Publications

Casey K. Brown*, Marcela C. Otero*, Elizabeth A. Ascher, Jennifer Merrilees, Robert W. Levenson (2025). Caregiver assessment of socioemotional functioning in people living with neurodegenerative disease (Part 2): Concurrent validity and test-retest reliability of a new measure. The Gerontologist. PDF Cite

Casey K. Brown, Lize De Coster, Junghee Lee, Lisa Lin, Daniel H. Mathalon, Joshua D. Woolley (2024). Maternal care is associated with neural and behavioral effects of oxytocin administration during empathic accuracy in schizophrenia and controls. Psychoneuroendocrinology. PDF Cite

Neke A. Nsor, Kyle J. Bourassa , Lisa L. Barnes, Casey L. Brown (2024). The effects of APOE alleles, cognitive activities, and social activities on cognitive decline in african americans.The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. PDF Cite

Dana A. Glei, Chioun Lee, Casey L. Brown, Maxine Weinstein (2024). Are employment and social integration more strongly associated with deaths of despair than psychological or economic distress? Social Science & Medicine. PDF Cite

Breanna M. Bullard, Casey L. Brown, Julian A. Scheffer, Anna B. Toledo, Robert W. Levenson (2024). Emotion regulation strategies and mental health in dementia caregivers: The moderating role of gender. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. PDF Cite

Kuan-Hua Chen, Jennifer Merrilees, Casey L. Brown, Claire Yee, Anna Sapozhnikova, Jenna L. Wells, Emilio Ferrer, Peter S. Pressman, Barbara L. Fredrickson, Robert W. Levenson (2024). Interpersonal linkage in positive and negative emotional behaviors, emotional well-being, and physical functioning in dementia caregivers. Clinical Psychological Science. PDF Cite 

Casey L. Brown, Kevin J. Grimm, Jenna L. Wells, Alice Y. Hua, Robert W. Levenson (2023). Empathic accuracy and shared depressive symptoms in close relationships. Clinical Psychological Science. PDF  Cite 

Robert W. Levenson, Kuan Hua Chen, Darius T. Levan, Enna Y. Chen, Scott L. Newton, Deepak Paul, Claire I. Yee, Casey L. Brown, Jennifer Merrilees, David Moss, Gene Wang (2023). Evaluating in-home assistive technology for dementia caregivers. Clinical Gerontologist. PDF Cite

Suzanne M. Shdo, Casey L. Brown, Joyce Yuan, Robert W. Levenson (2022). Diminished visual attention to emotional faces is associated with poor emotional valence perception in frontotemporal dementia. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders.  PDF Cite

Jenna L. Wells, Claudia M. Haase, Emily S. Rothwell, Kendyl G. Naugle, Marcela C. Otero, Casey L. Brown, Jocelyn Lai, Kuan Hua Chen, Dyan E. Connelly, Kevin J. Grimm, Robert W. Levenson, Barbara L. Fredrickson (2022). Positivity resonance in long-term married couples: Multimodal characteristics and consequences for health and longevity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Barbara L. Fredrickson (2021). Characteristics and consequences of co-experienced positive affect: understanding the origins of social skills, social bonds, and caring, healthy communities. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. PDF Cite

Alice Y. Hua, Jenna L. Wells, Casey L. Brown, Robert W. Levenson (2021). Emotional and cognitive empathy in caregivers of people with neurodegenerative disease: Relationships with caregiver mental health. Clinical Psychological Science. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Tessa V. West, Amy H. Sanchez, Wendy Berry Mendes (2020). Emotional empathy in the social regulation of distress: A dyadic approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. PDF Cite

Dyan E. Connelly, Alice Verstaen, Casey L. Brown, Sandy J. Lwi, Robert W. Levenson (2020). Pronoun use during patient-caregiver interactions: Associations with caregiver well-being. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Alice Y. Hua, Lize De Coster, Virginia E. Sturm, Joel H. Kramer, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, Robert W. Levenson (2020). Comparing two facets of emotion perception across multiple neurodegenerative diseases. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Jenna L. Wells, Alice Y. Hua, Kuan Hua Chen, Jennifer Merrilees, Bruce L. Miller, Robert W. Levenson (2020). Emotion recognition and reactivity in persons with neurodegenerative disease are differentially associated with caregiver health. The Gerontologist. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Kuan Hua Chen, Jenna L. Wells, Marcela C. Otero, Dyan E. Connelly, Robert W. Levenson, Barbara L. Fredrickson (2020). Shared emotions in shared lives: Moments of co-experienced affect, more than individually-experienced affect, linked to relationship quality. Emotion. PDF Cite

