Publications
1. Figueroa CA, Guan K, N Perez, C. Stiles-Shields, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Considerations in Mental Health Apps for Young People: Protocol for a Scoping review, British Medical Journal Open.
2. Figueroa CA, Aguilera, A., Hoffmann, T. J., & Fukuoka, Y., The relationship between barriers to physical activity and depressive symptoms in community-dwelling women. Women's Health Reports, 5(1), 242-249 (2024).
3. Arévalo Avalos, M. R., Xu, J., Figueroa CA, Haro-Ramos, AY, Chakraborty B, Aguilera, A. (2024). The effect of cognitive behavioral therapy text messages on mood: A micro-randomized trial. PLOS Digital Health, 3(2), e0000449 (2024)
4. Figueroa, CA., Manalo-Pedro, E., Pola, S., Darwish, S., Sachdeva, P., Guerrero, C., et al. (2023). The stories about racism and health: the development of a framework for racism narratives in medical literature using a computational grounded theory approach. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(1), 265.
5. Alonso, S., Tyborowska, A., Ikani, N., Mocking, R. J., Figueroa, CA., Schene, A. H., et al. Depression recurrence is accompanied by longer periods in default mode and more frequent attentional and reward processing dynamic brain‐states during resting‐state activity. Human brain mapping, 44(17), 5770-5783 (2023).
6. Xu J., Xiaoxi Y., Figueroa CA, Williams JJ, Chakraborty B., A flexible micro-randomized trial design and sample size considerations, Statistical Methods in Medical Research 32 1766-1783, (2023)
7. Figueroa CA, Sundqvist J, Mathieu S, Farrokhnia N, Nevin D, Andersson SW. The Opportunities and Challenges of Women's Digital Health: A Research Agenda: Women's Digital Health Research Agenda. Health Policy and Technology. 2023 Oct 5:100814.
8. Alonso, S., Tyborowska, A., Ikani, N., Mocking, R. J., Figueroa, C. A., et al. (2023). Depression recurrence is accompanied by longer periods in default mode and more frequent attentional and reward processing dynamic brain‐states during resting‐state activity. Human brain mapping. 2023 Sep 6.
9. Figueroa CA, Gomez-Pathak L, Khan I, Hernandez-Ramos R, Joseph Jay Williams J et al. Recommendations for the design of a text-messaging mobile application to increase physical activity in university students: A qualitative study. Universal Access in the Information Society. 2023 Jan 5:1-0.
10. Heuschen CB, Mocking RJ, Zantvoord JB, Figueroa CA, Schene AH, Denys DA, et al. Suicidal ideation in remitted major depressive disorder predicts recurrence. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2022.
11. Hernandez-Ramos R, Altszyler E, Figueroa CA, Avila-Garcia P, Aguilera A. Linguistic analysis of Latinx patients’ responses to a text messaging adjunct during cognitive behavioral therapy for depression. Behaviour research and therapy. 2022;150:104027.
12. Figueroa CA, Murayama H, Amorim PC, White A, Quiterio A, Luo T, et al. Applying the Digital Health Social Justice Guide. Frontiers in digital health. 2022;4.
13. Figueroa CA, Deliu N, Chakraborty B, Modiri A, Xu J, Aggarwal J, et al. Daily Motivational Text Messages to Promote Physical Activity in University Students: Results From a Microrandomized Trial. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2022;56(2):212-8.
14. Pathak, L.E., Aguilera, A., Williams, J.J., Lyles, C.R., Hernandez-Ramos, R., Miramontes, J., Cemballi, A.G. and Figueroa, C.A. Developing messaging content for a physical activity smartphone app tailored to low-income patients: user-centered design and crowdsourcing approach. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 2021;9(5):e21177.
15. Mocking RJ, Naviaux JC, Li K, Wang L, Monk JM, Bright AT, Figueroa, CA, et al. Metabolic features of recurrent major depressive disorder in remission, and the risk of future recurrence. Translational psychiatry. 2021;11(1):1-13.
16. Luo TC, Aguilera A, Lyles CR, Figueroa CA. Promoting physical activity through conversational agents: mixed methods systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2021;23(9):e25486.
17. Hernandez-Ramos R, Aguilera A, Garcia F, Miramontes-Gomez J, Pathak LE, Figueroa CA, et al. Conducting internet-based visits for onboarding populations with limited digital literacy to an mhealth intervention: development of a patient-centered approach. JMIR formative research. 2021;5(4):e25299.
18. Figueroa CA, Vittinghoff E, Aguilera A, Fukuoka Y. Differences in objectively measured daily physical activity patterns related to depressive symptoms in community dwelling women–mPED trial. Preventive medicine reports. 2021;22:101325.
19. Figueroa CA, Luo TC, Jacobo A, Munoz A, Manuel M, Chan D, et al. Conversational Physical Activity Coaches for Spanish and English Speaking Women: A User Design Study. Frontiers in digital health. 2021;3.
20. Aguilera A, Hernandez-Ramos R, Haro-Ramos AY, Boone CE, Luo TC, Xu J, Chakraborty B, Karr C, Darrow S, Figueroa CA, A Text Messaging Intervention (StayWell at Home) to Counteract Depression and Anxiety During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Pre-Post Study. JMIR mental health. 2021;8(11):e25298.
21. Figueroa CA, Luo T, Aguilera A, Lyles CR. The need for feminist intersectionality in digital health. The Lancet Digital Health. 2021;3(8):e526-e33.
