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Category: Mental Illness and Disorders

Galvan, Thania

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Galvan, Thania

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | thania.galvan@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Mental health disparities; Latinx youth & families; Latinx immigrants; Traumatic stress; Risk & Resilience pathways

Bauer, Brian

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Bauer, Brian

Assistant Professor, Psychology 
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | brian.bauer@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decision

Fisher, Sycarah

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Fisher, Sycarah

Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
2020-22 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sycarah.fisher@uga.edu

Research Interests include substance use, minorities, African Americans, school mental health, and implementation science

Harrison, Ashley

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Harrison, Ashley

Professor, Educational Psychology
website | ashley.harrison@uga.edu

Research Interests include atypical emotional and social attention in childhood psychopathology, information-processing framework to examine the differential developmental trajectory of social attention among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and identifying ways to more effectively treat attention impairments

Abraham, Anna

Anna Abraham

Abraham, Anna

E. Paul Torrance Professor, Educational Psychology
2014-2015 Grant Development Program Participant
website | anna.abraham@uga.edu

Research Interests include creativity, imagination, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognition

Suveg, Cynthia

Cynthia Suveg

Suveg, Cynthia

Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | csuveg@uga.edu

Research Interests include child, family, and developmental psychopathology

Arroyo, Analisa

Analisa Arroyo

Arroyo, Analisa

Professor, Communication Studies
2015-17 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | arroyo@uga.edu

Research Interests include intergenerational transmission of body image issues and its relation to mental and physical health outcomes (e.g. depression, eating disorders, overweight/obesity, exercise, dieting, etc.) among grandmother-mother-daughter triads

Strauss, Gregory P.

Gregory Strauss

Strauss, Gregory

Franklin Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website |  gstrauss@uga.edu

Research Interests include schizophrenia, psychosis risk, emotion, reward, and social cognition

Miller, Joshua

Joshua Miller

Miller, Joshua

Distinguished Research Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jdmiller@uga.edu

Research Interests include the relations between models of personality and psychopathology, specifically various forms of externalizing problems and the personality disorders; most interested in behaviors such as crime, substance, risky sex, and aggression