Cecile D. Ladouceur, Ph.D.

Cecile D. Ladouceur, Ph.D.
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Scientific Council Member (Joined 2022)

2008, 2006 Young Investigator Grant

Cecile D. Ladouceur, Ph.D.

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Professor, Department of Psychiatry

University of Pittsburgh

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Dr. Ladouceur is a tenured Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychology and a member of the training faculty in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh (CNUP). She is a clinical child psychologist and Director of the Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience and Development (CAN-D) Laboratory. Dr. Ladouceur’s research program focuses on understanding the development of brain networks implicated in emotion processing and regulation in typically developing youth as well as those at-risk for or diagnosed with anxiety or mood disorders. Her recent work aims to characterize how pubertal maturation and changes in pubertal hormones impact the development of neural circuitries implicated in emotion regulation to deepen understanding of sex differences in risk for anxiety disorders during adolescence. Her research has been funded by the BBRF, NIMH, and CTSI. Dr. Ladouceur serves as a member of the editorial boards of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and the Journal of Research on Adolescence. She also serves on committees of scientific organizations such as the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) and the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA). Dr. Ladouceur has received numerous awards for her research. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

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