1) Osborne, K. J., Bernard, J. A., Gupta, T., Dean, D. J., Millman, Z., Vargas, T., Ristanovic, I., Schiffman, J., Mittal, V. A. (2016). Beat gestures and postural control in youth at ultra high risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research

 

2) Mittal, V.A., Vargas, T., Osborne, K. J., Dean, D., Gupta, T., Ristanovic, I., Hooker, C., Shankman S (2017).  Exercise Treatments for Psychosis: A Review.  Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry

 

3) Vargas, T., Dean, D., Osborne, K. J., Gupta, T., Ristanovic, I., Ozturk, S., Turner, J., van Erp, G. M., Mittal, V., (2018) Hippocampal Subregions across the Psychosis Spectrum. Schizophrenia Bulletin

 

4) Vargas, T., Lam, P.H., Azis, M., Osborne, K.J., Lieberman, A., Mittal, V. (2019) Childhood Trauma and Neurocognition in Adults with Psychotic Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Schizophrenia Bulletin

 

5) Vargas, T., Damme, K. S. F., Mittal, V. (2019) Bullying Victimization in Typically Developing and Clinical High Risk (CHR) Adolescents: A Multimodal Imaging Study. Schizophrenia Research

 

6) K. J. Osborne, Vargas, T., Mittal, V. (2020) Early Childhood Social Communication Deficits in Youth at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis: Associations with Functioning and Risk. Development and Psychopathology

 

7) Ristanovic, I., Osborne, K. J., Vargas, T., Gupta, T., Mittal, V. A. (2020). Postural Control and Verbal and Visual Working Memory Correlates in Non-Clinical Psychosis. Neuropsychobiologia

 

8) Vargas, T., Damme, K.S. F., Hooker, C.I., Gupta, T., Cowan, H.R., Mittal, V.A. (2019) Differentiating Implicit and Explicit Theory of Mind and Associated Neural Networks in Youth at Clinical High Risk (CHR) for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Research

 

9) Vargas, T., Maloney, J., Gupta, T., Damme, K.S. F., Kelley, N. J., Mittal, V.A. (2019) Measuring Facets of Reward Sensitivity, Inhibition, and Impulse Control in Individuals with Problematic Internet Use. Psychiatry Research

 

10)  Damme, K.S.F., Gallagher, N., Vargas, T., Osborne, K. J., Gupta, T., & Mittal, V.A. (2019) Motor Sequence Learning and Pattern Recognition in Youth at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Research

 

11) Vargas, T., Zou, D.S., Conley, R.E., Mittal, V.A. (2019) Assessing developmental environmental risk factor exposure in Clinical High Risk for psychosis individuals: preliminary results using the Individual and Structural Exposure to Stress in Psychosis-risk states scale.  Journal of Clinical Medicine

 

12) Vargas, T., Ahmed, A.O., Strauss, G.P., Brandes, C.M., Walker, E., Gold, J., Buchanan, R., Mittal, V. (2019) The Latent Structure of Depressive Symptoms Across Clinical High Risk and Chronic Phases of Psychotic Illness. Translational Psychiatry

 

13) Damme, K.S., Vargas, T., Calhoun, V., Turner, J., Mittal, V.A. (2020) Global and Specific Cortical Volume Asymmetries in Individuals with Psychosis Risk Syndrome and Schizophrenia: A mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal perspective. Schizophrenia Bulletin

 

14) Vargas, T., Rakhshan Rouhakhtar, P. J., Schiffman, J., Zou, D.S., Rydland, K.J., Mittal, V.A. (2020) Neighborhood crime, socioeconomic status, and suspiciousness in adolescents and young adults at Clinical High Risk (CHR) for psychosis. Schizophrenia research

 

15) Ristanovic, I., Vargas, T., Cowan, H.R., Mittal, V.A. (2020) Consistent Exposure to Psychosocial Stressors and Progressive Intolerance to Stress in Individuals at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open

 

16) Vargas, T., Damme, K.S.F., Ered, A., Capizzi, R., Frosch, I., Ellman, L.M.*, Mittal, V.M.*(2021) Neuroimaging markers of risk and resiliency in Clinical High Risk (CHR) for psychosis youth: a qualitative review. Biological Psychiatry: CNNI

 

17) Vargas, T., Damme, K.S.F., Mittal, V.M. (2020) Neighborhood deprivation, prefrontal morphology and neurocognition in late childhood to early adolescence. Neuroimage

 

18) Vargas, T., Schiffman, J., Kim, A., Mittal, V.A. (2020) Using search engine data to gauge public interest in mental health, politics and violence in the context of mass shootings. PLOS one

 

19) Yee, C.I., Vargas, T., Mittal, V.A., Haas, C.M. (2021) Adaptability and cohesion in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis: a multi-informant approach. Schizophrenia Research 

 

20) Vargas, T., Damme, K.S.F., Osborne, K.J., Mittal, V.A. (2021) Differentiating kinds of systemic stressors with relation to psychotic-like experiences in late childhood and early adolescence: the stimulation, discrepancy, and deprivation model of psychosis. Clinical Psychological Science

 

21) Vargas, T., Mittal, V.A. (2021) Testing whether implicit emotion regulation mediates the association between discrimination and symptoms of psychopathology in late childhood: An RDoC perspective. Development and psychopathology

 

22) MacNeill, L. A., Allen, N. B., Poleon, R. B., Vargas, T., Osborne, K. J., Damme, K. S. F., Barch, D. M., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Nielsen, A. N., Norton, E. S., Smyser, C. D., Rogers, C. E., Luby, J. L., Mittal, V. A., & Wakschlag, L. S. (2021). Translating RDoC to real world impact in developmental psychopathology: A neurodevelopmental framework for application of mental health risk calculators. Development & Psychopathology. 

