Distinguished Research Professor
- Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Primary Area: Clinical Psychology
- Secondary Area(s): Behavioral Neuroscience
- Address: 3268A Psychology Building
- Phone: (310) 825-2961
- Email: gamiller@ucla.edu
Research and Teaching Interests
I study psychological and neural mechanisms relating cognitive, emotional, and physiological aspects of normal human behavior and psychopathology, especially executive function, emotional dysregulation, and sensory processes, using psychophysiological methods, emphasizing MRI, EEG, MEG, and EKG. I co-direct the UCLA Laboratory of Clinical and Affective Psychophysiology with Prof. Cindy Yee-Bradbury. In collaboration with Profs. Yee-Bradbury, Katie Karlsgodt, and Keith Nuechterlein at UCLA, studies evaluate brain connectivity in the context of cognitive training, exercise, and stress dynamics in schizophrenia using MRI, EEG, EKG, and cortisol methods. In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Brigitte Rockstroh, Prof. Dr. Christian Wienbruch, and Dr. Tzvetan Popov at the University of Konstanz (Germany), MRI and EEG studies explore compromised sensory, cognitive, and emotional processing in schizophrenia to develop cognitive treatment methods. In collaboration with Prof. J. Christopher Edgar at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Yu-han Chen and Heather Green at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, MRI and MEG studies explore compromised sensory processing in psychopathology and early development. In collaboration with Profs. Wendy Heller and Brad Sutton and Dr. Tracey Wszalek at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MRI studies explore the differentiation of depression and anxiety. I am not taking new graduate students for the coming year.
Representative Publications
Edgar, J.C., Blaskey, L., Green, H., Konka, K., Shen, G., Depiero, M., Berman, J.I., Bloy, L., Liu, S., McBride, E., Ku, M., Kuschner, E.S., Airey, M., Kim, M., Franzen, R., Miller, G.A., & Roberts, T. (2020). Maturation of auditory cortex neural activity in children and implications for auditory clinical markers in diagnosis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.584557
Edgar, J.C., Guha, A., & Miller, G.A. (2020). Magnetoencephalography for schizophrenia. Special issue on magnetoencephalography, R.R. Lee & M.X. Huang (Eds.), Neuroimaging Clinics, 30, 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nic.2020.01.002
Edgar, J.C., & Miller, G.A. (2020). Identifying neural abnormalities in schizophrenia. In A.C. Papanicolaou, T.P.L. Roberts, & J.W. Wheless (Eds.), Fifty years of MEG: The Oxford handbook of magnetoencephalography (pp. 359-374). Oxford University Press.
Fisher, J.E., Guha, A., Heller, W., & Miller, G.A. (2020). Extreme-groups designs in studies of dimensional phenomena: Advantages, caveats, and recommendations. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129, 14-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000480
Lau, A., & Miller, G.A. (2020). Do clinical science programs need GRE scores in admissions this year, or ever? PCSAS Newsletter Special Edition, July. [Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System] https://www.pcsasnews.org/doweneedthegres.
Letkiewicz, A.M.¸ Silton, R.L., Mimnaugh, K.J., Miller, G.A., Heller, W., & Sass, S.M. (2020). Childhood abuse history and altered attention to emotional stimuli in adults. Psychophysiology, 57, e13627. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13627
Miller, G.A. (2020). Comments on Kendler’s “The Impact of Faculty Psychology and Theories of Psychological Causation on the Origins of Modern Psychiatric Nosology”. In K.S. Kendler, J. Parnas, & P. Zachar (Eds.), Levels of analysis in psychopathology: Cross-disciplinary perspectives (p. 479-490). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Miller, G.A., & Bartholomew, M.E. (2020). Challenges in the relationships between psychological and biological phenomena in psychopathology. In K.S. Kendler, J. Parnas, & P. Zachar (Eds.), Philosophical issues in psychiatry V: Levels of analysis in psychopathology (p. 238-266). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Reed, A.C., Lee, J., Green, M.F., Hamilton, H.K., Miller, G.A., Subotnik, K.L., Ventura, J., Nuechterlein, K.H., & Yee, C.M. (2020). Associations between physiological responses to social-evaluative stress and daily functioning in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 218, 233-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2019.12.040
Sharp, P., Miller, G.A., Dolan, R.J., & Eldar, E. (2020). Towards formal models of psychopathological traits that explain symptom trajectories. BMC Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01725-4
Bartholomew, M.E., Heller, W., & Miller, G.A. (2021). Inhibitory control of emotional processing: Theoretical and empirical considerations. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 163, 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.03.015
Clayson, P. E., Kappenman, E. S., Gehring, W. J., Miller, G. A., & Larson, M. J. (2021). A commentary on establishing norms for error-related brain activity during the arrow flanker task among young adults. NeuroImage, 234, 117932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117932
Guha, A., Yee, C.M., Heller, W., & Miller, G.A. (2021). Alterations in the default mode-salience network circuit provide a potential mechanism of negativity bias in depression. Psychophysiology, 58, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13918
Popov, T., Rockstroh, B., & Miller, G.A. (2021). Oscillatory connectivity as a mechanism of auditory sensory gating and its disruption in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 58, e13770. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13770
Rapp, A., Grammer, J.K., Tan, P.Z., Gehring, W., Chavira, D., & Miller, G.A. (2021). Collectivism is associated with enhanced neural response to errors occurring in a socially-salient context among adolescents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 1150-1159. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab065
Rapp, A.M., Tan, P.Z., Grammer, J.K., Gehring, W.J., Miller, G.A., & Chavira, D. A. (2021). Cultural group differences in the association of neural sensitivity to social feedback and social anxiety among diverse adolescents. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 143, 400-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.09.036
Warren, S.L., Heller, W., & Miller, G.A. (2021). The structure of executive dysfunction in depression and anxiety. Journal of Affective Disorders, 279, 208-216. PMCID: PMC7738359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.09.132
Diehl, C.K., Rockstroh, B., Yee, C.M., & Miller, G.A. (2022). Endophenotypes in psychiatric genomics: A selective review of their status and a call to action. In E.E. Tsermpini, M. Alda, & G.P. Patrinos (Eds.), Psychiatric genomics (pp. 361-384). Elsevier.
Marder, M.A., Richier, C., Miller, G.A., & Heller, W. (2022). Pandemic onset, individual differences, and dimensional symptoms of depression and anxiety among emerging adults. Emerging Adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968221102792
Rapp, A.M., Tan, P.Z., Grammer, J.K., Gehring, W.J., Miller, G.A., & Chavira, D.A. (2022). Cultural values influence relations between parent emotion socialization and adolescents’ neural responses to peer rejection. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 50, 2455-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00764-y
Snyder, H.R., Silton, R.L., Hankin, B.L., Smolker, H.R., Kaiser, R.H., Banich, M.T., Miller, G.A., & Heller, W. (2022). The dimensional structure of internalizing psychopathology: Relation to diagnostic categories. Clinical Psychological Science, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221119483
Cuthbert, B.N., Miller, G.A., Sanislow, C., & Vaidyanathan, U. (2023). The Research Domain Criteria Project: Integrative translation for psychopathology. P.H. Blaney & R.F. Krueger (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology, Third Edition (p. 78-102). New York: Oxford University Press.
