Sarah Rutter

Contact

sbr59@case.edu

Other Information

Research Areas: Clinical Psychology PhD

Area of Specialization: Adult Psychology

Advisor: Norah Feeny

Research Interests: My research interests are in mechanisms of change over the course of treatment for trauma-and stressor-related disorders, particularly PTSD and MDD. Specifically, I’m interested in exploring patterns of symptom change over the course of treatment, the role of distorted blame in treatment response and dropout, and how PTSD and depressive symptoms may interact during and after treatment.

Selected Recent Publications:

Rutter, S. B., Horn, S. R., Kautz, M., Collins, A. B., Yehuda, R., Pietrzak, R. H., & Feder, A. (in submission). Association of re-experiencing symptoms with elevated c-reactive protein levels in World Trade Center responders.

Rutter, S. B, Bagley, J., Mattson, E., Zoellner, L., & Feeny, N. (2023, April 20-22). Does Childhood Sexual Abuse Influence PTSD Treatment Response Through Moderators? [Symposium presentation]. Midwestern Psychological Association 2023 Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Morris, L.S., Grehl, M.M., Rutter, S.B., Mehta, M., Westwater, M.L. (2022). On what motivates us: A detailed review of intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. Psychological Medicine.

Jacob, Y., Morris, L., Verma, G., Rutter, S. B., Balchandani, P., & Murrough, J. W. (2022). Altered hippocampus and amygdala subregion connectome hierarchy in major depressive disorder. Translational Psychiatry.

Ranti, D., Warburton, A., Rutland, J., Markowitz, M., Smith, D., Karwoska Kligler, S., Rutter, S., Arrighi-Allisan, A., George, I., Verma, G., Murrough, J., Delman, B., & Morris, L. (2022). Perivascular spaces as a marker of psychological trauma in depression: A 7-Tesla MRI study. Brain and Behavior.

Feder, A., Costi, S., Rutter, S. B., Collins, A. B., Govindarajulu, U., Jha, M. K., Horn, S. R., Kautz, M., Corniquel, M., Collins, K. A., Bevilacqua, L., Glasgow, A. M., Brallier, J., Pietrzak, R. H., Murrough, J. W., & Charney, D. S. (2021). A Randomized Controlled Trial of Repeated Ketamine Administration for Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry.

Rutter, S. B., Solmssen, C., Kaye-Kauderer, H., Verma, G., Murrough, J.W., Delman, B., & Balchandani, P. (2021, May). Comparison of Incidental Findings in Major Depressive Disorder Versus Healthy Controls Using Ultrahigh Field [7 Tesla] MRI. Poster presented by Sarah Rutter for the Society of Biological Psychiatry’s 76th Annual Meeting, virtual.

Rutter, S. B., Horn, S.R., Kautz, M., Collins, A.B., Yehuda, R., Pietrzak, R.H., & Feder, A. (2021, March). PTSD Symptom Dimensions, Body Mass Index, and Systemic Inflammation in World Trade Center Responders. Poster presented by Sarah Rutter for the Anxiety Depression and Association of America’s Annual Conference, virtual.

Rutter, S. B., Cipriani, N., Smith, E. C., Ramjas, E., Vaccaro, D., Martin Lopez, M., Calabrese, Torres, D., W., Abraham, P. C., Llaguno, M., Soto, E., Ghavami, M., & Perez-Rodriguez, M. M. (2020). Neurocognition and the suicidal process. In Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences (CTBN):  Behavioral Neurobiology of Suicide and Self Harm edited by Mark A. Geyer, Charles A. Marsden, Bart A. Ellenbroek, Thomas R.E. Barnes, and Susan L. Andersen. Springer.

Feder, A., Rutter, S. B., & Charney, D. (2020). Ketamine and posttraumatic stress disorder. In Advances in Pharmacology: Rapid Acting Antidepressants edited by Ronald Duman and John Krystal. doi: 10.1016/bs.apha.2020.05.004