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2025

Pollmann, A., Rakesh, D., & Fuhrmann D. (2025). Longitudinal associations between adolescent adversity, brain development and behavioural and emotional problems. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 77:101646. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101646.

Carrick, C., Baaré, W. F. C., Vitoratou, S., Madsen, K. S.+ & Fuhrmann, D.+ (2025). Individual differences in developmental trajectories of global and subcortical brain volumes between late childhood and late adolescence: Findings from a 12-wave neuroimaging study. Human Brain Mapping, 46, 14: e70348. doi: 10.1002/hbm.70348. + joint last authors.

Pollmann, A., Bates, K. E.+, & Fuhrmann, D.+ (2025). A framework for understanding adverse adolescent experiences. Nature Human Behaviour. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-02098-x.

Fuhrmann, D.+, Riddleston, L.+, Verity, L.+, Alam, I., Conway, J., Chavez, L., … Lau, J. (2025). Co-producing a new scale with young people aged 10 – 24 years: A protocol for the development and validation of the Youth Loneliness Scale (YLS). BMJ Open, 15:e097497. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097497. + joint first authors.

Kwok, M. S.+, Inman, A.+, Bates, K. E.+, & Fuhrmann, D.+ (2025). The co-occurrence of social adversities in early adolescence and their relationship to cognitive outcomes later in development. JCCP Advances., e70010. doi: 10.1002/jcv2.70010 + joint first and last authors.

Bates, K. E., Pollmann, A., Kievit, R., & Fuhrmann, D. (2025). Perception of social experiences and cortical thickness change together throughout early adolescence: Findings from the ABCD cohort..Imaging Neuroscience, 3 IMAG.a.27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.27.

Qualter, P., Verity, L., Walibhai, W., Fuhrmann, D., Riddleston, L., Alam, I., Conway, J., & Lau, J. Y. F. (in press). Exploring child and youth understanding of loneliness through qualitative insights and evaluating loneliness measures considering those lived experiences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1111/nyas.15269

Verity, L., Lau, J. Y. F., Fuhrmann, D., Riddleston, L., & Qualter, P. (2025). Age differences in conceptualisations of loneliness: a qualitative exploration of youth perspectives. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 30(1), 2573649. doi: 10.1080/02673843.2025.2573649

Priestley, M., Slack, H.R., Islam, M.M., Fuhrmann, D., Long, E., Crook, S., Foster, J., Homer, S. and Byrom, N. (2025). “No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way”: A Qualitative Exploration of Friendship Expectations and Reality in University Life. Journal of Adolescence. doi: 10.1002/jad.12489

Preprints

Benza, K., Meehan, A., Newbury, J., Salum, G. A., & Fuhrmann, D. (preprint). Longitudinal associations between trauma, bullying victimization and conduct problems in children and adolescents: Evidence from Brazilian High Risk Cohort Study. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/cf2gz.

2024

Pollmann, A., Sasso, R., Bates, K. E., & Fuhrmann, D. (2024). Making connections: Neurodevelopmental changes in brain connectivity after adverse experiences in early adolescence. Journal of Neuroscience, 44 (8) e0991232023. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0991-23.2023

Alam, I., Khayri, E., Podger, T. A. B., Aspinall, C., Fuhrmann, D., & Lau, J. Y. F. (2024). A call for better research and resources for understanding and combatting youth loneliness: integrating the perspectives of young people and researchers. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33, 939–942. doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-02125-0

Burke, L., Verity, L., Riddleston, L., Fuhrmann, D., Qualter, P., Lau, J. Y., & Demkowicz, O. (2024). Exploring how children and adolescents talk about coping strategies relating to loneliness using reflexive thematic analysis: A qualitative study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1462189. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1462189

2023

Riddleston, L., Shukla, M., Lavi, I., Saglio, E., Fuhrmann, D., Pandey, R., Singh, T., Qualter, P., & Lau, J. Y. F. (2023). Identifying characteristics of adolescents with persistent loneliness during COVID-19: A multi-country eight-wave longitudinal study. JCPP Advances, e12206. doi: 10.1002/jcv2.12206

Jong, A., Riddleston, L., Mathur, M., Duncan, K., Lalioti, K., Fuhrmann, D., & Lau, J. Y. F. (2023). Young people’s recommended coping strategies to manage social isolation: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the UK. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 5, 100133. doi: 10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100133

Pollmann, A., Fritz, J., Barker, E. D., & Fuhrmann, D. (2023). Networks of adversity in childhood and adolescence and their relationship to adult mental health. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51(12):1769-1784. doi: 10.1007/s10802-022-00976-4

Inman, A., Chen, S., Contini, E., Orben, A., Kievit, R., Kulbayeva, Z., Shah, M., Pollmann, A., Fuhrmann, D.+, Bates, K. E.+ (2023), “I am concerned about young people’s mental health and that they have less hope for their future.”: Practitioners’ emerging concerns for young people between June 2019 to November 2021, Barnardo’s Children’s Charity. https://www.barnardos.org.uk/practitioners-concerns-issues-facing-young-people. +joint last authors.

2022

Fuhrmann, D.+, Skak Madsen, K.+, Baruël Johansen, L., Baaré, W. F. C.+, & Kievit, R. A.+ (2022). The midpoint of cortical thinning between late childhood and early adulthood differs between individuals and brain regions: Evidence from longitudinal modelling in a 12-wave neuroimaging sample. NeuroImage, 261, 119507. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119507 + joint first and joint last authors

Kievit, R. A., McCormick, E. M.+, Fuhrmann, D.+, Deserno, M. K.+, & Orben, A.+ (2022). Using large, publicly available data sets to study adolescent development: Opportunities and challenges. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 303–308. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.10.003, + joint last authors

Orben, A., Lucas, R. E., Fuhrmann, D., & Kievit, R. A. (2022). Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction. Royal Society Open Science, 9:211808, doi: 10.1098/rsos.211808

Deserno, M., Fuhrmann, D., Begeer, S., Borsboom, D., Geurts, H., & Kievit, R. A. (2022). Longitudinal development of language and fine motor skills is correlated, but not coupled, in a childhood atypical cohort. Autism, 13623613221086448. doi: 10.1177/13623613221086448

2021

Fuhrmann D., van Harmelen A.-L. & Kievit R. A. (2021). Well-being and Cognition are coupled during development: A preregistered longitudinal study of 1,136 children and adolescents. Clinical Psychological Science. doi: 10.1177/21677026211030211

Tsvetanov, K. A., Henson, R. N. A., Jones, P. S., Mutsaerts, H., Fuhrmann, D., Tyler, L. K., Cam-CAN, & Rowe, J. B. (2021). The effects of age on resting-state BOLD signal variability is explained by cardiovascular and neurovascular factors. Psychophysiology, 58(7), e13714. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13714

Akarca, D., Vértes, P.E., Bullmore, E. T., the CALM team + & Astle D. E. (2021). A generative network model of neurodevelopmental diversity in structural brain organization. Nature Communications 12, 4216. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24430-z + Consortium includes Fuhrmann, D.

2020

Laube, C., & Fuhrmann, D. (2020). Is early good or bad? Early puberty onset and its consequences for learning. Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences, 36, 150-156. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.10.005

Simpson-Kent, I. L., Fuhrmann, D., Bathelt, J., Achterberg, J., Borgeest, G. S., Kievit, R. A., & CALM Team (2020). Neurocognitive reorganization between crystallized intelligence, fluid intelligence and white matter microstructure in two age-heterogeneous developmental cohorts. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 41: 100743. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100743

Fuhrmann, D., Simpson-Kent, I. L., Bathelt, J., the CALM team & Kievit, R. A. (2020). A hierarchical watershed model of fluid intelligence in childhood and adolescence. Cerebral Cortex, 30(1), 339–352. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz091

2019

Fuhrmann, D.+, Chierchia, G.+, Knoll, L., Piera Pi-Sunyer, B., , A., & Blakemore, S.-J. (2019). The matrix reasoning item bank (MaRs-IB): Novel, open-access abstract reasoning items for adolescents and adults. Royal Society Open Science, 6: 190232. doi: 10.1098/rsos.190232 + joint first authors

Fuhrmann, D., Casey, C.S., Speekenbrink, M. & Blakemore, S.-J. (2019). Social exclusion affects working memory performance in young adolescent girls. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 40:100718. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100718

Fuhrmann, D. et al. (2019). Strong and specific associations between cardiovascular risk factors and brain white matter micro- and macro-structure in healthy ageing. Neurobiology of Aging, 74, 46-55. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.10.005

Tibon, R., Fuhrmann, D., Levy, D. A., Simons, J., & Henson, R. N. (2019). Multimodal integration and vividness in the angular gyrus during episodic encoding and retrieval. The Journal of Neuroscience, 39 (22), 4365-4374. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2102-18.2018

Fuhrmann, D., Leung, J., Griffin, C. Schweizer, S. & Blakemore, S.J. (2019). The neurocognitive correlates of academic diligence in adolescent girls. Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(2):88-99 doi: 10.1080/17588928.2018.1504762

2018

Kievit, R.A., Fuhrmann, et al. (2018). The neural determinants of age-related changes in fluid intelligence: A pre-registered, longitudinal analysis in UK Biobank. Wellcome Open Research, 3:38. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.14241.1

Foulkes, L., Leung, J., Fuhrmann, D. & Blakemore, S-J. (2018). Age differences in the prosocial influence effect. Developmental Science, e12666, doi: 10.1111/desc.12666

2014 - 2017

Fuhrmann, D. (2017). Plasticity and learning in adolescence. PhD Thesis. University College London, London, UK

Fuhrmann, D.+, Knoll, L.J.+, Sakhardande, A., Stamp, F., Speekenbrink, M. & Blakemore, S-J. (2016). A window of opportunity for cognitive training in adolescence. Psychological Science, 27(12):1620-1631. doi: 10.1177/0956797616671327 + joint first authors

Fuhrmann, D., Knoll, L.J., Sakhardande, A., Speekenbrink, M., Cohen Kadosh, K. & Blakemore, S-J. (2016). Perception and recognition of faces in adolescence. Scientific Reports, 6(33497), doi:10.1038/srep33497

Fuhrmann, D., Knoll, L.J., & Blakemore, S.-.J. (2015). Adolescence as a sensitive period of brain development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19 (10). doi:10.1016/j.tics.2015.07.008

Fuhrmann, D., Ravignani, A., Marshall-Pescini, S., & Whiten, A. (2014). Synchrony and motor mimicking in chimpanzee observational learning. Scientific Reports, 4(5283). doi:10.1038/srep05283