Details

Techniques

Multimodal neuroimaging (event-related and resting-state fMRI, PET, VBM); Peripheral physiology (cortisol, cardiac activity, EDA/SCR, facial EMG, fear-potentiated startle); Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA); Eye-tracking; Neuropsychopharmacology; Semi-structured clinical interviews

Domains

Affective and translational neuroscience; neural bases of threat processing, anxiety, and their application to psychiatric disorders; neural bases of personality and individual differences in state/trait anxiety and behavioral inhibition; cognition × emotion interactions: extended amygdala; bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST/BNST); prefrontal cortex (PFC); mid-cingulate cortex (MCC); clinical psychology and fMRI; clinical psychology and brain imaging; clinical psychology and neuroimaging

Disorders

Anxiety Disorders; Major Depression; Tobacco/Alcohol

Populations

Children, Adolescents, Adults, Youth/Adult Patients

Funding

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the University of Maryland