S., Rotzinger, S., Kates, N., & McKinnon, M.C. (2020).  In Memoriam: Glenda M. MacQueen, MD, PhD, FRCPC (1965-2020). Canadian Journal of Psychiatry – Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie, 65, 289-289. doi: 10.1177/0706743720922046

  28. Bogie, B., Kapszinski, F., McCabe, R., McKinnon, M.C., & Frey, B.N. (2020). Emotional reactivity and explicit emotional memory biases in major depressive disorder during euthymia. Psychiatry Research. 2020 Feb 4;285:112847. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112847. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32058877.

  29. Thome, J., Terpou, B., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2020). The neural correlates of trauma-related autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis. Depression and Anxiety, 37(4):321-345. doi: 10.1002/da.22977.

  30. Harricharan, S., Nicholson, A.A., Thome, J., Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C., Théberge, J., Frewen, P.A., Neufeld, R.W.J., Lanius, R.A. (2020). PTSD and its dissociative subtype through the lens of the insula: Anterior and posterior insula resting-state functional connectivity and its predictive validity using machine learning. Psychophysiology, 57(1):e13472. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13472.

  31. Nicholson, A.A., Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C., Neufeld, R.W.J., Frewen, P.A., Theberge, J., Jetly, R., Richardson, J.D., & Lanius, R.A. (2019). Machine learning multivariate pattern analysis predicts classification of posttraumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype: a multimodal neuroimaging approach. Psychol Med 2019 Sep;49(12):2049-2059. doi: 10.1017/S0033291718002866.

  32. Rehman, Y., Sadeghirad, B., Guyatt, G.H., McKinnon, M.C., McCabe, R.E., Lanius, R.A., Richardson, D.J., Couban, R., Sousa-Dias, H., & Busse, J.W. (2019). Management of post-traumatic stress disorder: A protocol for a multiple treatment comparison meta-analysis of randomized control trials. Medicine (Baltimore), 98(39): e17064. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000017064.

  33. Thome, J., Densmore, M., Koppe, G., Théberge, J., Frewen, P.A., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2019). Back to basics: Resting state activity of the reticular activation system in PTSD and its dissociative subtype. Chronic Stress, 3, 1 -14. doi: 10.1177/2470547019873663.

  34. Boyd, J., O’Connor, C., Protopopescu, A., Jetly, R., Rhind, S., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2019). An open-label feasibility trial examining the effectiveness of Goal Management Training in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder. Chronic Stress, 3, 1 -13.

  35. Battaglia, A., Protopopescu, A., Boyd, J., Lloyd, C., Jetly, R., O’Connor, C., Hood, H.K., Nazarov, A., Rhind, S., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M.C. (2019). The relation between adverse childhood experiences and moral injury in the Canadian Armed Forces. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 5(2): 4 - 5.

  36. Harricharan, S., McKinnon, M.C., Tursich, M., Densmore, M., Frewen, P., Théberge, J., van der Kolk, B., & Lanius, R.A. (2019). Overlapping frontoparietal networks in response to oculomotion and traumatic autobiographical memory retrieval: Implications for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1):1586265. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2019.1586265. eCollection 2019.

  37. Terpou, B.A., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., Frewen, P., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2019). The threatful self: Midbrain functional connectivity to cortical midline and parietal regions during subliminal trauma-related processing in PTSD Chronic Stress, 3,(1), 1 – 12.

  38. Terpou, B.A., Harricharan, S., McKinnon, M.C., Frewen, P., Jetly, R., & Lanius, R.A. (2019). The effects of trauma on brain and body: A unifying role for the midbrain periacqueductal gray. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 97(9):1110-1140. doi: 10.1002/jnr.24447.

  39. Keating, L.E., Becker, S., McCabe, K., Whattam, J., Garrick, L., Frey, B.N., Sassi, R.B., & McKinnon, M.C. (2019). Impact of a structured, group-based running programme on clinical, cognitive and social function in youth and adults with complex mood disorders: A 12-week pilot study. BMJ Open Sports and Exercise Medicine, 5(1):e000521. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2019-000521. eCollection 2019.

