{"id":5,"date":"2017-08-30T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/optimizing-prediction-of-anxiety-depression\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:51:46","slug":"general-info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/","title":{"rendered":"General Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The OPAD Lab studies anxiety and mood disorders &#8211; also know as internalizing psychopathology, and <\/strong><strong>conducts research with three overlapping aims:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(1) To<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>identify and understand the emotional, psychological, and environmental factors (e.g., personality, emotion regulation, stress, trauma) associated with the development and persistence of internalizing psychopathology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>(2) To develop clinically-usefully risk tools that optimally predict the onset, severity, course, and treatment response of internalizing psychopathology and associated behavioral outcomes (e.g., suicide, violence perpetration\/victimization).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>(3) To\u00a0<\/span><span>improve the assessment, diagnosis, and classification of internalizing psychopathology<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Optimizing Prediction of Anxiety and Depression (OPAD) Lab is affiliated with Boston University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/about\/departments\/epidemiology\/\">Department of Epidemiology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/\">Department of <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/\">Psychological and Brain Sciences<\/a>. We also closely collaborate with BU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/card\/\">Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/\">Center fo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/\">r Tr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/\">auma &amp; Mental Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OPAD Lab studies anxiety and mood disorders &#8211; also know as internalizing psychopathology, and conducts research with three overlapping aims: (1) To\u00a0identify and understand the emotional, psychological, and environmental factors (e.g., personality, emotion regulation, stress, trauma) associated with the development and persistence of internalizing psychopathology. (2) To develop clinically-usefully risk tools that optimally predict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12940,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/opad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}