Associate Professor of Psychology and CHGD Research Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Area: Developmental

Contact Information

Email: csmonk@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 2000 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-615-9531

Research and Teaching Interests

Link to Doctor Christopher S. Monk's CV

In my research, I seek to identify the cognitive, neural and genetic processes that underlie the development of successful and impaired socio-emotional function. By integrating behavioral, brain-based and molecular genetic measures, I work to better understand the mechanisms that are involved in two disorders that severely compromise socio-emotional abilities: anxiety and autism.  

My teaching interests include developmental psychology and developmental neuroscience.
 

Representative Publications

• Swartz, J.R., Wiggins, J.L., Carrasco, M., Lord, C., & Monk, C.S. (in press). Amygdala habituation and prefrontal functional connectivity in youth with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Wiggins, J.L., Peltier, S.J., Bedoyan, J.K., Carrasco, M., Welsh, R.C., Martin, D.M., Lord, C., Monk, C.S. (in press). The impact of serotonin transporter genotype on default network connectivity in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Neuroimage: Clinical.
• Wiggins, JL, Bedoyan, JK, Carrasco, M, Swartz, JR, Martin, DM, Monk, CS. (in press). Age-related effect of serotonin transporter genotype on amygdala and prefrontal cortex function in adolescence. Human Brain Mapping.
• Wiggins, J.L., Bedoyan, J.K., Peltier, S.J., Ashinoff, S., Carrasco, M., Weng, S.J., Welsh, R.C., Martin, D.M., Monk, C.S. (2012). The impact of serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR) genotype on the development of resting-state functional connectivity in children and adolescents: A preliminary report. Neuroimage, 59, 2760-70.
• Weng, S.J., Carrasco, M., Swartz, J.R., Wiggins, J.L., Kurapati, N., Liberzon, I., Risi, S., Lord, C., Monk, C.S. (in press). Neural activation to emotional faces in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

• Monk, C.S., Weng, S.J., Wiggins, J.L., Kurapati, N., Louro, H.M.C., Carrasco, M., Maslowsky, J., Risi, S., Lord, C. (2010). Neural circuitry of emotional face processing in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 35, 105-114.

• Maslowsky, J., Mogg, K., Bradley, B.P., McClure-Tone, E., Ernst, M., Pine, D.S., Monk, C.S. (2010). A preliminary investigation of neural correlates of treatment in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 20, 105-111.
   
• Weng, S.J., Wiggins, J.L., Peltier, S.J., Carrasco, M., Risi, S., Lord, C., Monk, C.S. (2010). Alterations of resting state functional connectivity in the default network in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Brain Research, 1313, 202-214.
   
• Monk, C.S., Peltier, S.J., Wiggins, J.L., Weng, S.J., Carrasco, M., Risi, S., & Lord, C. (2009). Abnormalities of Intrinsic Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders. NeuroImage, 47, 764-72.
   
• Monk, C.S. (2008). The development of emotion-related neural circuitry in health and psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 20, 1231-5.
   
• Monk, C.S., Telzer, E.H., Mogg, K. Bradley, B.P, Mai, X., Louro, H.M.C., Chen, G., McClure-Tone, E.B., Ernst, M., Pine, D.S. (2008). Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation to masked angry faces in children and adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65, 568-576..
   
• Monk, C.S., Klein, R.G., Telzer, E.H., Schroth, E.A., Mannuzza S., Moulton, J.L. III, Guardino, M., Masten, C.L., McClure, E.B., Fromm, S., Blair, R.J.R., Pine, D.S., & Ernst, M. (2008). Amygdala and nucleus accumbens activation to emotional facial expressions in adolescents at risk for major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry, 165, 90-98.
   
• Monk, C.S., Nelson, E.E., McClure, E.B., Mogg, K., Bradley, B.P., Leibenluft, E., Blair, R.J.R., Chen, G., Charney, D.S., Ernst, M., Pine, D.S. (2006). Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation and attention bias in response to angry faces in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163, 1091-97.
   
• Monk, C.S., Nelson, E.E., Woldehawariat, G., Montgomery, L.A., Zarahn, E., McClure, E.B., Guyer, A.E., Leibenluft, E., Charney, D.S., Ernst, M., Pine, D.S. (2004). Experience-dependent plasticity for attention to threat: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence in humans. Biological Psychiatry, 56, 607-610.
   
• Monk, C.S., McClure, E.B., Nelson, E. E., Zarahn, E., Bilder, R. M., Leibenluft, E., Charney, D.S., Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (2003). Adolescent immaturity in attention-related brain engagement to emotional facial expressions. NeuroImage, 20, 420-428.
   
• Monk, C.S, Grillon, C., Baas, J.M.P, McClure, E.B., Nelson, E.E., Zarahn, E., Charney, D.S., Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (2003). A neuroimaging method for the study of threat in adolescents. Developmental Psychobiology, 43, 359-366.

 

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