About our Lab

At the Anxiety and Trauma Research Program at the University of Southern Mississippi, we aim to examine anxiety-related vulnerability factors including anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, and cognitive biases. We are primarily focused on how these factors impact anxiety, trauma, and suicide-related psychopathology.

Current research projects in the lab involve:
  • Use of computerized treatments for anxiety risk factors 
  • Use of virtual reality to test anxiety reactions 
  • Use of electroencephalogram (EEG/ERP) to measure neurophysiological responses to anxiety provoking tasks​
  • Intervention to reduce military suicide in National Guardsmen at Camp Shelby, MS

News

Congratulations to second-year Rachel Martin on successfully defending her master's thesis proposal!

​ATRP has a new publication out there! Congratulations to second-year Brian Bauer on his first author pub in Archives of Suicide Research examining the relationship between extracurricular activities and suicide. 

Congrats to Lab Director, Dan Capron on being named Nina Bell Suggs Professor: http://news.usm.edu/article/usm-names-nina-bell-suggs-endowed-professorship-recipients-2017-18

​Congrats to Lab Director Dan Capron for being highlighted in the Clarion Ledger!

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