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PUBLICATIONS

Professor Margaret C. McKinnon

Peer Reviewed

  1. Tam-Seto, L., Garland Baird, L., Held, N., Heber, A., Buchart, L., Ibbotson, A., Orchard Young, S., Lade, S., Millman, H., Brown, A., Imre-Millei, B., Lopes, J., Samplonius, M.E., Chrysler,  C., & McKinnon, M.C. (2025). Critical Conversations: A restorative engagement initiative for people with lived experience of military sexual trauma. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health Research (11), 3, https://doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh-2023-01

  2. *D’Alessandro-Lowe, *Karram, M., Ritchie, K., Brown, A., Pichtikova. M., Sullo, E., Mirabelli, J., Schielke, H., Malain, A., O’Connor, C., Remers, S., Lanius, R., *McKinnon, M.C., & *McCabe, R.E. (2025).  Exploring associations among moral injury, coping strategies, and supports in Canadian Public Safety Personnel.  Journal of Military, Veteran,and Family Health Research (11), 3, https://doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh-2024-0044

  3. Ibbotson, A., Imre-Millei, B., Orchard Young, S., Held, N., *Ninan, R., McKinnon, M.C., & Tam-Seto, L. (2025). Military cultural competency in Canadian sexual assault support centers: “Not here for lessons”. Journal of Social Service Research. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2025.2489549

  4. *D’Alessandro, A.M., Ricciardelli, R., Ritchie, K., Xue, Y., Stelnicki, A., McCabe, R.E., *McKinnon, M.C., & *Carleton, R.N.  (2025). Potentially psychologically traumatic events in nursing: Canadian nurses’ experiences wth physicians, management and co-workers.  Journal of Nursing and Health Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.70091 * Shared senior authorship

  5. Tam-Seto, L., Garland-Baird, L., Held, N., Heber, A., Buchart, L., Ibbotson, A., Orchard Young, S., *Lade, S., Millman, H., Brown, A., Imre-Millei, B., Samplonius, S., Chrysler, C., & McKinnon, M.C.  (2025).  Lessons to learn: Strategies to sustain a restorative program for survivors of military sexual trauma.  Journal of Community Safety and Wellbeing, 10 (1), 48-53.

  6. *Lade, S., Brown, A., Heber, A., Millman, H., Park, R., Ritchie, K., Davis., K., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M.C. (2025). The impact of military sexual trauma on the deployment experiences of women-identifying Canadian Veterans. Armed Forces and Society, 1 – 29, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X241312206

  7. *Sanger, B.D., Alarachi, A., McNeely, H., McKinnon, M.C., & McCabe, R. (2025).  “Brain fog” and cognitive dysfunction in post-traumatic stress disorder” An evidence-based review.  Psychology Research and Behavior Management (18), 589-606.

  8. D’Alessandro-Lowe, A.M., Scott, A.M., Patel, H., Easterbrook, B., Ritchie, K., Brown, A., Pichtikova, M., Karram, M., Sullo, E., Mirabelli, J., Schielke, H., Malain, A., O’Connor, C., Remers, S., Lanius, R., McCabe R.E. & McKinnon, M.C. (2025). Exploring the relation between moral injury and post-traumatic stress among Canadian Public Safety Personnel. Journal of Traumatic Stress (38), 272 – 283. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.23122

  9. D'Alessandro-Lowe, A. M., Brown, A., Sullo, E., Pichtikova, M., Karram, M., Mirabelli, J., McCabe, R. E., McKinnon, M. C., & Ritchie, K. (2024). Why are healthcare providers leaving their jobs? A convergent mixed-methods investigation of turnover intention among Canadian healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing Reports, 14(3), 2030-2060. https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep14030152

  10. Katz, D., Rector, N.A., Ornstein, T., McKinnon, M.C., McCabe, R.E., Hawley. L., Rowa, K., Richter, M.A., Regev, R., & Labosa, J. (2024). Neurocognitive performance in the context of acute symptom reduction in OCD: Treatment effects and the impact of BDNF. Journal of Affective Disorders. DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.07.044

  11. *D’Alessandro-Lowe, A.M., *Patel, H., E*asterbrook, E., Ritchie, K., Brown, A., *Xue, Y., Karram, M., Millman, H., *Sullo, E., Pichtikova, M., Nicholson, A., Heber, A., Malain, A., O’Connor, C., Schielke, H., Rodrigues, S., Hosseiny, F., McCabe, R., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M. C. (2024). The independent and combined impact of moral injury and moral distress on post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among Canadian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. DOI: 10.1080/20008066.2023.2299661

  12. Brown, A., Millman, H., Buchart, L., Heber, A., Samplonius, M.E., Tam-Seto, L., Mulligan, A., Notarianni, M., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2024). Increasing understanding of barriers to military-sexual-trauma-related reporting and treating seeking in Canada. Journal of Military, Veteran, and Family Research, 10(1), 101-106.   

  13. Ibbotson, A., McKinnon, M.C., Tam-Seto, L. (2024). Underserved and overlooked: The need for LGBTQ2IA+ military family research. Journal of Military, Veteran, & Family Health. DOI:10.3138/jmvfh-2023-0053.

