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ZVR Lab

Welcome to the ZVR Lab

Our lab uses virtual reality (VR), multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and machine learning to try to elucidate the psychological and neural signatures of PTSD and anxiety disorders. Particularly, to delineate the contextual aspect of threat and reward learning, discrimination, and monitoring.

Specifically, we are interested in cases where an area within a larger environment becomes associated with threat, such as the area of a neighborhood where an assault or assaults took place, or the location on a battlefield where explosions occurred.

Patients with PTSD and anxiety disorders often show an overgeneralization or an exaggerated response to threat in larger contexts, even in environments predicting safety. With this research, we expect to identify new brain measures to develop sensitive, personalized, and precise diagnostic and treatment tools for psychopathology. 

Lab Members

Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Ph.D.

Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Publications

    1. Alon Y
    2. Bar-Haim Y
    3. Dykan CDG
    4. Suarez-Jimenez B
    5. Zhu X
    6. Neria Y
    7. Lazarov A
    Eye-tracking indices of attention allocation and attention bias variability are differently related to trauma exposure and PTSD.; Journal of anxiety disorders; Vol 96, pp. 102715. 2023 Apr 25.
    1. Zilcha-Mano S
    2. Duek O
    3. Suarez-Jimenez B
    4. Zhu X
    5. Lazarov A
    6. Helpman L
    7. Korem N
    8. Malka M
    9. Harpaz-Rotem I
    10. Neria Y
    Underlying Hippocampal Mechanism of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Outcome: Evidence From Two Clinical Trials.; Biological psychiatry global open science; Vol 3(4), pp. 867-874. 2023 Feb 03.
    1. Yang J
    2. Huggins AA
    3. Sun D
    4. Baird CL
    5. Haswell CC
    6. Frijling JL
    7. Olff M
    8. van Zuiden M
    9. Koch SBJ
    10. Nawijn L
    11. Veltman DJ
    12. Suarez-Jimenez B
    13. Zhu X
    14. Neria Y
    15. Hudson AR
    16. Mueller SC
    17. Baker JT
    18. Lebois LAM
    19. Kaufman ML
    20. Qi R
    21. Lu GM
    22. Říha P
    23. Rektor I
    24. Dennis EL
    25. Ching CRK
    26. Thomopoulos SI
    27. Salminen LE
    28. Jahanshad N
    29. Thompson PM
    30. Stein DJ
    31. Koopowitz SM
    32. Ipser JC
    33. Seedat S
    34. du Plessis S
    35. van den Heuvel LL
    36. Wang L
    37. Zhu Y
    38. Li G
    39. Sierk A
    40. Manthey A
    41. Walter H
    42. Daniels JK
    43. Schmahl C
    44. Herzog JI
    45. Liberzon I
    46. King A
    47. Angstadt M
    48. Davenport ND
    49. Sponheim SR
    50. Disner SG
    51. Straube T
    52. Hofmann D
    53. Grupe DW
    54. Nitschke JB
    55. Davidson RJ
    56. Larson CL
    57. deRoon-Cassini TA
    58. Blackford JU
    59. Olatunji BO
    60. Gordon EM
    61. May G
    62. Nelson SM
    63. Abdallah CG
    64. Levy I
    65. Harpaz-Rotem I
    66. Krystal JH
    67. Morey RA
    68. Sotiras A
    Examining the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and disruptions in cortical networks identified using data-driven methods.; Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2023 Jan 28.
    1. Zhu X
    2. Kim Y
    3. Ravid O
    4. He X
    5. Suarez-Jimenez B
    6. Zilcha-Mano S
    7. Lazarov A
    8. Lee S
    9. Abdallah CG
    10. Angstadt M
    11. Averill CL
    12. Baird CL
    13. Baugh LA
    14. Blackford JU
    15. Bomyea J
    16. Bruce SE
    17. Bryant RA
    18. Cao Z
    19. Choi K
    20. Cisler J
    21. Cotton AS
    22. Daniels JK
    23. Davenport ND
    24. Davidson RJ
    25. DeBellis MD
    26. Dennis EL
    27. Densmore M
    28. deRoon-Cassini T
    29. Disner SG
    30. Hage WE
    31. Etkin A
    32. Fani N
    33. Fercho KA
    34. Fitzgerald J
    35. Forster GL
    36. Frijling JL
    37. Geuze E
    38. Gonenc A
    39. Gordon EM
    40. Gruber S
    41. Grupe DW
    42. Guenette JP
    43. Haswell CC
    44. Herringa RJ
    45. Herzog J
    46. Hofmann DB
    47. Hosseini B
    48. Hudson AR
    49. Huggins AA
    50. Ipser JC
    51. Jahanshad N
    52. Jia-Richards M
    53. Jovanovic T
    54. Kaufman ML
    55. Kennis M
    56. King A
    57. Kinzel P
    58. Koch SBJ
    59. Koerte IK
    60. Koopowitz SM
    61. Korgaonkar MS
    62. Krystal JH
    63. Lanius R
    64. Larson CL
    65. Lebois LAM
    66. Li G
    67. Liberzon I
    68. Lu GM
    69. Luo Y
    70. Magnotta VA
    71. Manthey A
    72. Maron-Katz A
    73. May G
    74. McLaughlin K
    75. Mueller SC
    76. Nawijn L
    77. Nelson SM
    78. Neufeld RWJ
    79. Nitschke JB
    80. O'Leary EM
    81. Olatunji BO
    82. Olff M
    83. Peverill M
    84. Phan KL
    85. Qi R
    86. Quidé Y
    87. Rektor I
    88. Ressler K
    89. Riha P
    90. Ross M
    91. Rosso IM
    92. Salminen LE
    93. Sambrook K
    94. Schmahl C
    95. Shenton ME
    96. Sheridan M
    97. Shih C
    98. Sicorello M
    99. Sierk A
    100. Simmons AN
    101. Simons RM
    102. Simons JS
    103. Sponheim SR
    104. Stein MB
    105. Stein DJ
    106. Stevens JS
    107. Straube T
    108. Sun D
    109. Théberge J
    110. Thompson PM
    111. Thomopoulos SI
    112. van der Wee NJA
    113. van der Werff SJA
    114. van Erp TGM
    115. van Rooij SJH
    116. van Zuiden M
    117. Varkevisser T
    118. Veltman DJ
    119. Vermeiren RRJM
    120. Walter H
    121. Wang L
    122. Wang X
    123. Weis C
    124. Winternitz S
    125. Xie H
    126. Zhu Y
    127. Wall M
    128. Neria Y
    129. Morey RA
    Neuroimaging-Based Classification of PTSD Using Data-Driven Computational Approaches: A Multisite Big Data Study from the ENIGMA-PGC PTSD Consortium.; NeuroImage. 2023 Jan 17.

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Contact Us

  ZVR Lab
Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Ph.D.

601 Elmwood Ave, Box 603
Medical Center Annex
Offices: 2B-210, 2B-202
Rochester, NY 14642

  Office: 2B210 - (585) 275-6866

  Office: 2B202 - (585) 275-7103