 

23) Damme, K.S.F, Park, J., Walther, S., Vargas, T., Shankman, S., Mittal, V.A. (2021) Motor abnormalities, depression risk, and clinical course in adolescence. Biological Psychiatry Global Science Open

 

24) Ricard, J., Gupta, T., Vargas, T., Haase, C., Mittal, V.A. (2021) Genuine and non-genuine smiles in individuals meeting criteria for a clinical high risk syndrome. Early Intervention in Psychiatry

 

25) Damme, K.S.F., Park, J.S., Walther, S., Vargas, T., Shankman, S.A., Mittal, V.A. (2021) Depression and Psychosis Risk Shared Vulnerability for Motor Signs Across Development, Symptom Dimensions, and Familial Risk. Schizophrenia Bulletin

 

26) Lunsford Avery, J., Damme, K.S.F., Vargas, T., Sweitzer, M., Mittal, V.A. (2021) Psychotic-Like Experiences Associated with Sleep Disturbance and Brain Volumes in Youth: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Advances

 

27) Vargas, T.G., Damme, K.S.F., Mittal, V.A. (2022) Differentiating distinct and converging neural correlates of types of systemic environmental exposures. Human Brain Mapping 

 

28) Millman, Z.B., Roemer, C., Vargas, T., Schiffman, J., Mittal, V.A., Gold, J.M. (2022) Neuropsychological performance among individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis versus putatively low-risk peers with other psychopathology: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Schizophrenia bulletin

 

29) Vargas, T.G., Mittal, V.A. (2022) The Critical Roles of Early Development, Stress and Environments in the Course of Psychosis. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

 

30) Ristanovic, I., Vargas, T.G., Damme, K.S.F., Mittal, V.A. (2023) Hippocampal subfields, daily stressors, and resting cortisol in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis. Psychoneuroendocrinology

 

31) Vargas, T.G., Mittal, V.A. (2023) Brain morphometry points to emerging patterns of psychosis, depression, and anxiety vulnerability over a two-year period in childhood. Psychological Medicine 

 

32) Zarubin, V., Damme, K.S.F., Vargas, T., Osborne, K. J., Norton, E. S., Briggs-Gowan, M., Allen, N. B., Wakschlag, L. & Mittal, V. A. (2023). Neurodevelopmental vulnerability to psychosis: Developmentally-based methods enable detection of early life inhibitory control deficits that predict psychotic-like experiences at the transition to adolescence. Psychological Medicine

 

33) Damme, K.S.F., Vargas, T., Walther, S., Shankman, S., Mittal, V.A. (2024) Physical and Mental Health in Adolescence: Novel Insights from a transdiagnostic examination of FitBit data in the ABCD Study. Translational Psychiatry

 

34) Martinez, M., Damme, K.S.F., Stephens, J., Rompilla, D.J., Qu, Y., Yang, B., Vargas, T., Mittal, M.A., Haase, C. (2025) Peer Victimization, Social Support, and Mental Health During Early Adolescence. Psychological Medicine

 

35) Vargas, T.G., Rakesh, D., McLaughlin, K.A. (2025) Associations of Neighborhood Threat and   Deprivation with Psychopathology: Uncovering Neural Mechanisms. Development and Psychopathology

 

36) Vargas, T.G., Costello, M., Tiemeier, H., Lam, P.H., Bollman-Dodd, T., Kaur, J., Schuster, R. M. (2025) Neighborhood deprivation and adolescent mental health: The protective role of school staffing patterns. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

 

37) Vargas, T.G., McLaughlin, K.A., Rakesh, D. (2025) Testing moderators for associations of neighborhood adversity with psychopathology and cognitive outcomes. Developmental Science

 

EDITORIALS AND REVIEWS

 

1) Vargas, T., Mittal, V. A. (2018). Issues affecting reliable and valid assessment of early life stressors in psychosis [Letter to the Editor]. Schizophrenia Research

 

2) Vargas, T., Conley, R.E., Mittal, V.A. (2020) Chronic stress, structural exposures and neurobiological mechanisms: a stimulation, discrepancy and deprivation model of psychosis [Book Chapter].  International Review of Neurobiology

 

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION

 

1) Chen, S., Yang, B., Zhou, Z., Vargas, T.G., Santaularia, J., Adam, E., Haase, C., Qu, Y. (revise and resubmit). Hippocampal Volume Moderates the Link between Racial Discrimination and Early Adolescent Depression. Clinical Psychological Science

 

 

3) Vargas, T.G., Colich, N., Rakesh, D., McLaughlin, K.A. (in prep) Clarifying Associations of Threat and Deprivation with Patterns of Global Aging in Adolescence. 

 

4) Damme, K.S.F., Vargas, T.G., Bauer, J.A. (under review). The Impact of Environmental Pollution on Neurodevelopment, Cognition, and Mental Health. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.