  14. Scarfe, M., Belisario, K., Gilliard, J., DeJesus, J., Frey, B.N., VanAmerigan, M., M., Gohari, M.R., McKinnon, M.C., Busse, J., & MacKillop, J. Bird, B.M., Gohari, M.R., Busse, J., & MacKillop, J. (2023). Periodicity and severity of posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Ten-wave longitudinal findings from an observational cohort study of community adults. Psychiatry Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115496

  15. *Park, A. H., *Patel, H., *Mirabelli, J., Eder, S. J., Steyrl, D., O'Connor, C., Martin, P., Lanius, R. A., McKinnon, M. C., & Nicholson, A. (2023). Machine learning models predict PTSD severity and functional impairment: A personalized medicine approach for uncovering complex associations among heterogeneous symptom profiles.  Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy. doi: 10.1037/tra0001602. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38010788.

  16. *D’Alessandro-Lowe, A. M., *Karram, M., Ritchie, K., Brown, A., Millman, H., Sullo, E., Xue, Y., Pichtikova, M., Schielke, H., Malain, A., O’Connor, C., Lanius, R., McCabe, R. E., & McKinnon, M. C. (2023s). Coping, supports and moral injury: Spiritual well-being and organizational support are associated with reduced moral injury in Canadian healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(19):6812. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20196812

  17. *Lade, S., *Easterbrook, B., Brown, A., Millman, H., *D’Alessandro-Lowe, A., O’Connor, C., & McKinnon, M.C. (2023).  The mental health toll of service:  An examination of self-reported impacts of public safety personnel careers in a treatment-seeking population.  European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 14(2):2269696. doi: 10.1080/20008066.2023.2269696.

  18. Andrews, K., Llyod, C., Densmore, M., Rabellino, D., Harricharan, S., McKinnon, M.C., Theberge, J., Neufeld, R.W.J., Jetly, R., & Lanius, R. (2023).  “I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul”: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall.  Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), 18 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad053

  19. *D’Alessandro, A.M., *Ritchie, K., Brown, A., Xue, Y., Pichtikova, M., Altman, M., Beech, I., Millman, H., Foster, F., Hassal, K., Levy, Y., Easterbrook, B., Streiner, D., Hosseiny, F., Rodrigues, S., Heber, A., O’Connor, C., Schielke, H., Malain, A., McCabe, R.E., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2023).  Canadian respiratory therapists considering leaving their clinical position experience elevated symptoms of moral distress and mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice, 43, 460-71. https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.43.10/11.04

  20. Millman, H., Ritchie, K., Vincent, C., Auger, E., Lavoie, V., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M.C. (2023).  Evaluating the implementation of virtual Goal Management Training cognitive remediation therapy among Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Military, Veteran, and Family Health Research. DOI: 10.3138/jmvfh-2023-0003

  21. *Andrews, K., *Roth, S.L., *Llyod, C., *Protopopescu, A., O’Connor, C., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2023).  Development and preliminary evaluation of the Moral Injury Assessment for survivors of abuse.  Traumatology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/trm0000475

  22. Shaw, S.B., Terpou, B.A., Densmore, M., Theberge, J., Frewen, P., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2023). Large-scale functional hyperconnectivity patterns in trauma-related dissociation: an rs-fMRI study of PTSD and its dissociative subtype.  Nature Nental Health. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00115-y

  23. Heber, A., Ritchie, K., Sullo, E., Tam-Seto, L, & McKinnon, M.C. (2023). Fostering social identity among Public Safety Personnel to mitigate the adverse psychological outcomes of COVID-19. Justice Report, 38(2), 12 - 16.

  24. *Lopes, J., McKinnon, M. C., & Tam-Seto, L. (2023). Adding insult to injury: Exploring the relation between moral injury and military sexual trauma. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, https://doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh-2022-0045

  25. Kearney, B.E., Corrigan, F.M., Frewen, P.A.. Nevill. S., Harricharan, S., Andrews, K., Jetly, R., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R. (2023).  A randomized control trial of Deep Brain Reorienting: A neuroscientifically guided treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 14(2):2240691. doi: 10.1080/20008066.2023.2240691

  26. Kearney, B.E., Terpou, B.A., Densmore, M., Shaw, S.B., Theberge, J., Jetly, R., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2023). How the body remembers: Examining the default mode and sensorimotor networks during moral injury autobiographical memory retrieval in PTSD. Neuroimage: Clinical, 38, 103426.

  27. Chaposhloo, M., Nicholson, A. A., Becker, S., McKinnon, M. C., Lanius, R., Shaw, S. B., & Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. (2023). Altered Resting-State functional connectivity in the anterior and posterior hippocampus in Post-traumatic stress disorder: The central role of the anterior hippocampus. NeuroImage: Clinical, 38, 103417.

  28. Roth, S. L., Andrews, K., Protopopescu, A., Lloyd, C., O'Connor, C., Losier, B. J., Lanius, R. A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2023). Development and preliminary evaluation of the moral injury assessment for public safety personnel. Traumatology, 29(2), 301.

  29. Scarfe, M. L., Belisario, K., Gillard, J., De Jesus, J., Frey, B. N., Van Ameringen, M., Gohari, M.R., McKinnon, M.C., Busse, J., & MacKillop, J. (2023). Periodicity and severity of changes in depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: Ten-wave longitudinal findings from an observational cohort study of community adults. Psychiatry Research, 326, 115267.

  30. Katz, D., Rector, N., McCabe, R., Hawley, L., Rowa, K., Richter, M.A., Ornstein, T., Regev, R., McKinnon, M.C., & Laposa, J. (2023). The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 98, 102746.

  31. Patel*, H., Easterbrook*, B., D’Alessandro*, A., Andrews*, K., Ritchie*, K., Hosseiny, F., Rodrigues, S., Malain, A., O’Connor, C., Schielke, H., McCabe, R.E., Nicholson, A., Lanius, R., McKinnon, M.C. (2023). Associations between trauma and substance use among healthcare workers and public safety personnel during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic: the mediating roles of dissociation and emotion dysregulation. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. doi: 10.1080/20008066.2023.2180706.

  32. Ouellette, M.J., Mutschler, C., Roth, S.L., McCabe, R.E., Tisera, T., Patel, H., Boyd, J.E., Nichlson, A.A., Hewitt, J., Lopes, J., Jeffs, L., Schneider, M.A., McKinnon, M.C. & Hatchford, T. (2023).  The transcending protocol: A cognitive-behavioural approach for addressing the psychosocial impact of minority stress in transgender and gender diverse individuals.  Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counselling, 17, 57-76.

  33. *Easterbrook B., Plouffe P.A., Houle, S.A., Liu, A., McKinnon, M.C., Ashbaugh A.R., Richardson, J.D., & Nazarov, A. (2023). Moral injury is associated with increased odds of past-year mental health disorders: A Canadian Armed Forces examination. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, DOI: 10.1080/20008066.2023.2192622.

  34. Kearney, B., Terpou, B., Densmore, M., Shaw, S.B., Theberge, J., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R. (2023).  Reliving traumatic memory as sensory and motor fragments: examining the default mode and sensorimotor networks during moral injury autobiographical memory retrieval in PTSD. Neuroimage: Clinical,  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4363667

  35. *Ritchie, K., *D’Alessandro, A., Brown, A., Millman, H., Beech, I., Pichtikova, M., Rodrigues, S., Hosseiny, F., Malain, A., Schlieke, H., O’Connor, C., McCabe, R.E., Heber, A., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2023).  The hidden crisis: Understanding potentially morally injurious events among healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Frontiers in Psychiatry, DOI: 10.2290/ijerph200064813.

  36. *D’Alessandro, A., *Ritchie, K., Brown, A., Foster, F., Hassall, K., Hosseiny, F., Rodrigues, S., Heber, A., O’Connor, C., Malain, A., Lanius, R., McCabe, R.E., & McKinnon, M.C. (2023).  Characterizing the mental health and functioning of Canadian respiratory therapists during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22140234.v1.

  37. Karram, M.,* D’Alessandro-Lowe, A.M.*, Ritchie, K., Brown, A., Xue, Y.*, Pichtikova, M., Altman, M., Beech, I., Millman, H., Hosseiny, F., Rodrigues, S., Heber, A., O’Connor, C., Schielke, H., Malain, A., Lanius, R.A., McCabe, R.E., and McKinnon, M.C. (2023).  A qualitative approach to understanding healthcare workers’ use of coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(3), 2551; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032551.

  38. Plouffe, R.A., Easterbrook*, B., Liu, A., McKinnon, M.C., Richardson, J.D., & Nazarov, A.  (2023).  Psychometric evaluation of the Moral Injury Events Scale in two Canadian Armed Forces samples.  Assessment, Jan;30(1):111-123. doi: 10.1177/10731911211044198. Epub 2021 Sep 13.PMID: 34515535.

  39. Schneider, M.A., Malhotra, D.,  Spritzer, P.M.,  Hatchard, T., Minuzzi, L., Frey, B.N., Haefner, S.A., Nicholson, A.A., McKinnon, M.C., Syan, S.K., de Azevedo Cardoso , T., Schwarz, K., Anes, M., Santos-Díaz, A., Rodrigues Lobato, M.I. (2023). Estradiol replacement as a potential enhancer of working memory and neuroplasticity in hypogonadal trans women. Neuroendocrinology, 113, 489-500.

  40. Shaw, S. B., Levy, Y., Mizzi, A., Herman, G., McKinnon, M. C., Heisz, J. J., & Becker, S. (2022). Combined Aerobic Exercise and Neurofeedback Lead to Improved Task-Relevant Intrinsic Network Synchrony. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 838614.

  41. Shaw, S. B., Terpou, B. A., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., Frewen, P., McKinnon, M. C., & Lanius, R. (2022). Large-Scale Functional Hyperconnectivity Patterns Characterizing Trauma-Related Dissociation: A rs-fMRI Study of PTSD and its Dissociative Subtype, Biological Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b6kdm

  42. Rabellino, D., Thome, J., Densmore, M., Théberge, J., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R. (2022).  The vestibulocerebellum and the shattered self: A resting-state functional connectivity study in posttraumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype. Cerebellum.  Sep 19. doi: 10.1007/s12311-022-01467-4

  43. *Easterbrook B, Ricciardelli R, Sanger B, Mitchell MM, McKinnon MC, Carleton RN. (2022). Longitudinal Study of Canadian Correctional Workers’ Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge (CCWORK): Baseline Demographics and Prevalence of Mental Health Disorders. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Aug 12;13:874997. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.874997. eCollection 2022.PMID: 36032233 

  44. Shaw, S.B., Levy, Y., Mizzi, A., Herman, G., McKinnon, M.C., Heisz, J.J., & Becker, S. (2022).  Combined aerobic exercise and neurofeedback lead to improved task-relevant intrinsic network synchrony.  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.  Jun 14;16:838614. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.838614. eCollection 2022.PMID: 35774480 

  45. *Patel, H., Siegel, M., Hatchard, T., Veltman, A., McKinnon, M.C., Syan, S., Merrifield, C., Roth, S., Georgiades, K., Archie, S., Wolf, J., & Nicholson, A. (2022). The influence of minority stress on the neurobiological correlates of executive functioning. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. . 2022 Jul;12(7):4013-4015. doi: 10.21037/qims-22-206.PMID: 35782266

  46. Terpou, B., Shaw, S.B., Theberge, J., Ferat, V., Michel, C.M., McKinnon, M.C., Lanius, R., & Ros, T. (2022).  Spectral decomposition of EEG microstates in post-traumatic stress disorder.  Neuroimage: Clinical, 35, 103135.