  40. Cameron, D.H., Streiner, D.L., Summerfeldt, L.J., Rowa, K., McKinnon, M.C., & McCabe, R.E. (2019). A comparison of cluster and factor analytic techniques for identifying symptom-based dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 278:86-96. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.05.040.

  41. Cameron, D.H., Summerfelt, L.J., Rowa, K., McKinnon, M.C., Rector, N., Ornstein, T., & McCabe, R.E. (2019). Differences in neuropsychological performance between incompleteness and harm avoidance core dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 22. 100448 doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2019.100448

  42. Terpou, B. A., Densmore, M., Thome, J., Frewen, P., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R. A. (2019). The innate alarm system and subliminal threat presentation in posttraumatic stress disorder: Neuroimaging of the midbrain and cerebellum. Chronic Stress, 3, 247–254.

  43. Lloyd, C.S., Lanius, R.A., Brown, M.F., Neufeld, R.J, Frewen, P.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2019).  1` responses: The Scale for Tonic Immobility Occurring Post-trauma (STOP). Chronic Stress, 3:1-10. doi: 10.1177/2470547018822492.

  44. Battaglia, A., Protopopescu, A., Boyd, J., Lloyd, C., Jetly, R., O’Connor, C., Hood, H.K., Nazarov, A., Rhind, S.G., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2019). The relation between adverse childhood experiences and moral injury in the Canadian Armed Forces. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1):1546084. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1546084. eCollection 2019.

  45. Nicholson, A.A., Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C., Neufeld, R.W.J., Frewen, P.A., Théberge, J., Jetly, R., Richardson, J.D., & Lanius, R.A. (2019).  multivariate pattern analysis predicts classification of posttraumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype: A multimodal neuroimaging approach. Psychological Medicine, 49(12):2049-2059. doi: 10.1017/S0033291718002866.

  46. Schiavone, F.L., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R. (2018). Psychotic-like symptoms and the temporal lobe in trauma-related disorders: Diagnosis, treatment and assessment of malingering. Chronic Stress, 2:1-17. doi 10.1177/2470547018797046.

  47. Schaivone, F. L., Frewen, P., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2018). The dissociative subtype of PTSD: An update of the literature. VA Research Quarterly Update, 29(3): 1-4. ISSN: 1050-1835.

  48. Lanius, R.A., Boyd, J.E., McKinnon, M.C., Nicholson, A.A., Frewen, P., Vermetten, E., Jetly, R., & Spiegel, D. (2018). A review of the neurobiological basis of trauma-related dissociation and its relation to cannabinoid- and opioid-mediated stress response: A transdiagnostic, translational approach. Current Psychiatry Reports, 20(12):118. doi: 10.1007/s11920-018-0983-y.

  49. Rabellino, D., Burin, D., Harricharan, S., Lloyd, C., Frewen, P.A., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2018). Altered sense of body ownership and agency in posttraumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype: A rubber hand illusion study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12:163. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00163. eCollection 2018.

  50. Nicholson, A.A., Rabellino, D., Densmore, M., Frewen, P.A., Paret, C., Kleutsch, R. Schmahl, C., Théberge, J., Ros, T., Neufeld, R.W.J, McKinnon, M.C., Reiss, J.P., Jetly, R., & Lanius, R.A. (2018). Intrinsic connectivity network dynamics in PTSD during amygdala downregulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback: A preliminary analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 39(11):4258-4275. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24244.

  51. Terpou, B.A., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., Frewen, P., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2018). Resting-state pulvinar-posterior parietal decoupling in PTSD and its dissociative subtype. Human Brain Mapping, 39(11):4228-4240. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24242.

  52. Keating, L.E., Becker, S., McCabe, K., Whattam, J., Garrick, L., Sassi, R., Frey, B.N., & McKinnon, M.C. (2018). Effects of a 12-week running programme in youth and adults with complex mood disorders. BMJ Open Sports and Exercise Medicine, 4(1):e000314. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2017-000314. eCollection 2018.

  53. Rabellino, D., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2018). The cerebellum after trauma: Resting-state functional connectivity of the cerebellum in posttraumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype. Human Brain Mapping, 39(8):3354-3374. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24081.

  54. Boyd, J., Protopopescu, A., O’Connor, C., Neufeld, R.J.W., Jetly, R., Hood, H.K., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2018). Dissociative symptoms mediate the relation between PTSD symptoms and functional impairment in a sample of military members, veterans, and first responders with PTSD. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9(1):1463794. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1463794. eCollection 2018.

  55. Rabellino, D., Densmore, M., Harricharan, S., Jean, T., McKinnon, M.C., Lanius, R.A. (2018). Resting-state functional connectivity of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype. Human Brain Mapping, 39(3):1367-1379. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23925.

  56. Boyd, J.E., Lanius, R.A., McKinnon, M.C. (2018). Mindfulness-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder: A review of the treatment literature and neurobiological evidence. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 43(1):7-25. doi: 10.1503/jpn.170021.

  57. Orr, E., McCabe, R., McKinnon, M.C., Rector, N.A., & Ornstein, T.J. (2018). Excessive reassurance-seeking and cognitive confidence in obsessive-compulsive disorder. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 11(1):17-30. doi: 10.1007/s41811-018-0008-y.

  58. Olivé, I., Densmore, M., Harricharan, S., Théberge, J., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R. (2018). Superior colliculus resting state networks in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype. Human Brain Mapping, 39(1):563-574. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23865.

  59. Harricharan, S., Nicholson, A.A., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., McKinnon, M.C., Neufeld, R.W.J., & Lanius, R.A. (2017). Sensory overload and imbalance: Resting-state vestibular connectivity in PTSD and its dissociative subtype. Neuropsychologia. 106:169-178. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.09.010.

  60. Nicholson, A.A., Friston, K.J., Zeidman, P., Harricharan, S., McKinnon, M.C., Densmore, M., Neufeld, R.W.J., Théberge, J., Corrigan, F., Jetly, R., Spiegel, D., Lanius, R.A. (2017). Dynamic causal modeling in PTSD and its dissociative subtype: Bottom-up versus top-down processing within fear and emotion regulation circuitry. Human Brain Mapping. 38(11):5551-5561. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23748.

  61. Parlar, M., Densmore, M., Hall, G.B.C., Lanius, R., McKinnon, M.C. (2018). Neural and behavioural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval in patients with major depressive disorder and a history of trauma exposure. Neuropsychologia, 110:148-158. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.07.004

  62. Lanius, R.A., Rabellino, D., Boyd, J.E., Harricharan, S., Frewen, P.A., McKinnon, M.C. (2017). The innate alarm system in PTSD: conscious and subconscious processing of threat. Current Opinion in Psychiatry,14:109-115. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.11.006.

  63. Rabellino*, D., D’Andrea*, W., Siegle, G., Frewen, P., Minshew, R., Densmore, M., Neufeld, R. W., Théberge, J., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R. (2017). Neural correlates of heart rate variability in PTSD during sub- and supraliminal processing of trauma-related cues. Human Brain Mapping, 38(10):4898-4907. doi:10.1002/hbm.23702.

  64. Kiang, M., Farzan, F., Blumberger, D.M., Kutas, M., McKinnon, M.C., Kansal, V., Rajji, T.K & Daskalakis, Z.J. (2017). Abnormal self-schema in semantic memory in major depressive disorder: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Biological Psychiatry, 126: 41-47. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.04.003. Epub 2017.

  65. Restivo, M.R., McKinnon, M.C., Frey, B.N., Hall, G.B.C., Syed, W., & Taylor, V.H. (2017). The impact of obesity on neuropsychological functioning in adults with and without major depressive disorder. PLoS One, 12(5): e0176898, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176898.

  66. Thome, J., Densmore, M., Frewen, P.A., McKinnon, M.C., Théberge, J., Nicholson, A.A., Koenig, J., Thayer, J.F., & Lanius, R.A. (2017). Desynchronization of autonomic response and central autonomic network connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder. Human Brain Mapping, 38(1):27-40. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23340.

