In collaboration with Drs. Jack Blanchard (Psychology), Eun Choe (CS/iSchool), and Alan Anticevic (Yale Psychiatry), the Shackman lab has been awarded a $50,000 seed grant from the UMD Brain & Behavior Initiative. The grant will fund new research aimed at understanding the role of fear and anxiety circuitry in psychosis. In addition to neuroimaging, the project will harness the power of wearable technology to clarify the ways in which activity, context, and stress can influence negative affect, mistrust, and paranoia in patients suffering from schizophrenia and psychosis.