Ongoing Projects and Opportunities to
Participate in Research
This page lists a number of ongoing projects and
how to become involved in them
as either a participant or research assistant.
Physiological and Neuroimaging Assessment of Depression
Evaluates how depressed and never-depressed people respond
to emotional information. We measure brain activity by measuring
pupil dilation and facial muscle movement (EMG) and through
functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Status: Actively recruiting participants
Principal Investigator: Greg Siegle, Ph.D.
Contact: pican@msx.upmc.edu
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An Attention Control Intervention for Depression
Examines a novel intervention for depression that involves
retraining the brain to pay attention to what you want to when
you want to.
Status: Actively recruiting participants
Principal Investigator: Greg Siegle, Ph.D.
Contact: pican@msx.upmc.edu
Emotional monitoring in children
This project consists of examining the development of emotional
monitoring processes using ERP measurements (and eventually
fMRI) in a normative sample of children and adolescents and in
children and adolescents with affective disorders.
Status:
Actively recruiting participants
Principal Investigator: Cecile Ladouceur, Ph.D.
Contact: ladouceurcd@msx.upmc.edu
Computational modeling of interactions between the amygdala and
prefrontal cortex
Uses computational neural networks to simulate some of the
brain activity associated with tradeoffs between cognitive
and
emotional processing. One application involves using the
model to understand brain processes that might occur when depressed
individuals think about negative things.
Status: All participants are simulated. No humans are recruited
for this study
Principal Investigator: Greg Siegle, Ph.D.
Contact: gsiegle@pitt.edu
Variation in amygdala size over the lifespan in depression
Examines whether there is systematic variation in amygdala
volume (brain structure that processes emotional information)
in depressed individuals throughout the lifespan.
Status: This is an archival study of collected data. No new
participants are being recruited. Addition of new data
sets (must have SPGR images) are welcome though.
Principal Investigator: Greg Siegle, Ph.D.
Contact: gsiegle@pitt.edu
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