Erika E. Forbes, Ph.D.
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Scientific Council Member (Joined 2024)
2014 Independent Investigator Grant
2006 Young Investigator Grant
Erika E. Forbes, Ph.D.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Psychology and Clinical and Translational Science
University of Pittsburgh
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Dr. Forbes' research addresses the regulation and dysregulation of positive affect and the processing of reward in childhood depression. Her current project involves a study of low activation of in reward-related brain areas, low subjective experience of positive affect in natural settings as measured by ecological momentary assessment, and the relationship of the fMRI-revealed brain activation to seeking and experiencing positive affects in natural settings.
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