  47. *Xue, Y., *D’Alessandro, A., *Lopes, J., *Ritchie, K., Heber, A., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M.C. (2022).  Potential circumstances associated with moral injury and moral distress in healthcare workers and public safety personnel across the globe during COVID-19: A scoping review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13 June 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.863232

  48. *Easterbrook, B., Brown, A., Millman, H., Van Blyderveen, S., Lanius, R., *McKinnon, M.C., *O'Connor, C. (2022). The mental health experience of treatment-seeking military members and public safety personnel: A qualitative investigation of trauma and non-trauma related concerns.  Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 01 Jun 2022, 42(6):252-260 DOI: 10.24095/hpcdp.42.6.03 PMID: 35766914 * Shared senior authorship

  49. *Boyd, J.E., *Sanger, B.D, *Cameron, D.H., *Protopopescu, A., McCabe, R.E., O’Connor, C., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2022) A pilot study assessing the effects of Goal Management Training on cognitive functions among individuals with major depressive disorder and the effect of post-traumatic symptoms on response to intervention. Brain Sciences. 12(3), 377; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030377

  50. *Mizzi, A.L., McKinnon, M.C., & Becker, S. (2022). The impact of aerobic exercise on mood symptoms in trauma-exposed young adults: A pilot study. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience. 16:829571. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.829571

  51. *Easterbrook, B., Plouffe, P.A., Houle, S.A., Liu, A., McKinnon, M.C., Ashbaugh, A.R., Mota, N., Afifi, T.O., Enns, M.W., Richardson, J.D., & Nazarov, A. (2022). Risk factors for moral injury among Canadian Armed Forces Personnel.  Frontiers in Psychiatry. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.892320.

  52. Thome, J., Densmore, M., Terpou, B.A., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A. (2022) Contrasting associations between heart rate variability and brainstem-limbic connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype: A pilot study.  Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience. 16:862192. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.862192. eCollection 2022.PMID: 35706833 

  53. *Protopopescu, A., O’Connor, C., *Cameron, D., *Boyd, J.E, Lanius, R.A.,  & McKinnon, M.C. (2022).  A pilot, randomized controlled trial of Goal Management Training in Canadian military members, Veterans, and public safety personnel experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms. Brain Sciences, 12(3):377; doi: 10.3390/brainsci12030377.

  54. Millman, H., Andrews, K., *Harricharan, S., *Goegan, S., *Sanger, B., Beech, I., O’Connor, C., Lanius, R., & McKinnon, M.C. (2022).  Public safety personnel feedback from a remote trial of Goal Management Training for post-traumatic stress during Covid-19. Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 7(1), 27-31.  doi: 10.35502/jcswb.229. 

  55. *D’Alessandro, D., *Ritchie, K., McCabe, R.E., Lanius, R.A., Heber, A., Smith, P., Malain, A., Schielke, H., O’Connor, C., Hosseiny, F., Rodrigues, S., & McKinnon, M.C. (2022).  Healthcare workers and COVID-19-related moral injury: An interpersonally-focused approach informed by PTSD.  Frontiers in Psychiatry 2022 Feb 14;12:784523. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.784523.

  56. Nicholson, A.A., Siegel, M., Wolf, J., Narikuzhy*, S., Roth*, S.L., Hatchard, T., Lanius, R.A., Schneider, M., Lloyd*, C.S., McKinnon, M,C., Heber, A., Smith, P., & Lueger-Schuster, B. (2022). A systematic review of the neural correlates of sexual minority stress: towards an intersectional minority mosaic framework with implications for a future research agenda. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2022 Feb 28;13(1):2002572. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2021.2002572. PMID: 35251527; PMCID: PMC8890555.

  57. Terpou*, B.A., Lloyd*, C.S., Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C., Théberge, J., Neufeld, R.W.J., Jetly, R., & Lanius, R.A. (2022). Moral wounds run deep: exaggerated midbrain functional network connectivity across the default mode network in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience. 2022 Feb 17;47(1):E56-E66. doi: 10.1503/jpn.210117. PMID: 35177485.

  58. Patel*, H., O'Connor, C., Andrews*, K., Amlung, M., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2022). Dissociative symptomatology mediates the relation between posttraumatic stress disorder severity and alcohol-related problems. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 2022 Feb;46(2):289-299. doi: 10.1111/acer.14764. PMID: 35179786.

  59. Roth*, S.L., Andrews*, K., Protopopescu, A., Lloyd*, C., O'Connor, C., Losier, B.J., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2021). Mental health symptoms in Public Safety Personnel: Examining the effects of adverse childhood experiences and moral injury. Child Abuse & Neglect. 2022 Jan;123:105394. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105394. Epub 2021 Nov 19. PMID: 34808481.

