The Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research (CDASR) embraces a multi-disciplinary approach to improve our understanding of the psychological, environmental, and neurobiological factors associated with affective disorders.
The Center is home to many research projects, including studies that: utilize neuroimaging techniques to investigate the neurobiology of depression; implement and evaluate novel prevention and treatment programs for depressed adolescents; test the role of early adversities (e.g., maltreatment, trauma) and genetic variance in increasing the risk for depression and anxiety; explore psychological and neurobiological traits associated with resilience; and build computational models to study neural function in severe mental illnesses. Our goal is to identify promising targets for prevention and treatment.
Director's Message
Diego A Pizzagalli, Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Read More...
Upcoming Events
2pm, Wed May 16th, 2012
Academic Conference Room, de Marneffe Building, Room 218, McLean Hospital
Lianne Young, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Boston College
When the Mind Matters for Morality
Read more...2pm, Wed May 30th, 2012
Academic Conference Room, de Marneffe Building, Room 218, McLean Hospital
Lisa Shin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Tufts University
Brain Abnormalities in PTSD: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging Studies
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Pia Pechtel has been selected as one of the recipients of the "O'Keefe Family Junior Investigator Award for Excellence in Imaging Research". With this award, Pia will examine the neural correlates of emotion reactivity and regulation in adolescents who experienced childhood sexual abuse.
Randy Auerbach has been awarded the 2012 Kaplen Fellowship on Depression from the HMS Department of Psychiatry for an EEG project testing the effects of cognitive behavior therapy in adolescent depression.
Dan Dillon has received a K99/R00 grant from NIMH to launch a new line of neuroimaging work investigating memory and reward processing in depression.