My laboratory, the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, is dedicated to understanding the neural bases of healthy and pathological emotional processing. Currently, my research program has two main foci: individual differences in emotional processing which confer risk for psychopathology, particularly anxiety or depression, and characterizing the nature of stimuli in the environment which serve as signals for different types of emotions. I use neuroimaging, psychophysiological, behavioral, and self-report tools to examine affective processing broadly, including the time course, intensity, and regulation of affective responses. As such, my work sits at the intersection of emotion, psychopathology, and neuroscience research.
