Jerome Kagan Ph.D.
Dr. Kagan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology. He has studied children and their development for over 45 years. Some of his more significant discoveries include: (1) a child’s personality in the first 4 to 5 years of life only weakly predicts his personality as an adult, (2) the universal appearance of a sense of self and of right and wrong during the second year, (3) the development of morality, and (4) the influence of a child's temperamental biases on personality development. He has...
Ian Gotlib, Ph.D.
Dr. Gotlib is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory. He joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1996, and became Senior Associate Dean of the Social Sciences in 2005.
In his research, Dr. Gotlib broadly examines psychological and biological factors that place individuals at increased risk for depression, as well as processes that are involved in recovery from this disorder. A major goal of his research is to develop a more comprehensive and integrative psychobiological model of the...
David Barlow, Ph.D.
Dr. Barlow is a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Vermont in 1969 and has published over 500 articles and chapters as well as over 60 books and clinical manuals, mostly in the area of emotional disorders and clinical research methodology. The books and manuals have been translated in over 20 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Russian.
Dr. Barlow was a member of the...
Larry Cahill, Ph.D.
Dr. Cahill is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on neural mechanisms of memory formation for emotionally arousing events. Although in the past he has pursued this goal using both animal and human subject models, his current work focuses primarily on human subject studies. He employs neuropharmacological, neuropsychological, and brain imaging approaches in these studies. Dr. Cahill’s research suggests that activation of beta-adrenergic receptors and the amygdala in humans are critical for enhanced conscious...