Lauren M Bylsma, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Psychology
Contact Details
3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh
PA
15213
Education & Training
PhD
Clinical Psychology, University of South Florida
Clinical Psychology, VA Puget Sound, Seattle Division
Innovative Methods in Pathogenesis and Child Treatment Training, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Current Appointments
Co-Director, Center for Advanced Psychotherapy
Assistant Director, Hope Team (www.hopeteam.pitt.edu)
Professional Affiliations
Member, Society for Affective Science
Member, Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Member, Society for Research in Psychopathology
Member, Society for Ambulatory Assessment
Member, Society for Psychophysiological Research
Selected Honors & Awards
Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology, Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program (LPR) Recipient, National Institutes of Health
Research Interests
Depression risk & developmental neuroscience; Emotional reactivity & regulation, reward process; Multimodal assessment of emotion, transdiagnostic
Selected Research Publications & Products- Bylsma LM, Tan PZ, Silk JS, Forbes EE, McMakin DL, Dahl RE, Ryan ND & Ladouceur CD. (2022). The late positive potential during affective picture processing: Associations with daily life emotional functioning among adolescents with anxiety disorders. International Journal of Psychophysiology.
- Bylsma LM. (2021). Emotion context insensitivity in depression: Toward an integrated and contextualized approach. Psychophysiology, 58(2), e13715.
- Panaite V, Rottenberg J & Bylsma LM. (2020). Daily affective dynamics predict depression symptom trajectories among adults with major and minor depression. Affective Science, 1(3), 186-198.
- Stone LB, McCormack CC & Bylsma LM. (2020). Cross system autonomic balance and regulation: Associations with depression and anxiety symptoms. Psychophysiology, 57(10), e13636.
- Hamilton JL, Ladouceur CD, Silk JS, Franzen PL, & Bylsma LM. (2020). Higher rates of sleep disturbance among offspring of parents with recurrent depression compared to offspring of nondepressed parents. Journal of pediatric psychology, 45(1), 1-11.
Clinical Interests
Mood & anxiety disorders; adolescents/young adults; Clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR-p); Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Selected Clinical Publications & Products- Vail, A. K., Girard, J. M., Bylsma, L. M., Cohn, J. F., Fournier, J., Swartz, H. A., & Morency, L.-P. (2022). Toward causal understanding of therapist-client relationships: A study of language modality and social entrainment. Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Bengaluru, India. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556616
- Bylsma LM, Gracanin A & Vingerhoets AJ. (2017) Why humans weep. In Blume-Marcovici (ed.), When Therapists Cry: Reflections on Therapists Tears in Therapy. New York, NY: Routledge.
- Bylsma LM, Gracanin A & Vingerhoets A J. (2021). A clinical practice review of crying research. Psychotherapy, 58(1), 133.
- Bylsma LM, Mauss IB & Rottenberg J. (2016) Is the divide a chasm?: Bridging affective science with clinical practice. Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment, 38(1), 42-47.
Education Interests
Research mentoring; Clinical supervision; Mentoring residents & medical students
Selected Education Publications & Products- Bylsma LM. (2018) Social Anxiety Disorder: Assessment and Management. CMEtoGO Psychiatry, 7(4). American Physician Institute. https://www.masterpsych.com/psychiatry-cme-to-go/
- Rottenberg J & Bylsma LM. (2014) Emotional functioning in depression. In Gotlib, I.H. & Hammen, C.L. (eds.). Handbook of Depression: Guildford Press.
- Bylsma LM & Panaite V. (2012) Depression. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Psychology. ScholarOne Books.
- Bylsma LM & Rottenberg J. (2011) Uncovering the dynamics of emotion regulation and dysfunction in daily life with ecological momentary assessment. In Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M, Nyklicek, I. & Zeelenberg, M. (eds.),Emotion Regulation and Well-being (pp. 225-244). Springer, New York, NY.