  67. Parlar, M., Densmore, M., Hall G.B.C., Frewen, P., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2017). Relation between patterns of intrinsic network connectivity, cognitive functioning, and symptom presentation in trauma-exposed patients with major depressive disorder. Brain and Behavior. 7(5): e00664. doi: 10.1002/brb3.664. eCollection 2017.

  68. Nicholson, A.A., Rabellino, D., Densmore, M., Frewen, P.A., Paret, C., Kluetsch, R., Schmahl, C., Théberge, J., Neufeld, R.W., McKinnon, M.C., Reiss, J., Jetly, R., & Lanius, R.A. (2017). The neurobiology of emotion regulation in posttraumatic stress disorder: Amygdala downregulation via real-time fMRI neurofeedback. Human Brain Mapping, 38(1): 541-560. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23402.

  69. Alda, M., McKinnon, M.C., Blagdon, R., Garnham, J., MacLellan, S., O’Donovan, C., Hajek, T. Nair, J., Dursan, S., & MacQueen, G.M. (2017). Methylyne blue treatment for residual symptoms of bipolar disorder: A double-blind randomized control trial. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 210(1):54-60. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.115.173930. 

  70. Rabellino, D., Harricharan, S., Frewen, P.A., Burin, D., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2016). "I can't tell whether it's my hand": A pilot study of the neurophenomenology of body representation during the rubber hand illusion in trauma-related disorders. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 7:32918. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v7.32918. eCollection 2016.

  71. Pryke R.J.L., McKinnon, M.C., McNeely, H.E., Ahern, C., Langstaff, K.L., & Bieling, P.J. (2017). Evidence-based design features improve sleep quality among psychiatric inpatients. Health Environments Research and Design Journal (HERD). 10(5):52-63. doi: 10.1177/1937586716684758. Epub 2017.

  72. Nazarov, A., Walaszczyk, V., Frewen, P., Oremus, C., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M.C. (2016). Moral reasoning in women with posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse. Eur J Psychotraumatol, 7:31028. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v7.31028. eCollection 2016.

  73. Harricharan, S., Rabellino, D., Frewen, P.A., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., McKinnon, M.C., Schore, A.N., & Lanius, R.A. (2016). fMRI functional connectivity of the periaqueductal gray in PTSD and its dissociative subtype. Brain and Behavior, 6(12): e00579. doi: 10.1002/brb3.579. eCollection 2016.

  74. McKinnon, M.C., Boyd, J., Frewen, P., Lanius, U., Jetly, R., Richardson, D.J., & Lanius, R. (2016). A review of the relation between dissociation, memory, executive functioning and social cognition in military members and civilians with neuropsychiatric conditions. Neuropsychologia, 90:210-34. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.017.

  75. Rabellino, D., Densmore, M., Frewen, P.A., Théberge, J., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2016). Aberrant functional connectivity of the amygdala complexes in PTSD during conscious and subconscious processing of trauma-related stimuli. PLoS One, 11(9): e0163097. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163097. eCollection 2016

  76. Parlar. M., Lee, A., Haqqee, Z., Rhooms, L., Lanius, R.A., McKinnon, M.C. (2016). Parental bonding and neuropsychological performance are associated with episodic simulation of future events in trauma-exposed patients with major depressive disorder. Brain and Behaviour. 6(7):e00474. doi:10.1002/brb3.474. eCollection 2016.

  77. Ahern, C.C., Bieling, P., McKinnon, M.C., McNeely, H.E., Langstaff, K. (2016). A recovery-oriented care approach: Weighing the pros and cons of a newly-built mental health facility. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services, 54(2):39-48. doi: 10.3928/02793695-20160119-05.

  78. Nicholson AA, Sapru I, Densmore M, Frewen PA, Neufeld RW, Théberge J, McKinnon, M.C., Lanius RA. (2016). Unique insula subregion resting-state functional connectivity with amygdala complexes in posttraumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype. Psychiatry Research, 250:61-72. doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2016.02.002.

  79. Palombo, D.J., McKinnon, M.C., McIntosh, A.R., Anderson, A.K., Todd, R.M., Levine, B. (2016) The neural correlates of memory for a life-threatening event: An fMRI study of passengers from flight AT236. Clinical Psychology Science, 4(2):312-319. doi: 10.1177/2167702615589308.

  80. Restivo MR, McKinnon, M.C., Frey BN, Hall GB, Taylor V.H. (2016) Effect of obesity on cognition in adults with and without a mood disorder: study design and methods. BMJ Open, 6(2):e009347. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009347.

  81. Parlar M, Frewen PA, Oremus C, Lanius RA, McKinnon, M.C. (2016). Dissociative symptoms are associated with reduced neuropsychological performance in patients with recurrent depression and a history of trauma exposure. Eur J Psychotraumatol, 7(1):29061. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v7.29061. eCollection 2016.

  82. Ahern C, McKinnon MC, Bieling P.J., McNeely H, & Langstaff K. (2016). Overcoming the challenges inherent in conducting design research in mental health settings: Lessons from St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton's Pre and Post-Occupancy Evaluation. Health Environments Research and Design Journal (HERD), 9(2):119-129. doi: 10.1177/1937586715602219.

  83. Williams ME, Becker S, McKinnon, M.C., Wong Q, Cudney L, Steiner M, Frey B.N. (2015). Emotional memory in pregnant women at risk for postpartum depression. Psychiatry Research, 229(3):777-783. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.003. Epub 2015.

  84. Boyd JE, Patriciu I, McKinnon, M.C., & Kiang M. (2014). Corrigendum to “Test-retest reliability of N400 event-related brain potentials in a word-pair semantic priming paradigm in patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 160(1-3):235. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.06.018.

  85. Lanius R, Frewen P, Tursich M & McKinnon, M.C. (2015). Restoring large-scale brain networks in PTSD and related disorders: A proposal for neuroscientifically-based treatment interventions. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 6(1):27313. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v6.27313. eCollection 2015.

  86. Oremus C, Oremus M, McNeely HM, Losier B, Parlar M, Hasey G, Hall GBC, King M, ECT & Cognition Systematic Review Team, Lanius R, & McKinnon, M.C. (2015). Effects of electroconvulsive therapy on cognitive functioning in patients with depression: Protocol for a systematic review and meta–analysis. BMJ: Open, 5(3):e006966. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006966.

  87. Nicholson A, Densmore M, Frewen P, Théberge J, Neufeld RWJ, McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius R. (2015). The dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder: Unique resting-state functional connectivity of basolateral and centromedial amygdala complexes. Neuropsychopharmacolog, 40(10), 2317-2326. Epub 2015 Mar 19

  88. Nazarov A, Jetly R, McNeely H, Kiang M, Lanius R, McKinnon, M.C. (2015). Role of morality in the experience of guilt and shame within the armed forces. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2015 Jul;132(1):4-19. doi: 10.1111/acps.12406. Epub 2015 Mar 3. Review.

  89. MacDougall AG, McKinnon, M.C., Herdman KA, King MJ, Kiang M. (2015). The relationship between insight and autobiographical memory for emotional events in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res. 2015 Mar 30;226(1):392-5. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.12.058. Epub 2015 Jan 14.

  90. Nazarov A, Frewen P, Oremus C, Schellenberg G, McKinnon,* M.C., & Lanius* R. (2014). Comprehension of affective prosody in women with posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 131(5):342–349. doi: 10.1111/acps.12364. Epub 2014. * Shared senior authorship

  91. McKinnon, M.C., Palombo D, Nazarov A, Kumar N, Khuu W, & Levine B (2015). Threat of death and autobiographical memory: A study of the passengers of Flight AT236. Clinical Psychological Science, 3(4):487-502.

  92. Parlar M, Frewen P, Nazarov A, Oremus C, MacQueen G, Lanius R*, McKinnon, M. C.* (2014). Alterations in empathic responding among women with posttraumatic stress disorder associated with childhood trauma. Brain Behavior, 4(3):381-389. doi: 10.1002/brb3.215. Epub 2014. * Shared senior authorship

  93. Guo Q, Parlar M, Truong W, Hall GBC, Thabane L, McKinnon, M.C., Goeree R, & Pullenayegum E (2014). The reporting of observational clinical functional magnetic resonance imaging studies: A systematic review. PLoS One, 9(4):e94412. doi: 10.1371/ journal.pone.0094412. eCollection 2014.

  94. Guo Q, Thabane L, Hall GBC, McKinnon, M.C., Goeree R, & Pullenayegum E (2014). A systematic review of the reporting of sample size calculations and corresponding data components in observational functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. NeuroImage, 86, 172-181.

  95. Nazarov A, Frewen P, Parlar M, Oremus C, MacQueen G, & McKinnon,* M.C., Lanius* R (2014). Theory of mind performance in women with posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 129(3):193-201. *Shared senior authorship

  96. Meusel LA, Hall GB, Fougere P, McKinnon, M.C., MacQueen GM. (2013). Neural correlates of cognitive remediation in patients with mood disorders. Psychiatry Research; 214(2):142-52. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.06.007. Epub 2013.

  97. Cusi A, Nazarov A, MacQueen GM, & McKinnon, M.C. (2013). Theory of mind deficits in patients with mild symptoms of major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 210(2):672-674. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.06.018. Epub 2013

  98. McKinnon, M.C., Cusi A, & MacQueen G (2013). Psychological factors that may confer risk for bipolar disorder. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 18(1-2):115-128. Epub 2012.

  99. King MJ, MacDougall A, Ferris S, Herdman K, Bielak T, Smith J, Abid MA, McKinnon, M.C. (2013). Impaired episodic memory for events encoded during manic but not depressed or euthymic mood states in bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Research, 205(3):213-219. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.08.005. Epub 2012.

  100. Meusel LA, Macqueen GM, Jaswal G, McKinnon, M.C. (2012). Youth are more vulnerable to false memories than middle-aged adults due to liberal response bias. J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 21(4):289-295.

  101. Cusi A, & MacQueen GM, & McKinnon, M.C. (2012). Patients with bipolar disorder show impaired performance on complex tests of theory of mind. Psychiatry Research, 200(2-3):258-264. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.06.021.

  102. Oremus M, Oremus C, Hall G, McKinnon, M.C., & ECT and Cognition Systematic Review Team (2012). Inter-rater and test-retest reliability of quality assessments by novice student raters using the Jadad and Newcastle-Ottawa scales. British Medical Journal Open, 2, e001368.

  103. Guo Q, Hall G, McKinnon, M.C., Thabane L, & Pullenayegum E (2012). Setting sample size in fMRI studies using cost efficiency. Open Access Medical Statistics, 2, 33-41.

  104. Cusi A, Nazarov A, Holhausen K, MacQueen GM, & McKinnon, M.C. (2012). A systematic review of the neural basis of social cognition in patients with mood disorders.  Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 37, 154-169.  

  105. Hassel S, McKinnon, M.C., Cusi A, & MacQueen G (2011). An overview of psychological and neurobiological mechanisms by which early negative experiences increase risk of mood disorders. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 20, 277-288.

  106. King M, Williams LA, MacDougall AG, Ferris S, Smith J, & McKinnon, M.C. (2011). Episodic simulation of future events is impaired in patients with bipolar disorder. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 1801-1807.

  107. King M, MacDougall AG, Ferris S, Herdman K, & McKinnon, M.C. (2011). Episodic simulation of future events is impaired in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 187, 465-467.

  108. Cusi A, MacQueen GM, Spreng RN, & McKinnon, M.C. (2011). Altered empathic responding in patients with major depressive disorder: Relation to symptom severity and psychosocial outcome. Psychiatry Research, 188, 231-236.

  109. Daniels J, Frewen P, McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius R (2011). Default mode alterations in PTSD related to early life trauma: A developmental perspective. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 36, 56-59.

  110. McKinnon, M.C., Cusi A, & MacQueen G (2010). Psychological factors that confer risk for bipolar disorder. Minerva Psichiatrica, 51, 281-291.

  111. King M, MacDougall A, Ferris S, Levine B, MacQueen G, & McKinnon, M.C. (2010). A review of factors that moderate autobiographical memory performance in patients with major depressive disorder. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 9, 1-23.

  112. Cusi A, & MacQueen GM, & McKinnon, M.C. (2010). Altered self-report of empathic responding in patients with recurrent bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Research, 178, 354-58.

  113. Taylor V, McKinnon, M.C., Macdonald K, Jaswal G, & MacQueen GM (2010). Adults with mood disorders have an increased risk profile for cardiovascular disease within the first two years of follow up. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 55, 362-8.

  114. McKinnon, M.C., Cusi A, & MacQueen GM (2010). Theory of mind impairments in patients with bipolar disorder: Moderating effects of cognitive load. Psychiatry Research, 177,261-2.

  115. Yucel K, McKinnon, M.C., Chahal R, Taylor VH, Macdonald K, Joffe R, & MacQueen GM (2009). Increased subgenual prefrontal cortex size in remitted patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 173, 71-6.

  116. Spreng* RN, McKinnon,* M.C., Mar RA, & Levine B (2009). The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91, 62-71.
    *Both authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript.

  117. McKinnon MC, Yucel K, Nazarov A, & MacQueen G (2009). A meta-analysis examining clinical predictors of hippocampal volume in patients with major depressive disorder. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 4, 41-54. 

  118. Yucel K, McKinnon, M.C., Chahal R, Taylor VH, Macdonald K, Joffe R, & MacQueen GM (2008). Anterior cingulate volume in first-episode patients with major depressive disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology, 33, 3157-3163.

  119. Taylor V, Macdonald K, McKinnon, M.C., Joffe R, & MacQueen GM (2008). Rates of obesity in a never treated population with mood disorders: baseline incidence and change over four years of follow up. Journal of Affective Disorders, 109, 127-131.

  120. McKinnon, M.C., Nica EI, Sengdy P, Kovacevic N, Moscovitch M, Freedman M, Miller BL, Black SE, & Levine B (2008). Autobiographical memory in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and its relation to patterns of brain atrophy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1839-53.

  121. Yucel K, Taylor VH, McKinnon, M.C., Macdonald K, Alda M, Young LT, & MacQueen GM (2008). Bilateral hippocampal volume increase in patients with bipolar disorder and short-term lithium treatment. Neuropsychophamacology, 33, 361-367.

  122. Yucel K, McKinnon, M.C., Taylor VH, Macdonald K, Alda M, Young LT, MacQueen GM (2007). Bilateral hippocampal volume increase in patients with bipolar disorder after long-term lithium treatment: a longitudinal MRI study. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 195, 357-367.

  123. Elgamal* S, McKinnon,* M.C., Ramakrishnan K, Young LT, Joffe RT, MacQueen GM (2007). Successful computer-assisted cognitive remediation therapy in patients with unipolar depression: A proof of principle study. Psychological Medicine, 37, 1229-1238. *Both authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript.

  124. McKinnon, M.C., & Moscovitch M (2007). Domain-general contributions to social reasoning: Theory of mind and deontic reasoning re-explored. Cognition, 102, 179-218.

  125. Svoboda E, McKinnon, M.C., & Levine B (2006). The functional neuroanatomy of autobiographical memory: a meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 44(12). 2189-2208.

  126. McKinnon, M.C., Miller B, Black S, Moscovitch M, & Levine B (2006). Autobiographical memory in semantic dementia: Implications for theories of limbic-neocortical interactions in remote memory. Neuropsychologia, 44(12), 2421-2429.

  127. Rosenbaum RS, McKinnon, M.C., Levine B & Moscovitch M (2004). Visual imagery deficits, impaired strategic retrieval or memory loss: Disentangling the nature of an amnesic person’s autobiographical memory deficit. Neuropsychologia, 42(12), 1619-1635.