  60. Ricciardelli, R., Andres, E., Mitchell, M.M., Quirion, B., Groll, D., Adorjan, M., Siqueira Cassiano, M., Shewmake, J., Herzog-Evans, M., Moran, D., Spencer, D.C., Genest, C., Czarnuch, S., Gacek, J., Heidi, C., Maier, K., Phoenix, J., Weinrath, M., MacDermid, J., McKinnon, M.C., Haynes, S., Arnold, H., Turner, J., Eriksson, A., Heber, A., Anderson, G., MacPhee, R., & Carleton, N. (2021). CCWORK protocol: a longitudinal study of Canadian Correctional Workers' Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge. BMJ Open. 2021 Dec 8;11(12):e052739. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052739. PMID: 34880021; PMCID: PMC8655341.

  61. Goegan*, S.A., Hasey, G.M., King, J.P., Losier, B.J., Bieling, P.J., McKinnon, M.C., & McNeely, H.E. (2021). Naturalistic study on the effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on depressive symptoms. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2021 Dec 13:7067437211064020. doi: 10.1177/07067437211064020. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34903092.

  62. Brown, A., Millman, H., Easterbrook*, B., Park, R., Heber, A., Lanius, R.A., Nazarov, A., Jetly, R., Stanley-Aikens, R., Hutchins, C., Sanderson, C., Darte, K., Hall, A., Brémault-Phillips, S., Byerlay, C., Meehan, M., Cameron, R., Doak, D., Oakley, T., & McKinnon, M.C. (2021). Working together to address sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. The Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health. doi: 10.3138/jmvfh-2021-0033. Epub 2021 Oct. 27.

  63. Park*, A. H., Protopopescu, A., Pogue, M., Boyd, J.E., O’Connor. C., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (2021). Dissociative symptoms predict severe illness presentation in Canadian public safety personnel with presumptive post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2021 Sep 3;12(1):1953789. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2021.1953789. PMID: 34512927; PMCID: PMC8425686.

  64. Roth*, S.L., Qureshi, A., Moulden, H.M., Chaimowitz, G.A., Lanius, R.A., Losier, B.J., & McKinnon, M.C. (2021).  “Trapped in their shame”: A qualitative investigation of moral injury in forensic psychiatry patients.  Criminal Justice and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548211039877  Epub ahead of print.

  65. Olivé, I., Makris, N., Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R.A.  (2021).  Altered basal forebrain BOLD signal variability at rest in posttraumatic stress disorder: A potential candidate vulnerability mechanism for neurogeneration in PTSD. Human Brain Mapping. 2021 Aug 1;42(11):3561-3575. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25454. Epub 2021 May 7. PMID: 33960558; PMCID: PMC8249881.

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  80. Morris, V., Goodgame Huffman, L., Naish, K., Holshausen, K., Oshri, A., McKinnon, M.C., & Amlung, M. (2020). Impulsivity as a mediating factor in the association between post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and substance use. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 2020 May 14;12(6):659–668. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000588. doi: 10.1037/tra0000588.

  81. Renoult, L., Armson, M.J., Diamond, N.B., Fan, C.L., Levesque L., Oliva, L., McKinnon, M.C., Papadopoulos, A., St Jacques, P.L., & Levine, B. (2020). Classification of general and personal semantic details in the Autobiographical Interview. Neuropsychologia. 2020 Jul;144:107501. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107501. Epub 2020 May 21. PMID: 32445644.

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  137. Palombo, D.J., McKinnon, M.C., McIntosh, A.R., Anderson, A.K., Todd, R.M., Levine, B. (2016) The neural correlates of memory for a life-threatening event: An fMRI study of passengers from flight AT236. Clinical Psychology Science, 4(2):312-319. doi: 10.1177/2167702615589308.

  138. Restivo MR, McKinnon, M.C., Frey BN, Hall GB, Taylor V.H. (2016) Effect of obesity on cognition in adults with and without a mood disorder: study design and methods. BMJ Open, 6(2):e009347. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009347.

  139. Parlar M, Frewen PA, Oremus C, Lanius RA, McKinnon, M.C. (2016). Dissociative symptoms are associated with reduced neuropsychological performance in patients with recurrent depression and a history of trauma exposure. Eur J Psychotraumatol, 7(1):29061. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v7.29061. eCollection 2016.

  140. Ahern C, McKinnon MC, Bieling P.J., McNeely H, & Langstaff K. (2016). Overcoming the challenges inherent in conducting design research in mental health settings: Lessons from St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton's Pre and Post-Occupancy Evaluation. Health Environments Research and Design Journal (HERD), 9(2):119-129. doi: 10.1177/1937586715602219.

  141. Williams ME, Becker S, McKinnon, M.C., Wong Q, Cudney L, Steiner M, Frey B.N. (2015). Emotional memory in pregnant women at risk for postpartum depression. Psychiatry Research, 229(3):777-783. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.003. Epub 2015.

  142. Boyd JE, Patriciu I, McKinnon, M.C., & Kiang M. (2014). Corrigendum to “Test-retest reliability of N400 event-related brain potentials in a word-pair semantic priming paradigm in patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 160(1-3):235. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.06.018.

  143. Lanius R, Frewen P, Tursich M & McKinnon, M.C. (2015). Restoring large-scale brain networks in PTSD and related disorders: A proposal for neuroscientifically-based treatment interventions. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 6(1):27313. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v6.27313. eCollection 2015.

