Funding Source: Wellesley College – Psychiatric disorders are impairing and distressing to a large percentage of the population. Unfortunately, the field has a limited understanding of which factors contribute to the development and maintenance of psychiatric symptoms. My lab uses a variety of behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to examine the factors that contribute to irritability, a proneness towards anger that exceeds one’s peers. Recent projects have explored whether irritability in young adults is associated with the same types of behavioral and neural abnormalities that have been observed among pediatric populations.