Anastacia Kudinova is a licensed clinical psychologist, Assistant Professor (Research) at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a Research Scientist at Bradley Hospital. Her program of research focuses on advancing what is known about the biobehavioral mechanisms underlying suicide risk and mood disorders in youth using interdisciplinary methodology. Her current studies examine the interplay between self-referential processing and suicidal thoughts and behavior in youth in the context of proximal risk factors, including sleep regulation, social media use, and stress. You can learn more about her lab here.
Dr. Kudinova graduated with a BA in psychology from Brigham Young University-Hawaii. She received an MA in clinical psychology at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and completed a PhD in clinical psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Following a predoctoral internship at the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, NC, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship on a Child Mental Health T32 at the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (DPHB) at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She joined the DPHB faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2020.
Google Scholar profile
| Harvanek, Z. M., Kudinova, A.Y., Wong, S. Xu, K., Sinha, R., Tyrka, A. "Childhood Trauma is Associated with Increased GrimAge, Which Predicts Insulin Resistance in Individuals with Obesity." Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2024. |
| Kudinova, A.Y*., Kulak, M*., Daniels, T., Lewis-de los Angeles, W., de la Monte, S., & Tyrka, A. "Indirect effects of early life stress on body mass index via plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1)." Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2024. |
| Cheek SM, Kudinova AY, Kuzyk EG, Goldston DB, Liu RT. "Cognitive inflexibility and suicidal ideation among adolescents following hospitalization: The moderating role of life stress." Journal of affective disorders, vol. 339, 2023, pp. 698-705. |
| Kudinova AY, Brick LA, Armey M, Nugent NR. "Micro‐sequences of anger and shame and non‐suicidal self‐injury in youth: an ecological momentary assessment study." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2023. |
| Buitron V, Maron M, Kudinova A, Thompson E, Barker DH, Wolff JC. "Sleep disturbance and suicidality in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents: The role of specific emotion regulation domains." Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 79, no. 11, 2023, pp. 2515-2528. |
| Kudinova AY, Bettis AH, Thompson EC, Thomas SA, Nesi J, Erguder L, MacPherson HA, Burke TA, Wolff JC. "COVID-19 Related Daily Stressors, Coping, and Suicidal Ideation in Psychiatrically Hospitalized Youth." Child & Youth Care Forum, vol. 51, no. 3, 2022, pp. 579-592. |
| Burke TA, Bettis AH, Kudinova A, Thomas SA, Nesi J, Erguder L, MacPherson HA, Thompson E, Ammerman BA, Wolff JC. "COVID-19-Specific Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Psychiatrically Hospitalized Adolescents." Child Psychiatry & Human Development, vol. 53, no. 6, 2022, pp. 1383-1390. |
| Babcock Fenerci, Rebecca L., Jenkins, Gracie A., Gilbert, Anna C., Schettini, Elana, Musella, Katharine, MacPherson, Heather, Kim, Kerri L., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Radoeva, Petya D., Dickstein, Daniel P. "Maltreatment history and reasons for self‐injurious behavior among adolescents engaged in non‐suicidal self‐injury versus adolescents who attempted suicide." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 52, no. 5, 2022, pp. 898-907. |
| Kudinova, Anastacia, Brick, Leslie A., Barthelemy, Christine, MacPherson, Heather A., Jenkins, Gracie, DeYoung, Lena, Gilbert, Anna, Radoeva, Petya, Kim, Kerri, Armey, Michael, Dickstein, Daniel. "Sex and age moderate the trajectory of guilt among children and adolescents with and without recent suicidal ideation." Cognition and Emotion, vol. 36, no. 3, 2022, pp. 512-526. |
| MacPherson, Heather A., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Jenkins, Gracie A., Kim, Kerri L., Radoeva, Petya D., Gilbert, Anna C., Barthelemy, Christine, DeYoung, Lena, Yen, Shirley, Hower, Heather, Hunt, Jeffrey, Keller, Martin B., Dickstein, Daniel P. "Facial emotion recognition and mood symptom course in young adults with childhood-onset bipolar disorder." European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, vol. 271, no. 7, 2021, pp. 1393-1404. |
| MacPherson, Heather A., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Schettini, Elana, Jenkins, Gracie A., Gilbert, Anna C., Thomas, Sarah A., Kim, Kerri L., Radoeva, Petya D., Fenerci, Rebecca L. Babcock, Yen, Shirley, Hower, Heather, Hunt, Jeffrey, Keller, Martin B., Dickstein, Daniel P. "Relationship between cognitive flexibility and subsequent course of mood symptoms and suicidal ideation in young adults with childhood-onset bipolar disorder." European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 31, no. 2, 2021, pp. 299-312. |
