Epernicus: Laura A Thomas, Ph.D.

Laura A Thomas, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

Mood and Anxiety Program

Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, MD)
Advisors:
Ellen Leibenluft, Danny Pine
Degrees:

Ph.D., Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University (Durham, NC)

A.B., Psychology, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Past Advisors:

Kevin S LaBar (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Elizabeth A Phelps (as Lab Manager)
Research:
Honors:
2008 Fellow, Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion

2008 Career Development Institute for Bipolar Disorder Award

2007 Fellow, John Merck Fund Sackler Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilites

2007 Conference Travel Fellowship, Duke University

2006 Committee on Women in Neuroscience Graduate Travel Award, SFN

2005 Conference Travel Fellowship, Duke University

2005-2007 Predoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award

2004 Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning Workshop, Graduate Student Travel Award

2003 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2002 Fellow, James S. McDonnell Foundation's Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

2000 Phi Beta Kappa, Vassar College

2000 General Honors, Vassar College

2000 Departmental Honors in Psychology, Vassar College

Communities:

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Atypical childhood development is associated with altered emotional facial recognition (poster)
Thomas, L.A., De Bellis, M., Graham, R. & LaBar, K.S.

Society for Neuroscience; 11/2007
Emotional modulation of strategy use in a probabilistic classification learning task (poster)
Thomas, L.A. & LaBar, K.S.

Cognitive Nuroscience Society; 04/2007
Probabilistic classification learning is sleep-dependent and modulated by emotional arousal (poster)
Thomas, L.A. & LaBar, K.S.

Society for Neuroscience; 11/2006
Development of emotional facial recognition in late childhood and adolescence (poster)
Thomas, L.A., De Bellis, M., Graham, R. & LaBar, K.S.

Society for Neuroscience; 11/2005
Emotional arousal increases repetition priming (poster)
Thomas, L.A. & LaBar, K.S.

Cognitive Nuroscience Society; 04/2004
Emotional arousal, not valence, increases repetition priming for words. (poster)
Thomas, L.A. & LaBar, K.S.

North Carolina Cognition Group; 03/2004
Repetition priming for words is enhanced by emotional arousal. (poster)
Thomas, L.A. & LaBar, K.S.

North Carolina Cognition Group; 04/2003

Cover of Nov. 2008 Learning & Memory

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