Category: Research Publications

We provide data to inform recommendations for providing culturally sensitive behavior therapy, including explicitly acknowledging and eliciting topics of race, ethnicity, and culture during sessions and supervision and ongoing training and supervision.

Pregnancy hormones triggered depression symptoms in women with a history of postpartum depression, but not in women who had never experienced depression. Hormones decreased activity in brain areas that respond to rewards, though these effects occurred in all women, whether they became depressed or not.

Although prior work has looked at how the brain responds to threats after trauma, very little research has looked at brain regions that process visual information about potential threats. In our recent manuscript in Translational Psychiatry, we leveraged the largest dataset of recent trauma survivors and 8 separate types of...

This trainee-led study used a large health registry to evaluate differences in quality of life and healthcare satisfaction among advanced cancer patients with and without minor children. Patients with minor children reported lower quality of life, higher mental distress, and lower satisfaction with their healthcare.

This is the first study describing longitudinal changes in patient-reported cognition in patients with multiple myeloma. Several potentially intervenable factors, including physical function impairment and depression, were associated with worse cognition at study entry, but only baseline cognitive impairment and education level were predictive of future cognitive decline.

We surveyed mothers with a history of perinatal depression from June 2020 to January 2022 to assess their depressive and anxious symptoms throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that local COVID-19 case rates and pandemic restrictions were not associated with symptoms, but prior severe perinatal depression, high stress, and feeling...

Males have historically been diagnosed with autism more frequently than females, with an approximately 4:1 ratio. This is the first evidence that, when using an unbiased data-driven method that accounts for potential sex-biases in measurement, the male to female sex ratio of may be more evenly distributed.

This study found that exposure to a stressor two weeks earlier potentiates the interoceptive/subjective effects of alcohol. This change may be relevant for understanding increased drinking following stress.

This study examined clinicians’ experience in managing patient emergencies during virtual encounters, reinforcing the need for appropriate training regarding best practices while providing tele-behavioral health care.

New study quantifies the effects of smoking cessation therapies on nicotine craving and self-administration