Mary Woody, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Woody received her B.S. in psychology and women & gender studies from the University of Miami and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Binghamton University (SUNY). She completed her doctoral clinical internship at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic before completing an NIMH T32-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the current recipient of an NIMH Career Development Award (K23), which tests if a novel brain-based measure of affect-biased attention, as measured by steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs), can be 1) used to predict future adolescent depression and 2) provide neural feedback about affect-biased attention in order to modify it and buffer mood reactivity. In addition, her past and ongoing research projects have examined 1) cognitive, physiological, and genetic markers of risk for youth depression, 2) multi-method assessment of the role of affect-biased attention in the development and recurrence of depression, and 3) individual differences in neural and behavioral functioning that underlie response to neurocognitive interventions for internalizing disorders.
