The University Annual Fall Awards Ceremony was held on October 23rd in the Wisconsin Room. Chris received the UWM Graduate School/UWM Foundation Research Award.
Chris receives UWM Foundation/Graduate School Research Award
Monthly Archives: January 2014
An examination of the representativeness assumption for twin studies of eating pathology and internalizing symptoms.
Little research has investigated whether the twin representativeness assumption (that results from twin research generalize to singletons) holds for eating pathology and internalizing symptoms. This study compared disordered eating, depression, and anxiety among young adult female twins versus singletons. Participants included 292 twins and 997 singletons in three samples. Questionnaires included the Minnesota Eating Behavior […]
The interplay of attention and emotion: Top-down attention modulates amygdala activation in psychopathy
Psychopathic behavior has long been attributed to a fundamental deficit in fear that arises from impaired amygdala function. Growing evidence demonstrates that fear potentiated startle (FPS) and other psychopathy-related deficits are moderated by focus of attention but, to date, no work on adult psychopathy has examined attentional modulation of the amygdala, or concomitant recruitment of […]