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Trainees are highlighted (*: co-first authors).

In Progress

Sekhon, J., Forst, E., & Fujiwara, E. From biological sex to immune health: Gendered psychosocial pathways through mental health distress. (submitted)

Xu, L., Gill, M., Kaur Ahluwalia, R., Power, C., Prasad, S., Ghofrani-Jahromi, Z., & Fujiwara, E. Role of gender in health outcomes in persons with HIV. (submitted)

Accepted

Dwivedi, R.*, Jallad, Y.*, & Fujiwara, E. Beyond minority identity? Gender-related stressors and health disparities across sexual and gender minority subgroups. (accepted) Journal of Health Psychology.

Published

Chen, X., Abdi, P., Bangit, P.R., Hibbard, K., Bosonea, A.M., Chow, E.Y., Salopek, T., Gorman, C.P., Wong, S.M., Jia, L., Veillette, H., Zhang, Y., Fujiwara, E., & Dytoc, M. (2026). Construct validation of the Mind-Skin Health Index (MSHI) in dermatology. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/12034754261470749

Seo, J., Dwivedi, R., Hoang, K.N., Selvitella, A., & Fujiwara, E. (2025). Attentional dynamics during emotional face processing differentiate alexithymia from mood and affective symptoms. Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.70027

Rosen, C., Gill, M.J., Fujiwara, E., Krentz, H., Kamaliddin, C., Zhou, H., McMillan, J., Beckthold, B., & Lang, R. (2025). Changing prevalence and risk factors for Toxoplasma gondii seropositivity and disease in persons with HIV at the Southern Alberta Clinic since 1985. HIV Medicine, 26(11), 1646–1656. https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.70093

Xu, L., Al-Shamali, H., Turk, T., Campbell, S.M., & Fujiwara, E. (2025). Associations between depressive symptoms and memory functions in persons with HIV: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-025-09665-7

Xu, L., Youngson, E., Lin, M., Dwivedi, R., & Fujiwara, E. (2025). Hospital-based healthcare service utilization in persons with HIV with or without mental health and substance use comorbidities. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 100(2), 97–104. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000003716

Jallad, Y., Abdel-sayyed, A., Turk, T., Hoang, K.N., Xu, L., & Fujiwara, E. (2025). Gender predictors of adverse health. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053251341188

Ogando, N.S., Elaish, M., Mahabadi, H.M., Langdon, K.D., Das, S.K., Joseph, J.T., Fujiwara, E., Holt, A., Kaur, K., Branton, W., Gheblawi, M., Lacey, P., Oudit, G.Y., Hobman, T.C., Lam, G., & Power, C. (2025). Immunometabolism perturbations in post-COVID-19 condition: Interleukin-6 and monoamine oxidase interactions drive neuropsychiatric syndromes. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 118, 12–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.07.002

Abdel-Sayyed, A.*, Hoang, K.N.*, Turk, T., Xu, L., & Fujiwara, E. (2025). Validating the Stanford Gender-Related Variables for Health Research (SGVHR) in a Canadian population. Journal of Health Psychology, 30(7), 1460–1475. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053241247376

Hoang, K.N., Huang, Y., Fujiwara, E., & Malykhin, N. (2024). Effects of healthy aging and mnemonic strategies on verbal memory performance across the adult lifespan: Mediating role of posterior hippocampus. Hippocampus, 34(2), 100–122. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23592

Malykhin, N., Pietrasik, W., Aghamohammadi-Sereshki, A., Hoang, K.N., Fujiwara, E., & Olsen, F. (2023). Emotional recognition across the adult lifespan: Effects of age, sex, cognitive empathy, alexithymia traits, and amygdala subnuclei volumes. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 101(3), 367–383. https://doi.org/10.1002/jnr.25152

Turk, T., Liu, C., Fujiwara, E., Straube, S., Hagtvedt, R., Dennett, L., Abba-Aji, A., & Dytoc, M. (2023). Pharmacological interventions for primary psychodermatologic disorders: an evidence mapping and appraisal of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 27(2), 140–149. https://doi.org/10.1177/12034754231155888

Xu, L., Gill, M.J., Power, C., & Fujiwara, E. (2023). Verbal memory performance and depressive symptoms in persons with treated HIV. AIDS and Behavior, 27(9), 2823–2833. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-023-04006-2

Loprinzi, P., Olafson, D., Scavuzzo, C., Lovorn, A., Mather, M., Frith, E., & Fujiwara, E. (2022). Effects of acute exercise on emotional memory. Cognition and Emotion, 36(4), 660–689. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2050890