| Nesi, Jacqueline, Burke, Taylor A., Bettis, Alexandra H., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Thompson, Elizabeth C., MacPherson, Heather A., Fox, Kara A., Lawrence, Hannah R., Thomas, Sarah A., Wolff, Jennifer C., Altemus, Melanie K., Soriano, Sheiry, Liu, Richard T. "Social media use and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis." Clinical Psychology Review, vol. 87, 2021, pp. 102038. |
| Nesi, Jacqueline, Burke, Taylor A., Extein, Jonathan, Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Fox, Kara A., Hunt, Jeffrey, Wolff, Jennifer C. "Social media use, sleep, and psychopathology in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents." Journal of Psychiatric Research, vol. 144, 2021, pp. 296-303. |
| Thompson EC, Thomas SA, Burke TA, Nesi J, MacPherson HA, Bettis AH, Kudinova AY, Affleck K, Hunt J, Wolff JC. "Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents pre- and post- COVID-19: A historical chart review and examination of contextual correlates." Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, vol. 4, 2021, pp. 100100. |
| Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Gano, Anny, James, Kiera M., Lawlor, Christian, Deak, Terrence, Gibb, Brandon E. "Anhedonia and increased evoked immune response." Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, vol. 6, 2020, pp. 100090. |
| Foster, Claire E., Owens, Max, Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Gibb, Brandon E. "Attentional biases to emotional faces among women with a history of single episode versus recurrent major depression." Cognition and Emotion, vol. 35, no. 1, 2020, pp. 193-198. |
| James, Kiera M., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Woody, Mary L., Feurer, Cope, Foster, Claire E., Gibb, Brandon E. "Children's history of suicidal ideation and synchrony of facial displays of affect during mother–child interactions." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 62, no. 1, 2020, pp. 40-47. |
| Kim, Kerri L., Galione, Janine, Schettini, Elana, DeYoung, Lena L.A., Gilbert, Anna C., Jenkins, Gracie A., Barthelemy, Christine M., MacPherson, Heather A., Radoeva, Petya D., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Dickstein, Daniel P. "Do styles of emotion dysregulation differentiate adolescents engaging in non-suicidal self-injury from those attempting suicide?." Psychiatry Research, vol. 291, 2020, pp. 113240. |
| Kudinova, Anastacia Y., MacPherson, Heather A., Musella, Katharine, Schettini, Elana, Gilbert, Anna C., Jenkins, Gracie A., Clark, Lee Anna, Dickstein, Daniel P. "Maladaptive personality traits and the course of suicidal ideation in young adults with bipolar disorder: Cross‐sectional and prospective approaches." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 51, no. 3, 2020, pp. 394-402. |
| Bettis, Alexandra H., Thompson, Elizabeth C., Burke, Taylor A., Nesi, Jacqueline, Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Hunt, Jeffrey I., Liu, Richard T., Wolff, Jennifer C. "Prevalence and clinical indices of risk for sexual and gender minority youth in an adolescent inpatient sample." Journal of Psychiatric Research, vol. 130, 2020, pp. 327-332. |
| Bettis, Alexandra H., Liu, Richard T., Walsh, Barent W., Klonsky, E. David. "Treatments for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth: Progress and Challenges." Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, vol. 5, no. 3, 2020, pp. 354-364. |
| Radoeva, Petya D., Jenkins, Gracie A., Schettini, Elana, Gilbert, Anna C., Barthelemy, Christine M., DeYoung, Lena L.A., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Kim, Kerri L., MacPherson, Heather A., Dickstein, Daniel P. "White matter correlates of cognitive flexibility in youth with bipolar disorder and typically developing children and adolescents." Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, vol. 305, 2020, pp. 111169. |
| Woody, Mary L., James, Kiera, Foster, Claire E., Owens, Max, Feurer, Cope, Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Gibb, Brandon E. "Children’s sustained attention to emotional facial expressions and their autonomic nervous system reactivity during parent-child interactions." Biological Psychology, vol. 142, 2019, pp. 37-44. |
| Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Woody, Mary L., James, Kiera M., Burkhouse, Katie L., Feurer, Cope, Foster, Claire E., Gibb, Brandon E. "Maternal major depression and synchrony of facial affect during mother-child interactions." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 128, no. 4, 2019, pp. 284-294. |
| Feurer, Cope, Woody, Mary L., James, Kiera M., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Gibb, Brandon E. "Neighborhood crime risk and resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia in middle childhood: Evidence of gender differences." Developmental Psychobiology, vol. 62, no. 2, 2019, pp. 232-239. |
| Deak T, Kudinova A, Lovelock DF, Gibb BE, Hennessy MB. "A multispecies approach for understanding neuroimmune mechanisms of stress." Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, vol. 19, no. 1, 2017, pp. 37-53. |
