Elliott, Maxwell | Scholars@Duke

Maxwell Elliott
Student

Max is a clinical psychology PhD student working with Ahmad Hariri and the Moffitt & Caspi lab after completing his BS at the University of Minnesota and spending two years as a research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health. Max is interested in further understanding the structure of mental illness through investigating the interacting relationships between genes, environment and the brain. He is particularly interested in finding ways to combine knowledge about genetics and lifespan development with brain imaging to better assess and understand risk factors for mental illness. Through the use of imaging endophenotypes he hopes to further map out relationships between individual differences in health and disease.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Student, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Contact Information

Research
Selected Grants
- Training in lifespan behavioral, social, and neuroscience research connecting early-life cognitive decline to late-life ADRD awarded by National Institutes of Health 2020 - 2022
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Elliott, Maxwell L. “MRI-based biomarkers of accelerated aging and dementia risk in midlife: how close are we?” Ageing Research Reviews 61 (August 2020): 101075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2020.101075.
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  - Rasmussen, Line Jee Hartmann, Avshalom Caspi, Antony Ambler, Andrea Danese, Maxwell Elliott, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, Ahmad R. Hariri, et al. “Association Between Elevated suPAR, a New Biomarker of Inflammation, and Accelerated Aging.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, July 16, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaa178.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell L., Annchen R. Knodt, David Ireland, Meriwether L. Morris, Richie Poulton, Sandhya Ramrakha, Maria L. Sison, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis.” Psychological Science 31, no. 7 (July 2020): 792–806. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620916786.
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  - Caspi, Avshalom, Renate M. Houts, Antony Ambler, Andrea Danese, Maxwell L. Elliott, Ahmad Hariri, HonaLee Harrington, et al. “Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Comorbidities Across 4 Decades Among Participants in the Dunedin Birth Cohort Study.” Jama Network Open 3, no. 4 (April 2020): e203221. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.3221.
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  - Burr, Daisy A., Tracy d’Arbeloff, Maxwell L. Elliott, Annchen R. Knodt, Bartholomew D. Brigidi, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “Functional connectivity predicts the dispositional use of expressive suppression but not cognitive reappraisal.” Brain and Behavior 10, no. 2 (February 2020): e01493. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1493.
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  - Reuben, Aaron, Maxwell Elliott, and Avshalom Caspi. “Implications of legacy lead for children's brain development.” Nature Medicine 26, no. 1 (January 2020): 23–25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0731-9.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell L., Daniel W. Belsky, Annchen R. Knodt, David Ireland, Tracy R. Melzer, Richie Poulton, Sandhya Ramrakha, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “Brain-age in midlife is associated with accelerated biological aging and cognitive decline in a longitudinal birth cohort.” Molecular Psychiatry, December 10, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0626-7.
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  - Gregory, Michael D., Carolyn B. Mervis, Maxwell L. Elliott, J Shane Kippenhan, Tiffany Nash, Jasmin B Czarapata, Ranjani Prabhakaran, et al. “Williams syndrome hemideletion and LIMK1 variation both affect dorsal stream functional connectivity.” Brain : A Journal of Neurology 142, no. 12 (December 2019): 3963–74. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz323.
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  - Rasmussen, Line Jee Hartmann, Avshalom Caspi, Antony Ambler, Jonathan M. Broadbent, Harvey J. Cohen, Tracy d’Arbeloff, Maxwell Elliott, et al. “Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function With Gait Speed in Midlife.” Jama Netw Open 2, no. 10 (October 2, 2019): e1913123. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.13123.
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  - Romer, Adrienne, Maxwell Elliott, Annchen Knodt, Maria Sison, David Ireland, Renate Houts, Sandhya Ramrakha, et al. “Pervasively thinner neocortex as a transdiagnostic feature of general psychopathology,” September 30, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/788232.
