2025

Demir-Kassem, S., Frey, A.-L. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2025) Meaning in life mediates the effects of sense of self and prosocial behaviours on anhedonia: a path analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 368. pp. 503-512. ISSN 1573-2517 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.09.106

2024

Zhang, H., Mahmoodi Kahriz, B., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Vogt, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-2805 (2024) How to be happy from East to West: social and flexible pursuit of happiness is associated with positive effects of valuing happiness on well-being. Current Psychology. ISSN 1936-4733 (In Press)

Prizeman, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3960-6467, Weinstein, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2200-6617 and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2024) Strategies to overcome mental health stigma: insights and recommendations from young people with major depressive disorder (MDD). Brain and Behavior, 14 (9). e70028. ISSN 2162-3279 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70028

Prizeman, K., Weinstein, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2200-6617 and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2024) Strategies to overcome mental health stigma: insights and recommendations from young people with MDD. Brain and behaviour. ISSN 2162-3279 (In Press)

Prizeman, K., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Weinstein, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2200-6617 (2024) Stigma and its impact on disclosure and mental health secrecy in young people with clinical depression symptoms: a qualitative analysis. PLoS ONE, 19 (1). e0296221. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296221

2023

Prizeman, K., Weinstein, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2200-6617 and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2023) Effects of mental health stigma on loneliness, social isolation, and relationships in young people with depression symptoms. BMC Psychiatry, 23. 527. ISSN 1476-1793 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04991-7

Frey, A.-L., Kaya, M. S., Adeniyi, I. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2023) Anhedonia in relation to reward and effort learning in young people with depression symptoms. Brain Sciences, 13 (2). 341. ISSN 2076-3425 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13020341

2022

Kaya, M. S. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2022) Effects of COVID-19 on adolescent mental health and internet use by ethnicity and gender: a mixed–method study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (15). 8927. ISSN 1660-4601 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19158927

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Keast, K. and Kaya, M. S. (2022) Barriers and facilitators to university access in disadvantaged UK adolescents by ethnicity: a qualitative study. Journal of Further and Higher Education. ISSN 0309-877X doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2022.2086037

2021

Watson, R., Harvey, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6819-0934, Pass, L., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Reynolds, S. (2021) A qualitative study exploring adolescents’ experience of brief behavioural activation for depression and its impact on the symptom of anhedonia. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94 (2). pp. 266-288. ISSN 2044-8341 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12307

Watson, R., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Harvey, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6819-0934 and Reynolds, S. (2021) Development and validation of a new adolescent self-report scale to measure loss of interest and pleasure: the anhedonia scale for adolescents (ASA). Psychological Assessment, 33 (3). pp. 201-217. ISSN 1939-134X doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000977

Keast, K., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Bull, N., (2021) Pioneers: barriers & facilitators to University entry by ethnicity. Report. StudyHigher.ac.uk

2020

Frey, A.-L. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2020) Effects of serotonin and dopamine depletion on neural prediction computations during social learning. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45 (9). pp. 1431-1437. ISSN 0893-133X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-0678-z

Frey, A.-L. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2020) Impaired social learning predicts reduced real-life motivation in individuals with depression: a computational fMRI study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 263. pp. 698-706. ISSN 0165-0327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.11.049

Watson, R., Harvey, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6819-0934, McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Reynolds, S. (2020) Understanding anhedonia: a qualitative study exploring loss of interest and pleasure in adolescent depression. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 29 (4). pp. 489-499. ISSN 1435-165X doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-019-01364-y

2019

Frey, A.-L., Frank, M. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2019) Social reinforcement learning as a predictor of real-life experiences in individuals with high and low depressive symptomatology. Psychological Medicine. pp. 1-8. ISSN 1469-8978 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719003222

Kaya, S. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2019) Can understanding reward help illuminate anhedonia? Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 6. pp. 236-242. ISSN 2196-2979 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-019-00186-1

Kaya, S. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2019) What role does the prefrontal cortex play in the processing of negative and positive stimuli in adolescent depression? Brain Sciences, 9 (5). 104. ISSN 2076-3425 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9050104

Rzepa, E. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2019) Dimensional anhedonia and the adolescent brain: reward and aversion anticipation, effort and consummation. British Journal of Psychiatry, 5 (6). e99. ISSN 0007-1250 doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.68

2018

Rzepa, E. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2018) Anhedonia and depression severity dissociated by dmPFC resting-state functional connectivity in adolescents. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 32 (10). pp. 1067-1074. ISSN 1461-7285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881118799935

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2018) Linking anhedonia symptoms with behavioural and neural reward responses in adolescent depression. Current opinion in behavioural sciences, 22. pp. 143-151. ISSN 2352-1546 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.07.001

2017

Rzepa, E., Dean, Z. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2017) Bupropion administration increases resting-state functional connectivity in dorso-medial prefrontal cortex. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 20 (6). pp. 455-462. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyx016

