Please note that this page is a bit out of date (we’re working on it!).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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Bradford, D.E., Freitas, A.M., Goldblum, R.S. (2026, November). Advancing Equity in Psychophysiological Science. Invited talk to be presented at Laureate Institute for Brain Research FOCUS (Fostering Opportunity, Collaboration, and Understanding in Science) Lecture Series, Tulsa, OK.
Bradford, D.E. (2026, April). Reinforcing psychology’s role as a hub science. Distinguished speakers invited talk presented at the 106th annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Tacoma, WA.
Goldblum, R.S., Marra-Dotts, J., Nagle, S., Mannix, R., Meehan, W., Bradford, D.E., & Oldham, J. Attenuated General Startle Reactivity after Repeated Concussion: Evidence from an Identical Twin Case. (Fall, 2026). Poster to be presented at the 66th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Marra-Dotts, J. L., Goldblum, R. S., Bakner, L., Oldham, J. R., & Bradford, D. E. Assessing General Startle Reactivity as a Predictor for Alcohol Stress Response Dampening to Uncertain Stressors. (2026, October). Poster to be presented at the 66th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting, Halifax, NS.
Freitas, A. M., Dooley, C., Whittaker, F., Hokawala, Z., Bakner, L., & Bradford, D. E. Sweet but stressful: Sugar consumption heightens dark-enhanced startle. (2026, October). Poster to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Whittaker, F., Dooley, C., Hokawala, S. Z., Jordan, S. E., Rutherford, M., Oldham, J. R., & Bradford, D. E. The Dark Side of Concussion: Traumatic Brain Injuries May Contribute to Long-term Disruption in Dark-Enhanced Startle in a Military Population. (2026, October). Poster to be presented at the 66th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting, Halifax, NS.
Oldham, J.R., Boylan L.E., Whittaker F, Lempke L.B., & Bradford D.E. Association Between Acoustic Startle Reactivity and Simple Reaction Time in Adolescent Athletes with a Recent Concussion. (2026, May). Poster presented at the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
Goldblum, R.S., Whittaker, F., Freitas, A., Perez, M., Morning, M., Gandhok, P., & Bradford, D.E. Shots and shocks: A multiverse exploration of sex differences in alcohol’s stress dampening effects. (2026, May). Poster presented at the annual Society of Biological Psychiatry meeting, New York, NY.
Oldham, J.R., Bradford D.E., Whittaker F, Nagle S, Mannix R.M., Meehan W.P. Acoustic Startle Reflex and Subsequent Musculoskeletal Injury in Adolescent Athletes with a Concussion History: A Pilot Study. Poster presented at the annual Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine (PRiSM) meeting. (2026, January). Austin, TX.
Desai, M.C., Boylan, L.E., Bradford, D.E., Oldham, J.R. Adolescent Athlete Psychological Response and Acoustic Startle Following Concussion: A Preliminary Investigation. Poster presented at the annual Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine (PRiSM) meeting. (2026, January). Austin, TX.
Goldblum, R., Whittaker, F., Morning, M., Bradford, D.E. (2025, December). Lessons we are learning: Laboratory research working with military connected communities. Paper presented at the Oregon State University Engagement Conference, Corvallis, OR.
Bradford, D.E. (2025, October). Psychophysiology’s Imperiled but Enduring Role as a Hub Method. Paper presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, CA.
Hull, E., Whittaker, F., Perez, M., Goldblum, R.S., Respini, S.E., & Bradford, D. E. Bringing Fear of the Dark into the Light through a Multi-Measurement Approach. (2025, October). Poster presented at the 65th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting, Montréal, QC.
Marra-Dotts, J.L., Xu, C.P., Goldblum, R.S., Whittaker, F., Dietch, J.R., & Bradford, D. E. Timing Matters: The Impacts of Circadian Rhythm on Dark Enhanced Startle. (2025, October). Poster presented at the 65th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting, Montréal, QC.
Whittaker, F., Oldham, J. R., Boylan, L. E., Goldblum, R. S., Marra-Dotts, J., Rutherford, M., Hooper, C., Byrne, L. M., Truong, L. T., & Bradford, D. E. Cleared but Not Recovered: Persistent Startle Reactivity Changes After Concussion in Adolescent Athletes. (2025, October). Poster presented at the 65th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting, Montréal, QC
Goldblum, R. S., Whittaker, F., Respini, S. E., Perez, M., Hull, E. L., Admire-Novak, J. & Bradford, D. E. Let’s Talk About Sex…Differences in Alcohol’s Pharmacological Effects on Startle Potentiation: A Multiverse Approach. (2025, October). Poster presented at the 65th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research 2025 Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Bradford, D.E., Goldblum. R. (2025, September). From Animal Models to Human Reactions: Translating Drug and Injury Induced Neuroadaptations to Uncertain Stressors. Invited talk for Research Experience and Lunch (REAL), Linfield University, McMinnville, OR.
Dooley, C., Whittaker, F., Respini, S. E., Gilmore, E. M., Stern, G. M., Perez, M., Slangan, C. S., Hart, T. & Bradford, D. E. Shedding Light on Fear of the Dark Using Multimodal Assessment. (2025, August). Poster presented at the American Psychological Association 2025 Meeting, Denver, CO.
Tepe, L. R., Whittaker, F., Gilmore, E. M., Respini, S. E., Ransford, K., Doran, N. C., Hull, E. L., Goldblum, R. S., & Bradford, D. E. The Effects of Drinking Frequency on Physiological Stress and Alcohol’s Response Dampening. (2025, August). Poster presented at the American Psychological Association 2025 Meeting, Denver, CO.
Bradford, D.E. (2025, June). A clinical neuroscience perspective on teaching high school students about drugs. Invited speaker, APA/The American Psychological Foundation/OSU Psychological Science Workshop for High School Psychology Teachers, Corvallis, OR.
Oldham J, Bradford D.E., Nagle S, Willwerth S, Mannix R, Meehan W. Acoustic Startle Reflex and Sensitivity to Noise in Adolescent Athletes Following Concussion. (2025, January). Poster presented at the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine Annual Meeting. Columbus, OH.
Whittaker, F., Respini, S. E., Gilmore, E. M., Tognoli, M. I., Ransford, K., Byrne, L., Xu, C. P., Ma, Q., & Bradford, D. E. Shots In The Dark: Alcohol Dampens Startle Potentiation In A Novel Threat Of Darkness Paradigm. (2024, October). Poster to be presented at the 64th annual Society for Psychophysiological Research, Prague, Czech Republic.
Castro, G. B., Didier, P., Kuhn, M., Kaplan, C., Hur, J., Bradford, D.E., Curtin, J., Smith, J.F., Shackman. (2024, October). Alcohol Dampens Subjective, Psychophysiological, and Neurobiological Reactivity to Uncertain Threat. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
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.
Bradford, D.E. (2024, June). Strategies for aiding a deeper and less stigmatizing understanding of drug use and addiction. Invited speaker, APA/The American Psychological Foundation/OSU Psychological Science Workshop for High School Psychology Teachers, Corvallis, OR.
Bradford, D.E., Sanders, S.M., (2024, March). Mental well-being of graduate students: research, lived experience, and pathways to improvement. Invited talk for Radical Earth Science Equity Transformations (RESET) seminar. Corvallis, OR.
Bradford, D.E. (2023 November). Towards more equitable psychophysiology. Office of Institutional Diversity, Diversity Research Virtual Lightning Talks. Corvallis, OR.
Bradford, D.E., DeFalco A, Dooley, C, Curtin, J.J. (2023, October). Risky business: alcohol increases the subjective value of uncertain rewards in a gambling task. Paper presented at the Oregon Problem Gambling Fall Summit, Lincoln City, OR.
DeFalco, A., Whittaker, F., Dooley, C., Curtin, J.J., Bradford, D.E. (2023, October) Risky business: alcohol increases the subjective value of uncertain rewards. Poster presented at the International Conference on Gambling and Addiction, Las Vegas, NV.
DeFalco, A., Whittaker, F., Dooley, C., Curtin, J.J., Bradford, D.E. (2023, October). Spirited Away: Alcohol may Dull Error Monitoring and Encourage Risky Choices. Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, LA.
Whittaker, F., DeFalco, A., Tognoli, M.I., Gilmore, E.M., Bradford, D.E. (2023, October). A Refined Dark Enhanced Startle Task. Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, LA.
Bradford, D.E. (2023, September). Round table on faculty jobs. Round table presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, LA.
Bradford, D.E. (2023, June). Strategies for aiding a deeper and less stigmatizing understanding of addiction. Invited speaker, APA/The American Psychological Foundation/OSU Psychological Science Workshop for High School Psychology Teachers, Corvallis, OR.
Bradford, D.E. (2023, May). The Case for Personalized content, OSU Ecampus Faculty Forum. Invited speaker, Corvallis, OR.
Oldham J.R., Bradford D.E., DeFalco A, Willwerth S, Mannix R, Meehan W. (2023, February). Acoustic Startle Response Suppression in Adolescent Athletes Following Concussion. Paper presented at the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine (PRiSM) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Bradford, D.E. (2022, October). McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School Post Doc Series. Invited panel, Virtual, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA.
Bradford, D.E., Willwerth, S.B., DeFalco, A., Mannix, R.M., Meehan III, W.P., Oldham, J.R. (2022, October). 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, October). 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
Bradford, D.E. (2022, July). Strategies for aiding a deeper and less stigmatizing understanding of addiction. Invited speaker, APA/The American Psychological Foundation/OSU Psychological Science Workshop for High School Psychology Teachers, Corvallis, OR.
Bradford, D.E. (2022, June). Oregon State University Neuroscience Working Group. Drug induced stress neuroadaptations to uncertain stressors. Invited Speaker, Corvallis, OR.
Oldham J.R., Bradford D.E., Willwerth SB, Mannix RM, Meehan WP. (2022, May) Acoustic Startle Reflex in Adolescents With and Without a Concussion History: A Preliminary Investigation. Poster presented at the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Bradford, D.E. (2022, April). Alcohol Stress response dampening and drug-induced neuroadaptations to uncertain stressors. Invited speaker, Virtual, Society for Neuroscience Oregon & Southwest Washington Meeting, Portland, OR.
Lewis, M.W., Bradford, D.E., Pace-Schott, E.F., Rauch, S.L., Rosso, I.M. (2022, April) Multiverse Analyses of Fear Conditioning and Extinction Retention in PTSD. Poster presented at the 28th annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, Madison, WI.
Lewis, M.W., Casteen, E., Frederiks, K., Ostrand, C., Bradford, D.E., Rauch, S., Rosso, I. (2021, Dec). Associative Fear Learning in PTSD May Depend upon Non-Associative Fear. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting for the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Virtual.
Victor, S.E., Bradford, D.E. (2021, November). Auburn University Clinical Psychology Lunch and Learn: Lived Experience with Mental Illness among Psychology Faculty. Invited panel, Virtual, Auburn University, AL.
Kim, H., Smith, J., Islam, S., Anderson, A., Kaplan, C., Deyoung, K., Grogans, S., Fox, A.S., Bradford, D.E., Curtin, J.J., Shackman, A. (2021, Nov). The Role of the Central Extended Amygdala in Acute Nicotine Abstinence. Poster presented at the 50th annual Society for Neuroscience, Virtual.
Dev, A.S., Bradford, D.E., Timpano, K.R., (2021, November). Liquid Courage? Affective Forecasts and Alcohol Use in Social Anxiety. Poster presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, Virtual.
Bradford, D.E. (2021, October). McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School Post Doc Series. Invited panel, Virtual, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA.
Bleske-Rechek, A.B., Uddin, L., Bradford, D.E. (2021, September). CSUN CSBS Workshop and Discussion: Pros and Cons of the use of the GRE in graduate admissions. Invited panel, Virtual, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA.
