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My research interests are at the intersection of brain and behavior and how we can leverage preclinical model systems to understand human emotional [dys]regulation within the context of early life adversity.

Questions we investigate in the Research in Affective and Translational [RAT] Neuroscience Lab include:

• How is emotional processing and resulting behavior neuroanatomically represented?
• What are the neural changes that underly affective function as it relates to pathology (i.e., anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, PTSD, etc.)
• How do early adverse experiences (such as neglect) confer risk/resilience across the lifespan?
• When (and how) does adversity alter epigenetic (i.e., DNA methylation) trajectories on brain and behavior?
• Can we utilize ethological stimuli (like rat social communication) to elicit changes in affective behavior in a listening animal to better understand processing of ambiguous threat?

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