Rzepa, E., Fisk, J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2017) Blunted neural response to anticipation, effort and consummation of reward and aversion in adolescents with depression symptomatology. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 31 (3). pp. 303-311. ISSN 1461-7285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116681416

2016

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Rocha-Rego, V. (2016) Investigating the predictive value of functional MRI to appetitive and aversive stimuli: a pattern classification approach. PLoS ONE, 11 (11). e0165295. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165295

Setterfield, M., Walsh, M., Frey, A.-L. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2016) Increased social anhedonia and reduced helping behaviour in young people with high depressive symptomatology. Journal of Affective Disorders, 205. pp. 372-377. ISSN 0165-0327 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.08.020

Rzepa, E. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2016) Decreased anticipated pleasure correlates with increased salience network resting state functional connectivity in adolescents with depressive symptomatology. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 82. pp. 40-47. ISSN 0022-3956 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2016.07.013

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2016) Neural signals of “intensity” but not “wanting” or “liking” of rewards may be trait markers for depression. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 30 (10). pp. 1020-1027. ISSN 1461-7285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116653079

Dean, Z., Horndasch, S., Giannopoulos, P. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2016) Enhanced neural response to anticipation, effort and consummation of reward and aversion during Bupropion treatment. Psychological Medicine, 46 (11). pp. 2263-2274. ISSN 1469-8978 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329171600088X

Horndasch, S., Okeefe, S. ., Lamond, A., Brown, K. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2016) Increased anticipatory but decreased consummatory brain responses to food in sisters of Anorexia Nervosa patients. British Journal of Psychiatry Open, 2 (4). pp. 255-261. ISSN 2056-4724 doi: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjpo.bp.115.002550

Rzepa, E., Tudge, L. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2016) Resting-state functional connectivity following a single dose treatment with CB1 neutral antagonist tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCv) in healthy volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 19 (2). pyv092. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyv092

2015

Frey, A.-L., Malinowska, L., Harley, K., Salhi, L., Sharma, S. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2015) Investigating subtypes of reward processing deficits as trait markers for depression. Translational Developmental Psychiatry, 3. 27517. ISSN 2001-7022 doi: https://doi.org/10.3402/tdp.v3.27517

Thomas, J. M., Higgs, S., Dourish, C.T., Hansen, P. C., Harmer, C. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2015) Satiation attenuates BOLD activity in brain regions involved in reward and increases activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: an fMRI study in healthy volunteers. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 101 (4). pp. 697-704. ISSN 0002-9165 doi: https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.114.097543

Williams, C. M., Whalley, B. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2015) Cannabinoids & appetite (dys)regulation (obesity). In: Fattore, L. (ed.) Cannabinoids in Neurologic and Mental Disease. Academic Press, pp. 315-342. ISBN 9780124170414

Tudge, L., Williams, C., Cowen, P. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2015) Neural effects of cannabinoid CB1 neutral antagonist tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCv) on food reward and aversion in healthy volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 18 (6). pyu094. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyu094

2014

Murray, E., Brouwer, S., McCutcheon, R., Harmer, C. J., Cowen, P. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2014) Opposing neural effects of naltrexone on food reward and aversion: implications for the treatment of obesity. Psychopharmacology, 231 (22). pp. 4323-4335. ISSN 0033-3158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-014-3573-7

Cowdrey, F. A., Filippini, N., Park, R. J., Smith, S. M. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2014) Increased resting state functional connectivity in the default mode network in recovered anorexia nervosa. Human Brain Mapping, 35 (2). pp. 483-491. ISSN 1065-9471 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22202

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2014) Neural correlates of anhedonia as a trait marker for depression. In: Ritsner, M. (ed.) Anhedonia: A Comprehensive Handbook Volume II. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, pp. 159-174. ISBN 9787401768096 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8610-2_6

2013

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2013) Reward, rest, and antidepressant drug action. In: Stimulating New Research on Serotonergic Neurotransmission from a Developmental Perspective.

Pringle, A., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Cowen, P. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2013) Antidepressant treatment and emotional processing: can we dissociate the roles of serotonin and noradrenaline? Journal of Psychopharmacology, 27 (8). pp. 719-731. ISSN 1461-7285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881112474523

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Harwood, J., Brouwer, S., Harmer, C. J. and Cowen, P. J. (2013) Effects of pramipexole on the processing of rewarding and aversive taste stimuli. Psychopharmacology, 228 (2). pp. 283-290. ISSN 0033-3158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-013-3033-9

2012

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Woffindale, C., Harmer, C. J. and Cowen, P. J. (2012) Neural processing of reward and punishment in young people at increased familial risk of depression. Biological Psychiatry, 72 (7). pp. 588-594. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.04.034

Cowdrey, F. A., Park, R. J., Harmer, C. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2012) Reply to: punishing food: what brain activity can tell us about the representation of food in recovered anorexia nervosa. Biological Psychiatry, 71 (8). e33. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.11.008

Cowdrey, F. A., Harmer, C. J., Park, R. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2012) Neural responses to emotional faces in women recovered from anorexia nervosa. Psychiatry Research, 201 (3). pp. 190-195. ISSN 0165-1781 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.08.009

