Lauren M. Bylsma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry with a secondary appointment in Psychology. She is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist. She completed her PhD at the University of South Florida in 2012 and completed her internship at the VA Puget Sound in Seattle. Her research focuses on understanding emotional functioning and the course of depression using a variety of neural, psychophysiological, experiential, behavioral, and daily life measures. For her recently completed K01 she examined emotional functioning in youth at high familial risk for depression using neural and daily life measures of emotional processing, reactivity, and regulation. She is currently funded by a NARSAD Young Investigator Award where she is examining gut microbiome characteristics in adolescents varying in depression symptoms and familial risk, including the influence of reward and stress systems on the link between gut microbiome and depression.
