Benjamin Mullin, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry-Child-CHC
Graduate School
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2009)
Undergraduate School
- BA, Clark University (MA) (2001)
Languages
EnglishDepartment
Psychiatry-Child-CHCPublications
- Ariefdjohan, M., Nesi, J., Mullin, B.C., Pesko, M. & Fritsch, S. (2025). Youth anxiety in the digital age: Present status and future considerations. In Christakis, D.A. & Hale, L (Eds.) Children and Screens: A Handbook on Digital Media and the Development, Health, and Well-being of Children and Adolescents. New York: Springer Publishing.
- Mullin, B.C., Baumann, C., Meintzer, M.K. & Hawks, J. (2024). Training in evidence-based assessment and treatment of pediatric anxiety and OCD in a large hospital outpatient psychiatric clinic. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. doi: 10.1080/23794925.2024.2358503
- Haraden DA, Mullin BC, Hankin BL. Internalizing symptoms and chronotype in youth: A longitudinal assessment of anxiety, depression and tripartite model. Psychiatry Res. 2019 Feb;272:797-805. PubMed PMID: 30832201
- Mullin BC, Perks EL, Haraden DA, Snyder HR, Hankin BL. Subjective Executive Function Weaknesses Are Linked to Elevated Internalizing Symptoms Among Community Adolescents. Assessment. 2018 Dec 22;:1073191118820133. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30580546
- Haraden DA, Mullin BC, Hankin BL. The relationship between depression and chronotype: A longitudinal assessment during childhood and adolescence. Depress Anxiety. 2017 Oct;34(10):967-976. PubMed PMID: 28884932
- Mullin BC, Pyle L, Haraden D, Riederer J, Brim N, Kaplan D, Novins DK. A preliminary multi-method comparison of sleep among adolescents with and without generalized anxiety disorder. J Clin Child Adol Psyc. 2016, Oct (Adv online epub); 1-16.
- Mullin, B.C., McDunn, C., McKay, S., Oland, A. (2015). Obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Colorado Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology, 1, 5-12.
- Levenson JC, Axelson DA, Merranko J, Angulo M, Goldstein TR, Goldstein BI, Brent DA, Diler R, Hickey MB, Monk K, Sakolsky D, Kupfer DJ, Birmaher B. Differences in sleep disturbances among offspring of parents with and without bipolar disorder: association with conversion to bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2015 Dec;17(8):836-48. PubMed PMID: 26547512
- Mullin, B.C., Phillips, M.L., Siegle, G., Buysse, D.J., Forbes, E.E., Franzen, P. (In press). Sleep deprivation amplifies striatal reactivity to reward in healthy young adults. Psychological Medicine.
- Fournier, J.C., Keener, M.T., Mullin, B.C., Hafeman, D., LaBarbara, E.J., Stiffler, R.S., Almeida, J.R.C., Kronhaus, D., Frank, E., Phillips, M.L. (2013). Heterogeneity of Amygdala Response to Happy Faces in Major Depressive Disorder: The Impact of Lifetime Sub-Threshold Mania. Psychological Medicine, 43(2), 293-302.
- Mullin BC, Phillips ML, Siegle GJ, Buysse DJ, Forbes EE, Franzen PL. Sleep deprivation amplifies striatal activation to monetary reward. Psychol Med. 2013 Oct;43(10):2215-25. PubMed PMID: 23286303
- Fournier JC, Keener MT, Mullin BC, Hafeman DM, Labarbara EJ, Stiffler RS, Almeida J, Kronhaus DM, Frank E, Phillips ML. Heterogeneity of amygdala response in major depressive disorder: the impact of lifetime subthreshold mania. Psychol Med. 2013 Feb;43(2):293-302. PubMed PMID: 22571805
- Keener, M.T., Fournier, J.C., Mullin, B.C., Kronhaus, D. Perlman, S., LaBarbara, E.J., Almeida, J.R.C. & Phillips, M.L. (2012). Dissociable patterns of medial prefrontal and amygdala activity to face identity versus emotion in bipolar disorder. Psychological Medicine, 42(9), 1913-1924.
- Mullin, B.C., Holzman, J.B., Pyle, L., Perks, E.L., Chintaluru, Y. Gulley, L.D., Haraden, D.A., & Hankin, B.L. (In press). Relationships between attention to emotion and anxiety among a community sample of adolescents. Psychological Medicine.
- Mullin, B.C., & Simon, S.L. Managing insomnia symptoms among adolescents with anxiety disorders. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Forthcoming 2018.
- Internalizing symptoms and chronotype in youth: A longitudinal assessment of anxiety, depression and tripartite model. Psychiatry Research.
- Mullin, B.C., Perks, E.L., Haraden, D.A., Snyder, H.R. & Hankin, B.L. (In press). Subjective executive function weaknesses are linked to elevated internalizing symptoms among community adolescents. Assessment. doi: 10.1177/1073191118820133
Professional Memberships
- Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Member
- Sleep Research Society, Member
Practice Locations
Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234
Hospital Affiliation
- Children's Hospital Colorado
Specialty Information
Conditions & Treatments- Mental Health and Behavior - Anxiety
- Mental Health and Behavior
- Mental Health and Behavior - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Mental Health and Behavior - Panic Disorder
- Mental Health and Behavior - Stress