| Kudinova, Anastacia Y., James, Kiera, Gibb, Brandon E. "Cognitive Reappraisal and Depression in Children with a Parent History of Depression." Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, vol. 46, no. 4, 2017, pp. 849-856. |
| James, Kiera M., Woody, Mary L., Feurer, Cope, Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Gibb, Brandon E. "Disrupted physiological reactivity among children with a history of suicidal ideation: Moderation by parental expressed emotion-criticism." Biological Psychology, vol. 130, 2017, pp. 22-29. |
| Burkhouse, Katie L., Owens, Max, Feurer, Cope, Sosoo, Effua, Kudinova, Anastacia, Gibb, Brandon E. "Increased neural and pupillary reactivity to emotional faces in adolescents with current and remitted major depressive disorder." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 12, no. 5, 2017, pp. 783-792. |
| Woody, Mary L., Burkhouse, Katie L., Siegle, Greg J., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Meadows, Sydney P., Gibb, Brandon E. "Pupillary Response to Emotional Stimuli as a Risk Factor for Depressive Symptoms Following a Natural Disaster: The 2011 Binghamton Flood." Clinical Psychological Science, vol. 5, no. 4, 2017, pp. 726-732. |
| Tsypes, Aliona, James, Kiera M., Woody, Mary L., Feurer, Cope, Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Gibb, Brandon E. "Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia in suicide attempters." Psychophysiology, vol. 55, no. 2, 2017. |
| Kudinova AY, Deak T, Hueston CM, McGeary JE, Knopik VS, Palmer RH, Gibb BE. "Cross-species evidence for the role of interleukin-33 in depression risk." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 125, no. 4, 2016, pp. 482-494. |
| Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Burkhouse, Katie L., Siegle, Greg, Owens, Max, Woody, Mary L., Gibb, Brandon E. "Pupillary reactivity to negative stimuli prospectively predicts recurrence of major depressive disorder in women." Psychophysiology, vol. 53, no. 12, 2016, pp. 1836-1842. |
| Eisen, Rebecca B., Perera, Stefan, Banfield, Laura, Anglin, Rebecca, Minuzzi, Luciano, Samaan, Zainab. "Association between BDNF levels and suicidal behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis." Systematic Reviews, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015. |
| Kudinova AY, Gibb BE, McGeary JE, Knopik VS. "Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) polymorphism moderates the interactive effect of 5-HTTLPR polymorphism and childhood abuse on diagnoses of major depression in women." Psychiatry Research, vol. 225, no. 3, 2015, pp. 746-747. |
| Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Owens, Max, Burkhouse, Katie L., Barretto, Kenneth M., Bonanno, George A., Gibb, Brandon E. "Differences in emotion modulation using cognitive reappraisal in individuals with and without suicidal ideation: An ERP study." Cognition and Emotion, vol. 30, no. 5, 2015, pp. 999-1007. |
| Woody, Mary L., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., McGeary, John E., Knopik, Valerie S., Palmer, Rohan H. C., Gibb, Brandon E. "Influence of maternal depression on children's brooding rumination: Moderation by CRHR1 TAT haplotype." Cognition and Emotion, vol. 30, no. 2, 2015, pp. 302-314. |
| Burkhouse, Katie L., Siegle, Greg J., Woody, Mary L., Kudinova, Anastacia Y., Gibb, Brandon E. "Pupillary reactivity to sad stimuli as a biomarker of depression risk: Evidence from a prospective study of children." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 124, no. 3, 2015, pp. 498-506. |
| Kohli, Payal, Bonaca, Marc P, Kakkar, Rahul, Kudinova, Anastacia Y, Scirica, Benjamin M, Sabatine, Marc S, Murphy, Sabina A, Braunwald, Eugene, Lee, Richard T, Morrow, David A. "Role of ST2 in Non–ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome in the MERLIN-TIMI 36 Trial." Clinical Chemistry, vol. 58, no. 1, 2012, pp. 257-266. |
| Cupesi, Mihaela, Yoshioka, Jun, Gannon, Joseph, Kudinova, Anastacia, Stewart, Colin L., Lammerding, Jan. "Attenuated hypertrophic response to pressure overload in a lamin A/C haploinsufficiency mouse." Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, vol. 48, no. 6, 2010, pp. 1290-1297. |
| Seki K, Sanada S, Kudinova AY, Steinhauser ML, Handa V, Gannon J, Lee RT. "Interleukin-33 prevents apoptosis and improves survival after experimental myocardial infarction through ST2 signaling." Circulation: Heart Failure, vol. 2, no. 6, 2009, pp. 684-691. |
Ongoing Research Projects
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Self-Critical Rumination and Self-Reassurance and Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in Youth