  144. Oremus C, Oremus M, McNeely HM, Losier B, Parlar M, Hasey G, Hall GBC, King M, ECT & Cognition Systematic Review Team, Lanius R, & McKinnon, M.C. (2015). Effects of electroconvulsive therapy on cognitive functioning in patients with depression: Protocol for a systematic review and meta–analysis. BMJ: Open, 5(3):e006966. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006966.

  145. Nicholson A, Densmore M, Frewen P, Théberge J, Neufeld RWJ, McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius R. (2015). The dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder: Unique resting-state functional connectivity of basolateral and centromedial amygdala complexes. Neuropsychopharmacolog, 40(10), 2317-2326. Epub 2015 Mar 19

  146. Nazarov A, Jetly R, McNeely H, Kiang M, Lanius R, McKinnon, M.C. (2015). Role of morality in the experience of guilt and shame within the armed forces. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2015 Jul;132(1):4-19. doi: 10.1111/acps.12406. Epub 2015 Mar 3. Review.

  147. MacDougall AG, McKinnon, M.C., Herdman KA, King MJ, Kiang M. (2015). The relationship between insight and autobiographical memory for emotional events in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res. 2015 Mar 30;226(1):392-5. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.12.058. Epub 2015 Jan 14.

  148. Nazarov A, Frewen P, Oremus C, Schellenberg G, McKinnon,* M.C., & Lanius* R. (2014). Comprehension of affective prosody in women with posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 131(5):342–349. doi: 10.1111/acps.12364. Epub 2014. * Shared senior authorship

  149. McKinnon, M.C., Palombo D, Nazarov A, Kumar N, Khuu W, & Levine B (2015). Threat of death and autobiographical memory: A study of the passengers of Flight AT236. Clinical Psychological Science, 3(4):487-502.

  150. Parlar M, Frewen P, Nazarov A, Oremus C, MacQueen G, Lanius R*, McKinnon, M. C.* (2014). Alterations in empathic responding among women with posttraumatic stress disorder associated with childhood trauma. Brain Behavior, 4(3):381-389. doi: 10.1002/brb3.215. Epub 2014. * Shared senior authorship

  151. Guo Q, Parlar M, Truong W, Hall GBC, Thabane L, McKinnon, M.C., Goeree R, & Pullenayegum E (2014). The reporting of observational clinical functional magnetic resonance imaging studies: A systematic review. PLoS One, 9(4):e94412. doi: 10.1371/ journal.pone.0094412. eCollection 2014.

  152. Guo Q, Thabane L, Hall GBC, McKinnon, M.C., Goeree R, & Pullenayegum E (2014). A systematic review of the reporting of sample size calculations and corresponding data components in observational functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. NeuroImage, 86, 172-181.

  153. Nazarov A, Frewen P, Parlar M, Oremus C, MacQueen G, & McKinnon,* M.C., Lanius* R (2014). Theory of mind performance in women with posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 129(3):193-201. * Shared senior authorship

  154. Meusel LA, Hall GB, Fougere P, McKinnon, M.C., MacQueen GM. (2013). Neural correlates of cognitive remediation in patients with mood disorders. Psychiatry Research; 214(2):142-52. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.06.007. Epub 2013.

  155. Cusi A, Nazarov A, MacQueen GM, & McKinnon, M.C. (2013). Theory of mind deficits in patients with mild symptoms of major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 210(2):672-674. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.06.018. Epub 2013

  156. McKinnon, M.C., Cusi A, & MacQueen G (2013). Psychological factors that may confer risk for bipolar disorder. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 18(1-2):115-128. Epub 2012.

  157. King MJ, MacDougall A, Ferris S, Herdman K, Bielak T, Smith J, Abid MA, McKinnon, M.C. (2013). Impaired episodic memory for events encoded during manic but not depressed or euthymic mood states in bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Research, 205(3):213-219. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.08.005. Epub 2012.

  158. Meusel LA, Macqueen GM, Jaswal G, McKinnon, M.C. (2012). Youth are more vulnerable to false memories than middle-aged adults due to liberal response bias. J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 21(4):289-295.

  159. Cusi A, & MacQueen GM, & McKinnon, M.C. (2012). Patients with bipolar disorder show impaired performance on complex tests of theory of mind. Psychiatry Research, 200(2-3):258-264. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.06.021.

  160. Oremus M, Oremus C, Hall G, McKinnon, M.C., & ECT and Cognition Systematic Review Team (2012). Inter-rater and test-retest reliability of quality assessments by novice student raters using the Jadad and Newcastle-Ottawa scales. British Medical Journal Open, 2, e001368.

  161. Guo Q, Hall G, McKinnon, M.C., Thabane L, & Pullenayegum E (2012). Setting sample size in fMRI studies using cost efficiency. Open Access Medical Statistics, 2, 33-41.

  162. Cusi A, Nazarov A, Holhausen K, MacQueen GM, & McKinnon, M.C. (2012). A systematic review of the neural basis of social cognition in patients with mood disorders.  Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 37, 154-169.  

  163. Hassel S, McKinnon, M.C., Cusi A, & MacQueen G (2011). An overview of psychological and neurobiological mechanisms by which early negative experiences increase risk of mood disorders. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 20, 277-288.

  164. King M, Williams LA, MacDougall AG, Ferris S, Smith J, & McKinnon, M.C. (2011). Episodic simulation of future events is impaired in patients with bipolar disorder. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 1801-1807.

  165. King M, MacDougall AG, Ferris S, Herdman K, & McKinnon, M.C. (2011). Episodic simulation of future events is impaired in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 187, 465-467.

  166. Cusi A, MacQueen GM, Spreng RN, & McKinnon, M.C. (2011). Altered empathic responding in patients with major depressive disorder: Relation to symptom severity and psychosocial outcome. Psychiatry Research, 188, 231-236.

  167. Daniels J, Frewen P, McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius R (2011). Default mode alterations in PTSD related to early life trauma: A developmental perspective. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 36, 56-59.

  168. McKinnon, M.C., Cusi A, & MacQueen G (2010). Psychological factors that confer risk for bipolar disorder. Minerva Psichiatrica, 51, 281-291.

  169. King M, MacDougall A, Ferris S, Levine B, MacQueen G, & McKinnon, M.C. (2010). A review of factors that moderate autobiographical memory performance in patients with major depressive disorder. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 9, 1-23.

  170. Cusi A, & MacQueen GM, & McKinnon, M.C. (2010). Altered self-report of empathic responding in patients with recurrent bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Research, 178, 354-58.

  171. Taylor V, McKinnon, M.C., Macdonald K, Jaswal G, & MacQueen GM (2010). Adults with mood disorders have an increased risk profile for cardiovascular disease within the first two years of follow up. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 55, 362-8.

  172. McKinnon, M.C., Cusi A, & MacQueen GM (2010). Theory of mind impairments in patients with bipolar disorder: Moderating effects of cognitive load. Psychiatry Research, 177,261-2.

  173. Yucel K, McKinnon, M.C., Chahal R, Taylor VH, Macdonald K, Joffe R, & MacQueen GM (2009). Increased subgenual prefrontal cortex size in remitted patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 173, 71-6.

  174. Spreng* RN, McKinnon,* M.C., Mar RA, & Levine B (2009). The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91, 62-71.
    *Both authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript.

  175. McKinnon MC, Yucel K, Nazarov A, & MacQueen G (2009). A meta-analysis examining clinical predictors of hippocampal volume in patients with major depressive disorder. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 4, 41-54. 

  176. Yucel K, McKinnon, M.C., Chahal R, Taylor VH, Macdonald K, Joffe R, & MacQueen GM (2008). Anterior cingulate volume in first-episode patients with major depressive disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology, 33, 3157-3163.

  177. Taylor V, Macdonald K, McKinnon, M.C., Joffe R, & MacQueen GM (2008). Rates of obesity in a never treated population with mood disorders: baseline incidence and change over four years of follow up. Journal of Affective Disorders, 109, 127-131.

  178. McKinnon, M.C., Nica EI, Sengdy P, Kovacevic N, Moscovitch M, Freedman M, Miller BL, Black SE, & Levine B (2008). Autobiographical memory in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and its relation to patterns of brain atrophy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1839-53.

  179. Yucel K, Taylor VH, McKinnon, M.C., Macdonald K, Alda M, Young LT, & MacQueen GM (2008). Bilateral hippocampal volume increase in patients with bipolar disorder and short-term lithium treatment. Neuropsychophamacology, 33, 361-367.

  180. Yucel K, McKinnon, M.C., Taylor VH, Macdonald K, Alda M, Young LT, MacQueen GM (2007). Bilateral hippocampal volume increase in patients with bipolar disorder after long-term lithium treatment: a longitudinal MRI study. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 195, 357-367.

  181. Elgamal* S, McKinnon,* M.C., Ramakrishnan K, Young LT, Joffe RT, MacQueen GM (2007). Successful computer-assisted cognitive remediation therapy in patients with unipolar depression: A proof of principle study. Psychological Medicine, 37, 1229-1238. *Both authors contributed equally to the preparation of this manuscript.

  182. McKinnon, M.C., & Moscovitch M (2007). Domain-general contributions to social reasoning: Theory of mind and deontic reasoning re-explored. Cognition, 102, 179-218.

  183. Svoboda E, McKinnon, M.C., & Levine B (2006). The functional neuroanatomy of autobiographical memory: a meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 44(12). 2189-2208.

  184. McKinnon, M.C., Miller B, Black S, Moscovitch M, & Levine B (2006). Autobiographical memory in semantic dementia: Implications for theories of limbic-neocortical interactions in remote memory. Neuropsychologia, 44(12), 2421-2429.

  185. Rosenbaum RS, McKinnon, M.C., Levine B & Moscovitch M (2004). Visual imagery deficits, impaired strategic retrieval or memory loss: Disentangling the nature of an amnesic person’s autobiographical memory deficit. Neuropsychologia, 42(12), 1619-1635.

  186. Schellenberg EG, Adachi M, Purdy KT, & McKinnon, M.C. (2002). Expectancy in melody: Tests of adults and children. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(4), 511-537. 

  187. Schellenberg EG, Iverson P, & McKinnon, M.C. (1999). Name that tune. Identifying popular recordings from brief excerpts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 641-646.

  188. McKinnon, M.C., & Schellenberg EG (1997). A left-ear advantage for forced-choice judgements of melodic contour. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51, 171-175.

Accepted/In Press

  1. Ibbotson, A., Imre-Millei, B., Orchard-Young, S., Held, N., Ninan, R., McKinnon, M.C. & Tam-Seto, L. (in press). Exploring military cultural competency in Canadian sexual assault centers supporting survivors of military sexual trauma: “Not here for lessons”. Journal of Social Service Research. Submission ID: 246966827

  2. Kearney, B., Shaw, S. Densmore, M., McKinnon, M.C., & Lanius, R. (in press).  Breaking the circuit: Reduced cerebello-thalamo-cortical functional connectivity during traumatic memory retrieval in PTSD and its dissociative subtype.  Nature Mental Health.

  3. Chaposhloo, M., McKinnon, M.C., Kearney, B., Shaw, S., Lanius, R., & Becker, S. (in press). Unraveling Trauma Memory: Differential Functional Connectivity Roles of Anterior and Posterior Hippocampus in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Its Dissociative Subtype.  NeuroImage: Reports.

Submitted

  1. *Park, A., Protopopescu, A., Poguea, M., Boyd, J., O’Connor, C., Lanius, R.A., & McKinnon, M.C. (under revision). Dissociative symptoms and emotion dysregulation contribute to alterations in cognitive performance among military members, Veterans, and public safety personnel with a presumptive diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.  Psychological Trauma.

  2. Sullo, E., Hatchard, T., Shah, V., Nicholson, A.A., Davey, C., Roth, S.L., Milosevic, I., Rowa, K., Narikuzhy, S., Musielak, N., Scott, A., McKinnon, M.C., McCabe, R.E. (under revision).  Improving assessment for minority-deserving groups: Development of a minority stress module for the DART.

  3. *Park, A., Mirabelli, J., Patel, H., Ederc, S., Lueger-Schustere, B., Scharnowskic, F., O’Connor, C., Martin, P., Lanius, R., McKinnon, M.C., & Nicholson, A. (under revision).  Forecasting PTSD recovery: Machine learning models predict treatment outcomes among inpatients completing treatment for PTSD

  4. McNutt, K., Vaughan, A., Williams, A., & McKinnon, M.C. (under revision). What do knowledge users want? A novel approach to rapid review evidence synthesis to inform mental health programming for public safety personnel. Evidence and Policy.

  5. *Maunder, L., *Ibbotson, A., Tam Seto, L., Imre-Millei, B., Held, N., Heber, A., & McKinnon, M.C. (under revision).  Impact of sexual trauma during military service on Canadian women and gender-diverse Veterans: A qualitative investigation.  Journal of Military, Veteran, and Family Health Research.

  6. *Ritchie, K., Ricciardelli, R., *Xuey, Y., *D’Alessandro, A., Bennett, B., Stelnicki, A., *McKinnon, M.C. & *Carleton, N. (under revision).  The impact of violence from patients’ family and visitors on nursing staff.  Nursing Inquiry.

  7. Tam-Seto, L., Ibbotson, A., Imre-Millei, B., Acai, A., Brown, A., Held, N., & McKinnon, M.C. (submitted). Exploring men’s experiences of accessing and using support services for military sexual trauma: A scoping review. Military Behavioral Health. Manuscript ID: 235992352

  8. Tam-Seto, L., Ibbotson, A., Lopes, J., & McKinnon, M.C. (submitted). Exploring the effects of military sexual trauma on the parenting role of women. Critical Military Studies.

  9. Tam-Seto, L., Orchard-Young, S., Ibbotson, A., Imre-Millei, B., Held, N., & McKinnon, M.C. (submitted). Exploring the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ Canadian Armed Forces veterans: Insights through storytelling and Critical Incident Analysis. Journal of Military & Veteran Health.

  10. Rossi, E., Shantz, R., Millman, H., Remers, S., Costello, J., Gillett, J., & McKinnon, M.C. (submitted).Experiences with service dogs amongst patients and staff within an inpatient mental health treatment facility: A qualitative study. Social Science and Medicine.

  11. Fisico, R., McKinnon, M.C., Moulden, H. (submitted). Comparing sexual consent across in-person and digital contexts: New directions for sexual consent in an increasingly digitized world.  Archives of Sexual Behaviour.

  12. Narikuzhy, S.M., Harricharan, S., Rabelllino, D., Densmore, M., Theberge, J., Lieberman, J., McKinnon, M.C.,  Nicholson, A.A., & Lanius, R.A. (submitted). Bridging the self to the world: Resting-state functional connectivity of the temporoparietal junction in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype.  NeuroImage: Clinical.

  13. Goegan, S.A., Hasey, G., King, J.P., Losier, B.J., Bieling, P.J., McKinnon, M.C., & McNeely, H.E. (submitted).  Evaluation of short term and long term subjective and objective cognitive outcomes following ECT for depression in a naturalistic ambulatory setting.  Alpha Psychiatry.

  14. Bengizi, A., Qureshi, A.R., Incze, T., Ashur, A., Abdul-Rahman, Z., Ali, Y., Dhillon, S., Ali, M., Elmoursi, O., Couban, R.J., Sadeghirad, B., MacKillop, J., Richadson, J.D., McKinnon, M.C., & Busse, J.W. (submitted).  Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder among current and former members of the Canadian Armed Forces: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

  15. *Mizzi, A. L., *Mirabelli, J., Eriksson, M. J., McKinnon, M. C., & Becker, S. (submitted). Long-term physical activity moderates the relationship between depressive symptoms and perceived stress in young adults. Mental Health and Physical Activity.

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