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Purnima Qamar

@purnimaqamar.bsky.social
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clinical psych phd student @ucla & @adrc_ucla | formerly @NIMHgov & @ucriverside | adversity, anxiety, & naturalistic neuroimaging 🧠

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Peter Kirk @peterakirk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Our latest work on the neurobiology of subjective emotional experience in anxiety is out now in SCAN 🧠 Brief summary below 👇 doi.org/10.1093/scan...
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Linking subjective experience of anxiety to brain function using natural language processing
Abstract. Research on anxiety focuses on clinically relevant behaviours and neurophysiological responses, particularly emphasizing recruitment of amygdala,
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Purnima Qamar @purnimaqamar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Excited to share our new paper in Scientific Reports. Pre-scanning state anxiety was associated with reduced rs-FC in the DMN in a trait-anxious community sample, underscoring how children’s MRI scanning experiences may be associated with rs-FC. Grateful for mentorship from @UCRiverside and @NIH.
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Peter Kirk @peterakirk.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Our latest study led by @purnimaqamar.bsky.social on avoidance in pediatric anxiety is out now in Mental Health Science 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Assessing Behavioral Threat Avoidance in Pediatric Anxiety With Naturalistic Games
Behavioral avoidance exacerbates anxiety symptoms. Capturing and identifying maladaptive avoidance patterns holds clinical utility. However, effective assessment tools which provide unique informatio...
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Peter Kirk @peterakirk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Check our latest work ‘Linking Subjective Experience of Anxiety to Brain Function using Natural Language Processing’. Our analyses link movie-evoked brain activity and subsequent interview recordings in a pediatric sample with and without anxiety disorders (doi.org/10.31234/osf...).
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Peter Kirk @peterakirk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Social anxiety may be related to physical avoidance of aversive stimuli in an interactive game. Our latest study, led by @purnimaqamar.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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