For the most up-to-date list of publications, please refer to Dr. Brush's Google Scholar. 

Refereed Journal Articles (in print or in press)

In Press

1. Kallen, A. M., Brush, C. J., Santopetro, N. J., Patrick, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (in press). The go/no-go P3 and depressive symptoms in adolescents: Trial-level change and mean amplitude relate differently to anhedonic versus negative mood symptoms. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

2. Burani, K., Brush, C. J., Eckel, L. A., & Hajcak, G. (in press). Acute stress-induced reductions in neural response to reward are related to acute stress-related increases in cortisol. Psychophysiology. 

3. Egan, C. A., Merica, C. B., Orendorff, K. L., & Brush, C. J. (in press). Movement, my favourite thing: Children's perceptions of movement integration in school. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education.  

4. Aguiar Bonfim Cruz, A. J., Kleinkopf, K., Brush, C. J., Irwin, G., Brooks, S. J., Schwartz, M. G., Candow, D. G., & Brown, A. F. (in press). Creatine improves total sleep duration following resistance training days versus non-resistance training days among naturally menstruating females. Nutrients.

2024

5. Thompson, B., Meynadasy, M. A., Hajcak, G., & Brush, C. J. (2024). Accelerometer-based and self-reported physical activity and sedentary time and their relationships with the P300 in a go/no-go task in older adults. Brain & Cognition, 178, 106168.

6. Brush, C. J., Keith, L. R., Santopetro, N. J., Burani, K., & Hajcak, G. (2024). Associations between physical activity, sedentary time, and neurocognitive function during adolescence: Evidence from accelerometry and the flanker P300. Progress in Brain Research, 286, 151-186.

7. Kao, S. C., Brush, C. J., & Wang, C. H. (2024). A multimodal approach integrating cognitive and motor demands into physical activity for optimal mental health. Progress in Brain Research, 286, 235-258.

8. Dell'Acqua, C., Messerotti Benvenuti, S., Cellini, N., Brush, C. J., Ruggerone, A., & Palomba, D. (2024). Familial risk for depression is associated with reduced physical activity in young adults: Evidence from a wrist-worn actigraphy study. Translational Psychiatry, 14(1), 219.

9. Amir, N., Holbrook, A., Kallen, A., Santopetro, N., Klawohn, J., McGhie, S., Bruchnak, A., Lowe, M., Taboas, W., Brush, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (2024). Multiple adaptive attention-bias modification programs to alter normative increase in the error-related negativity in adolescents. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(3), 447-467.

10. Dluzniewski, A., Casanova, M. P., Ullrich-French, S., Brush, C. J., Larkins, L. W., & Baker, R. T. (2024). Psychological readiness for injury recovery: Evaluating psychometric properties of the IPRRS and assessing group differences in injured physically active individuals. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 10(2), e001869.

2023

11. Bowyer, C. B., Brush, C. J., Patrick, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (in press). Effort and appetitive responding in depression: Examining deficits in motivational and consummatory stages of reward processing using the effort-doors task. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 3(4), 1073-1082.

12. Burani, K., Brush, C. J., Shields, G. S., Klein, D. N., Nelson, B., Slavich, G. M., & Hajcak, G. (in press). Cumulative lifetime acute stressor exposure interacts with reward responsiveness to predict longitudinal increases in depression severity in adolescence. Psychological Medicine, 53(10), 4507-4516.

13. Thompson, B., Santopetro, N. J., Brush, C. J., Foti, D., & Hajcak, G. (2023). Neural deficits in anticipatory and consummatory reward processing are uniquely associated with current depressive symptoms during adolescence. Psychophysiology, 60(7), e14257.

14. Santopetro, N. J., Brush, C. J., Mulligan, E. M., & Hajcak, G. (2023). Influences of age and pubertal development on P300 amplitude trajectory across two years in female adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101212.

15. Dell'Acqua, C., Hajcak, G., Amir, N., Santopetro, N. J., Brush, C. J., & Meyer, A. (2023). Error-related brain activity: A time-domain and time-frequency investigation in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychophysiology, 60(4), e14216.

16. Dell'Acqua, C., Hajcak, G., Amir, N., Santopetro, N. J., Brush, C. J., & Meyer, A. (2023). Error-related brain activity in pediatric major depressive disorder: An ERP and time-frequency investigation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 184, 100-109.

17. Burani, K., Brush, C. J., Spahr, C., Slavich, G. M., Meyer, A., & Hajcak, G. (2023). Corporal punishment is uniquely associated with a greater neural response to errors and blunted neural response to rewards in adolescence. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 8(2), 210-218.

2022

18. Santopetro, N. J., Mulligan, E. M., Brush, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (2022). Reduced P300 amplitude is consistently associated with trait anhedonia across repeated assessments. Psychophysiology, 59(12), e14127.

