PhD, University of Pittsburgh
MS, University of Pittsburgh
Sibbach, B.M., Karim, H.T., Lo, D., Kasibhatla, N., Santini, T., Weber, J.C., Ibrahim, T.S., & Banihashemi, L. (2024). Manual segmentation of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and the dorsal and ventral bed nucleus of stria terminalis using multimodal 7 Tesla structural MRI: probabilistic atlases for a stress-control triad. Brain Struct Funct, 229(2), 273-283.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1007/s00429-023-02713-z.
Taylor, W.D., Ajilore, O., Karim, H.T., Butters, M.A., Krafty, R., Boyd, B.D., Banihashemi, L., Szymkowicz, S.M., Ryan, C., Hassenstab, J., Landman, B.A., & Andreescu, C. (2024). Assessing depression recurrence, cognitive burden, and neurobiological homeostasis in late life: Design and rationale of the REMBRANDT Study. J Mood Anxiety Disord, 5, 100038.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.xjmad.2023.100038.
Banihashemi, L., Clarkson, B.D., Karim, H.T., & Resnick, N.M. (2023). Current Issues in Neuroimaging Research Focused on Urge Urinary Incontinence. JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, 210(3), 400-402.Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000003610.
Banihashemi, L., Lv, J., Wu, M., & Zhan, L. (2023). Editorial: Current advances in multimodal human brain imaging and analysis across the lifespan: From mapping to state prediction. FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE, 17, 1153035.Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1153035.
Banihashemi, L., Schmithorst, V.J., Bertocci, M.A., Samolyk, A., Zhang, Y., Santos, J.P.L., Versace, A., Taylor, M., English, G., Northrup, J.B., Lee, V.K., Stiffler, R., Aslam, H., Panigrahy, A., Hipwell, A.E., & Phillips, M.L. (2023). Neural Network Functional Interactions Mediate or Suppress White Matter-Emotional Behavior Relationships in Infants. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 94(1), 57-67.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.03.004.
Sibbach, B.M., Karim, H.T., Lo, D., Kasibhatla, N., Santini, T., Weber, J.C., Ibrahim, T.S., & Banihashemi, L. (2023). Manual segmentation of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and the dorsal and ventral bed nucleus of stria terminalis using multimodal 7 Tesla structural MRI: probabilistic atlases for a stress-control triad. BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION. doi: 10.1007/s00429-023-02713.
Zhang, Y., Banihashemi, L., Samolyk, A., Taylor, M., English, G., Schmithorst, V.J., Lee, V.K., Versace, A., Stiffler, R., Aslam, H., Panigrahy, A., Hipwell, A.E., & Phillips, M.L. (2023). Early infant prefrontal gray matter volume is associated with concurrent and future infant emotionality. TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY, 13(1), 125.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1038/s41398-023-02427-0.
Banihashemi, L., Peng, C.W., Rangarajan, A., Karim, H.T., Wallace, M.L., Sibbach, B.M., Singh, J., Stinley, M.M., Germain, A., & Aizenstein, H.J. (2022). Childhood Threat Is Associated With Lower Resting-State Connectivity Within a Central Visceral Network. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 13, 805049.Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805049.
Clarkson, B.D., Karim, H.T., Chermansky, C.J., Banihashemi, L., Tyagi, S., Griffiths, D.J., & Resnick, N.M. (2022). Changes in brain response to urgency before and after treatment of urgency urinary incontinence with onabotulinumtoxin A. NEUROUROLOGY AND URODYNAMICS, 41(8), 1703-1710.Wiley. doi: 10.1002/nau.25012.
Kolobaric, A., Karim, H.T., Banihashemi, L., Mizuno, A., Aizenstein, H.J., & Andreescu, C. (2022). Are All Anxieties Created Equal? Stress-related Networks and Anxiety Phenotypes in Old Age. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY, 30(7), 801-812.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2021.12.007.
Sha, Z., & Banihashemi, L. (2022). Integrative omics analysis identifies differential biological pathways that are associated with regional grey matter volume changes in major depressive disorder. PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE, 52(5), 924-935.Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi: 10.1017/S0033291720002676.
Banihashemi, L., Peng, C.W., Verstynen, T., Wallace, M.L., Lamont, D.N., Alkhars, H.M., Yeh, F.C., Beeney, J.E., Aizenstein, H.J., & Germain, A. (2021). Opposing relationships of childhood threat and deprivation with stria terminalis white matter. HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING, 42(8), 2445-2460.Wiley. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25378.
Beeney, J.E., Forbes, E.E., Hipwell, A.E., Nance, M., Mattia, A., Lawless, J.M., Banihashemi, L., & Stepp, S.D. (2021). Determining the key childhood and adolescent risk factors for future BPD symptoms using regularized regression: comparison to depression and conduct disorder. JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, 62(2), 223-231.Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13269.
Moses-Kolko, E.L., Banihashemi, L., & Hipwell, A.E. (2021). Reduced postpartum hippocampal volume is associated with positive mother-infant caregiving behavior. JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, 281, 297-302.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.014.
Phillips, M.L., Schmithorst, V.J., Banihashemi, L., Taylor, M., Samolyk, A., Northrup, J.B., English, G.E., Versace, A., Stiff, R.S., Aslam, H.A., Bonar, L., Panigrahy, A., & Hipwell, A.E. (2021). Patterns of Infant Amygdala Connectivity Mediate the Impact of High Caregiver Affect on Reducing Infant Smiling: Discovery and Replication. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 90(5), 342-352.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.03.026.
Banihashemi, L., Bertocci, M.A., Alkhars, H.M., Versace, A., Northrup, J.B., Lee, V.K., Schmithorst, V.J., Samolyk, A., Taylor, M., English, G.E., Stiffler, R.S., Aslam, H.A., Bonar, L., Panigrahy, A., Hipwell, A.E., & Phillips, M.L. (2020). Limbic white matter structural integrity at 3 months prospectively predicts negative emotionality in 9-month -old infants: a preliminary study. JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, 273, 538-541.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.04.029.
Banihashemi, L., Wallace, M.L., Peng, C.W., Stinley, M.M., Germain, A., & Herringa, R.J. (2020). Interactions between childhood maltreatment and combat exposure trauma on stress-related activity within the cingulate cortex: a pilot study. MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY, 32(2), 176-185.Informa UK Limited. doi: 10.1080/08995605.2019.1702831.
Smagula, S.F., Stahl, S.T., Santini, T., Banihashemi, L., Hall, M.H., Ibrahim, T.S., III, R.C.F., Krafty, R.T., Aizenstein, H.J., & Zhan, L. (2020). White Matter Integrity Underlying Depressive Symptoms in Dementia Caregivers. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY, 28(5), 578-582.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2019.11.010.
Wu, M., Mennin, D.S., Ly, M., Karim, H.T., Banihashemi, L., Tudorascu, D.L., Aizenstein, H.J., & Andreescu, C. (2019). When worry may be good for you: Worry severity and limbic-prefrontal functional connectivity in late-life generalized anxiety disorder. JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, 257, 650-657.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.07.022.
Price, R.B., Cummings, L., Gilchrist, D., Graur, S., Banihashemi, L., Kuo, S.S., & Siegle, G.J. (2018). Towards Personalized, Brain-Based Behavioral Intervention for Transdiagnostic Anxiety: Transient Neural Responses to Negative Images Predict Outcomes Following a Targeted Computer-Based Intervention. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 86(12), 1031-1045.American Psychological Association (APA). doi: 10.1037/ccp0000309.
Wallace, M.L., Banihashemi, L., O'Donnell, C., Nimgaonkar, V.L., Kodavali, C., McNamee, R., & Germain, A. (2018). Using optimal combined moderators to define heterogeneity in neural responses to randomized conditions: Application to the effect of sleep loss on fear learning. NEUROIMAGE, 181, 718-727.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.051.
Banihashemi, L., Wallace, M.L., Sheu, L.K., Lee, M.C., Gianaros, P.J., Mackenzie, R.P., Insana, S.P., Germain, A., & Herringa, R.J. (2017). Childhood maltreatment moderates the effect of combat exposure on cingulum structural integrity. DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, 29(5), 1735-1747.Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi: 10.1017/S0954579417001365.
Insana, S.P., Banihashemi, L., Herringa, R.J., Kolko, D.J., & Germain, A. (2016). Childhood maltreatment is associated with altered frontolimbic neurobiological activity during wakefulness in adulthood. DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, 28(2), 551-564.Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi: 10.1017/S0954579415000589.
Andreescu, C., Mennin, D., Tudorascu, D., Sheu, L.K., Walker, S., Banihashemi, L., & Aizenstein, H. (2015). The many faces of anxiety-neurobiological correlates of anxiety phenotypes. PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING, 234(1), 96-105.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.08.013.
Andreescu, C., Sheu, L.K., Tudorascu, D., Gross, J.J., Walker, S., Banihashemi, L., & Aizenstein, H. (2015). Emotion Reactivity and Regulation in Late-Life Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Functional Connectivity at Baseline and Post-Treatment. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY, 23(2), 200-214.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2014.05.003.
Banihashemi, L., Sheu, L.K., Midei, A.J., & Gianaros, P.J. (2015). Childhood physical abuse predicts stressor-evoked activity within central visceral control regions. SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 10(4), 474-485.Oxford University Press (OUP). doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu073.
Banihashemi, L., O'Neill, E.J., & Rinaman, L. (2011). CENTRAL NEURAL RESPONSES TO RESTRAINT STRESS ARE ALTERED IN RATS WITH AN EARLY LIFE HISTORY OF REPEATED BRIEF MATERNAL SEPARATION. NEUROSCIENCE, 192, 413-428.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.06.052.
Rinaman, L., Banihashemi, L., & Koehnle, T.J. (2011). Early life experience shapes the functional organization of stress-responsive visceral circuits. PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR, 104(4), 632-640.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.04.008.
Banihashemi, L., & Rinaman, L. (2010). REPEATED BRIEF POSTNATAL MATERNAL SEPARATION ENHANCES HYPOTHALAMIC GASTRIC AUTONOMIC CIRCUITS IN JUVENILE RATS. NEUROSCIENCE, 165(1), 265-277.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.09.081.
Almeida, J.R.C., Akkal, D., Hassel, S., Travis, M.J., Banihashemi, L., Kerr, N., Kupfer, D.J., & Phillips, M.L. (2009). Reduced gray matter volume in ventral prefrontal cortex but not amygdala in bipolar disorder: Significant effects of gender and trait anxiety. PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING, 171(1), 54-68.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.02.001.
Banihashemi, L., & Rinaman, L. (2007). Characterization of autonomic emotional motor circuits in young rats. FASEB JOURNAL, 21(5), A475.
Banihashemi, L., & Rinaman, L. (2006). Noradrenergic inputs to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus underlie hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis but not hypophagic or conditioned avoidance responses to systemic yohimbine. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 26(44), 11442-11453.Society for Neuroscience. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3561-06.2006.
Myers, E.A., Banihashemi, L., & Rinaman, L. (2005). The anxiogenic drug yohimbine activates central viscerosensory circuits in rats. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY, 492(4), 426-441.Wiley. doi: 10.1002/cne.20727.
Myers, E.A., Banihashemi, L., Sprute, L., & Rinaman, L. (2004). Central neural activation and behavioral responses to systemic yohimbine in rats. FASEB JOURNAL, 18(4), A339.
Wittenberg, G.F., Fang, X., Roy, S., Lee, B., Miškov-Živanov, N., Hochheiser, H., Banihashemi, L., Vesia, M., & Ramsey, J. Representation and Retrieval of Brain Connectivity Information derived from TMS Experiments. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2023.01.22.522249.
Zhang, Y., Banihashemi, L., Versace, A., Samolyk, A., Taylor, M., English, G., Schmithorst, V., Lee, V., Santos, J., Stiffler, R., Aslam, H., Panigrahy, A., Hipwell, A., & Phillips, M. (2023). Associations Between Microstructural Properties of Early Prefrontal Cortex and Infant Emotionality. In BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 93(9), (p. S200).
Banihashemi, L., Schmithorst, V., Bertocci, M., Samolyk, A., Santos, J.P.L., Versace, A., Taylor, M., English, G., Northrup, J.B., Lee, V.K., Stiffler, R., Aslam, H., Panigrahy, A., Hipwell, A., & Phillips, M. (2022). Neural Network Functional Interactions Influence White Matter-Emotional Behavior Relationships in Infants. In NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, 47, (p. 146).
Banihashemi, L., Schmithorst, V., Bertocci, M., Samolyk, A., Santos, J.P.L., Versace, A., Taylor, M., English, G., Northrup, J.B., Lee, V.K., Stiffler, R., Aslam, H., Panigrahy, A., Hipwell, A., & Phillips, M. (2022). Neural Network Functional Interactions Influence White Matter-Emotional Behavior Relationships in Infants. In NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, 47(SUPPL 1), (p. 146).
Phillips, M., Banihashemi, L., Schmithorst, V., Bertocci, M., Stiffler, R., Aslam, H., Samolyk, A., English, G., Taylor, M., Panigrahy, A., & Hipwell, A. (2022). Functional and White Matter Marker Predictors of Risk for Future Affective Disorders Across Infants and Young Adults. In BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 91(9), (pp. S37-S38).
Banihashemi, L., Peng, C., Rangarajan, A., Karim, H., Aizenstein, H., & Germain, A. (2021). Links Between Childhood Adversity and Extended Amygdala Stressor-Evoked Activity and Connectivity in a Transdiagnostic Sample. In NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, 46(SUPPL 1), (pp. 514-515).
Phillips, M., Schmithorst, V., Banihashemi, L., Taylor, M., Samolyk, A., Northrop, J., English, G., Versace, A., Stiffler, R., Aslam, H., Panigrahy, A., & Hipwell, A. (2021). Early Infant Amygdala Resting State Functional Connectivity Protects Against the Impact of High Levels of Caregiver Depression and Anxiety on Reducing Infant Positive Emotionality. In BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 89(9), (pp. S29-S30).
Phillips, M., Hipwell, A., Banihashemi, L., Bertocci, M., Fournier, J., Versace, A., Monk, K., Aslam, H., Mccaffrey, A., Bonar, L., Stiffler, R., & Birmaher, B. (2020). Elucidating Multimodal Neural Marker Predictors of Future Vulnerability to Mood Disorders Across Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence. In BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 87(9), (pp. S67-S68).
Alkhars, H., Peng, C.W., Verstynen, T., Wallace, M.L., Aizenstein, H.A., Germain, A., & Banihashemi, L. (2019). Effects of Childhood Threat and Deprivation on Stria Terminalis and Medial Forebrain Bundle White Matter. In BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 85(10), (pp. S311-S312).Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.03.790.
Banihashemi, L., Alkhars, H.M., Versace, A., Hanford, L.C., Bertocci, M.A., Northrup, J.B., Lee, V.K., Bonar, L., Schmithorst, V.J., Panigrahy, A., Hipwell, A., & Phillips, M. (2019). The Longitudinal Relationship Between White Matter Structural Integrity and Emotion Regulation in Neonates: A Preliminary Study. In NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, 44(SUPPL 1), (pp. 283-284).
Banihashemi, L., Peng, C., Verstynen, T., Aizenstein, H., & Germain, A. (2017). MULTIMODAL ASSOCIATIONS OF CHILDHOOD MALTREATMENT WITH THE STRIA TERMINALIS AND ITS BED NUCLEUS. In PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE, 79(4), (pp. A112-A113).
Banihashemi, L., Herringa, R.J., Sheu, L.K., Germain, A., & Gianaros, P.J. (2014). Childhood Adversity is Associated with Resting Perfusion within Central Visceral Regions and the Structural Integrity of the Stria Terminalis within Healthy and PTSS Groups. In BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 75(9), (p. 306S).
Andreescu, C., Tudorascu, D.L., Sheu, L.K., Walker, S., Patel, M., Banihashemi, L., & Aizenstein, H.J. (2013). Functional and Structural Connectivity in the Salience Network in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. In BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 73(9), (pp. 77S-78S).
Banihashemi, L., Sheu, L.K., & Gianaros, P.J. (2012). Childhood Abuse Predicts Adulthood Stressor-Evoked Activity in Hypothalamic and Limbic Forebrain Regions. In BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 71(8), (p. 309S).