Jessica Cooper
Overview
Dr. Jessica A. Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine and is the Associate Director for the Psychiatry Residency Research Track. She is also the Assistant Director of the Translational Research in Affective Disorders Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Emory University. Dr. Cooper is currently funded by a K01 career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate elevated inflammation and altered glutamatergic functioning as transdiagnostic mediators of stress-induced anhedonia. She primarily studies the neurobiology of motivation, decision making, and response to reward using fMRI and computational modeling.
Research
Publications
-
Inflammation is associated with avolition and reduced resting state functional connectivity in corticostriatal reward circuitry in patients with schizophrenia.
Neuropsychopharmacology
04/24/2025 Authors: Goldsmith DR; Ning CS; Strauss GP; Gross RE; Cooper JA; Wommack EC; Haroon E; Felger JC; Walker EF; Treadway MT -
A randomized proof-of-mechanism trial of TNF antagonism for motivational deficits and related corticostriatal circuitry in depressed patients with high inflammation.
Mol Psychiatry Volume: 30 Page(s): 1407 - 1417
04/01/2025 Authors: Treadway MT; Etuk SM; Cooper JA; Hossein S; Hahn E; Betters SA; Liu S; Arulpragasam AR; DeVries BAM; Irfan N -
Medial prefrontal glutamate response to acute stress is associated with social subordination in female rhesus macaques.
Transl Psychiatry Volume: 15 Page(s): 107
03/29/2025 Authors: Treadway MT; Betters SA; Cooper JA; Li C-X; Zhang X; Michopoulos V -
Computational Phenotyping of Effort-Based Decision Making in Unmedicated Adults With Remitted Depression.
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
02/24/2025 Authors: Kuhn M; Palermo EH; Pagnier G; Blank JM; Steinberger DC; Long Y; Nowicki G; Cooper JA; Treadway MT; Frank MJ -
Spontaneous thought separates into clusters of negative, positive, and flexible thinking.
Commun Psychol Volume: 3 Page(s): 21
02/05/2025 Authors: Mig M; Cooper JA; Kragel PA; Treadway MT -
Using Computational Phenotyping to Identify Divergent Strategies for Effort Allocation Across the Psychosis Spectrum.
Schizophr Bull Volume: 50 Page(s): 1127 - 1136
08/27/2024 Authors: Whitton AE; Cooper JA; Merchant JT; Treadway MT; Lewandowski KE -
A randomized proof-of-mechanism trial of TNF antagonism for motivational anhedonia and related corticostriatal circuitry in depressed patients with high inflammation.
03/05/2024 Authors: Treadway M; Etuk S; Cooper J; Hossein S; Hahn E; Betters S; Liu S; Arulpragasam A; DeVries B; Irfan N -
Effects of acute stress and depression on functional connectivity between prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.
Mol Psychiatry Volume: 28 Page(s): 4602 - 4612
11/01/2023 Authors: Hossein S; Cooper JA; DeVries BAM; Nuutinen MR; Hahn EC; Kragel PA; Treadway MT -
Hormone sensitivity predicts the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on reward-seeking behaviors in perimenopausal women: A randomized controlled trial.
Psychoneuroendocrinology Volume: 156 Page(s): 106339
10/01/2023 Authors: Swales DA; Lozza-Fiacco S; Andersen EH; Cooper JA; Treadway MT; Xia K; Schiller CE; Girdler SS; Dichter GS -
Age-related differences in the social associative learning of trust information.
Neurobiol Aging Volume: 125 Page(s): 32 - 40
05/01/2023 Authors: Seaman KL; Christensen AP; Senn KD; Cooper JA; Cassidy BS