May 18, 2025 Workshop presented by Alexander Shackman

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About the Presenter: Professor Alex Shackman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology (Clinical & CNS Area Groups), core faculty member of the interdepartmental Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Program and the Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC), and Director of the Affective and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Maryland. His work has been continuously supported by the NIH since 2016 and has led to nearly 100 papers and chapters. He served as the Co-Editor of The Nature of Emotion, is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology), and co-edited three special issues focused on the neurobiology of emotional states, traits, and disorders. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science; an active member of the Affective Neuroimaging Collaboratory, ENIGMA, and Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)  consortia; and a standing member of the NIH Adult Psychopathology and Disorders of Aging (APDA) study section. Most of his work is focused on understanding the nature and brain bases of fear- and anxiety-related states, traits, and disorders. When extreme, anxiety contributes to a variety of debilitating, treatment-resistant mental illnesses, including internalizing disorders, addiction, and psychosis. To understand the origins and course of this liability, is group uses a range of tools—including multimodal neuroimaging (MRI, PET), psychophysiology, neuroendocrine measures, ecological momentary assessment (EMA), geolocation tracking, semi-structured clinical and life-stress interviews, and genetic analyses—in adult and pediatric patients, university students, community members, and monkeys. More recently established secondary lines of research are focused on graduate student health and wellbeing, and psychiatric nosology. Professor Shackman lives in Ellicott City, Maryland with his wife, mother-in-law, two children, a dog, and two cats.