Graduate Students
Najwa Chowdhury Culver
Najwa is interested in the processes by which learning can be optimized during exposure exercises in order to facilitate long term fear reduction and thereby improve treatment paradigms for anxiety disorders.
Noel Espejo
Noel is interested in understanding the stress-depression relationship, the comorbidity of depression and anxiety disorders, attentional biases for negative stimuli, and individual differences in stress processes.
Katharina Kircanski
Katharina is broadly interested in understanding emotion-cognition interactions within the context of anxiety disorders, including the effects of thought suppression and linguistic processing on behavioral, physiological, and self-report indices of fear and anxiety. In addition, she is also interested in intraindividual variability in emotion and memory processes as they relate to the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders.
Betty Liao
Betty is interested in the relationships between cognition and emotion in various affective disorders. She is currently looking at psychophysiological measures of anxiety.
Daniel Glenn
Dan is interested in the biological and cognitive aspects of stress resiliency and emotion regulation, and how they relate to the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders.
Richard LeBeau
Richard is primarily interested in the development and dissemination of novel and efficacious treatments for the anxiety disorders, specifically social anxiety disorder and panic disorder. Additionally he is interested in the adaptation of existing treatments to individuals of varying backgrounds and comorbid psychopathologies. On the more experimental level, he is interested in examining the roles of fear conditioning, interoceptive exposure, and emotional dysregulation in patients with anxiety disorders
Aaron Baker
Aaron's interests lie in dynamic between anxiety, trauma, and memory and how it relates to the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is also interested in the foundations of emotional processing theory and the psychophysiological correlates of behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders.