Please note that this page is a bit out of date (we’re working on it!). You can see Dr Bradford’s CV for a complete list of references.
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Whittaker, F., Respini, S. E., Watkins, G. M., Gilmore, E. M., DeFalco, A., Peavey, N., Tepe, L. R., Rifkin, E. J., Perez, M., & Bradford, D. E. Lost in the Shadows: a Novel Dark-Enhanced Startle Task. (2024, August). Poster to be presented for the American Psychological Association 2024 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Whittaker, F., DeFalco, A., Tognoli, M.I., Gilmore, E., & Bradford, D.E. (2023, September). A refined dark enhanced startle task. Poster presented at the 63rd annual Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, LA.
DeFalco, A., Whittaker, F., Dooley, C., Curtin, J.J., Bradford, D.E. (2023, September). Spirited away: alcohol may dull error monitoring and encourage risky choices. Poster presented at the 63rd annual Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, LA.
Bradford, D.E., Willwerth, S.B., DeFalco, A., Mannix, R.M., Meehan III, W.P., Oldham, J.R. (2022, September). Attenuated general startle reactivity in adolescent athletes with a concussion history. Poster presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Vancouver, BC, Canada.PDF
DeFalco, A., Beaman, L., Cutler, J.T., Doran, N., Tognoli, M.I., Perkins, E.R., Joyner, K.J., Bradford, D.E. (2022, September). The dearth of sample demographic description and representativeness in clinical psychophysiological research. Poster presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Vancouver, BC, Canada. PDF
Sant’Ana DJ, Bradford DE, Starr MJ, Curtin JJ (2018). Risky or rational? Alcohol increases the subjective value of uncertain rewards in a reward decision-making task. Presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec.PDF
Hur J, Kaplan CM, Bradford DE, Curtin JJ, Smith JF, Shackman AJ (2018). Acute alcohol administration dampens threat-related activation in the central extended amygdala. Poster accepted for presentation at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (AADA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Bradford DE, Shireman JM, Kittleson SJ, Fleming MN, & Curtin JJ (2017). Drinking with the devil you don’t know and the one you can’t control: Alcohol’s effects during unpredictable and uncontrollable stressors in the laboratory. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychophysiology (SRP) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. PDF
Goodwin MG, Shireman JM, Fronk GE, Schneck SE, Kayser AD, Bradford DE, Curtin JJ (2017). Alcohol stress response dampening occurs during unpredictable but not uncontrollable shock stressors. Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Denver, CO.
Kaye JT, Bradford DE, Curtin JJ (2016). Psychometric properties and inter-task/measure relationships of startle and corrugator response in NPU, Affective Picture Viewing, and Resting State tasks. Presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. PDF
Bradford DE, Kaye JT, Curtin JJ (2016). The relationships among multiple psychophysiological and self-report measures of negative affect indexed across multiple tasks within the same sample. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. PDF
Kaye JT, Bradford DE, Curtin JJ (2016). Psychometric properties of psychophysiological paradigms in the NIMH RDoC: startle and corrugator response in NPU, affective picture viewing, and resting state tasks. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science annual convention, Chicago, IL. PDF
Kaye JT, Schneck SE, Kayser AD, Bradford DE, Curtin JJ (2016). Affective picture viewing task: Psychometric properties of startle and corrugator potentiation. Poster presented at the Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, Madison, WI. PDF
Kaye JT, Kayser AD, Schneck SE, Bradford DE, Curtin JJ (2016). No shock, predictable shock, unpredictable shock (NPU) task: Psychometric properties of startle and corrugator potentiation. Poster presented at the Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, Madison, WI. PDF
Kaye JT, Bradford DE, Curtin JJ (2016). Psychometric properties of startle response modulation in three tasks from the NIMH RDoC Negative Valence System. Poster presented at the Society for Affective Science Conference, Chicago, IL.
Magruder, K., Bradford, D. E., Starr, M. J., Motschman, C. A., & Curtin. J. J. (2015). Alcohol stress response dampening on startle potentiation, self-report, and ERPs during threat of uncertain location. Poster presented at the 21st annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, Madison, WI.
Bradford DE, Schneck SE, Coe MA, Curtin JJ (2015). Alcohol dampens stress reactivity but not perception to visually uncertain stressors in a stimulus generalization paradigm. SPR Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. PDF
Kaye JT, Bradford DE, Rohrer CT, Hamilton RK, Kayser AD, Curtin JJ (2015). Psychometric properties of startle response modulation during threat-of-shock, affective picture viewing, and resting state tasks. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting, Seattle, WA. PDF
Bradford DE, Magruder KP, Subramani OS, Marek NM, Curtin JJ, Piper ME (2014). Smoking anticipation and actual smoking both lower physiological and psychological reactivity to stress for smokers in withdrawal. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco annual meeting, Seattle, WA. PDF
Bradford DE, Korhumel RA, Makhiboroda A, Grabinski KM, Raupp GJ, Curtin JJ, Piper ME (2014). Anticipation of smoking attenuates stress response measured with startle potentiation and self-report in nicotine deprived smokers. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting, Atlanta, GA. PDF
Bradford DE, Shapiro BL, Curtin JJ (2012). How bad could it be? Alcohol’s effect on startle to uncertain intensity threat varies by dose and baseline startle. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. PDF
Starr MJ, Bradford DE, Motschman C, Korhumel R, Curtin JJ(2012). Dose-dependent Effects of Alcohol on Attention to Certain and Uncertain Threat. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. PDF
Bradford DE, Kaye JT, Curtin JJ (2011). Not Just Noise: Individual Differences in Baseline Startle are Anxiety Revelant. Poster presented at the Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting, Boston, MA. PDF
For a complete list of Dr. Bradford’s presentations, see his CV