Brian W. Haas, Ph.D

Honors and Awards

• Child Health Research Program, Pediatric Research Fund Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (2009-2010)

Professional Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, S.U.N.Y. State University at Stony Brook (2006)

Faculty Advisor

• Allan Reiss

Research Interests

My research has focused on understanding the biological basis of affective functioning in humans using a multi-modal imaging approach. I am interested in understanding how the human brain integrates and codes emotional information and in how in some cases can result in the development of psychopathological states. To date, I have focused my research on investigating emotional processing associated with personality traits, genes, and with psychiatric conditions such as in Williams syndrome.

Publications

• Early white-matter abnormalities of the ventral frontostriatal pathway in fragile X syndrome. Haas BW,  Barnea-Goraly N, Lightbody AA, Patnaik SS, Hoeft F, Hazlett H, Piven J, Reiss AL.  Dev Med Child Neurol.  2009; 51 (8): 593-9
• Genetic influences on sociability: heightened amygdala reactivity and event-related responses to positive social stimuli in Williams syndrome. Haas BW,  Mills D, Yam A, Hoeft F, Bellugi U, Reiss A.  J Neurosci.  2009; 29 (4): 1132-9
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging of temporally distinct responses to emotional facial expressions. Haas BW,  Constable RT, Canli T.  Soc Neurosci.  2009; 4 (2): 121-34
• Emotional memory function, personality structure and psychopathology: a neural system approach to the identification of vulnerability markers. Haas BW,  Canli T.  Brain Res Rev.  2008; 58 (1): 71-84
• Stop the sadness: Neuroticism is associated with sustained medial prefrontal cortex response to emotional facial expressions. Haas BW,  Constable RT, Canli T.  Neuroimage.  2008; 42 (1): 385-92
• Emotional conflict and neuroticism: personality-dependent activation in the amygdala and subgenual anterior cingulate. Haas BW,  Omura K, Constable RT, Canli T.  Behav Neurosci.  2007; 121 (2): 249-56
• More is not always better: increased fractional anisotropy of superior longitudinal fasciculus associated with poor visuospatial abilities in Williams syndrome. Hoeft F,  Barnea-Goraly N, Haas BW, Golarai G, Ng D, Mills D, Korenberg J, Bellugi U, Galaburda A, Reiss AL.  J Neurosci.  2007; 27 (44): 11960-5
• Is automatic emotion regulation associated with agreeableness? A perspective using a social neuroscience approach. Haas BW,  Omura K, Constable RT, Canli T.  Psychol Sci.  2007; 18 (2): 130-2
• Interference produced by emotional conflict associated with anterior cingulate activation. Haas BW,  Omura K, Constable RT, Canli T.  Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci.  2006; 6 (2): 152-6
• Functional connectivity with the anterior cingulate is associated with extraversion during the emotional Stroop task. Haas BW,  Omura K, Amin Z, Constable RT, Canli T.  Soc Neurosci.  2006; 1 (1): 16-24
• Neural correlates of epigenesis. Canli T,  Qiu M, Omura K, Congdon E, Haas BW, Amin Z, Herrmann MJ, Constable RT, Lesch KP.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.  2006; 103 (43): 16033-8
• Beyond affect: a role for genetic variation of the serotonin transporter in neural activation during a cognitive attention task. Canli T,  Omura K, Haas BW, Fallgatter A, Constable RT, Lesch KP.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.  2005; 102 (34): 12224-9
• Nonconscious influence of masked stimuli on response selection is limited to concrete stimulus-response associations. Klapp ST,  Haas BW.  J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform.  2005; 31 (1): 193-209
• A double dissociation between mood states and personality traits in the anterior cingulate. Canli T,  Amin Z, Haas B, Omura K, Constable RT.  Behav Neurosci.  2004; 118 (5): 897-904