Research Areas of Interest

Under the direction of Dr. Richard Davidson, the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience conducts research in basic affective neuroscience as well as in the following areas:

Autism/Developmental Disorders

  Kim Dalton (scientist)
Jamie Hanson (grad student)
Brendon Nacewicz (grad student)
[AutismWeb site]
[Current Research Studies]
[Recent lab publications on this topic]

Meditation

David Bachhuber (research staff)
Lisa Flook (scientist)
Daniel Levinson (grad student)
Antoine Lutz (scientist) [webpage]
Donal MacCoon (post-doc)

David Perlman (grad student)
Melissa Rosenkranz (post-doc)
Emma Seppala (post-doc)
Brianna Schuyler (grad student)
Helen Weng (grad student)
  [Current Research Studies]
[Recent lab publications on this topic]
Center for Investigating Healthy Minds

If you are interested in learning more about the mindfulness-based meditation used in some of our research, you can go to http://www.mindfulnesstapes.com/. If you are in the Madison, WI, area, UW Health's Department of Integrative Medicine offers Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction courses several times a year.
Dr. Davidson has no financial relationship with mindfulnessstapes.com or UW Health.

Affect-Cognition Interaction

David Bachhuber (research staff)
Drew Fox (grad student) [webpage]
Aaron Heller (grad student)
Adam Koppenhaver (research staff)
Regina Lapate (grad student)
Lisa Lindeman (grad student)
Donal MacCoon (scientist)
 Brendon Nacewicz (grad student)
David Perlman (grad student)
Stacey Schaefer (post-doc)
Alex Shackman (post-doc) [webpage]
  [Current Research Studies]
[Recent lab publications on this topic]

Emotion Regulation/Central-Peripheral Interaction

  David Bachhuber (research staff)
Aaron Heller (grad student)
Allison Jahn (grad student)
Kristin Javaras (post-doc)
Jessica Kirkland (grad student)
Adam Koppenhaver (research staff)
Regina Lapate (grad student)
Hyejeen Lee (post-doc)

 Lisa Lindeman (grad student)
Antoine Lutz (scientist) [webpage]
David Perlman (grad student)
Melissa Rosenkranz (post-doc)
Stacey Schaefer (post-doc)
Alex Shackman (post-doc)
Helen Weng (grad student)
  [Current Research Studies]
[Recent lab publications on this topic]
Recent alumni: Heather Urry (now at Tufts University)

Mood/Anxiety/Empathy/Developmental Psychopathology

 

Cory Burghy (post-doc)
Lisa Flook (scientist)
Drew Fox (grad student) [webpage]
Jamie Hanson (grad student)
Aaron Heller (grad student)
Allison Jahn (grad student)
Kristin Javaras (post-doc)

 Jessica Kirkland (grad student)
Sharee Light (grad student)
Antoine Lutz (scientist) [webpage]
Stacey Schaefer (post-doc)
Helen Weng (grad student)
  [Current Research Studies]
[Recent lab publications on this topic]
Recent alumni: Chris Larson (now at Michigan State); Diego Pizzagalli (now at Harvard)

Methodology

Larry Greischar (research staff) [webpage]
Kristin Javaras (post-doc)
John Ollinger (scientist)
Alex Shackman (post-doc)
[Recent lab publications on this topic]
Recent alumni - Diego Pizzagalli, Chris Larson, Tom Johnstone