Matthew Heflin

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

5h-index166citations26works4.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Mental Health Research Topics(9), COVID-19 and Mental Health(4), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies(4), Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction(4), Neural dynamics and brain function(4)

Publications26 total

Dopamine and serotonin transients predict depressive symptom relief following deep brain stimulation of human subcallosal cingulate cortex
2025Open Access
Multi-Class Classification of Cannabis and Alcohol Use Disorder: Identifying Common and Substance-Specific Neural Circuits.
2025Open Access
Context-specificity and longitudinal stability of the effects of depressive symptoms on social decision-making
2025Open Access
Phenotypic divergence between individuals with self-reported autistic traits and clinically ascertained autism
Nature Mental Health·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Aberrant neural computation of social controllability in nicotine-dependent humans
Communications Biology·2024Open Access
Predicting Depression and Anxiety: A Multi-Layer Perceptron for Analyzing the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19
2024· 5 cited
Human Substantia Nigra Neurons Encode Reward Expectations
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
22. Single Neurons in the Human Substantia Nigra Encode Social Prediction Errors
Biological Psychiatry·2024
Predicting Depression and Anxiety: A Multi-Layer Perceptron for Analyzing the Mental Health Impact of COVID-19
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange
Nature Human Behaviour·2024· 39 citedOpen Access
Aberrant neural computation of social controllability in nicotine-dependent humans
2024Open Access
Nicotine-related beliefs induce dose-dependent responses in the human brain
Nature Mental Health·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
A thalamic circuit represents dose-like responses induced by nicotine-related beliefs in human smokers
2022Open Access
Social Controllability: Models, Mechanisms, and Mental Health
Biological Psychiatry·2022
P31. Aberrant Estimation of Controllability and its Neural Underpinnings in Nicotine-Dependent Human Smokers
Biological Psychiatry·2022
P49. Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Belief Update During Uncertainty
Biological Psychiatry·2022
Computational mechanisms underlying illusion of control in delusional individuals
Schizophrenia Research·2022· 20 citedOpen Access
Humans use forward thinking to exploit social controllability
eLife·2021· 44 citedOpen Access
Altruism in a Time of Crisis: Dissociable Social Valuation and Perception during COVID-19 in the United States
Research Square (Research Square)·2021· 4 citedOpen Access
Emotional adaptation during a crisis: decline in anxiety and depression after the initial weeks of COVID-19 in the United States
Translational Psychiatry·2021· 39 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Xiaosi Gu(25), Vincenzo G. Fiore(17), Soojung Na(15), Ofer Perl(10), Dongil Chung(8), Kaustubh Kulkarni(8), Madeline O’Brien(7), Anastasia Shuster(6), Ignacio Sáez(5), Sylvia Blackmore(4), Yi Luo(4), Brian H. Kopell(4), A. Davis(4), Qi Xiu Fu(4), Helen S. Mayberg(4), Peter Dayan(3), Martijn Figee(3), Kenneth T. Kishida(3), P. Read Montague(3), Sarah Banker(3)