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Using functional MRI and MVPA to determine how and where in the brain indirect fear associations are formed, and if these are characteristic of people with anxiety-related psychopathology, particularly PTSD and OCD. Conducted in collaboration with the Dunsmoor Lab and funded by NIMH.
A combination of fear extinction techniques with different forms of reward (e.g., juice, personalized pictures) can potentially help improve safety learning. This line of research includes eye-tracking and startle measures of threat and reward during a standardized extinction task.
Multiple fMRI projects include a 1-month follow-up period in which participants complete multiple brief symptom measures while collecting data via smartwatch wearable. Our goal is to enhance our prediction of real-world outcomes using neural data.
Our lab is also involved in work done in conjunction with multiple consortia (large groups of labs and researchers from across the world), including:
Current lab projects relate to ongoing quantitative and neuroscience efforts from the HiTOP consortium.
Current lab projects are conducted as part of the Human Threat Extinction workgroup.
Our work is funded by: