What We Do
The goal of our research is to identify biological pathways to disordered emotional experience (e.g. clinical depression), using multiple methodologies, but primarily event-related potentials (ERPs) as measured by electroencephalogram (EEG).
Much of our work focuses on
a) identifying familially-transmitted neural vulnerabilities for depression and anxiety
b) understanding how life experiences influence brain functioning and risk for depression
c) identifying environmental and interpersonal processes that interact with neural vulnerabilities to predict psychopathology
d) understanding how these neural vulnerabilities might contribute mechanistically to the development of depression
To learn more about our research in general visit our About Us page, and to learn more about participating in EEG research, visit our About EEG Research page:
Our Team
At the TRAC Lab, we are lucky to have a team of over a dozen researchers, including post-doctoral researchers, PhD students, Masters students of Clinical and Experimental Psychology, and a group of dedicated undergraduate students, including both Project Students and Volunteer Research Assistants.
If you are interested in joining the lab or learning more about what it's like to work here, visit our About Us page:
Recent Research
We're always asking new questions, and to the left is a selection of some of the answers we've found.
Browse our latest research papers to see what we've been working on and how we're contributing to the conversation in our field.
To learn more about our recent publications, visit our Publications page: