Charles Geier

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Charles Geier

Research Summary

Adolescent neurodevelopment and risky decision making; emergence of substance use; fMRI methods

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Reward Brain Smoking Motivation Child Food Magnetic Resonance Imaging Inhibition (Psychology) Corpus Striatum Risk Taking Curriculum Adolescent Adolescence Health Decision Making Smokers Ventral Striatum Hyperphagia Weights And Measures Individuality Oxygen Longitudinal Studies Feeding Behavior Amygdala Student

Most Recent Papers

Determining risk for stress-linked psychiatric illness following adolescent stress exposure

Lauren Chaby, Heather Lasseter, Charles Geier, Andreas Jeromin, Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences on p. 79-89

The Effectiveness of a Teacher-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Curriculum on Adolescent Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning

Jennifer L. Frank, Patricia C. Broderick, Yoonkyung Oh, Joy Mitra, Kimberly Kohler, Deborah L. Schussler, Charles Geier, Robert W. Roeser, Elaine Berrena, Julia Mahfouz, Joseph Levitan, Mark T. Greenberg, 2021, Mindfulness on p. 1234-1251

Determining effects of adolescent stress exposure on risk for posttraumatic stress disorder in adulthood

Lauren E. Chaby, Heather C. Lasseter, Charles Geier, Andreas Jeromin, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences on p. 79-89

Individual differences in the influence of taste and health impact successful dietary self-control

Alaina L. Pearce, Shana Adise, Nicole J. Roberts, Corey White, Charles F. Geier, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Physiology and Behavior

Development and Pilot Testing of Standardized Food Images for Studying Eating Behaviors in Children

Samantha M.R. Kling, Alaina L. Pearce, Marissa L. Reynolds, Hugh Garavan, Charles F. Geier, Barbara J. Rolls, Emma J. Rose, Stephen J. Wilson, Kathleen L. Keller, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

Food or money? Children's brains respond differently to rewards regardless of weight status

S. Adise, C. F. Geier, N. J. Roberts, C. N. White, K. L. Keller, 2019, Pediatric obesity

A novel hierarchical later process model

Nicole J. Roberts, Zita Oravecz, Briana N. Sprague, Charles F. Geier, 2019, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Is brain response to food rewards related to overeating? A test of the reward surfeit model of overeating in children

Shana Adise, Charles Geier, Nicole J. Roberts, Corey N. White, Kathleen Loralee Keller, 2018, Appetite on p. 167-179

Age-Varying Associations Between Cigarette Smoking, Sensation Seeking, and Impulse Control Through Adolescence and Young Adulthood

David M. Lydon-Staley, Charles F. Geier, 2018, Journal of Research on Adolescence on p. 354-367

Incentives facilitate developmental improvement in inhibitory control by modulating control-related networks

Michael Nelson Hallquist, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2018, NeuroImage on p. 369-380

Most-Cited Papers

Developmental changes in brain function underlying the influence of reward processing on inhibitory control

Aarthi Padmanabhan, Charles F. Geier, Sarah J. Ordaz, Theresa Teslovich, Beatriz Luna, 2011, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 517-529

Adolescent cognitive control and reward processing

Charles F. Geier, 2013, Hormones and Behavior on p. 333-342

Adolescent brain maturation and smoking

David M. Lydon, Stephen J. Wilson, Amanda Child, Charles F. Geier, 2014, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews on p. 323-342

Effects of incentives, age, and behavior on brain activation during inhibitory control: A longitudinal fMRI study

David J. Paulsen, Michael Nelson Hallquist, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2015, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 105-115

The Teenage Brain

Beatriz Luna, David J. Paulsen, Aarthi Padmanabhan, Charles Geier, 2013, Current Directions in Psychological Science on p. 94-100

Developmental Effects of Incentives on Response Inhibition

Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, 2012, Child Development on p. 1262-1274

Dissociated effects of anticipating smoking versus monetary reward in the caudate as a function of smoking abstinence

Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles F. Geier, Danielle L. Joel, Patrick McGurrin, Rachel L. Denlinger, Erika E. Forbes, Eric C. Donny, 2014, Biological Psychiatry on p. 681-688

Smoking Abstinence-Induced Changes in Resting State Functional Connectivity with Ventral Striatum Predict Lapse during a Quit Attempt

Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles Geier, Merideth A. Addicott, Rachel Denlinger, Bethany R. Raiff, Jesse Dallery, F. Joseph McClernon, Eric C. Donny, 2016, Neuropsychopharmacology on p. 2521-2529

Enhancing response inhibition by incentive

Tammy Chung, Charles Geier, Beatriz Luna, Stefan Pajtek, Robert Terwilliger, Dawn Thatcher, Duncan B. Clark, 2011, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on p. 43-50

Blunted striatal response to monetary reward anticipation during smoking abstinence predicts lapse during a contingency-managed quit attempt

Maggie M. Sweitzer, Charles F. Geier, Rachel Denlinger, Erika E. Forbes, Bethany R. Raiff, Jesse Dallery, F. J. McClernon, Eric C. Donny, 2016, Psychopharmacology on p. 751-760