Faculty

Kymberly Young, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Phone 412-648-6179
Email
Website
Young Lab Website
Young Faculty Website

Education & Training

PhD
Psychology: Behavior, Cognition, Neuroscience, American University
Clinical Neuroscience, Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Professional Affiliations

Member, Society of Biological Psychiatry
Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Selected Honors & Awards

The Laurel E. Zaks Memorial Research Award,
Donald J. Nash Memorial Outstanding Oral Presentation Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division

Research Interests

Real-time fMRI neurofeedback; Autobiographical memory; Neural correlates of mood disorders
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. Compere L, Siegle GJ & Young KD. Importance of test-retest reliability for promoting fMRI based screening and interventions in major depressive disorder. (2021) Translational Psychiatry 11(1):387
  2. Sorger, B., Scharnowski, F., Linden, DEJ., Hampson, M., Young, KD.(2019). Control freaks: Towards optimal selection of control conditions for fMRI neurofeedback studies. NeuroImage 186:256-265.
  3. Young, KD, Siegle, GJ., Zotev, V., Phillips, R., Misaki, M., Yuan, H., Drevets, WC., Bodurka, J. (2017). Randomized clinical trial of real-time fMRI amygdala neurofeedback for major depressive disorder: Effects on symptoms and autobiographical memory recall. American Journal of Psychiatry. Apr 14. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16060637.
  4. Young, KD., Misaki, M., Harmer, CJ., Victor, T., Zotev, V., Phillips, R., Siegle, GJ., Drevets, WC., Bodurka, J. (2017). Real-Time fMRI Amygdala Neurofeedback Changes Positive Information Processing in Major Depressive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry. Mar 28. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.03.013.
  5. Young, KD., Siegle, G., Bodurka, K., Drevets, WC. (2016) Amygdala activity during autobiographical memory recall in depressed and vulnerable individuals; Association with symptom severity and autobiographical overgenerality. American Journal of Psychiatry 173:78-89.

Clinical Interests

Major depressive disorder onset/recovery

Education Interests

Research mentorship; Medical student education; Graduate student education

University of Pittsburgh Awards Tenure to Kymberly Young, PhD

Dr. Kymberly Young

We are delighted to announce that Kymberly Young, PhD, has received conferral of tenure at the rank of associate professor by the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Young is an expert in the neural mechanisms of depression, and her work focuses on altered autobiographical memory in the illness, the translation of mechanistic findings from those findings to neurofeedback strategies, and the development of scalable, cost...

JAMA Network Open: Recall of Autobiographical Memories Following Odor vs Verbal Cues Among Adults With Major Depressive Disorder

Dr. Kymberly Young

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a pervasive and common illness that can severely diminish individuals’ quality of life. Among the challenges associated with major depressive disorder, individuals with MDD may have trouble recalling specific memories (a memory of a single event occurring at a specific place and time) in favor of categorical memories (a generalized memory encompassing several distinct episodes)...

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Promotes Kymberly Young, PhD, to Associate Professor of Psychiatry 

Dr. Kymberly Young Promoted

We are delighted to announce that Kymberly Young, PhD, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Young earned her PhD in psychology from American University, then conducted postdoctoral research in clinical neuroscience at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. Dr. Young joined the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry at the rank...

Pitt Psychiatry Hosts Virtual Research Matinee—An Afternoon of Discovery, Reflection, and Celebration 

Last week we reinvented our annual in-person Research Day as a virtual Research Matinee, a Department-wide exploration of innovative research, career reflections and honors for outstanding faculty and staff. Attendees included nearly 200 Psychiatry faculty, trainees, and staff, who tuned in for plenary speaker Mary Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab), followed by the perennially popular Speed Dat(a)ing, in which six...

Rebecca Price, PhD, and Kymberly Young, PhD, Receive the Laurel E. Zaks Memorial Fund Award for Novel Treatments for Depression and Suicidality

Drs. Rebecca Price and Kymberly Young Receive Laurel Zaks Awards

We are delighted to announce dual recipients of the Laurel E. Zaks Memorial Research Fund award: Rebecca Price, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Kymberly Young, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. The Laurel E. Zaks Fund, established in March 2019, supports Pitt Department of Psychiatry research pertaining to depression and suicide. Dr. Price’s research focuses on how the mind...