University of Wisconsin-Madison
Post-Doc, Psychiatry
Postdoctoral Fellow
Medical School
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Ned H. Kalin, MD
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About
Humans have evolved in the face of significant threat. Nevertheless, our existence is testament to an unbroken chain of ancestors who, through good fortune and ingenuity, managed to elude danger sufficiently long to reproduce. Ingenuity emerges from the architecture of our brain, in the form of circuitry adapted to expedite the detection of threat and to coordinate optimal responses to potential danger. This circuitry lies at the intersection of phenomena investigated by students of emotion (the states of fear, anxiety, and stress elicited by threat) and students of cognition (attention, working memory, and cognitive control). The general aim of my research is to characterize the mechanisms underlying the impact of social and physical threat and their attendant emotions on cognition and overt behavior. From a translational perspective, this work promises to enhance our understanding of how individual differences confer vulnerability to anxiety-related disorders and to facilitate the discovery of novel intermediate phenotypes. Conceptually, it begins to address fundamental questions about the nature of emotion, the boundary between emotion and cognition, and the ontological principles dictating how the mind is functionally organized in the brain.
Techniques: meta-analysis, EEG/ERP, facial EMG, fMRI, LORETA source modeling, PET, and TMS.
Populations: children, adults, psychiatric patients, and nonhuman primates.
Contact Information
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| Address: | HealthEmotions Research Institute | Lane Neuroimaging Laboratory |
