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COVID-19

Hall, P. A., Ayaz, H., Meng, G., Hudson, A*., Sakib, M. N*., Quah, A. C. K., Agar, T. K., Lee, J. A*., Boudreau, C., & Fong, G. T. (2023). Neurocognitive and psychiatric symptoms following infection with COVID-19: Evidence from laboratory and population studies. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 28, 100595.

Hall, P.A., Meng, G., Boudreau, C., Hudson, A*., Quah, A., Agar, T., Fong, G.T. (2023). Social cognitive predictors of vaccination status, uptake and mitigation behaviors in the Canadian COVID-19 Experiences Survey. Vaccine.

Hall, P.A., Meng, G., Sakib, M.N., Quah, A., Agar, T., Fong, G.T. (2022). Do the vaccinated perform less distancing, mask wearing and hand hygiene? A test of the risk compensation hypothesis in a representative sample during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine.

Hudson, A*^ǂ., Hall, P. A^ǂ., Hitchman, S. C., Meng, G., & Fong, G. T. (2022). Cognitive predictors of COVID-19 mitigation behaviours in vaccinated and unvaccinated general population members. Vaccine.

Hall, P. A., Meng, G., Hudson, A., Sakib, M. N., Hitchman, S. C., MacKillop, J., ... & Fong, G. T. (2022). Cognitive function following SARS-CoV-2 infection in a population-representative Canadian sample. Brain, behavior, & Immunity-Health, 21, 100454.

Hall, P. A., Fong, G. T., Hitchman, S. C., Quah, A. C., Agar, T., Meng, G., ... & Boudreau, C. (2022). Brain and behavior in health communication: The Canadian COVID-19 Experiences Project. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 22, 100467.

Hall, P. A., Sheeran, P., Fong, G. T., Cheah, C. S., Oremus, M., Liu-Ambrose, T., ... & Morita, P. P. (2021). Biobehavioral aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review. Psychosomatic medicine, 83(4), 309-321.

Sakib, M. N.*, Butt, Z. A., Morita, P. P., Oremus, M., Fong, G. T., & Hall, P. A. (2020). Considerations for an Individual-Level Population Notification System for Pandemic Response: A Review and Prototype. JMIR, 22(6), e19930.

2023

Sakib, M. N*., Best, J. R., & Hall, P. A. (2023). Bidirectional Associations Between Adiposity and Cognitive Function and Mediation by Brain Morphology in the ABCD Study. JAMA Network Open, 6(2), e2255631.

Hall, P.A., Rolls, E., Berkman, E. (2023). The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

2022

Sakib, M.N*., Best, J. R., Ramezan, R., Thompson, M. E., & Hall, P. A. (2022). Bidirectional associations between adiposity and cognitive function: A prospective analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). The Journals of Gerontology: Series A.

Liu-Ambrose, T., Falck, R. S., Dao, E., Best, J. R., Davis, J. C., Bennett, K., Hall, P. A., Hsiung, G.-Y. R., Middleton, L. E., Goldsmith, C. H., Graf, P., & Eng, J. J. (2022). Effect of Exercise Training or Complex Mental and Social Activities on Cognitive Function in Adults With Chronic Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open, 5(10), e2236510-e2236510.

Hall, P.A., Meng, G., Sakib, M.N*., Quah, A., Agar, T., Fong, G.T. (2022). Do the vaccinated perform less distancing, mask wearing and hand hygiene? A test of the risk compensation hypothesis in a representative sample during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine.

Hall, P. A., Meng, G., Hudson, A*., Sakib, M. N*., Hitchman, S. C., MacKillop, J., ... & Fong, G. T. (2022). Cognitive function following SARS-CoV-2 infection in a population-representative Canadian sample. Brain, behavior, & immunity-health, 21, 100454.

Borland, R., Le Grande, M., Heckman, B. W., Fong, G. T., Bickel, W. K., Stein, J. S., East, K. A., Hall, P. A., & Cummings, K. M. (2022). The Predictive Utility of Valuing the Future for Smoking Cessation: Findings from the ITC 4 Country Surveys. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(2), 631.

Sakib, M. N*., Ramezan, R., Thompson, M. E., Best, J. R., & Hall, P. A. (2022). Cognitive Function Is Associated With Multiple Indices of Adiposity in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. Psychosomatic Medicine, 84(7), 773-784.

Hall, P. A., & Burhan, A. M. (2022). Commentary on Song et al: Brain stimulation for addictions‐optimizing impact via strategic interleaving with pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and restructuring the micro‐environment. Addiction, 117(5), 1256-1257

2021

Papasideris, M.*, Safati, A.B.*, Ayaz, H., Morita, P.P., & Hall, P.A. (2021). Examining the relationships among adolescent health behaviours, prefrontal function, and academic achievement using fNIRS. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 50, 100983.

Papasideris, M.*, Ayaz, H., Hall, P.A. (2021). Medial prefrontal brain activity correlates with emerging symptoms of anxiety and depression in late adolescence: a fNIRS study. Developmental Psychobiology, 63 (7), e22199.

Hall, P.A., Best, J.R., Beaton, E.A., Sakib, M.N.*, & Danckert, J.D. (2021). Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: Cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Hall, P.A., Best, J.R., Danckert, J.D., Beaton, E.A., & Lee, J.A.* (2021). Morphometry of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex is associated with eating dispositions in early adolescence: Findings from a large population-based study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Fatakdawala, I.*, Ayaz, H., Safati, A.*, Sakib, M.N.*, & Hall, P.A. (2021). Effects of prefrontal theta burst stimulation on neuronal activity and subsequent eating behavior: an interleaved rTMS and fNIRS study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Papasideris, M.*, Leatherdale, S. T., Battista, K., & Hall, P. A. (2021). An examination of the prospective association between physical activity and academic achievement in youth at the population level. Plos one, 16(6), e0253142.

2020

Hall, P. A., & Lowe, C. J.* (2020). Cravings, currents and cadavers: What is the magnitude of tDCS effects on food craving outcomes?. Nutritional neuroscience, 23(6), 490-493.

Sakib, M. N.*, Butt, Z. A., Morita, P. P., Oremus, M., Fong, G. T., & Hall, P. A. (2020). Considerations for an Individual-Level Population Notification System for Pandemic Response: A Review and Prototype. JMIR, 22(6), e19930.

Smith, M. M., Sherry, S. B., Hewitt, P. L., Flett, G. L., Hall, P. A., & Lee-Baggley, D. L. (2020). The existential model of perfectionism and depressive symptoms: Testing a moderated mediation model in community adults using a one-month two-wave longitudinal design. Personality and Individual Differences, 157, 109826.

Hall, P. A., Erickson, K. I., Lowe, C. J.*, & Sakib, M. N.* (2020). Quantifying cortical resilience in experimental, clinical, and epidemiological studies: A conceptually grounded method using noninvasive brain stimulation. Psychosomatic medicine, 82(3), 281-286.

2019

Safati, A.B.*ǂ, & Hall, P.A.ǂ(2019). Contextual cues as modifiers of cTBS effects on indulgent eating. Brain Stimulation, 12, 1253–1260.

Lowe, C.J.*, Reichelt, A.C., & Hall, P.A. (2019). The prefrontal cortex and obesity: A health neuroscience perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 349-361.

Hall, P.A. (2019). What mediates exercise effects on dietary choice? Some clues from the brain stimulation literature. International Journal of Obesity, 43, 1650-1651.

Hall, P.A. (2019). Brain stimulation as a method for understanding, treating and preventing disorders of indulgent food consumption. Current Addiction Reports, 6, 266-272.

Hall, P.A. (2019). Novel contributions of neuroergonomics and cognitive engineering to population health (pp 3-13). In H. Ayaz (Ed.), Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. Springer: New York, NY.

Daly, M., Hall, P.A., Allan, J.L. (2019). Time perspective and all-cause mortality: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 53, 86–492.

Falck, R., Best, J., Davis, J., Eng, J., Middleton, L., Hall, P.A., Liu-Ambrose, T. (2019). Sleep and cognitive function in chronic stroke: A comparative cross-sectional study. Sleep, 42, 1-11.

2018

Hall, P.A., Bickel, W.K., Erickson, K.I., & Wagner, D.D. (2018). Neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and population health: The neuroscience of chronic disease prevention. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1428, 240-256.

Hall, P.A., Lowe, C.J.*, Safati, A.*, Li, H.*, Klassen, E.*, Burhan, A.M. (2018). Effects of left dlPFC modulation on social cognitive processes following food sampling. Appetite, 126, 73-79.

Lowe, C. J.*, Staines, W. R., Manocchio, F., & Hall, P. A. (2018). The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying food cravings and snack food consumption. A combined continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) and EEG study. Neuroimage, 177, 45-58.

Lowe, C.J.*, Manocchio, F.*, Safati, A.*, & Hall, P.A. (2018). The effects of theta burst stimulation (TBS) targeting the prefrontal cortex on executive functioning: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 111, 344-359.

Best, J.R., Eng, J.J., Davis, J.C., Hsiung, G.R., Hall, P.A., Middleton, L.E., Graf, P., Goldsmith, C.H., & Liu-Ambrose. T. (2018). Study protocol for Vitality: a proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial of exercise training or complex mental and social activities to promote cognition in adults with chronic stroke. BMJ Open, 8(3):e021490

Hall, P.A., Vincent, C.M.*, & Burhan, A.M. (2018). Non-invasive brain stimulation for food cravings, consumption, and disorders of eating: A review of methods, findings and controversies. Appetite, 124, 78-88.

Hicks, R.A., Hall, P.A., Staines, W.R., & McIlroy, W.E. (2018). Frontal alpha asymmetry and aerobic exercise: are changes due to cardiovascular demand or bilateral rhythmic movement? Biological Psychology, 92, 9-16.

Du, B., Bigelow, P., Wells, R., Davies, H., Hall, P.A., & Johnson, P. (2018). The impact of different seats and whole-body vibration exposures on truck driver vigilance and discomfort. Ergonomics, 61, 528-53

Hall, P.A., Lowe, C.J.*, & Fong, G.T. (2018). Affective dynamics in temporal self-regulation theory: Social forces meet neurobiological processes. In D. Williams, M. Conner, & R. Rhodes, Affective determinants of health behavior (pp.115-131). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Lowe, C.J.* & Hall, P.A. (2018). Reproducibility and sources of inter-individual variability in the responsiveness to prefrontal continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS). Neuroscience Letters, 687, 280-284.

2017

Lowe, C.J.*, Safati, A.*, & Hall, P.A. (2017). The neurocognitive consequences of sleep restriction: A meta-analytic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 80, 586-604.

Hall, P.A., Erickson, K.I. & Gianaros, P.J. (2017). The neurobiology of health communication. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79, 376-378.

Hall, P.A., Lowe, C.J.*, & Vincent, C.M.* (2017). Brain stimulation effects on food cravings and consumption: An update on Lowe et al. (2017) and a response to Generoso et al. (2017). Psychosomatic Medicine, 79, 839-842.

Best, J.R.*, Chiu, B.K., Hall, P.A., & Liu-Ambrose, T. (2017). Larger lateral prefrontal cortex volume predicts better exercise adherence among older women: Evidence from two exercise training studies. Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 72, 804-810.

Lowe, C. J.*, Staines, W. R., & Hall, P. A. (2017). Effects of moderate exercise on cortical resilience: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Psychosomatic medicine, 79(2), 143-152.

Lowe, C.J.*ǂ, Vincent, C.M.*ǂ, & Hall, P.A. (2017). Effects of non-invasive brain stimulation on food cravings and consumption: A meta-analytic review. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79, 2-13.

Luu, K.*, & Hall, P.A. (2017). Examining the acute effects of Hatha yoga and mindfulness meditation on executive function and mood. Mindfulness, 8, 873–880.