Lab Members
Director
Timothy A. Brown, Psy. D.
Dr. Brown received his PsyD from the Virginia Consortium for Professional Psychology. His research interests include: (i) relation of temperament, personality, and the psychopathology of anxiety/mood disorders, (ii) environmental and genetic risk factors for the etiology and course of anxiety/mood disorders, (iii) classification of anxiety and mood disorders, (iv) statistical analysis (e.g., latent variable modeling), research methodology, psychometrics, and (v) experimental psychopathology research on conceptual models of anxiety/mood disorders.
Faculty
Anthony J. Rosellini, Ph.D.
Dr. Rosellini is a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Boston University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard Medical School. The goal of his research is to use psychological and epidemiological methods: (i) to identify and understand the emotional (e.g., personality; emotion regulation) and environmental factors (e.g., childhood adversities) that influence the development and persistence of anxiety and mood symptoms; and (ii) to improve the assessment and classification of anxiety and mood. His current work involves using machine learning methods to develop optimized prediction tools that identify individuals at risk of anxiety and mood disorders. In addition to research, Dr. Rosellini is also a staff therapist at CARD.
Bethany Shikatani, Ph.D.
Dr. Bethany Shikatani is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She completed her internship at the University of Chicago Medical Center followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at CARD. In her current role, Dr. Shikatani provides empirically supported assessment and treatment to adults with anxiety and related disorders, and provides clinical and research supervision to graduate students and postdoctoral associates. Her research interests include cognitive processes involved in the maintenance of anxiety, including transdiagnostic constructs (e.g., intolerance of uncertainty, perfectionism), and treatment strategies.
Representative publications
Graduate students
Alexandra (Lexi) Andrea, MPS, M.A.
Lexi is a second-year Ph.D. student in the clinical psychology program at Boston University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2016 and her MPS in clinical psychological science from the University of Maryland in 2017. Lexi is interested in utilizing statistical methodology to identify and conceptualize cognitive processes related to the risk and maintenance of anxiety disorders and the ways in which these processes interact with other factors to predict treatment outcome.
Christina Galiano, M.A.
Christina is a second year Ph.D. student in the clinical psychology program at Boston University. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2017, where she studied cognitive science with a concentration in neuroscience and minored in bioethics. Christina’s research interests are in statistical methodology, the classification and prediction of psychiatric illness, using affective and cognitive neuroscience techniques to better understand the etiology and course of mood and anxiety disorders, and reward processing.
Research technician
Caitlin Loxton
Former lab members
Former graduate students
Esther Tung, M.A.
Jeannette Correa, Ph.D.
Michelle Bourgeois, Ph.D.
Lauren Rutter, Ph.D.
Ben Emmert-Aronson, Ph.D.
Amy Lawrence, Ph.D.
Dylan Kollman, Ph.D.
Gaby Liverant, Ph.D.
Laura Campbell-Sills, Ph.D.
Jessica Grisham, Ph.D.
Former post-doctoral fellows
Eliora Porter, Ph.D.
Pooja Saraff, Ph.D.
Carla Hitchcock-Robinson, Ph.D.
Chris Conway, Ph.D.
Matt Gallagher, Ph.D.
Kristin Naragon-Gainey, Ph.D.
Michael Moore, Ph.D.
Aaron Kaiser, Ph.D.
Ovsanna Leyfer, Ph.D.
Cathyrn Freid, Ph.D.
Former research technicians
Grace Anderson, B.A.
Svetlana Goncharenko, B.A.