PUBLICATIONS

Selected publications (see here for a full list)

2025

Ding, J. E., Yang, S., Zilverstand, A., Kulkarni, K. R., Gu, X., & Liu, F. (2025). Spatial Craving Patterns in Marijuana Users: Insights From fMRI Brain Connectivity Analysis With High-Order Graph Attention Neural Networks. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform, 29(1), 358-370. https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2024.3462371
Banker, S.M., Harrington, M., Schafer, M., Na, S., Heflin, M., Barkley, S., Trayvick, J., Peters, A.W., Thinakaran, A.A., Schiller, D., Foss-Feig, J.H., Gu, X. Phenotypic divergence between individuals with self-reported autistic traits and clinically ascertained autism. Nat. Mental Health (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-025-00385-8

2024

Batten SR, Bang D, Kopell BH, Davis AN, Heflin M, Fu Q, Perl O, Ziafat K, Hashemi A, Saez I, Barbosa L, Twomey T, Lohrenz T, White JP, Dayan P, Charney AW, Figee M, Mayberg HS, Kishida K, Gu X, Montague PR. Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange. Nature Human Behavior. 2024 February 26. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01831-w.

Orloff, M. A*., Chung, D.*, Gu, X.*, Wang, X., Gao, Z., Song, G., Tatineni, C., Xu, S., Casas, B., & Chiu, P. H. (2024). Social conformity is a heuristic when individual risky decision-making is disrupted. PLoS computational biology, 20(12), e1012602. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012602 (*equal contribution)
Rhoads, S. A.*, Gu, X.*, & Barnby, J. M.* (2024). Advancing computational psychiatry through a social lens. Nature Mental Health, 2(11), 1268-1270. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00343-w (*equal contribution)
Perl O, Shuster A, Heflin M, Na A, Kidwai A, Booker N, Putnam WC, Fiore VG, Gu X. Nicotine-related beliefs induce dose-dependent responses in the human brain. Nat. Mental Health. 2024. doi: 10.1038/s44220-023-00188-9.

2023

Ryu J, Heisig S, McLaughlin C, Katz M, Mayberg HS, Gu X. A natural language processing approach reveals first-person pronoun usage and non-fluency as markers of therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy. iScience. 2023 May 12;26(6):106860. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106860. PMID: 37255661; PMCID: PMC10225921.
Kulkarni KR, O'Brien M, Gu X. Longing to act: Bayesian inference as a framework for craving in behavioral addiction. Addict Behav. 2023
Sep;144:107752. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107752. Epub 2023 May 13. PMID: 37201396; PMCID: PMC10330403.
Na S, Rhoads SA, Yu ANC, Fiore VG, Gu X. Towards a neurocomputational account of social controllability: From models to mental health. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2023 May;148:105139. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105139. Epub 2023 Mar 20. PMID: 36940889; PMCID: PMC10106443.

2022

Saez I, Gu X. Invasive Computational Psychiatry. Biol Psychiatry. 2023 Apr 15;93(8):661-670. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.09.032. Epub 2022 Oct 8. PMID: 36641365; PMCID: PMC10038930.
Kulkarni KR, Schafer M, Berner LA, Fiore VG, Heflin M, Hutchison K, Calhoun V, Filbey F, Pandey G, Schiller D, Gu X. An Interpretable and Predictive Connectivity-Based Neural Signature for Chronic Cannabis Use. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2023 Mar;8(3):320-330. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.04.009. Epub 2022 May 31. PMID: 35659965; PMCID: PMC9708942.
Na S, Blackmore S, Chung D, O'Brien M, Banker SM, Heflin M, Fiore VG, Gu X. Computational mechanisms underlying illusion of control in delusional individuals. Schizophr Res. 2022 Jul;245:50-58. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.01.054. Epub 2022 Feb 15. PMID. 35177284. PMCID:
PMC9232936.

2021

Fiore VG, Gu X. Similar network compositions, but distinct neural dynamics underlying belief updating in environments with and without explicit outcomes. Neuroimage. 2022 Feb 15;247:118821. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118821. Epub
2021 Dec 14. PMID: 34920087.
Na S, Chung D, Hula A, Perl O, Jung J, Heflin M, Blackmore S, Fiore VG, Dayan P, Gu X. Humans use forward thinking to exploit social controllability. Elife. 2021 Oct 29;10:e64983. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64983. PMID: 34711304; PMCID: PMC8555988.
Fiore VG, DeFelice N, Glicksberg BS, Perl O, Shuster A, Kulkarni K, O'Brien M, Pisauro MA, Chung D, Gu X. Containment of COVID-19: Simulating the impact of different policies and testing capacities for contact tracing, testing, and isolation. PLoS One. 2021 Mar 31;16(3):e0247614. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247614. PMID: 33788852; PMCID: PMC8011755.

Fiore VG, Guertler AV, Yu JC, Tatineni CC, Gu X. A change of mind: Globus pallidus activity and effective connectivity during changes in choice selections. Eur J Neurosci. 2021 Apr;53(8):2774-2787. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15142. Epub 2021 Feb 28. PMID: 33556221.

2020

Ryu J, Banthin DC, Gu X. Modeling Therapeutic Alliance in the Age of Telepsychiatry. Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 Jan;25(1):5-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.10.001. Epub 2020 Oct 28. PMID: 33129720.

Yu JC, Fiore VG, Briggs RW, Braud J, Rubia K, Adinoff B, Gu X. An insula-driven network computes decision uncertainty and promotes abstinence in chronic cocaine users. Eur J Neurosci. 2020 Dec;52(12):4923-4936. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14917. Epub 2020 Aug 19. PMID: 33439518; PMCID: PMC8485760.

2019

Gu X, FitzGerald THB, Friston KJ. Modeling subjective belief states in computational psychiatry: interoceptive inference as a candidate framework. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2019 Aug;236(8):2405-2412. doi: 10.1007/s00213-019-05300-5. Epub 2019 Jun 22. PubMed PMID: 31230144; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6697568.

Ognibene D, Fiore VG, Gu X. Addiction beyond pharmacological effects: The role of environment complexity and bounded rationality. Neural Netw. 2019 Aug;116:269-278. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2019.04.022. Epub 2019 May 8. PubMed PMID: 31125913; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6581592.

2018

Fiore VG, Ognibene D, Adinoff B, Gu X. A Multilevel Computational Characterization of Endophenotypes in Addiction. eNeuro. 2018 Jul 17;5(4). pii: ENEURO.0151-18.2018. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0151-18.2018. eCollection 2018 Jul-Aug. PubMed PMID: 30073199; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6071202.
Gu X. Incubation of craving: a Bayesian account. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018 Jun 2. doi: 10.1038/s41386-018-0108-7. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 29930384.

2017

Gu X, Zhou TJ, Anagnostou E, Soorya L, Kolevzon A, Hof PR, Fan J. Heightened brain response to pain anticipation in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder. Eur J Neurosci. 2018 Mar;47(6):592-601. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13598. Epub 2017 May 25. PubMed PMID: 28452081; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5659957.

Sui J, Gu X. Self as Object: Emerging Trends in Self Research. Trends Neurosci. 2017 Nov;40(11):643-653. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2017.09.002. Epub 2017 Oct 5. Review. PubMed PMID: 28988827.
Gu X, Filbey F. A Bayesian Observer Model of Drug Craving. JAMA Psychiatry. 2017 Apr 1;74(4):419-420. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.3823. PubMed PMID: 28199454.