Areas of Study
Research Topics
- Dimensions of internalizing psychopathology
- Assessment and classification of emotional disorders
- Social cognition and neurocognition across the lifespan
- Digital technology and mental health
My research is oriented around understanding the basic cognitive and affective processes that mediate the impact of stress and trauma on internalizing psychopathology. In studying anxiety and mood disorders, I am interested in how people process emotional faces; specifically, how differences in processing may put them more at risk. My research also examines how changes in neurocognition across the lifespan are linked to risk for developing symptoms. This work aims to discover personalized algorithms that can predict symptom onset, fluctuation, and recurrence. My work is based in digital technology-based approaches for quantifying cognitive performance in large, transdiagnostic samples. I use short and frequent digital assessments to answer many of my research questions.
