Speakers: Karie Burkhouse

Title: From Risk to Prevention: Reward Responsiveness in the Intergenerational Transmission of Depression

Introductions: Dr. Katie Burkhouse is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Penn State University and a licensed clinical psychologist. She is the director of the Families, Affective Neuroscience, and Mood Disorders lab, which focuses on understanding brain- and behavior-based markers of depression and anxiety risk in childhood and adolescence, with the goal of informing targeted prevention and intervention efforts. Her research integrates multiple levels of analysis—including environmental, ecological momentary assessment, and neural measures (EEG and fMRI)—to examine mechanisms of risk and resilience for youth depression and anxiety, with a particular focus on emotion and reward processing and their implications for prevention. This work has been supported by multiple sources of funding, including three active NIMH R01 awards. Dr. Burkhouse has received several honors for her research, including the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America Donald F. Klein Early Career Award, and the Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professorship in Developmental Neuroscience at Penn State.

Learning Objectives: 
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Describe reward responsiveness as a potential developmental mechanism underlying depression risk in youth with a maternal history of depression.
2. Identify contextual factors, including socioeconomic disadvantage, that may increase vulnerability to altered reward processing and depression risk in children.
3. Evaluate emerging prevention approaches that target positive affect and reward responsiveness to reduce depression risk.

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