Research areas:

• Integration of behavioral economics strategies and principles into suicide prevention work
• ADHD and suicide
• Suicide in veteran populations

Research areas:

• Transdiagnostic mechanisms in psychopathology
• Sleep disorders
• Suicide in veteran populations
• Aggression

Research areas:

• Ecological Momentary Assessment
• Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in adolescents and young adults
• Sleep and youth psychopathology

Research areas:

• Ecological Momentary Assessment
• Chronic pain
• Emotion dysregulation
• Substance use disorders
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Psychotherapeutic processes

Research areas:

• Peripheral and neurophysiological risk markers for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) in children and adolescents
• Cognitive and emotional responses in youth with SITB histories

Research areas:

• Cognitive functioning and emotion regulation in mental illness, particularly bipolar disorder.
• Cognitive mechanisms underlying mood-based impulsivity across disorders
• Development of new treatments for this type of impulsivity

Research areas:

• Biomarkers of depression
• Relations between reward system dysfunction and antidepressant response

Research areas:

• Computation in biologically realistic neural networks with a focus on interactions between representation, dynamics and learning
• Neural-engineering
• Computational psychiatry

Research areas:

• Similarities and shared mechanisms underlying eating disorders, self-injury, and suicide
• Applications of data-driven methods (e.g., machine learning, network analysis)
• Statistical approaches to classification, particularly in taxometric analysis

Research areas:

• Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors, including nonsuicidal and suicidal behaviors
• Development of brief and easily disseminated online treatment and intervention programs
• Experimental studies involving manipulation of pain and mood
• Online recruitment and study methods
• LGBTQ risk for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors

Research areas:

• Individual differences in social functioning and social experiences that increase risk for psychiatric disorders
• Neurodevelopmental trajectories and treatment of social dysfunction
• Early identification of emerging psychiatric disorders among young adults
• Developmental populations at clinical high-risk for psychotic disorders

Research areas:

• Child abuse
• Depression
• Impulsivity
• NSSI
• Stress
• Suicide

Research areas:

• Psychosocial predictors of clinical outcomes
• Perceived criticism in close relationships
• Borderline Personality Disorder

Research areas:

• Cognitive, emotional, and behavioural processes that contribute to psychopathology in youth
• Risk factors that cut across diagnostic boundaries that may contribute to the onset and worsening of suicidal thoughts and behaviours, particularly the escalation from suicidal thoughts to actions

Research areas:

• Affective neuroscience
• Executive functions, particularly cognitive control and decision-making
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Research areas:

• Nonsuicidal self-injury theory and treatment
• Functional neuroimaging of emotion regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder
• Psychosocial predictors of psychiatric relapse in severe psychopathology

Research areas:

• Behavioral and cognitive indices of electrical brain activity in neuropsychiatric disorders
• Event-related potential (ERP) indices of executive functioning (e.g., attention and information processing) in relation to ADHD, eating disorders, epilepsy, mood disorders, schizophrenia, substance use vulnerability, traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Structural and functional brain imaging to evaluate the effects of TBI in civilian and military populations to better predict post-traumatic stress disorder and recovery

Research areas:

• Multi-method longitudinal models of suicidal- and non-suicidal self-injurious thoughts and behavior
• Ecological Momentary Assessment
• Laboratory-based bio-behavioral (e.g., genotyping and psychophysiology) and implicit bias assessment and eye-tracking paradigms

Research areas:

• Computational modeling of neural mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning, decision making, working memory and inhibitory control
• Neural network and mathematical models of interactions between basal ganglia, frontal cortex, and hippocampus
• Neuropsychological, electrophysiological, pharmacological, neuroimaging and genetic techniques

Research areas:

• The contribution of candidate endophenotypes (e.g., reward sensitivity, the novelty response, and inhibitory control) to risk for substance use disorders
• Event-related potentials
• Psychopharmacological challenge to probe sensitivity to drug-based reward
• Individual differences in personality

Research areas:

• Psychobiological triggers and psychological vulnerability in bipolar disorder, with a focus on the reward system
• Creativity and accomplishment in bipolar disorder
• Emotion-related impulsivity: mechanisms and outcomes

Research areas:

• Psychophysiological predictors of treatment response in obsessive compulsive disorder
• Individual differences in rate and topography of change in treatment
• Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral factors that interfere with exposure therapy

Research areas:

• Novel risk factors for suicide
• Speech analysis
• Ecological Momentary Assessment
• Prediction and treatment of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors