Dr. Debra Bangasser is a Professor of Neuroscience, Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator, and Associate Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia State University.  She also is the principal investigator of the Neuroendocrinology and Behavior Laboratory. Her research program investigates sex differences in stress responses and their contribution to disease vulnerability and resilience. Using techniques from behavioral neuroscience, molecular neuroscience, and neuroendocrinology, her laboratory has identified sex differences in sensitivity to corticotropin releasing factor that bias females towards hyperarousal and males towards cognitive impairments. She also investigates how early life experience can promote sex-specific resilience to alterations in cognition and motivation. Dr. Bangasser’s research program received the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience, which recognizes originality and creativity in research, and an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation.