# overview
Dr. Annmarie MacNamara received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University in 2013. Dr. MacNamara joined the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in 2016. Dr. MacNamara's research focuses on the cognitive and affective neuroscience of normative and disordered mental health, with a particular focus on anxiety, depression and trauma-related psychopathology. She has received more than $3.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and her work is also supported by a Texas A&M X-Grant. Dr. MacNamara is an Associate Editor for Psychophysiology and the International Journal of Psychophysiology, winner of the 2022 Society for Psychophysiological Research Early Career Award and the 2021 Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, recipient of a 2020 travel award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and was designated a 2018 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. She has served as a reviewer for NIH and the National Science Foundation and is Junior Councilor to the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Dr. MacNamara teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in psychopathology and statistics, and mentors undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and graduate students in her Multimethod Affect and Cognition (MAC) lab.

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National Institute Of Mental Health (u.s.)

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Clinical Trials And Supportive Activities

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5204 Cognitive And Computational Psychology

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Glasgow School of Art - (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)

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Stony Brook University - (Stony Brook, New York, United States)

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Stony Brook University - (Stony Brook, New York, United States)

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In the mind's eye: The late positive potential to negative and neutral mental imagery and intolerance of uncertainty.

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A Pilot Study of Neural Correlates of Loss of Control Eating in Children With Overweight/Obesity: Probing Intermittent Access to Food as a Means of Eliciting Disinhibited Eating.

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Working memory load reduces the late positive potential and this effect is attenuated with increasing anxiety.

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Integrating Behavioral and Electrocortical Measures of Attentional Bias Toward Threat

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EEG BASED FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY REFLECTS COGNITIVE LOAD DURING EMOTION REGULATION

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Event-related potentials, emotion, and emotion regulation: an integrative review.

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Generalization of reappraisal to novel negative stimuli as evidenced by the LPP.

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Working Memory Load and Negative Picture Processing: Neural and Behavioral Associations With Panic, Social Anxiety, and Positive Affect.

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Resting-state theta band connectivity and graph analysis in generalized social anxiety disorder.

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Error processing and religious conviction: A multi-lab replication

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Wait for It: Defensive Reactivity and Individual Differences in Contrast Avoidance in the NPU-Reward Task.

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More target features in visual working memory leads to poorer search guidance: evidence from contralateral delay activity.

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Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

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Engagement and Disengagement: From the Basic Science ofEmotion Regulation to an Anxiety Spectrum.

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Enhanced Neural Reactivity to Threatening Faces in Anxious Youth: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials.

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Psychobiological operationalization of RDoC constructs: Methodological and conceptual opportunities and challenges.

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Impact of alcohol use disorder comorbidity on defensive reactivity to errors in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Anxiety and spatial attention moderate the electrocortical response to aversive pictures.

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Electrocortical and ocular indices of attention to fearful and neutral faces presented under high and low working memory load.

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Aberrant Spontaneous and Task-Dependent Functional Connections in the Anxious Brain.

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Event-related potential studies of emotion regulation: A review of recent progress and future directions.

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Danger and disease: electrocortical responses to threat- and disgust-eliciting images.

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Using item response theory to select emotional pictures for psychophysiological experiments.

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Error monitoring under working memory load: Anelectrocortical investigation.

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Focal and aberrant prefrontal engagement during emotion regulation in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Diagnostic and symptom-based predictors of emotional processing in generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder: An event-related potential study.

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Age-related changes in emotional face processing across childhood and into young adulthood: Evidence from event-related potentials.

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Tell me about it: neural activity elicited by emotional pictures and preceding descriptions.

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Positive emotion up-regulation is resistant to working memory load: An electrocortical investigation of reappraisal and savoring.

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Neural reactivity to affective stimuli and internalizing symptom dimensions in a transdiagnostic patient sample.

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Generalization of savoring to novel positive stimuli.

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Event-related potentials to threat of predictable and unpredictable shock.

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Event-related induced frontal alpha as a marker of lateral prefrontal cortex activation during cognitive reappraisal.

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Group differences in agency modulate error monitoring.

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Individual differences in cognitive reappraisal use and emotion regulatory brain function in combat-exposed veterans with and without PTSD.

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Reinforcement learning and the reward positivity with aversive outcomes.

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Working memory load reduces the electrocortical processing of positive pictures.

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Cognitive load and emotional processing in generalized anxiety disorder: electrocortical evidence for increased distractibility.

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Savor the moment: Willful increase in positive emotion and the persistence of this effect across time.

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Electrocortical evidence for rapid allocation of attention to threat in the dot-probe task.

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Comorbid anxiety and depression: Opposing effects on the electrocortical processing of negative imagery in a focal fear sample.

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Previously reappraised: the lasting effect of description type on picture-elicited electrocortical activity.

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Distinct electrocortical and behavioral evidence for increased attention to threat in generalized anxiety disorder.

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Convergence of fMRI and ERP measures of emotional face processing in combat-exposed U. S. military veterans.

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Neural markers of attention to aversive pictures predict response to cognitive behavioral therapy in anxiety and depression.

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Modulation of threat extinction by working memory load: An event-related potential study.

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The dynamic allocation of attention to emotion: simultaneous and independent evidence from the late positive potential and steady state visual evoked potentials.

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Thought Chart: Tracking Dynamic EEG Brain Connectivity with Unsupervised Manifold Learning

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Savoring mental imagery: electrocortical effects and association with depression

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Intolerance of uncertainty and threat generalization: A replication and extension.

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Neural correlates of individual differences in fear learning.

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The psychophysiology of emotion regulation: Next generation approaches.

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Emotion Regulatory Brain Function and SSRI Treatment in PTSD: Neural Correlates and Predictors of Change.

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Authors' reply to the commentary on "Establishing norms for error-related brain activity during the arrow Flanker task among young adults".

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Electrocortical processing of social signals of threat in combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder.

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An electrocortical investigation of voluntary emotion regulation in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

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#EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments.

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Brain-Behavior Markers of Negative Affectivity, Comorbidity in Anxiety Disorders

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Mental Health

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CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Managing Stress in the Workplace: Unobtrusive Monitoring and Adaptive Interventions

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Psychology; 4235 TAMU

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Local health experts estimate COVID-19 vaccine to be ready for public in April 2021

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Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccine pass final stage of research, development