This NIMH-supported study focuses on examining whether differential neural processing of self-criticism and self-reassurance is linked to ecologically derived suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth. Our central methodology is to examine self-critical rumination and self-reassurance using task-dependent and task-independent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in 12-15 year-old youth recruited on the range of suicidal thoughts and behavior. The overarching aims are to: (i) test the associations between in vivo self-critical rumination, self-reassurance, and suicidal thoughts and behavior; (ii) identify neural mechanisms underlying self-critical rumination and self-reassurance; (iii) integrate the findings from the scanner with suicidal thoughts and behavior assessed in adolescents’ real world environment. This is significant, because identifying specific neural mechanisms underlying the interplay between self-critical rumination, self-reassurance, and suicidal thoughts and behavior can help ascertain which teens are at a greater risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior and contribute to development of novel, mechanistically-informed interventions.
Self-Referential States and Proximal Suicidal Ideation in Gender-Diverse Youth
Supported by the Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, this pilot study focuses on how self-referential states intersect with proximal suicidal ideation in gender-diverse (spectrum of transgender and gender nonconforming identities) youth. We seek to characterize the impact of inducing self-referential states linked to recent gender minority stressors on subsequent implicit and explicit suicidal ideation and how state-specific neural activity impacts the magnitude of changes in suicidality. This is significant because the findings may contribute to developing novel interventions that target self-referential states and specific neural pathways to reduce suicide risk in this high-risk population.
Sleep and Circadian Timing and Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in Youth: The Role of Self-Referential Processing and Its Neural Correlates
This project is supported by the COBRE Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Bradley Hospital. The study seeks to advance our understanding of the daily interplay of sleep and the biological clock and how teens think of themselves with their thoughts of suicide. Our central methodology is to examine the interface of sleep and biological clock and nighttime self-critical rumination and self-reassurance with next-day suicidal thoughts using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), gold-standard assessments of circadian timing and sleep, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 60, 13–17-year-old youth. Teens are recruited on a range of suicidal thoughts from the inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient care, as well as the community. This research is significant because characterizing brain-behavior mechanisms of the association of circadian timing and sleep behavior with nighttime self-critical rumination, self-reassurance, and next-day suicidal thinking can contribute to developing novel mobile interventions that target self-referential thinking and sleep to reduce suicide risk in youth.
Completed Projects:
The Intersection of Sleep and Circadian Timing with Social Media Use, Thoughts about Self, and Suicidal Ideation in YouthThis pilot study was supported by the COBRE Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Bradley Hospital. Our prelimenary findings suggest the links between nighttime social media use, self-criticism, and SI. We also found prelimenary support for the wider phase angle–time period between the timing of the circadian clock and the actiial time when teen falls asleep– being linked to social media use and nighttime social media use leading to a shorter subsequent sleep duration.
ONGOING RESEARCH FUNDING
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Self-Critical Rumination and Self-Reassurance and Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in Youth
Sleep and Circadian Timing and Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in Youth: The Role of Self-Referential Processing and Its Neural Correlates
Self-Referential States and Proximal Suicidal Ideation in Gender-Diverse Youth
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | PhD | State University of New York at Binghamton |
| 2012 | MA | Columbia University |
| 2007 | BA | Brigham Young University-Hawaii |
AWARDS:
2021- 2022 NIH Pediatric Health Loan Repayment Program Renewal 1
2022-2023. NIH Pediatric Health Loan Repayment Program Renewal 2
2024- 2025 NIH Pediatric Health Loan Repayment Program Renewal 3
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
10/2021 NIMH Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities (CPDD) study section, EC reviewer
06/2023 NIMH Social Media RFA study section, reviewer
06/2024 NIMH Social Media RFA study section, reviewer
11/ 2024 NIH Special Emphasis Panel (psychopathology, cognitive biology, communication and language development, speech pathology, and biobehavioral mechanisms of addiction, emotion, sleep, and stress), reviewer
Editorial Board Member
01/2024-present Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
09/2024-present SLEEP Advances
