Dr. Shankman is the Dunbar Professor at Northwestern University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. His research focuses on the relation between depression and anxiety disorders (i.e., internalizing psychopathologies), with an emphasis on neurobehavioral processes that are common vs. specific between the two. Internalizing psychopathologies are serious and prevalent public health problems with a peak onset in adolescence, and have an economic burden of hundreds of billions of dollars that is increasing in recent years. While moderately efficacious treatments have been developed for adolescents with these conditions (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapies, SSRIs), treatment response is very heterogeneous. Our group’s research attempts to (a) improve our understanding of internalizing psychopathologies in adolescents and young adults and their risk factors, (b) identify specific targets for those intervention and prevention efforts, and (c) develop and test novel interventions to help people suffering from these conditions. Currently, Dr. Shankman is the Principal Investigator and co-investigator on multiple NIH-funded projects utilizing varied methods (e.g., fMRI, electrophysiology, laboratory behavioral paradigms, treatment development, etc) with a growing focus on smartphone assessment and treatment methods. More information about his lab can be found here.