Nicole is currently completing her postdoctoral research fellowship at the Veterans Affairs VISN 5 Mental Illness Research Education Clinical Center (MIRECC) located at the VA Maryland Health Care System in Baltimore. She graduated from Emory University in 2017 with a B.A. in Psychology, Mathematics and Russian. Before attending Temple University for her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, she was a post-baccalaureate research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) studying the neural underpinnings of affective dysregulation, social valuation, and decision making in rhesus macaque monkeys. Nicole’s research interests encompass the transdiagnostic manifestations of emotional dysregulation (e.g., suicidal thoughts and behaviors, self-harm, aggression), their phenomenology among adults with serious mental illness, as well as their etiology and treatment. During her graduate training, she was awarded an NIMH F31 NRSA grant which supported her dissertation research, a pilot randomized controlled trial of Cognitive Bias Modification for adults diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder. Her research in VA focuses on developing and evaluating novel, scalable psychotherapeutic interventions for the prevention of suicide and aggressive behavior among U.S. military veterans.
Check out more of Nicole’s work at: https://www.mirecc.va.gov/MIRECC/visn5/about/fellows.asp