|
Program in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (PICAN) |
|
Director: Greg
Siegle, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator:
Agnes Haggerty, B.S.
The Program in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
(PICAN) is devoted to understanding relationships between emotional information
processing styles and emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Cognitive and physiological aspects of emotional information processing
are examined using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), physiological
assessment (measurement of pupil dilation, eyetracking, event-related potentials (ERPs) and electromyography - EMG),
behavioral testing, and self-report measures. Computational neural network
models of emotional information processing provide a platform in which
theoretical relationships between emotion and disorder can be explored.
We have a number of ongoing projects, some of which
have opportunities to participate in
research as a subject.
We periodically hire research
assistants. Currently we have positions only for volunteer research
assistants, - no paid positions are open.
There are opportunities for
undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs to
work on projects affiliated with the program.
There are a number of people affiliated with PICAN.
PICAN operates through the Department of Psychiatry,
School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
and the VA Pittsburgh
Healthcare System. We are affiliated with three research programs:
|
|
|
Directions to affiliated
labs
Reading list of relevant background material.
Email the lab at: pican@upmc.edu.
This page has been accessed
times since 11/30/01