  128. Schellenberg EG, Adachi M, Purdy KT, & McKinnon, M.C. (2002). Expectancy in melody: Tests of adults and children. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(4), 511-537. 

  129. Schellenberg EG, Iverson P, & McKinnon, M.C. (1999). Name that tune. Identifying popular recordings from brief excerpts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 641-646.

  130. McKinnon, M.C., & Schellenberg EG (1997). A left-ear advantage for forced-choice judgements of melodic contour. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51, 171-175.

Accepted/In Press

  1. Terpou, B.A., Lloyd, C.S., Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C., Theberge, J., Neufeld, R.W., Jetly, R., & Lanius, R.A. (in press).  Moral wounds run deep: Exaggerated midbrain functional connectivity across the Default Mode Network in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  Journal of Psychiatry and Behavoioural Neurosciences.

  2. Siegel, M., Wolf, J., Narikuzhy, S., Roth, S., Hatchard, S., Schneider, M., Llyod, C., Lanius, R.,  McKinnon, M.C., Heber, A.,  Smith, P., Lueger-Schuster, B. & Nicholson, A. A systematic review of the neural correlates of minority stress: Towards a minority mosaic framework with implications for mental health risk and resilience. (in press). Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

  3. Roth, S., Andrews, K., Protopopescu, A., Llyod, C., Lanius, R.A., Losier, B., &  McKinnon, M.C. (in press).  Measuring risk across the lifespan: Pathways among ACEs, moral injury, and trauma-related pathologies in North American Public Safety Personnel. Childhood Abuse and Neglect.

Submitted

  1. Easterbrook, B., Brown, A., Millman, H., Van Blyderveen, S., Lanius, R., *McKinnon, M.C., *O'Connor, C. (under revision). The Mental Health experience of treatment-seeking military members and public safety personnel: A qualitative investigation of trauma and non-trauma related concerns. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health.

  2. Patel, H., Andrews, K., Roth, S., O’Connor, C., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (under revision).  Dissociative symptoms moderate the relation between PTSD and alcohol-related problems among a sample of treatment-seeking individuals. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

  3. Ricciardelli, R., Andres, E., Mitchell, M.M., Quirion, B., Groll, D., Adorjan, M., Siqueira Cassiano, M., Shewmake, J., Herzog-Evans, M., Moran, D., Spencer, D., Genest, C., Czarnuch, S., Gacek, J., Cramm, H., Maier, K., Phoenix, J., Weinrath, M., MacDermid, J.C., McKinnon, M.C., Haynes, S.H., Arnold, H., Turner, J., Eriksson, A., Heber, A., Anderson, G.S., MacPhee, R., & Carleton, R.N. (under revision).  CCWORK Protocol: A Longitudinal Study of Canadian Correctional Workers’ Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge

  4. Millman, H., Andrews, K., Harricharan, S., Sanger, B., Beech, I., Goegan, S., O’Connor, C., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M.C. (under revision).  Participant feedback from a telemedicine implementation of Goal Management Training among public safety personnel with PTSD during the COVID-19 pandemic. Perspectives in Public Health.

  5. D’Alessandro, D., Ritchie, K., McCabe, R. E., Lanius, R.A., Heber, A., Smith, P., Malain, A., Schielke, H., O’Connor, C., Hosseiny, F., Rodrigues, S., & McKinnon, M.C. (under revision).  Healthcare workers and COVID-19-related moral injury: An interpersonally-focused approach informed by PTSD.  Frontiers in Psychiatry

  6. Goegan, S., Hall, G.B.C., King, J., Milliken, B., McKinnon, M.C., & McNeely, H. (submitted).  Cognitive remediation in neuropsychiatric illness: Theoretical foundations, review of evidence and methodological considerations.  Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience.

  7. Mizzi, A., Rabellino, D. R., Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C., Lanius, R. A. (Under review). The impact of trauma memory recall on postural sway in posttraumatic stress disorder: A case report. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

  8. Mizzi, A., McKinnon, M.C., Becker, S. (submitted). The impact of aerobic exercise on depressive symptoms in trauma-exposed young adults. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience.

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