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  - Avinun, Reut, Adam Nevo, Annchen R. Knodt, Maxwell L. Elliott, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “A genome-wide association study-derived polygenic score for interleukin-1β is associated with hippocampal volume in two samples.” Human Brain Mapping 40, no. 13 (September 2019): 3910–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24639.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell, Daniel Belsky, Annchen Knodt, David Ireland, Tracy Melzer, Richie Poulton, Sandhya Ramrakha, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie Moffitt, and Ahmad Hariri. “Brain-age in midlife is associated with accelerated biological aging and cognitive decline in a longitudinal birth-cohort,” July 26, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/712851.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell L., Daniel W. Belsky, Kevin Anderson, David L. Corcoran, Tian Ge, Annchen Knodt, Joseph A. Prinz, et al. “A Polygenic Score for Higher Educational Attainment is Associated with Larger Brains.” Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 29, no. 8 (July 2019): 3496–3504. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy219.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell, Annchen Knodt, David Ireland, Meriwether Morris, Richie Poulton, Sandhya Ramrakha, Maria Sison, Terrie Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, and Ahmad Hariri. “What is the test-retest reliability of common task-fMRI measures? New empirical evidence and a meta-analysis,” June 24, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/681700.
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  - Kim, M Justin, Maxwell L. Elliott, Tracy C. d’Arbeloff, Annchen R. Knodt, Spenser R. Radtke, Bartholomew D. Brigidi, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “Microstructural integrity of white matter moderates an association between childhood adversity and adult trait anger.” Aggressive Behavior 45, no. 3 (May 2019): 310–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21820.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell L., Annchen R. Knodt, Megan Cooke, M Justin Kim, Tracy R. Melzer, Ross Keenan, David Ireland, et al. “General functional connectivity: Shared features of resting-state and task fMRI drive reliable and heritable individual differences in functional brain networks.” Neuroimage 189 (April 2019): 516–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.068.
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  - Arbeloff, Tracy d’, Maxwell L. Elliott, Annchen R. Knodt, Tracy R. Melzer, Ross Keenan, David Ireland, Sandhya Ramrakha, et al. “White matter hyperintensities are common in midlife and already associated with cognitive decline.” Brain Communications 1, no. 1 (January 2019): fcz041. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcz041.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell L., Adrienne Romer, Annchen R. Knodt, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “A Connectome-wide Functional Signature of Transdiagnostic Risk for Mental Illness.” Biological Psychiatry 84, no. 6 (September 2018): 452–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.03.012.
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  - Avinun, Reut, Adam Nevo, Annchen R. Knodt, Maxwell L. Elliott, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “Replication in Imaging Genetics: The Case of Threat-Related Amygdala Reactivity.” Biological Psychiatry 84, no. 2 (July 2018): 148–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.11.010.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell, Annchen Knodt, Megan Cooke, Justin Kim, Tracy Melzer, Ross Keenan, David Ireland, et al. “General Functional Connectivity: shared features of resting-state and task fMRI drive reliable and heritable individual differences in functional brain networks,” May 25, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/330530.
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  - Elliott, Maxwell, Daniel Belsky, Kevin Anderson, David Corcoran, Tian Ge, Annchen Knodt, Joseph Prinz, et al. “A Polygenic Score for Higher Educational Attainment is Associated with Larger Brains,” March 23, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/287490.
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  - Avinun, Reut, Adam Nevo, Annchen R. Knodt, Maxwell L. Elliott, Spenser R. Radtke, Bartholomew D. Brigidi, and Ahmad R. Hariri. “Reward-Related Ventral Striatum Activity Buffers against the Experience of Depressive Symptoms Associated with Sleep Disturbances.” The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 37, no. 40 (October 2017): 9724–29. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1734-17.2017.
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  - Beim, Jordan A., Maxwell Elliott, Andrew J. Oxenham, and Magdalena Wojtczak. “Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions Provide No Evidence for the Role of Efferents in the Enhancement Effect.” Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : Jaro 16, no. 5 (October 2015): 613–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-015-0534-8.
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- Conference Papers
  - Elliott, Maxwell, Adrienne Romer, Annchen Knodt, and Ahmad Hariri. “A Connectome Wide Functional Signature of Transdiagnostic Risk for Mental Illness,” 2017. https://doi.org/10.1101/196220.
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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- PSY 201L: Introduction to Statistical Methods in Psychology 2018

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