2011

Cowdrey, F. A., Park, R. J., Harmer, C. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2011) Increased neural processing of rewarding and aversive food stimuli in recovered anorexia nervosa. Biological Psychiatry, 70 (8). pp. 736-743. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.05.028

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Huber, A., Harmer, C. J. and Cowen, P. J. (2011) The D2 antagonist sulpiride modulates the neural processing of both rewarding and aversive stimuli in healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology, 217 (2). pp. 271-278. ISSN 0033-3158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-011-2278-4

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Mishor, Z. (2011) Antidepressant medications reduce subcortical-cortical resting-state functional connectivity in healthy volunteers. NeuroImage, 57 (4). pp. 1317-1323. ISSN 1053-8119 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.051

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Mishor, Z., Filippini, N., Cowen, P. J., Taylor, M. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2011) SSRI administration reduces resting state functional connectivity in dorso-medial prefrontal cortex. Molecular Psychiatry, 16 (6). pp. 592-594. ISSN 1476-5578 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2010.138

Bilderbeck, A. C., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Wakeley, J., McGlone, F., Harris, T., Cowen, P. J. and Rogers, R. D. (2011) Serotonergic activity influences the cognitive appraisal of close intimate relationships in healthy adults. Biological Psychiatry, 69 (8). pp. 720-725. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.12.038

2010

Horder, J., Harmer, C. J., Cowen, P. J. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2010) Reduced neural response to reward following 7 days treatment with the cannabinoid CB1 antagonist rimonabant in healthy volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 13 (8). pp. 1103-1113. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1461145710000453

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Mishor, Z., Cowen, P. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2010) Diminished neural processing of aversive and rewarding stimuli during selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment. Biological Psychiatry, 67 (5). pp. 439-445. ISSN 0006-3223 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.11.001

2009

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Cowen, P. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2009) NK1 receptor antagonism and the neural processing of emotional information in healthy volunteers. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 12 (9). pp. 1261-1274. ISSN 1469-5111 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1461145709990150

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Cowen, P. J. and Harmer, C. J. (2009) Neural representation of reward in recovered depressed patients. Psychopharmacology, 205 (4). pp. 667-677. ISSN 0033-3158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-009-1573-9

2008

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Rolls, E. T., Bilderbeck, A. and McGlone, F. (2008) Cognitive influences on the affective representation of touch and the sight of touch in the human brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3 (2). pp. 97-108. ISSN 1749-5024 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsn005

Rolls, E. T., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Redoute, J. (2008) Expected value, reward outcome, and temporal difference error representations in a probabilistic decision task. Cerebral Cortex, 18 (3). pp. 652-663. ISSN 1460-2199 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhm097

2007

Rolls, E. T. and McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 (2007) Enhanced affective brain representations of chocolate in cravers vs. non-cravers. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 26 (4). pp. 1067-1076. ISSN 0953-816X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05724.x

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Rolls, E. T. (2007) Umami: a delicious flavor formed by convergence of taste and olfactory pathways in the human brain. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 25 (6). pp. 1855-1864. ISSN 0953-816X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05445.x

Grabenhorst, G., Rolls, E. T., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Bilderbeck, A. (2007) In linking affect to action: critical contributions of the orbitofrontal cortex. In: Linking affect to Action, New York.

2006

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Rolls, E. T. and Redoute, J. (2006) Expected utility and reward value representations in a probabilistic decision task. Journal of Psychophysiology, 20 (4). ISSN 2151-2124

2005

Czoty, P. W., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Nader, M. A. (2005) Effects of the 5-HT(1A) agonist (+/-)-8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) on cocaine choice in cynomolgus monkeys. Behavioural Pharmacology, 16 (3). pp. 187-191. ISSN 0955-8810

Czoty, P. W., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Nader, M. A. (2005) Assessment of the relative reinforcing strength of cocaine in socially housed monkeys using a choice procedure. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 312 (1). pp. 96-102. ISSN 0022-3565 doi: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.104.073411

2004

Shaw, D., Dawson, G. R., Reynolds, D. S., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473 and Leslie, J. C. (2004) Effects of chlordiazepoxide on extinction and re-acquisition of operant behaviour in mice. Behavioural Pharmacology, 15 (3). pp. 225-232. ISSN 0955-8810

Leslie, J. C., Shaw, D., McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Reynolds, D. S. and Dawson, G. R. (2004) Effects of drugs that potentiate GABA on extinction of positively-reinforced operant behaviour. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28 (3). pp. 229-238. ISSN 0149-7634 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.01.003

McCabe, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-3473, Shaw, D., Atack, J. R., Street, L. J., Wafford, K. A., Dawson, G. R., Reynolds, D. S. and Leslie, J. C. (2004) Subtype-selective GABAergic drugs facilitate extinction of mouse operant behaviour. Neuropharmacology, 46 (2). pp. 171-178. ISSN 0028-3908 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2003.09.004