Diehl, C.K., Heller, W., Yee, C.M., & Miller, G.A. (2023). Theories of psychopathology: Potential to promote clinical science, empowerment, and justice. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 132, 330-339. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000827
Treat, T.A., Miller, G.A., & Simons, R.F. (2023, February 26). Evaluation of the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) program review. psyarxiv.com/pyjwa. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pyjwa
Guha, A., Popov, T., Bartholomew, M. E., Reed, A. C., Diehl, C.K., Subotnik, K., Ventura, J., Nuechterlein, K., Miller, G. A., & Yee, C. M. (2024). Task-based DMN connectivity predicts cognitive deficits and negative symptoms in first-episode schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 61, e14627. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14627
Marder, M.A., & Miller, G.A. (2024). The future of psychophysiology, then and now. Biological Psychology, 189, 108792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108792 Supplement https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0301051124000516-mmc1.doc
Olshan, S. M., Richier, C. J., Baacke, K. A., Miller, G. A., & Heller, W. (2024). Making the most of errors: Utilizing erroneous predictions generated by machine learning models of neuroimaging data for understanding disorder heterogeneity. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 133, 678-689. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000943
Sargent, K.S., Martinez, E.L., Reed, A.C., Guha, A., Bartholomew, M.E., Diehl, C.K., Chang, C.S., Salama, S., Thayer, J. F., Miller, G.A., & Yee, C.M. (2024). Oscillatory coupling between neural and cardiac rhythms. Psychological Science, 35, 517-528. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241235932
Edgar, J.C., & Miller, G.A. (2025). Digital signal processing courseware. [Computer software.] https://github.com/BrainsChange/Digital-Signal-Processing-Courseware.
Sargent, K.S., Martinez, E.L., Reed, A.C., Guha, A., Bartholomew, M.E., Diehl, C.K., Chang, C.S., Salama, S., Subotnik, K.L., Ventura, J., Nuechterlein, K.H., Miller, G.A., & Yee, C.M. (2025). Brain-body dysconnectivity: Deficient autonomic regulation of cortical function in first-episode schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine 55, e1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291724003428
Green, H.L., Edgar, J.C., Mol, K., McNamee, M., Prosser, L., Kim, M., Kuschner, E.S., Miller, G.A., & Chen, Y. (2026). Resting-state periodic and aperiodic brain oscillations from birth to preschool years: Aperiodic maturity predicts developmental course. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 79, 101709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101709
McNamee, M., Green, H.L., Shen, G., DiPiero, M., Murray, D.L., Pearce, M., Liu, S., Blaskey, L., Kuschner, E.S., Kim, M., Franzen, R.E., Miller, G.A., Chen, Y., Edgar, J.C. (2026). Confirmation of a useful dark-room resting-state procedure: Periodic and aperiodic MEG activity in children. Psychophysiology, 63, e70261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70261
Edgar, J.C., Wilson, T.W., Taulu, S., Nugent, A.C., Ahlfors, S.P., Kenet, T., Chen, Y., Bosseler, A.N., Green, H.L., Heinrichs-Graham, E., Gaetz, W., Larson, E., Candelaria-Cook, F.T., Bell, N.M., Davenport, E.M., Howell, B., Evans, M., Ahtam, B., Huang, M.X., Ward, T.W., Share, B., Mody, M., Son, J.J., Cellier, D., Peatfield, N.A., Bardouille, T., Bailey, L.M., Grewal, S., Pratt, K., Knappe, S., Alem, O., Miller, G.A., Stephen, J. (In press). Revolutionizing pediatric neurophysiology with magnetoencephalography. Psychophysiology.
Forsyth, J.K., Zhu, J., Chavannes, A.S., Trevorrow, Z.H., …, Miller, G.A., …, Bearden, C.E. (In press). Fetal gene regulatory gene deletions are associated with poor cognition in schizophrenia and community-based samples. American Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.02.24311302
Shen, G., Green, H.L., McNamee, M., Franzen, R.E., DiPiero, M., Berman, J.I., Ku, M., Bloy, L., Liu, S., Airey, M., Goldin, S., Blaskey, L., Kuschner, E.S., Kim, M., Konka, K., Miller, G.A., & Edgar, J.C. (In press). White matter microstructure as a potential contributor to differences in resting state alpha activity between neurotypic and autistic children: A longitudinal multimodal imaging study. Molecular Autism.
West, H.V., Finnegan, M.K., Marder, M.A., Richier, C.J., Miller, G.A., & Heller, W. (In press). Cognitive enhancement and brain plasticity in mental health. In A. K. Barbey (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of cognitive enhancement and brain plasticity. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.176406331.15863911/v1
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