Laura B. Dunn
Chair and Professor
faculty
Psychiatry, College of Medicine
Research Areas
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Laura B. Dunn's research focuses on the intersection of mental health, public health, and patient outcomes, particularly within the context of cancer care and child safety. She has investigated distinct profiles of co-occurring symptoms in patients receiving chemotherapy, examining the associations between stress, resilience, symptom severity, and depressive symptom profiles. Her work also extends to public health concerns, including studies on intimate partner violence and child pedestrian safety, epidemiology, and prevention of child pedestrian injury, as well as child fatality review. Dunn has also explored ethical considerations in the development of clinical machine learning tools through qualitative interviews with physicians and machine learning researchers.
Dunn maintains an active research group and has a substantial publication record, indicated by her h-index of 59 and over 12,800 citations. She collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Tatiana Wolfe and Clint Kilts. Her scholarly contributions have been recognized with a designation as a high-impact researcher.
Metrics
- h-index: 59
- Publications: 309
- Citations: 12,894
Selected Publications
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Associations of personality profiles with stress and resilience characteristics among patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy (2026)
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How to Network and Be a Good Colleague (2025)
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How to Write Socially (2025)
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484 A Preliminary Study on the Pharmacodynamics of Oral Cannabis Ingestion in Older Adults (2024)
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Increases in stress and adverse childhood experiences are associated with the co-occurrence of anxiety and depression in oncology patients (2024)
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Becoming an Authentic, Resilient Leader: An Interactive Workshop to Enhance Your Abilities to Lead (2024)
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Identification of distinct symptom profiles in patients with gynecologic cancers using a pre-specified symptom cluster (2023)
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Is it worth it? Greater risk aversion with lower life satisfaction among depressed individuals (2023)
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Introduction to Our Project: Understanding Ethically Salient Perspectives of Diverse Societal Stakeholders in Innovative Neuroscience Research on Mental Disorders (2023)
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Clinical Neuroinnovation: Ethical Frameworks and Emerging Issues (2023)
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Qualitative Findings: Diverse Stakeholder Perspectives on Ethical Considerations in Innovative Neuroscience Research Involving Human Volunteers (2023)
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Risk factors for worse anxiety trajectories among patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy (2022)
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Depression trajectories among women undergoing chemotherapy. (2022)
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Influence of Dispositional Optimism on Ethically Salient Research Perspectives: A Pilot Study (2022)
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Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes (2022)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- Anxiety profiles are associated with stress, resilience and symptom severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy
- Distinct profiles of multiple co-occurring symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancers receiving chemotherapy
- Higher stress and symptom severity are associated with worse depressive symptom profiles in patients receiving chemotherapy
- Characteristics associated with inter-individual variability in financial distress in patients with breast cancer prior to and for 12 months following surgery
- Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes
Showing 5 of 13 shared publications
- Anxiety profiles are associated with stress, resilience and symptom severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy
- Distinct profiles of multiple co-occurring symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancers receiving chemotherapy
- Higher stress and symptom severity are associated with worse depressive symptom profiles in patients receiving chemotherapy
- Characteristics associated with inter-individual variability in financial distress in patients with breast cancer prior to and for 12 months following surgery
- Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes
Showing 5 of 13 shared publications
- Anxiety profiles are associated with stress, resilience and symptom severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy
- Distinct profiles of multiple co-occurring symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancers receiving chemotherapy
- Higher stress and symptom severity are associated with worse depressive symptom profiles in patients receiving chemotherapy
- Characteristics associated with inter-individual variability in financial distress in patients with breast cancer prior to and for 12 months following surgery
- Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
- Physicians’ and Machine Learning Researchers’ Perspectives on Ethical Issues in the Early Development of Clinical Machine Learning Tools: Qualitative Interview Study
- Stakeholders’ Perspectives regarding Participation in Neuromodulation-Based Dementia Intervention Research
- Psychiatric research
- Influence of Dispositional Optimism on Ethically Salient Research Perspectives: A Pilot Study
- Perceived protectiveness of research safeguards and influences on willingness to participate in research: A novel MTurk pilot study
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
