Stefanie Sequeira serves dual appointments with TYDE’s Training and Events Committee as well as its Youth-Nex Committee.
Dr. Sequeira studies how social threat and reward processes develop during childhood and adolescence and are associated with the development of psychopathology, with a focus on anxiety disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) in youth with anxiety disorders. She integrates ecologically valid methods at multiple levels of analysis into her work, including ecological momentary assessment (EMA), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and eye-tracking. Taking a multimethod approach, Dr. Sequeira pursues three interrelated lines of research: 1) Developing and testing novel measures to study social threat and reward processes (e.g., how the brain responds to peer rejection/acceptance; how youth perceive social threat or reward on social media); 2) Linking brain and social behavior to better understand the development of psychopathology, and 3) Investigating associations between reward functioning, anxiety, and STBs during adolescence.