22. Figueroa CA, Hernandez-Ramos R, Boone CE, Gómez-Pathak L, Yip V, Luo T, et al. A Text Messaging Intervention for Coping With Social Distancing During COVID-19 (StayWell at Home): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR research protocols. 2021;10(1):e23592.
23. Figueroa CA, Aguilera A, Chakraborty B, Modiri A, Aggarwal J, Deliu N, et al. Adaptive learning algorithms to optimize mobile applications for behavioral health: guidelines for design decisions. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2021;28(6):1225-34.
24. Cuijpers P, Pineda BS, Quero S, Karyotaki E, Struijs SY, Figueroa CA, et al. Psychological interventions to prevent the onset of depressive disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Clinical psychology review. 2021;83:101955.
25. Figueroa CA, Aguilera A, The need for a mental health technology revolution in the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11 (2020): 523.
26. Figueroa CA, DeMasi O, Hernandez-Ramos R, Aguilera A. Who Benefits Most from Adding Technology to Depression Treatment and How? An Analysis of Engagement with a Texting Adjunct for Psychotherapy. Telemedicine and e-Health. 2020 Mar 26.
27. Thesing, C.S., Lok, A., Milaneschi, Y., Assies, J., Bockting, C.L., Figueroa, C.A., et al., 2019. Fatty acids and recurrence of major depressive disorder: combined analysis of two Dutch clinical cohorts. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 141 (4), 362-373
28. Geugies H, Opmeer EM, Marsman JBC, Figueroa CA, van Tol ML, et. al. Decreased functional connectivity of the insula within the salience network as an indicator for prospective insufficient response to antidepressants, NeuroImage: Clinical, p.102064.
29. Schueller SM, Hunter JF, Figueroa CA and Aguilera A. Use of Digital Mental Health for
Marginalized and Underserved Populations. Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, 2019 Jul 5, pp.1-13,
30. Geugies H, Mocking R, Figueroa CA, Groot P, Marsman J, et al. Impaired Reward-Related
Learning Signals in Remitted Unmedicated Patients with Recurrent Depression, Brain, 2019 Jul 5. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz167
31. Ruhe HG, Mocking RJ, Figueroa CA, Seeverens PW, Ikani N, et al. Emotional biases and recurrence in Major Depressive Disorder. Results of 2.5 years follow-up of drug-free cohort vulnerable for recurrence. Frontiers in psychiatry. 2019 Mar 28. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00145
32. Figueroa CA, DeJong H, Mocking RJ, Fox E, Rive MM, Schene AH, Stein A, Ruhé HG. Attentional control, rumination and recurrence of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2019 Sep 1;256:364-372. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.05.072.
33. Figueroa CA, Mocking RJ, Mahmoud GA, Koeter MW, Bockting CL, et al. Altered ability to access a clinically relevant control network in patients remitted from major depressive disorder. Human Brain Mapping. 2019 Mar 12. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24559
34. Ter Horst DM, Schene AH, Figueroa CA, Assies J, Lok A et al. Cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, fatty acids and their relation in recurrent depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018 Oct 19;100:203-212.
35. Figueroa CA, Mocking RJ, Mahmoud GA, Koeter MW, Bockting CL, et al. The measurement of Cognitive Reactivity to sad mood in patients remitted from Major Depressive Disorder. Br J Clin Psychol, 57(3), 313-327. doi:10.1111/bjc.12175
36. Figueroa CA, Mocking RJ, Wingen G, Martens S, Ruhé HG, et al. Aberrant default mode network-hippocampus connectivity after sad autobiographical recall in remitted depression. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 12(11), 1803-1813. doi:10.1093/scan/nsx108
37. Servaas M, Riese H, Renken RJ, Wichers M, Bastiaansen JA, Figueroa CA, et al. Associations between daily affective instability and connectomics in functional subnetworks in remitted patients with recurrent major depressive disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology, 42(13), 2583-2592. doi:10.1038/npp.2017.65
38. Mocking RJ, Figueroa CA, Rive MM, Geugies H, Servaas MN, et al. Vulnerability for new episodes in recurrent major depressive disorder: protocol for the longitudinal DELTA-neuroimaging cohort study. BMJ Open, 6(3), e009510. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009510
39. Figueroa CA, Ruhé HG, Koeter MW, Spinhoven P, Van der Does W, Bockting CL, Schene AH. Cognitive reactivity versus dysfunctional cognitions and the prediction of relapse in recurrent major depressive disorder. J Clin Psychiatry, 76(10), e1306-1312. doi:10.4088/JCP.14m09268
40. De Crescenzo F, Armando M, Mazzone L, Ciliberto M, Figueroa CA, Quested D, et al. The use of actigraphy in the monitoring of Methylphenidate versus Placebo in ADHD: a meta-analysis. Atten Defic Hyperact Disord, 6(1), 49-58. doi:10.1007/s12402-013-0122-x
41. Figueroa CA, Mesfum ET, Acton NT, Kunst AE. Medical students' knowledge and attitudes toward organ donation: results of a dutch survey. Transplant Proc, 45(6), 2093-2097 doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2013.02.135
42. Figueroa CA, Rassam F, Spong KS. Education on ethnic diversity in health care in medical school: what can we learn from the American perspective? Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd, 157(16), A5790.2013;157(16):A5790