- Anxiety profiles are associated with stress, resilience and symptom severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy
- Distinct profiles of multiple co-occurring symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancers receiving chemotherapy
- Higher stress and symptom severity are associated with worse depressive symptom profiles in patients receiving chemotherapy
- Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes
- Anxiety trajectories: An observational study of women undergoing chemotherapy for breast or gynecological cancer
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
- Anxiety profiles are associated with stress, resilience and symptom severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy
- Distinct profiles of multiple co-occurring symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancers receiving chemotherapy
- Higher stress and symptom severity are associated with worse depressive symptom profiles in patients receiving chemotherapy
- Characteristics associated with inter-individual variability in financial distress in patients with breast cancer prior to and for 12 months following surgery
- Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
- Physicians’ and Machine Learning Researchers’ Perspectives on Ethical Issues in the Early Development of Clinical Machine Learning Tools: Qualitative Interview Study
- Stakeholders’ Perspectives regarding Participation in Neuromodulation-Based Dementia Intervention Research
- Influence of Dispositional Optimism on Ethically Salient Research Perspectives: A Pilot Study
- Perceived protectiveness of research safeguards and influences on willingness to participate in research: A novel MTurk pilot study
- Clinical Neuroinnovation: Ethical Frameworks and Emerging Issues
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- Physicians’ and Machine Learning Researchers’ Perspectives on Ethical Issues in the Early Development of Clinical Machine Learning Tools: Qualitative Interview Study
- Stakeholders’ Perspectives regarding Participation in Neuromodulation-Based Dementia Intervention Research
- Influence of Dispositional Optimism on Ethically Salient Research Perspectives: A Pilot Study
- Perceived protectiveness of research safeguards and influences on willingness to participate in research: A novel MTurk pilot study
- Introduction to Our Project: Understanding Ethically Salient Perspectives of Diverse Societal Stakeholders in Innovative Neuroscience Research on Mental Disorders
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- Anxiety profiles are associated with stress, resilience and symptom severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy
- Distinct profiles of multiple co-occurring symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancers receiving chemotherapy
- Higher stress and symptom severity are associated with worse depressive symptom profiles in patients receiving chemotherapy
- Characteristics associated with inter-individual variability in financial distress in patients with breast cancer prior to and for 12 months following surgery
- Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- Anxiety profiles are associated with stress, resilience and symptom severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy
- Distinct profiles of multiple co-occurring symptoms in patients with gastrointestinal cancers receiving chemotherapy
- Higher stress and symptom severity are associated with worse depressive symptom profiles in patients receiving chemotherapy
- Characteristics associated with inter-individual variability in financial distress in patients with breast cancer prior to and for 12 months following surgery
- Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- Physicians’ and Machine Learning Researchers’ Perspectives on Ethical Issues in the Early Development of Clinical Machine Learning Tools: Qualitative Interview Study
- Perceived protectiveness of research safeguards and influences on willingness to participate in research: A novel MTurk pilot study
- Clinical Neuroinnovation: Ethical Frameworks and Emerging Issues
- Research Safeguards Measure
- Qualitative Findings: Diverse Stakeholder Perspectives on Ethical Considerations in Innovative Neuroscience Research Involving Human Volunteers
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Anxiety profiles are associated with stress, resilience and symptom severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy
- Higher stress and symptom severity are associated with worse depressive symptom profiles in patients receiving chemotherapy
- Oncology outpatients with worse depression and sleep disturbance profiles are at increased risk for a higher symptom burden and poorer quality of life outcomes
- Epigenetic Regulation of Inflammatory Mechanisms and a Psychological Symptom Cluster in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy
- Stakeholders’ Perspectives regarding Participation in Neuromodulation-Based Dementia Intervention Research
- Clinical Neuroinnovation: Ethical Frameworks and Emerging Issues
- Who Should Make Research Enrollment Decisions? Perspectives of Three Stakeholder Groups on Decision Making Responsibility in Dementia Research
- Investigators’ Perspectives on Ethical Dimensions of Dementia Research: A Qualitative Study
- Risk factors for worse anxiety trajectories among patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy
- Anxiety trajectories: An observational study of women undergoing chemotherapy for breast or gynecological cancer
- Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Among Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy for Breast, Gastrointestinal, Gynecological, or Lung Cancer
- Depression trajectories among women undergoing chemotherapy.
- Risk factors for worse anxiety trajectories among patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy
- Anxiety trajectories: An observational study of women undergoing chemotherapy for breast or gynecological cancer
- Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Among Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy for Breast, Gastrointestinal, Gynecological, or Lung Cancer
- Depression trajectories among women undergoing chemotherapy.
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