| Amanda E. Guyer, Ph.D.
Amanda E. Guyer, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow in the Development and Affective Neuroscience Section of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Guyer received a B.A. in Psychology from Skidmore College, and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Yale University. Dr. Guyer’s broad research interest is in understanding mechanisms that confer risk for or buffer children from behavioral and emotional disorders across development. Dr. Guyer’s past research has focused on assessing social-emotional problems and competencies in young children and understanding experiential, genetic, and social-cognitive influences on behavioral problems in maltreated children. For her Ph.D. dissertation, Dr. Guyer applied a diathesis-stress model to examine the role of risk and protective factors (e.g., maltreatment, hostile attributional bias, family history of disruptive disorders) implicated in the development of aggressive and delinquent behavior. Dr. Guyer’s current research focuses on the influences of trauma exposure on behavioral and neural functioning in children from preschool through adolescence, and emotion categorization skills and neural functioning in children with mood and anxiety disorders. |
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