Principal Investigator
David Pagliaccio
David Pagliaccio, PhD is a Research Scientist V at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology at Columbia University. He graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and from Washington University in St. Louis with a Ph.D. in neuroscience. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Emotion and Development Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Pagliaccio’s research focuses on understanding the neural underpinnings of pediatric affective disorders and identifying neural markers of risk and treatment response.
email: david.pagliaccio@nyspi.columbia.edu
Twitter: @DPagliaccio
Key Collaborators
Rachel Marsh
Rachel Marsh, PhD is the Irving Philips Professor of Medical Psychology (in Child Psychology) at Columbia University and Director of MRI Research at New York State Psychiatric Institute. She received a BA in psychology from Skidmore College and a PhD in experimental psychology from the City University of New York. Dr. Marsh directs the Cognitive Development & Neuroimaging Lab, which investigates the functioning and structure of the neural circuits that support self-regulation, learning, and memory in normal development and in the development of childhood psychiatric disorders. The overarching goal of this work is to determine when in development abnormalities in these circuits arise, so that we can determine where, when, and how to intervene, and thereby prevent illness persistence.
Randy Auerbach
Randy P. Auerbach, Ph.D., ABPP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Additionally, he serves as Co-Director of the Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression at Columbia University and the Co-Director of the WHO, World Mental Health International College Student Initiative. Dr. Auerbach received his B.A. from Cornell University and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University. Dr. Auerbach directs the Translational Research on Affective Disorders and Suicide Laboratory, which focus on improving our understanding of depression and suicide in adolescents. His research is multidisciplinary and utilizes a multimodal approach for assessment (e.g., laboratory-based experiments, passive sensor monitoring, electrophysiology, neuroimaging) to determine why depressive symptoms unfold, how self-injurious and suicidal behaviors develop, and what changes in the brain during treatment. As a whole, the research aims to better understand the putative mechanisms that may improve early identification of and treatment for adolescent depression and suicidal behaviors.
Amy Margolis
Dr. Amy Margolis, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology with an appointment in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She received a B.A. in The Evolution of Human Behavior from U.C. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Applied Educational Psychology: School Psychology, and an MSEd. in Neuroscience and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Margolis directs the Environment, Brain, and Behavior Lab, which seeks to answer concerns how learning problems are related to underlying deficiencies in the structure and function of neural systems that support learning processes. In the first decade of her career, she established a pediatric neuropsychology training program in comprehensive assessment and treatment of children with learning disabilities and attention disorders. She developed novel treatment methods for children with learning disabilities and attention disorders by combining tutoring, cognitive remediation and psychotherapy techniques.
Team Members
Kate Durham - Clinical Director
Dr. Katherine Durham graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder before completing her Ph.D. in School Psychology at Columbia’s Teachers College. She also earned her master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology and Applied Statistics from Teachers College, both of which facilitated her research on post-traumatic stress symptoms and cognitive functioning in children and adolescents. Dr. Durham also directs clinical assessment, treatment, and training as part of the Cognitive Development & Neuroimaging Lab and the Translational Research on Affective Disorders and Suicide Laboratory.