James Davis, M.D. |
I'm a post doc who is using functional MRI to study the effect of meditation on addiction. This involves teaching smokers a simple form of meditation called "mindfulness meditation" to help them quit smoking. Functional MRI is used to look at neurologic activity associated with craving for cigarettes. My hope is that we will see changes in our participants neurological activity after they have learned meditation. |
Kristin Javaras |
My research focuses on using statistical methods to gain insight into the nosology and etiology of mental illness (especially mood, anxiety, and eating disorders) from symptom, genetic, and, in the future, imaging data. |
| Jee Eun Lee Room T117 265-2062 jeelee@wisc.edu |
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| Donal MacCoon Room A132 263-1968 dgmaccoon@wisc.edu |
I study the role of attention in self-regulation. I have developed a model, Context Appropriate Balanced Attention, to describe this role and have applied and tested the model with Anxiety, Depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, and most recently, to Mindfulness practices. |
| Desmond Oathes Room S111 890-1389 oathes@wisc.edu |
I study emotion, anticipatory anxiety (worry; Generalized Anxiety Disorder), emotional information processing and the physiological underpinnings of these. I’ll be helping to run a drug treatment study for GAD which tracks patient progress over time using functional MRI during tasks of emotional anticipation. I plan to develop some new studies stemming from my previous work which used transcranial magnetic stimulation with electromyography, electroencephalography, and pupil dilation to study worry and emotion. I also hope to pursue an interest in emotion regulation with clinically anxious and/or mood disordered patients. |
| Stacey Schaefer Room S111 890-1388 (or Brogden 392 262-9937) smschaefer2@wisc.edu |
Research interests: Identifying the neural circuitry of emotion, in particular, emotion regulation. In addition, examining the relation between activity in this circuitry and individual differences in state and trait affect as well as one's ability to identify and differentiate between emotions. |
| Michelle Wirth Room S111 890-1389 mwirth@wisc.edu |