Turk, T., Liu, C., Straube, S., Dytoc, M., Hagtvedt, R., Dennett, L., Abba-Aji, A., & Fujiwara, E. (2022). The global prevalence of primary psychodermatologic disorders: a systematic review. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 36(12), 2267–2278. https://doi.org/10.1111/jdv.18478

Aparicio, J.M., Xu, Y., Li, Y., Colantuoni, C., Dastgheyb, R., Williams, D.W., Asahchop, E.L., McMillian, J.M., Power, C., & Fujiwara, E. (2021). Plasma microRNAs are associated with domain-specific cognitive function in people with HIV. AIDS, 35(11), 1795–1804. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002966

Budd, A.S., Krentz, H.B., Rubin, L.H., Power, C., Gill, M.J., & Fujiwara, E. (2021). Long-term consequences of interpersonal violence experiences on treatment engagement and health status in people living with HIV. AIDS, 35(5), 801–809. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002798

Chenji, S., Ishaque, A., Mah, D., Fujiwara, E., Beaulieu, C., Seres, P., Graham, S.J., Frayne, R., Zinman, L., & Genge, A. (2021). Neuroanatomical associations of the Edinburgh cognitive and behavioural ALS screen (ECAS). Brain Imaging and Behavior, 15, 1641–1654. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-020-00359-7

Fujiwara, E., Madan, C.R., Caplan, J.B., & Sommer, T. (2021). Emotional arousal impairs association memory: Roles of prefrontal cortex regions. Learning & Memory, 28(3), 76–81. https://doi.org/10.1101/LM.052480.120

Guo, H., Baker, G., Hartle, K., Fujiwara, E., Wang, J., Zhang, Y., Xing, J., Lyu, H., Li, X.-M., & Chen, J. (2021). Exploratory study on neurochemical effects of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound in brains of mice. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 59, 1099–1110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-021-02351-9

McMillan, J.M., Gill, M.J., Power, C., Fujiwara, E., Hogan, D.B., & Rubin, L.H. (2021). Construct and criterion-related validity of the Clinical Frailty Scale in persons with HIV. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 88(1), 110–116. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000002736

Orzylowski, M., Fujiwara, E., Mousseau, D.D., & Baker, G.B. (2021). An overview of the involvement of d-serine in cognitive impairment in normal aging and dementia. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 754032. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.754032

Tu, W., Johnson, E., Fujiwara, E., Gill, M.J., Kong, L., & Power, C. (2021). Predictive variables for peripheral neuropathy in treated HIV type 1 infection revealed by machine learning. AIDS, 35(11), 1785–1793. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002955

Turk, T., Dytoc, M., Youngson, E., Abba-Aji, A., Mathura, P., & Fujiwara, E. (2021). Estimated frequency of psychodermatologic conditions in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 25(1), 30–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/1203475420952424

Turk, T., Fujiwara, E., Abba-Aji, A., Mathura, P., & Dytoc, M. (2021). Psychodermatology in Canada: a national survey assessment of dermatologists' perception, practice patterns, and challenges. Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 25(3), 249–256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1203475420977473

Amusan, P., Power, C., Gill, M.J., Gomez, D., Johnson, E., Rubin, L.H., & Fujiwara, E. (2020). Lifetime antiretroviral exposure and neurocognitive impairment in HIV. Journal of NeuroVirology, 26, 743–753. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13365-020-00870-z

Malykhin, N.V., Travis, S., Fujiwara, E., Huang, Y., Camicioli, R., & Olsen, F. (2020). The associations of the BDNF and APOE polymorphisms, hippocampal subfield volumes, and episodic memory performance across the lifespan. Hippocampus, 30(10), 1081–1097. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23217

McMillan, J.M., Gill, M.J., Power, C., Fujiwara, E., Hogan, D.B., & Rubin, L.H. (2020). Comorbidities in older persons with controlled HIV infection: Correlations with frailty index subtypes. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 34(7), 284–294. https://doi.org/10.1089/apc.2020.0051

Tu, W., Chen, P.A., Koenig, N., Gomez, D., Fujiwara, E., Gill, M.J., Kong, L., & Power, C. (2020). Machine learning models reveal neurocognitive impairment type and prevalence are associated with distinct variables in HIV/AIDS. Journal of NeuroVirology, 26, 41–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13365-019-00791-6

Caplan, J.B., Sommer, T., Madan, C.R., & Fujiwara, E. (2019). Reduced associative memory for negative information: Impact of confidence and interactive imagery during study. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 1745–1753. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1602028

Chakravarty, S., Fujiwara, E., Madan, C.R., Tomlinson, S.E., Ober, I., & Caplan, J.B. (2019). Value bias of verbal memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 25–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.03.005

Gomez, D., Power, C., Gill, M.J., Koenig, N., Vega, R., & Fujiwara, E. (2019). Empiric neurocognitive performance profile discovery and interpretation in HIV infection. Journal of NeuroVirology, 25, 72–84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13365-018-0685-6

Fujiwara, E. (2018). Looking at the eyes interferes with facial emotion recognition in alexithymia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 127(6), 571–577. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000361

Tymchuk, S., Gomez, D., Koenig, N., Gill, M.J., Fujiwara, E., & Power, C. (2018). Associations between depressive symptomatology and neurocognitive impairment in HIV/AIDS. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 63(5), 329–336. https://doi.org/10.1177/0706743717737029

Fujiwara, E., Kube, V.L., Rochman, D., Macrae-Korobkov, A.K., & Peynenburg, V. (2017). Visual attention to ambiguous emotional faces in eating disorders: role of alexithymia. European Eating Disorders Review, 25(6), 451–460. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2535

Madan, C.R.*, Fujiwara, E.*, Caplan, J.B., & Sommer, T. (2017). Emotional arousal impairs association-memory: Roles of amygdala and hippocampus. NeuroImage, 156, 14–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.065

Gomez, D., Power, C., Gill, M.J., & Fujiwara, E. (2017). Determinants of risk-taking in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). Neuropsychology, 31(7), 798–810. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000366

Fujiwara, E., Kmech, J., Cobzas, D., Sun, H., Seres, P., Blevins, G., & Wilman, A.H. (2017). Cognitive implications of deep gray matter iron in multiple sclerosis. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 38, 942–948. https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5109

Asahchop, E.L., Akinwumi, S.M., Branton, W.G., Fujiwara, E., Gill, J.M., & Power, C. (2016). Plasma microRNA profiling predicts HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder. AIDS, 30, 2021–2031. https://doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000001160

Travis, S.G., Coupland, N.J., Hegadoren, K., Silverstone, P.H., Huang, Y., Carter, R., Fujiwara, E., Seres, P., & Malykhin, N.V. (2016). Effects of cortisol on hippocampal subfields volumes and memory performance in healthy control subjects and patients with major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 201, 34–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.04.049

Koenig, N., Fujiwara, E., Gill, M.J., & Power, C. (2016). Montreal Cognitive Assessment performance in HIV/AIDS: impact of systemic factors. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 43, 157–162. https://doi.org/10.1017/cjn.2015.306

Fujiwara, E., Tomlinson, S.E., Purdon, S.E., Gill, J.M., & Power, C. (2015). Decision making under explicit risk is impaired in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 37, 733–750. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2015.1057481

Radomski, A.D., Power, C., Purdon, S.E., Emery, D.J., Blevins, G., Warren, K.G., & Fujiwara, E. (2015). Decision-making under explicit risk is impaired in multiple sclerosis: relationships with ventricular width and disease disability. BMC Neurology, 15, 61. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-015-0318-0

Travis, S.G., Coupland, N.J., Silverstone, P.H., Huang, Y., Fujiwara, E., Carter, R., Seres, P., & Malykhin, N.V. (2014). Dentate gyrus volume and memory performance in major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 172, 159–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2014.09.048

Travis, S.G., Huang, Y., Fujiwara, E., Radomski, A., Olsen, F., Carter, R., Seres, P., & Malykhin, N.V. (2014). High field structural MRI reveals specific episodic memory correlates in the subfields of the hippocampus. Neuropsychologia, 53, 233–245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.11.016

Joyce, A.S., Stovel, L.E., Ogrodniczuk, J.S., & Fujiwara, E. (2013). Defense style as a predictor of change in interpersonal problems among patients attending day treatment for personality disorder. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 41, 597–617. https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2013.41.4.597

Alston, L.L., Kratchmer, C., Jeznach, A., Bartlett, N.B., Davidson, P.S.R., & Fujiwara, E. (2013). Self-serving episodic memory biases: Findings in the repressive coping style. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 117. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00117

Joyce, A.S., Fujiwara, E., Cristall, M., Ruddy, C., & Ogrodniczuk, J.S. (2013). Clinical correlates of alexithymia among patients with personality disorder. Psychotherapy Research, 23(6), 690–704. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2013.803628

Arndt, J.E., Hoglund, W.L.G., & Fujiwara, E. (2013). Desirable responding mediates the relationship between emotion regulation and anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 147–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.02.022

Madan, C.R., Fujiwara, E., Gerson, B.C., & Caplan, J.B. (2012). High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, 61. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2012.00061

Brown, M.R.G., Lebel, R.M., Dolcos, F., Wilman, A.H., Silverstone, P.H., Pazderka, H., Fujiwara, E., Wild, T.C., Carroll, A.M., Hodlevskyy, O., Zedkova, L., Zwaigenbaum, L., Thompson, A.H., Greenshaw, A.J., & Dursun, S.M. (2012). Effects of emotional impact on emotional control. NeuroImage, 63, 434–446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.056

Madan, C.R., Lau, C.S.M., Caplan, J.B., & Fujiwara, E. (2012). Emotion does not enhance association-memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 695–717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2012.04.001

Arndt, J.E., & Fujiwara, E. (2012). Attentional bias towards angry faces in trait-reappraisers. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 61–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.08.030

Borsutzky, S., Fujiwara, E., Brand, M., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2010). Susceptibility to false memories in patients with ACoA aneurysm. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2811–2823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.023

Brand, M., Eggers, C., Reinhold, N., Fujiwara, E., Kessler, J., Heiss, W.D., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2009). Functional brain imaging in fourteen patients with dissociative amnesia reveals right inferolateral prefrontal hypometabolism. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 174, 32–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.03.008

Borsutzky, S., Fujiwara, E., Brand, M., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2008). Confabulations in alcoholic Korsakoff patients. Neuropsychologia, 46, 3133–3143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.07.005

Fujiwara, E., Brand, M., Kracht, L., Kessler, J., Diebel, A., Netz, J., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2008). Functional retrograde amnesia: A multiple case study. Cortex, 44, 29–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2005.09.001

Fujiwara, E., Brand, M., Borsutzky, S., Steingass, H.-P., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2008). Cognitive performance of detoxified alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome patients remains stable over two years. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 30, 576–587. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803390701557271

Fujiwara, E., Levine, B., & Anderson, A.K. (2008). Intact implicit and reduced explicit memory for negative self-related information in repressive coping. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 254–263. https://doi.org/10.3758/CABN.8.3.254

Fujiwara, E., Schwartz, M.D., Gao, F., Black, S.E., & Levine, B. (2008). Ventral frontal cortex functions and quantified MRI in traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychologia, 46, 461–474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.08.027

Levine, B., Fujiwara, E., O'Connor, C., Richard, N., Kovacevic, N., Mandic, M., Restagno, A., Easdon, C., Robertson, I.H., Graham, S.J., Cheung, G., Gao, F., Schwartz, M.L., & Black, S.E. (2006). In vivo characterization of traumatic brain injury neuropathology with structural and functional neuroimaging. Journal of Neurotrauma, 23, 1396–1411. https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2006.23.1396

Brand, M., Fujiwara, E., Borsutzky, S., Kalbe, E., Kessler, J., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2005). Decision-making deficits of Korsakoff patients in a new gambling task with explicit rules – associations with executive functions. Neuropsychology, 19, 267–277. https://doi.org/10.1037/0894-4105.19.3.267

Brand, M., Kalbe, E., Labudda, K., Fujiwara, E., Kessler, J., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2005). Decision-making impairments in patients with pathological gambling. Psychiatry Research, 133, 91–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2004.10.003

Wolf, O.T., Fujiwara, E., Luwinski, G., Kirschbaum, C., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2005). No morning cortisol response in patients with severe global amnesia. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30, 101–105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2004.05.001

Brand, M., Fujiwara, E., Kalbe, E., Steingass, H.-P., Kessler, J., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2003). Cognitive estimation and affective judgments in alcoholic Korsakoff patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 25, 324–334. https://doi.org/10.1076/jcen.25.3.324.13802

Brand, M., Kalbe, E., Fujiwara, E., Huber, M., & Markowitsch, H.J. (2003). Cognitive estimation in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease and alcoholic Korsakoff patients. Neuropsychologia, 41, 575–584. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00183-5

Fast, K., & Fujiwara, E. (2001). Isolated retrograde amnesia. Neurocase, 7, 269–282. https://doi.org/10.1093/neucas/7.4.269

Borsutzky, S., Brand, M., & Fujiwara, E. (2000). Basal forebrain amnesia. Neurocase, 6, 377–391. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554790008402709