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Laura Mazurkewicz
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Publications - 3
Citations - 704
Laura Mazurkewicz is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Insula & Anorexia nervosa (differential diagnoses). The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 649 citations.
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Altered Reward Processing in Women Recovered From Anorexia Nervosa
Angela Wagner,Howard J. Aizenstein,Vijay K. Venkatraman,Julie L. Fudge,J. Christopher May,Laura Mazurkewicz,Guido K.W. Frank,Ursula F. Bailer,Lorie Fischer,Van Nguyen,Cameron S. Carter,Karen Putnam,Walter H. Kaye +12 more
TL;DR: Individuals who have recovered from anorexia nervosa may have difficulties in differentiating positive and negative feedback and the exaggerated activation of the caudate, a region involved in linking action to outcome, may constitute an attempt at "strategic" means of responding to reward stimuli.
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Altered Insula Response to Taste Stimuli in Individuals Recovered from Restricting-Type Anorexia Nervosa
Angela Wagner,Angela Wagner,Howard J. Aizenstein,Laura Mazurkewicz,Julie L. Fudge,Guido K.W. Frank,Guido K.W. Frank,Karen Putnam,Ursula F. Bailer,Ursula F. Bailer,Lorie Fischer,Walter H. Kaye +11 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that individuals with AN process taste stimuli differently than controls, based on differences in neural activation patterns, which is first evidence that altered taste processing may occur in AN.
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Altered functioning of the executive control circuit in late-life depression: episodic and persistent phenomena.
Howard J. Aizenstein,Meryl A. Butters,Minjie Wu,Laura Mazurkewicz,V. Andrew Stenger,Peter J. Gianaros,James T. Becker,Charles F. Reynolds,Cameron S. Carter +8 more
TL;DR: The results support a model of both episodic and persistent neurobiologic components of LLD, and at least some of the prefrontal hypoactivity seems to be an episodic characteristic of acute depression amenable to treatment.