CDI for Psychiatry
Erika E. Forbes

Erika E. Forbes, Ph.D.

Dr. Forbes' research addresses the regulation and dysregulation of positive affect and the processing of reward in childhood depression. Her current project involves a study of low activation of in reward-related brain areas, low subjective experience of positive affect in natural settings as measured by ecological momentary assessment, and the relationship of the fMRI-revealed brain activation to seeking and experiencing positive affects in natural settings.

Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

 

Education

  • Ph.D., 2003, University of Pittsburgh, Psychology

 

Relevant Publications

  • Whalen DJ, Silk JS, Semel M, Forbes EE, Ryan ND, Axelson DA, Birmaher B, Dahl RE. Caffeine consumption, sleep, and affect in the natural environments of depressed youth and health controls. J Pediatr Psychol. 2008;33(4):358-367.
  • Forbes EE, Bertocci MA, Gregory AM, et al. Objective sleep in pediatric anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder. J Am Acad Child Asolesc Psychiatry. 2008;47(2):148-155.
  • Forbes EE, Shaw DS, Silk JS, et al. Children's affect expression and frontal EEG asymmetry: transactional associations with mothers' depressive symptoms. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2008;36(2):207-221.
  • Manuck SB, Brown SM, