STUDY BASICS
Are you a healthy man ages 24, 25, 28, 29, or 43 or a healthy woman ages 27 or 29? If so, you may be eligible to participate in a research study investigating the brain during social interactions. Participants wear a safe, painless device that measures brain activity using infrared light while interacting with another person. Involves 1 visit lasting about 1-2 hours. Compensation provided.
IRB: PRO15100206A
- Neural Synchronization in Autism Spectrum DisordersMEET THE RESEARCHER
Susan Perlman
Susan Perlman, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. A specialist in researching the development of emotions, Dr. Perlman is the director of the Laboratory for Child Brain Development. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002 in Psychology and her M.A. (2006) and Ph.D. (2009) from Duke University in Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. She is primarily interested in the neural underpinnings of the development of emotion regulation in young children including trajectories of abnormal emotion regulation and related psychopathology.