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Nicholas T Van Dam, PhD
 
  Background: Nicholas received his B.S. in Neurobiology & Psychology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2005. Nicholas attended the Chicago College of Osteopathic medicine before deciding to switch from a career path of Psychiatry to Clinical Psychology. Prior to entering graduate school, he worked at the Human Behavioral Pharmacology Lab at the University of Chicago under Harriet de Wit PhD. Nicholas did pre-doctoral training for his 4th and 5th years of his PhD in Clinical Psychology, studying the neuroimaging and neurophysiology of cognitive control and attention with Jin Fan, PhD at the Laboratory of Neuroimaging at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is currently completing his pre-doctoral clinical internship in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. In August, Nicholas will begin a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.

Research Interests:

  • Pathophysiological basis of anxiety, depression, and comorbid substance abuse
  • Stress, anxiety, and the endocannabinoid system
  • Neurobehavioral correlates of attentional systems and cognitive control
  • Structural and functional neuromarkers of emotional disorders
  • Notions of mindfulness and its applications to emotional disorders

 

 

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Current Projects:
fMRI investigation of cognitive control deficits in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Impact of mindfulness training on attention and stress reactivity in anxious depression
Traditional Buddhist notions of mindfulness and their convergence with modern cognitive and psychological science
Attentional processing of emotion in anxiety
Structural brain changes related to early life stress and substance abuse