Marlene Cohen, Ph.D.
Robert C. Froemke, Ph.D.
Sunil Gandhi, Ph.D.
Andrea R. Hasenstaub, Ph.D.
Healthy Start (Healthy Communities of the Capital Area)
Rachel H. Jacobs, Ph.D.
PROJECT TITLE Protecting Adolescents from Recurrent Depression by Targeting Rumination PROJECT SUMMARY Currently, approximately 50% of individuals who experience depression during their adolescence experience depression again. No current treatments protect against the lifelong consequences of depression in one’s youth. This project seeks to therapeutically modulate the brain circuitry underlying rumination, a passive and maladaptive thought…
Tae-Kyung Kim, Ph.D.
Agatha Lenartowicz, Ph.D.
PROJECT TITLE Multimodal brain imaging of neural connectivity in ADHD PROJECT SUMMARY Our ability to attend to sights and sounds of interest, ignore distraction and maintain focus relies on the flexible engagement and disintegration of neural networks, at the core of which lies the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The impairment of these processes in attention-deficit/ hyperactivity…