19. Burani, K., Brush, C. J., Shields, G. S., Klein, D. N., Nelson, B. D., Slavich, G. M., & Hajcak, G. (2022). Greater cumulative lifetime stressor exposure predicts blunted reward positivity in adolescent girls followed for 2 years. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(10), 1017-1024.

20. Klawohn, J., Joyner, K., Santopetro, N., Brush, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (2022). Depression reduces neural correlates of reward salience with increasing effort over the course of the progressive ratio task. Journal of Affective Disorders, 307, 294-300.

21. Meynadasy, M. A., Brush, C. J., Sheffler, J., Mach, R., Carr, D., Kiosses, D., Hajcak, G., & Sachs-Ericsson, N. (2022). Emotion regulation and the late positive potential (LPP) in older adults. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 177, 202-212.

22. Brush, C. J., Kallen, A. M., Meynadasy, M. A., King, T., Hajcak, G., & Sheffler, J. (2022). The P300, loneliness, and depression in older adults. Biological Psychology, 171, 108339.

23. Dell'Acqua, C., Brush, C. J., Burani, K., Santopetro, N. J., Klawohn, J., Messerotti Benvenuti, S., & Hajcak, G. (2022). Reduced electrocortical responses to pleasant pictures in depression: A brief report on time-domain and time-frequency delta analyses. Biological Psychology, 170, 108302.

24. Jordan, C. D., Stewart, R. A., Brush, C. J., Cougle, J. R., & Hajcak, G. (2022). Appearance concerns are uniquely associated with LPP amplitude to pictures of oneself. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(4), 430-436.

25. Brush, C. J., Hajcak, G., Bocchine, A. J., Ude, A. A., Muniz, K. M., Foti, D., & Alderman, B. L. (2022). A randomized trial of aerobic exercise for major depression: Examining neural indicators of reward and cognitive control as predictors and treatment targets. Psychological Medicine, 52(5), 893-903.

2021

26. Burani, K., Brush, C. J., Gallyer, A., Joiner, T., Nelson, B., & Hajcak, G. (2021). Maternal suicidality interacts with blunted reward processing to prospectively predict increases in depressive symptoms in 8-to-14-year-old girls. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 170, 67-74.

27. Brush, C. J., Burani, K., Schmidt, K. M., Santopetro, N. J., & Hajcak, G. (2021). The impact of a single session of aerobic exercise on positive emotional reactivity in depression: Insight into individual differences from the late positive potential. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 144, 103914.

28. Santopetro, N. J., Brush, C. J., Burani, K., Bruchnak, A., & Hajcak, G. (2021). Doors P300 moderates the relationship between reward positivity and current depression status in adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, 294, 776-785.

29. Klawohn, J., Brush, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (2021). Neural responses to reward and pleasant pictures prospectively predict remission from depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(7), 702-712.

30. Foell, J., Klawohn, Bruchnak, A., Brush, C. J., Patrick, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (2021). Ventral striatal activation during reward differs between major depression with and without impaired mood reactivity. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 313, 111298.

31. Clayson, P. E., Brush, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (2021). Data quality and reliability metrics for event-related potentials (ERPs): The utility of subject-level reliability. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 165, 121-136.

32. Ehmann, P. J., Brush, C. J., Bernard, L., Dowden, R., Ogilvie, A., Wisniewski, P. J., Piersol, K., McCarthy, T., & Merrill, G. F. (2021). Influences on blood pressure in university students. Clinical Medical Reviews and Reports, 4(1), 1-8.

33. Santopetro, N. J., Brush, C. J., Bruchnak, A., Klawohn, J., & Hajcak, G. (2021). A reduced P300 prospectively predicts increased depressive severity in adults with clinical depression. Psychophysiology, 58(4), e13767.

34. Bowyer, C., Brush, C. J., Threadill, H., Harmon-Jones, E., Treadway, M., Patrick, C. J., & Hajcak, G. (2021). The effort-doors task: Examining the temporal dynamics of effort-based reward processing using ERPs. NeuroImage, 228, 117656.

2020

35. Brush, C. J., Olson, R. L., Bocchine, A. J., Selby, E. A., & Alderman, B. L. (2020). Acute aerobic exercise increases respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity and recovery to a sad film among individuals at risk for depression. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 156, 69-78.

36. Brush, C. J., Foti, D., Bocchine, A. J., Muniz, K. M., Gooden, M. J., Spaeth, A. M., Miller, M. W., & Alderman, B. L. (2020). Aerobic exercise enhances positive emotional reactivity in individuals with depressive symptoms: Evidence from neural responses to reward and emotional content. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 19, 100339.

37. Brush, C. J., Bocchine, A. J., Olson, R. L., Ude, A. A., Dhillon, S. K., & Alderman, B. L. (2020). Does aerobic fitness moderate age-related cognitive slowing? Evidence from the P3 and lateralized readiness potentials. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 155, 63-71.

2019

38. Lesnewich, L. M., Conway, F. N., Buckman, J. F., Brush, C. J., Ehmann, P. J., Eddie, D., Olson, R. L., Alderman, B. L., &  Bates, M. E. (2019). Associations of depression severity with heart rate and heart rate variability in young adults across normative and clinical populations. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 142, 57-65.

39. Ehmann, P. J., Brush, C. J., Bozzini, B., Dowden, R. A., Ogilvie, A., Wisniewski, P. J., Bernard, L. P., & Merrill, G. F. (2019). The effects of salt and water loading on kidney function in healthy undergraduates. Advances in Applied Physiology, 4(2), 11-18.

40. Brush, C. J., Olson, R. L., Ehmann, P. J., Bocchine, A. J., Bates, M. E., Buckman, J. F., Leyro, T. M., & Alderman, B. L. (2019). Lower resting cardiac balance in young adults with current major depression. Psychophysiology, 56(8), e13385.

41. Alderman, B. L., Olson, R. L., & Brush, C. J. (2019). Using event-related potentials to study the effects of chronic exercise on cognitive function. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 17(2), 106-116.

2018

42. Olson, R. L., Brush, C. J., Ehmann, P. J., Buckman, J. F., & Alderman, B. L. (2018). A history of sport-related concussion is associated with sustained deficits in conflict and error monitoring. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 132(Part A), 145-154.

43. Brush, C. J., Ehmann, P. J., Hajcak, G., Selby, E. A., & Alderman, B. L. (2018). Using multilevel modeling to examine blunted neural responses to reward in major depression. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(12), 1032-1039.

44. Brush, C. J., Ehmann, P. J., Olson, R. L., Bixby, W. R., & Alderman, B. L. (2018). Do sport-related concussions result in long-term cognitive impairment? A review of event-related potential research. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 132(Part A), 124-134.

2017

45. Merrill, G. F., Brush, C. J., Ehmann, P. J., & Bernard, L. P. (2017). Acetaminophen and frog skeletal muscle. Trends in Cell & Molecular Biology, 12, 67-76.

46. Olson, R. L., Brush, C. J., Ehmann, P. J., & Alderman, B. L. (2017). A randomized trial of aerobic exercise on cognitive control in major depression. Clinical Neurophysiology, 128(6), 903-913.

2016

47. Ehmann, P. J., Brush, C. J., Olson, R. L., Bhatt, S. N., Banu, A. H., & Alderman, B. L. (2016). Active workstations do not impair executive function in young and middle-age adults. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 49(5), 965-974.

48. Brush, C. J., Olson, R. L., Ehmann, P. J., Osovsky, S., & Alderman, B. L. (2016). Dose-response and time course effects of acute resistance exercise on executive function. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 38, 396-408.

49. Olson, R. L., Chang, Y. K., Brush, C. J., Kwok, A. N., Gordon, V. X., & Alderman, B. L. (2016). Neurophysiological and behavioral correaltes of cognitive control during low and moderate intensity exercise. NeuroImage, 131, 171-180.

50. Alderman, B. L., Olson, R. L., Brush, C. J., & Shors, T. J. (2016). MAP training: Combining meditation and aerobic exercise reduces depression and rumination while enhancing synchronized brain activity. Translational Psychiatry, 6, e726.

2015

51. Olson, R. L., Brush, C. J., O'Sullivan, D. J., & Alderman, B. L. (2015). Psychophysiological and ergogenic effects of music in swimming. Comparative Exercise Physiology, 11(2), 79-87.

52. Alderman, B. L., Olson, R. L., Bates, M. E., Selby, E. A., Buckman, J. F., Brush, C. J., Panza, E. A., Kranzler, A., Eddie, D., & Shors, T. J. (2015). Rumination in major depressive disorder is associated with impaired neural activation during conflict monitoring. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 269.

 Book Chapters

2021

1. Brush, C. J., & Burani, K. (2021). Exercise and physical activity for depression. In Z. Zenko & L. Jones (Eds.), Essentials of exercise and sport psychology: An open access textbook (pp. 338-368). Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology.

2020

2. Alderman, B. L., Brush, C. J., & Bocchine, A. J. (2020). Depression treatment by exercise and physical activity. In D. Hackfort & R. J. Schinke (Eds.), The routledge international encyclopedia of sport and exercise psychology: Applied and practical measures (Volume 2) (pp. 239-253). Routledge.

2019

3. Alderman, B. L., Brush, C. J., & Ehmann, P. J. (2019). Effects of exercise on anxiety and stress-sensitive psychopathology. In M. H. Anshel, S. J. Petruzzello, & E. E. Labbe (Eds.), APA handbook of sport and exercise psychology: Volume 2 (pp. 345-361). American Psychological Association.