Bradford, D.E. (2021, August). Open and Reproducible Science. Invited talk at Cognition and Affect Research and Education lab, Virtual, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA.
Frederiks, K., Casteen, E., Lewis, M., Bradford, D.E., Rauch, S., Rosso, I. (2021, May). Fear Potentiated Startle to Safety Cues is Related to Anxious Arousal in PTSD. Poster presented at the annual meeting for Biological Psychiatry, Virtual.
Bradford, D.E. (2021, April). Translating animal models of drug-induced neuroadaptations to uncertain stressors in humans. Paper presented at the 93rd annual Midwestern Psychological Association meeting, Virtual.
Bradford, D.E., Shireman, J. M., Sant’Ana, S.J., Fronk, G.E., Schneck, S.E., Curtin, J.J. (2019, April). Drinking with the devil you don’t know and the one you can’t control: Alcohol’s effects during uncertain and uncontrollable stressors in the laboratory. Poster presented at the 25th annual Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion, Madison, WI.
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
Magruder, K.P., Bradford, D.E., Starr, M.J., Motschman, C.A., Korhumel, R.A., Curtin, J.J. (2014, June). Alcohol stress response dampening of startle response, self-report, and ERPs during threat of uncertain location. Poster presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, Bellevue, WA.
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
Curtin, J.J., Hefner, K.R., Moberg, C.A., Bradford, D.E. (2013, January). Selective reduction of anxiety by alcohol: Psychophysiological evidence from laboratory manipulations of threat uncertainty. Poster presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Winter Conference on Brain Research, Breckenridge, CO.
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
Starr, M.J., Bradford, D.E., Shackman, A.J., Curtin, J. J. (2011, September). An empirical comparison of commonly used methods of quantifying startle potentiation. Poster presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston, MA.
Kaye, J. T., Williams, W. C., Hachiya, L. Y., Bradford, D. E., Curtin, J. J. (2011, September). Affective response to differential threat probabilities is unaffected by nicotine deprivation. Poster presented at the 51st annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston, MA.
Letkiewicz, A., Lissek, S., Bradford, D.E., Charney, D., Barrios, M., Grillon, C. (2010 May) The Temporal course of conditioned fear-generalization in healthy subjects. Poster presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Geraci, M., Luckenbaugh, D., Blair, K., Bradford, D.E., Vythilingam, M., Lissek, S., Grillon, C., Blair, J., Pine, D. (2009 May). Evaluating Childhood Experiences as Potential Risk for Adult Anxiety Disorders: PD, GAD, and GSP. Poster presented at the annual American Psychiatric Association Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Kittinger, R., Martin, K., Rubio, E.K., Bradford, D.E., & Correia, C.J. (2008, November). The relationship between the use of social networking sites and internet addiction. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.
Bradford, D.E., Lissek, S., Ramirez, G., & Grillon, C. (2008, May) Studying Conditioned Fear Generalization Using Retinotopic Mapping Annuli in an fMRI Procedure. Poster presented at the 20th annual Association for Psychological Science Convention, Chicago, Il.
Irons, J, Correia, C. J., Brice, S., Bradford, D.E. (2007, May) A novel choice procedure: Empirical assessment of the adequacy of potential monetary reinforcers for college student smokers. Poster presented at the 19th annual Association for Psychological Science Convention, Washington D.C.
Howard, C., Bradford, D.E., and Buskist, W. (2007, February) Enthusiasm for teaching and learning and links to student performance. Poster presented at 19th annual Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia.
Rahn, E., Platt, T., Bradford D.E., and Escobar, M. (2005, March) Inhibition of delay in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning: Retardation test. Poster presented at the Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, Florida.
Bradford, D.E., Bray, L. Sissons, H., Escobar, M. (2005, November). Predictive vs. diagnostic learning in causality judgments. Poster presented at Auburn University Psychology Department 11th Annual Graduate Research Festival, Auburn, Alabama.
For a complete list of Dr. Bradford’s presentations, see his CV