Recent publications
2024
Cherkasova MV, Clark L, Barton JJS, Stoessl AJ, Winstanley CA. Risk-promoting effects of reward-paired cues in human sign- and goal-trackers. Behavioral Brain Research, 2024, 461: 114865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2024.114865
2023
Muksuris K, Scarisbrick D, Mahoney JJ,III, Cherkasova MV. Noninvasive neuromodulation in Parkinson’s disease: insights from animal models. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023, 12(17): 5448. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12175448
2022
Kim, A. J., Murch, W. S., Limbrick-Oldfield, E. H., Ferrari, M. A., MacDonald, K. I., Fooken, J., Cherkasova, M.V., Spering, M., Clark, L. Do pupillary responses during authentic slot machine use reflect arousal or screen luminance fluctuations? A proof-of-concept study. PLoS One, 2022, 17(7):e0272070. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272070
Cherkasova M.V, Hechtman L, Weiss G, Roy A, Klein R, Barkley R, Fischer M, Molina B, Pelham W, Biederman J, Uchida M, Hinshaw S, Owens E. Adult outcome as seen through controlled prospective follow-up studies of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder followed into adulthood. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2022, 61(3): 378-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2021.05.019
Cherkasova MV, Fu J, Tam R, Rauscher A, Kolind S, Sossi V, Traboulsee A, Stoessl AJ. Brain morphology predicts long-term placebo response in multiple sclerosis patients. Scientific Reports, 2022, 12(1): 732. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04462-7
2021
Limbrick-Oldfield EH, Cherkasova MV, Kennedy D, Caylee-Britt Goshko, Dale Griffin, Jason JS Barton, Luke Clark. Gambling disorder is associated with reduced sensitivity to expected value during risky choice. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2021, 9 (4), 1044-1055. https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/9/4/article-p1044.xml
Bevington CWJ, Cheng JC, Klyuzhin IS, Cherkasova MV, Winstanley CA, Sossi V. A Monte Carlo approach for improving transient dopamine release detection sensitivity. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2021, 41 (1), 116-131. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0271678X20905613 .
2020
Murch WS, Limbrick-Oldfield EH, Ferrari MA, MacDonald KI, Fooken J, Cherkasova MV, Spering M, Clark L. Zoned In or Zoned Out? Using Mobile Eye Tracking to Probe Immersion in Slot Machine Gambling. Addiction, 2020, 115(6):1127-1138. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/add.14899 .
Cherkasova MV, French LR, Syer C, Cousins L, Galina H, Hechtman L. Efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy with and without medication for adults with ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders, 2020, 24(6):889-903. DOI: 10.1177/1087054716671197.
2019
Cherkasova MV†, Corrow JC†, Taylor A, Yeng SC*, Stubbs JL, Stoessl AJ, McKeown M, Appel-Creswell S, Barton JJS. Decision making under risk and uncertainty in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 2019, 66: 189-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2019.08.014
2018
Cherkasova MV, Clark L, Barton JJS, Schulzer M, Shafiee M, Kingstone A, Stoessl AJ, Winstanley CA. Win-concurrent sensory cues can promote riskier choice. Journal of Neuroscience 2018, 38(48):10362–10370. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1171-18.2018.
Krupnik V, Cherkasova MV. Pragmatic Case Study in Psychotherapy: Strategic Symptom Displacement in Therapy of a Motor Conversion Disorder Comorbid with PTSD: Case Presentation. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 2018, first online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10879-018-9408-9.
Sacheli MA, Murray DK, Vafai N, Cherkasova MV, Dinelle K, Shahinfard E, Neilson N, McKenzie J, Appel-Cresswell S, McKeown MJ, Schulzer M, Sossi V, Stoessl AJ. Habitual exercisers vs. sedentary subjects with Parkinson’s disease: Multimodal PET and fMRI study. Movement Disorders 2018, first online: https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.27498.
Liu SY, Wile DJ, Fu J, Valerio J, Shahinfard E, McCormick S, Mabrouk R, Vafai N, McKenzie J, Neilson N, Perez-Soriano A, Arena JE, Cherkasova M, Chan P, Zhang J, Zabetian CP, Aasly J, Wszolek ZK, McKeown MJ, Adam MJ, Ruth TJ, Schulzer M, Sossi V, Stoessl AAJ. The effect of LRRK2 mutations on the cholinergic system in manifest and premanifest stages of Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional PET study. Lancet Neurology, 2018, 17(4):309-316. DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30032-2.
2017
Cherkasova MV, Faridi N, Casey KF, Larcher K, O’Driscoll GA, Hechtman L, Joober R, Baker GB, Palmer J, Evans AC, Dagher A, Benkelfat C, Leyton M. Differential associations between cortical thickness and striatal dopamine in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD versus healthy controls. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017, 11:421. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00421.
Jaworska N, Cox SM, Casey KF, Boileau I, Cherkasova MV, Larcher K, Dagher A, Benkelfat C, Leyton M. Is there a relation between novelty seeking, striatal dopamine release and frontal cortical thickness? PloS ONE, 2017, 12(3):e0174219. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174219
2013-2016
Barrus MM, Cherkasova M, Winstanley CA. Skewed by cues? The motivational role of audiovisual stimuli in modelling substance use and gambling disorders. Current Topics in Behavioural Neurosciences, 2015, 27:507-529. DOI: 10.1007/7854_2015_393.
Cherkasova MV, Stoessl AJ. A brain network response to sham surgery. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2014; 124(8):3285-8. DOI: 10.1172/JCI77193.
Cherkasova MV, Faridi N, Casey KF, O’Driscoll GA, Hechtman L, Joober R, Baker GB, Plamer J, Dagher A, Leyton M, Benkelfat C. Amphetamine-induced dopamine release and neurocognitive function in treatment-naïve adults with ADHD. Neuropsychopharmacology 2014; 39(6):1498-507. DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.349.
Krupnik V, Cherkasova MV. Size matters: stature is related to diagnoses of depression in young military men. SAGE Open 2014; 4(3):1-9. DOI: 10.1177/2158244014542783 .
Casey KF, Benkelfat C, Cherkasova MV, Baker GB, Dagher A, Leyton M. Reduced dopamine response to amphetamine in subjects at ultra-high risk for addiction. Biological Psychiatry 2014; 76(1):23-30. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.08.033.
Casey KF, Cherkasova MV, Larcher K, Evans AC, Baker GB, Dagher A, Benkelfat C, Leyton M. Individual differences in frontal cortical thickness correlate with the d-amphetamine-induced striatal dopamine response in humans. Journal of Neuroscience 2013; 33: 15285-94. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5029-12.2013.