December 2014

Establishing Neurobiological Predictors of Psychiatric Illness Risk

Avram Holmes is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale. His research program explores the biological pathways that give rise to individual variability in emotional reactivity, with a particular focus on the intersection of emotion and cognition. A core motivation that drives his laboratories’ work is the search for specific neurogenetic signatures associated with individual variations in emotional experience and risk for onset of anxiety and affective illnesses such as major depressive disorder.