Position.
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Clinical Child)
Department of Psychology
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Education.
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Louisiana State University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Yale Child Study Center
Predoctoral Internship, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
MA, Psychology, Connecticut College
BA, Cognitive Neuroscience, Eastern Connecticut State University
Broadly, my research is aimed at understanding the biological basis of self-referential processing, emotion regulation, and executive functioning which can in turn inform treatments to improve youths’ overall well-being.
I enjoy incorporating temporally (i.e., electroencephalography, EEG) and spatially (i.e., functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI) sensitive neuroimaging modalities. This multimodal (brain-behavior) approach complements computational modeling methods (i.e., drift diffusion and related variants), which provides a mechanistic understanding via statistical inference and systematic decomposition of task-based behavior into its constituent (latent) processes.
Clinically, I have interests in both internalizing (anxiety, depression) and externalizing (conduct disorder, callous-unemotional traits, ADHD) disorders in children and adolescence. Together, my research and clinical interests serve as a foundation for my research program aimed at understanding RDoC domains such as self-concept, acute threat, potential threat, predictable/unpredictable threat, and executive functioning domains (i.e., inhibition, updating, shifting).