Kuan Hua Chen, Casey L. Brown, Jenna L. Wells, Emily S. Rothwell, Marcela C. Otero, Robert W. Levenson, Barbara L. Fredrickson (2020). Physiological linkage during shared positive and shared negative emotion. Journal of personality and social psychology. PDF Cite

Alice Y. Hua, Kuan Hua Chen, Casey L. Brown, Sandy J. Lwi, James J. Casey, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, Robert W. Levenson (2019). Physiological, behavioral and subjective sadness reactivity in frontotemporal dementia subtypes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. PDF Cite

Jenna L. Wells, Casey L. Brown, Alice Y. Hua, Peter D. Soyster, Kuan Hua Chen, Deepika R. Dokuru, Giovanni Coppola, Claudia M. Haase, Robert W. Levenson (2019). Neurodegenerative disease caregivers' 5-HTTLPR genotype moderates the effect of patients' empathic accuracy deficits on caregivers' well-being. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. PDF Cite

Marcela C. Otero, Jenna L. Wells, Kuan Hua Chen, Casey L. Brown, Dyan E. Connelly, Robert W. Levenson, Barbara L. Fredrickson (2019). Behavioral indices of positivity resonance associated with long-term marital satisfaction. Emotion. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Hannah G. Bosley, Alan D. Kenyon, Kuan Hua Chen, Robert W. Levenson (2019). An idiographic statistical approach to clinical hypothesis testing for routine psychotherapy: A case study. Behaviour Research and Therapy. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Natalia Van Doren, Brett Q. Ford, Iris B. Mauss, Jocelyn W. Sze, Robert W. Levenson (2019). Coherence between subjective experience and physiology in emotion: Individual differences and implications for well-being. Emotion.  PDF Cite

Jacqueline B. Persons, Casey L. Brown, Allison Diamond (2019). Case formulation-driven cognitive behavioral therapy. Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. PDF Cite 

Casey L. Brown, Sandy J. Lwi, Madeleine S. Goodkind, Katherine P. Rankin, Jennifer Merrilees, Bruce L. Miller, Robert W. Levenson (2018). Empathic accuracy deficits in patients with neurodegenerative disease: Association with caregiver depression. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. PDF Cite

James A. Coan, Lane Beckes, Marlen Z. Gonzalez, Erin L. Maresh, Casey L. Brown, Karen Hasselmo (2017). Relationship status and perceived support in the social regulation of neural responses to threat. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Lane Beckes, Joseph P. Allen, James A. Coan (2017). Subjective general health and the social regulation of hypothalamic activity. Psychosomatic Medicine. PDF Cite

Robert W. Levenson, Sandy J. Lwi, Casey L. Brown, Brett Q. Ford, Marcela C. Otero, Alice Verstaen (2017). Emotion. Handbook of Psychophysiology. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, James A. Coan (2016). The social regulation of neural threat responding. The social neuroscience of human-animal interaction. PDF Cite

Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel T. Gilbert, David A. Reinhard, Erin C. Westgate, Casey L. Brown (2014). Would you fund this movie? A reply to Fox et al. Frontiers in Psychology. PDF  Cite

Timothy D. Wilson, David A. Reinhard, Erin C. Westgate, Daniel T. Gilbert, Nicole Ellerbeck, Cheryl Hahn, Casey L. Brown, Adi Shaked (2014). Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind. Science. PDF Cite

James A. Coan, Casey L. Brown, Lane Beckes (2014). Our social baseline: The role of social proximity in economy of action. Mechanisms of social connection: From brain to group. PDF Cite

Casey L. Brown, Barbara A. Oudekerk, David E. Szwedo, Joseph P. Allen (2013). Inter-parent aggression as a precursor to disengagement coping in emerging adulthood: The buffering role of friendship competence. Social Development. PDF Cite

Tingting Zhang, Fan Li, Lane Beckes, Casey L. Brown, James A. Coan (2012). Nonparametric inference of the hemodynamic response using multi-subject fMRI data. NeuroImage. PDF Cite