Research Faculty

Cortico-striatal circuit abnormalities; OCD; Cell/circuit mechanisms; negative reinforcement; Human post-mortem studies; synaptic abnormalities

Computational psychiatry; Geriatric mental health; Neuroimaging

Dimensional psychopathology; Anxiety and irritability; Modeling aversive learning

Pharmacology and experimental therapeutics

Accelerated aging in late-life mood disorders; Neural basis of anxiety & depression in late-life; Biomarkers of treatment response

Stress-related neural circuitry; Childhood threat and deprivation; Infant neurodevelopment and emotionality

Disseminate/implement evidence-based care; Family aggression and child maltreatment; Community engagement in research

Mental health interventions for autism; Mindfulness/non-pharmacological approaches to pain; Emotion regulation as a treatment target

Aging & Alzheimer's disease; Neuroimaging biomarkers; Fluid biomarkers

Computational models to predict mood disorders; Neural mechanisms of mood disorders; Evaluating results in machine learning approaches

Technological interventions to reduce suicide risk; Health equity

Bipolar spectrum disorders; Mood and anxiety disorders; Phenomenology, course & treatment

Biobehavioral oncology; Biobehavioral factors to cancer etiology; Biobehavioral factors to treatment response

Treatment of adolescent depression; Adolescent suicide prevention; Prediction of suicidal risk

Trajectory of cognitive function

Evaluation and neurobiology of insomnia; Sleep and circadian rhythms; Self-report measures of sleep

Depression risk & developmental neuroscience; Emotional reactivity & regulation, reward process; Multimodal assessment of emotion, transdiagnostic

Biopsychosocial risk mechanisms for aggression; Emotion and behavior dysregulation; Emotion socialization

Cognitive & affective systems in adolescence; Adolescent multi-modal neuroimaging; Adolescent neurophysiological development

Perinatal health behaviors & mental health; Food insecurity, disordered eating & body weight; Community-engaged research & health equity

Sensitive periods neurodevelopment; Neural effects of exercise; Neuroplasticity

Computational analysis of behavioral performance; Task-based & resting state neuroimaging analysis; Multivariate analysis techniques

Ashwagandha for schizophrenia; Negative symptoms & cognition; Insulin resistance & mental illness

Endocannabinoid system alterations & schizophrenia; Animal models of cannabinoid exposure; Translational research

Schizophrenia; Expansion microscopy; Computational modeling

Adolescent substance use; Adolescent cognition & brain development; Adolescent sleep

Auditory neurophysiology in schizophrenia; Non-invasive brain stimulation in psychiatry; Cognitive dysfunction in psychosis

Alzheimer's disease; PET imaging of Alzheimer's disease; Multimodal neuroimaging

Sex & gender / autobiographical memory; rtfMRI neurofeedback

tDCS brain stimulation & combined therapies; Methods to reduce cue-reactivity in smokers

Obesity and eating disorders; Children, pregnant women and families; Intervention development and delivery

Emotion awareness and regulation in autism; Suicidality in autism; Adapting mindfulness for autistic clients

Modeling of CNS infections using induced pluripote; Modeling schizophrenia using induced pluripotents; Development of three-dimensional neuronal platform

Perinatal nicotine, cannabis, and alcohol use; Inequities in reproductive health; Cancer prevention

Genetic basis of disease and disorders; Statistical genetics; Genomics, transcriptomics & proteomics

Mobile health and wearable device data analysis; Statistical analysis of complex networks

Decision-making in psychopathology; Reinforcement learning

Substance use disorders; Psychology of behavior change; HIV and AIDS

LGBTQ+ mental health equity; Child & adolescent psychiatry; Trauma-associated neural circuitry

Transcriptomics in human postmortem brain

Depression & suicide prevention among LGBTQ+; Digital mental health interventions, social media; Mixed methods

Biomarkers of schizophrenia & psychosis; Sleep oscillations; Neuromodulation (i.e. TMS, TBS)

Alterations in GABA circuitry in schizophrenia; Sex differences in circuit alterations; Normal development of primate circuitry

Clinical affective neuroscience; Reward & emotion neural circuitry in adolescents; Brain development

Sleep, sleep disorders, and sleep deprivation; Affective neuroscience; Adolescence

Activity-dependent local translation in Alzheimers; Dopamine neuron vulnerability; aging & Parkinson's; Antipsychotic drug-induced metabolic syndrome

Diagnosis & risk factors; neurocognitive disorders; Assessment of cognition in different populations; Cross-national studies of neurocognitive disorders

Neurobiological mechanisms underlying OCD; Computational modeling; Optogenetics, In vivo electrophysiology

Mood & anxiety disorders; Neuroimaging; Computational models for multimodal integration

Alzheimer's disease/related dementias; Lithium and neuroprotection; Bipolar disorder & aging

Postmortem human brain tissue research; Schizophrenia; Cortical circuitry & mitochondrial alterations

Onset/maintenance of loss of control eating; Pediatric weight regulation; Evidence-based treatments for eating disorders

Adolescent mood disorders & suicide; Proximal risk factors for suicidal behavior; Psychosocial prevention and intervention

Parvalbumin interneuron alterations; schizophrenia; Pyramidal neuron alterations in schizophrenia; Cellular basis of working memory & its alterations

Meditation for chronic pain management; Patient-reported outcomes instrument development; Context factors in clinical treatment

Dendritic alterations in schizophrenia; Dendritic regression pathways

Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders; Prodromal indicators of risk for psychosis; Etiology & risk for suicide in psychosis

Bipolar disorders; Neuroimaging; Mindfulness

Down syndrome and dementia; ADHD in autism spectrum disorder; Parent training in autism spectrum disorder

Sleep and circadian rhythms; Affective neuroscience; Mood and substance use disorders

Eating disorders; Binge eating

Genetic/epigenetic influences on addiction; Genetic/epigenetic influences on brain structure

Reproductive mental health; Stress response; Intergenerational studies

Threat dysregulation/social dysfunction & risk; Cognition and affect in adolescence; Ambulatory assessment methodology

Sleep-mediated regulation of reward; Neuroplasticity in drug addiction

Trauma; Cardiovascular disease risk; Behavioral sleep medicine

Prefrontal cortex; interneurons; Novel pharmacology; Alcohol and opioid use disorders

Emotion and cognition interactions; Stress and anxiety; Reward and cognition interactions

Infant and toddler attention; Early risk signals; neurodevelopmental disorders

Biostatistics

Pathological changes in the Alzheimer brain; Blood biomarkers for Alzheimers disease diagnosis

Prediction of treatment response; Risk assessment in Alzheimer's disease; Novel interventions using TMS

Mobile-health interventions for youth; ADHD-related risk for alcohol use/misuse; Youth resilience and coping

Circadian rhythms in mood disorders; Epigenetics; Multi-omics

Substance use disorders; Sensory processing (pain and itch); Psychiatric disorders

Dissemination and implementation science; Collaborative pediatric health care

Course & outcome of juvenile depressive disorders; Emotion regulation in depression risk; Health consequences of early-onset depression

Neurobiology of stress and emotion; Brain-body interaction; Brain aging

Neurodevelopment of emotion regulation; Puberty and adolescent brain development; Anxiety and mood disorders

Sleep and circadian rhythms; Biology of aging; Alzheimer's disease

Sleep interventions; Sleep and mood; Implementation

Pregnant/postpartum health; Binge eating and disordered eating behavior; Perinatal health equity

Schizophrenia; Cognition; Cortical circuitry

Translational neuroscience; Endocrinology & metabolism

Neural correlates of sleep; Psychopathology in young adults

Childhood disruptive behavior disorders; Evidence-based assessment; Research methodology

Neurophysiological mechanisms & onset of psychosis; Phenomenology of auditory refractoriness; Abnormalities in the subcortical auditory pathway

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; Neuroimaging biomarkers; Fluid biomarkers in clinical trials

Dopaminergic neurodevelopment; GABA/glutamate neurodevelopment; Neurocognitive development

Proteomics and protein networks; Schizophrenia relevant spine biology; Protein network alterations in schizophrenia

Episodic and working memory; Visual imagery; Depression - obesity interaction

Diagnosis of alcohol & substance use disorders; Clinical course of alcohol & drug problems

Neuroimaging; Sleep; Schizophrenia

Emotion reactivity and regulation; Measure development; Suicide in autism

Circadian rhythms in psychiatric disorders; Molecular mechanisms of psychiatric disorders

Implementation science; Children's mental health services; Child maltreatment

Neurobiology of stress & suicide; Peripheral and neural biomarkers; Children, adolescents & young adults

Etiology, course & treatment of ADHD; Etiology, course & treatment of substance use; Primary care and ADHD treatment

Children at familial risk for depression; Behavior inhibition

Genetic/environmental roots of cognitive variables; Cellular models for psychosis; Neurovirology

Cryo-electron microscopy and tomography; Biochemistry and structural biology

Mother-child interactions; Social and emotional development; Autism spectrum disorders

Mental health and addiction

Developmental neuroscience; Neuroeconomics

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; Biomarkers; Aging

Neuroimaging predictors of treatment response; Interactions between belief, learning & mood; Computational models of placebo effects

Health inequities in alcohol & substance use; Alcohol response and impulsivity; ADHD

Developmental neuroscience; Cortical and striatal development; Autism spectrum disorders

Behavioral factors in drug use; Methods to test novel treatments; Drug effects promoting dependence

Neuroimaging in mood disorders & OCD; Neuromodulation in mood disorders; Infant affective neural circuitry

Personality disorders; Psychometrics; Treatment outcome research

Network neuroscience related to risk for psychoses; Multimodal neuroimaging; Schizophrenia treatment clinical trials

Synergistic bio-behavioral treatment combinations; Neurocognitive substrates of depression/anxiety; Rapid-acting, neuromodulation & computer treatment

Child & adolescent psychiatry; Neural substrates of suicidality & depression; Cytokines & inflammation

Impact of obesity on the developing brain; Effects of hormones on cardiovascular health; Technological interventions for youth/young adults

Machine learning and big data in psychiatry

Multimodal imaging; Brain deficits in early psychosis; Progressive deficits in psychosis

Treatment outcomes; Psychiatric neuroimaging; Psychopharmacology; Neuromodulation

Suicide and self-injury; Interpersonal dynamics and personality; Emotion regulation

Sex differences in psychiatric disorders; Dendritic spine/microglia alterations; depression; Molecular rhythm disruptions in brain disorders

Neural mechanisms of mood disorders; Neural mechanisms of recovery; Targeted interventions

Early stage psychosis; Sensory-perceptual processing in the visual system

Depression and suicide prevention; Rest-activity rhythms and health; Wearable/accelerometer-guided behavioral medicine

Developmental affective neuroscience; Sleep; Mood disorders

Bereavement, grief, and aging; Rest-activity rhythms and late-life depression; Interventions for late-life depression

Sleep, sleep duration, and sleep architecture; Cognition; Emotion regulation

Borderline personality disorder; Preschool emotion regulation; Proximal markers of suicide risk

Brain mechanisms underlying safety; Fear & anxiety

Bipolar disorder; Maternal depression; Psychotherapy research

Psychosis in Alzheimer's disease; Molecular mechanisms of psychosis; Synaptic alterations in schizophrenia

Cognition & decision-making; suicide; Suicide in late life

Auditory deficits in schizophrenia; Neural substrate of echoic memory; Adaptation and predictive coding

LGBT health; Suicidal behavior; HIV prevention

Menopause and cardiovascular disease; Menopause and neurocognitive health; Trauma and cardiovascular disease risk

Addiction; Learning and memory processes; Adolescent drug exposure long term effects

Suicide; Learning & decision-making; Neurocomputational modeling

Neuroimaging studies of age-related pathology; Statistical methods for multimodal imaging studies; Alzheimer's disease

Understanding development of personality pathology

Development and treatment of youth depression; Depression treatment targets; Childhood adversity and youth psychopathology

Weight/cardiometabolic outcomes; Physical function and mood; Health-related quality of life

Neural correlates of bipolar disorder course; Neuroimaging in adolescents with mTBI; Neural correlates of ADHD

Alzheimer's disease; Nuclear medicine; Disease-specific biomarkers

Microglial activation in schizophrenia; Cortical circuitry dysfunction in schizophrenia; Animal models; pathophysiology of schizophrenia

Machine learning; Sleep; Methods for NIMH RDoC data

Alcohol use disorder; Genetics; Adolescent development

Mobile cognitive assessment; Alzheimer's disease and dementia; Psychosocial influences on cognition

Sleep enhancement methods to promote brain health; Sleep and Alzheimer's disease; Sleep and aging

Mechanisms of depression, anxiety & stress; Neurocognitive interventions; Health equity

Brain development and aging; Neuroimaging

Neuroimaging; Human brain mapping

Real-time fMRI neurofeedback; Autobiographical memory; Neural correlates of mood disorders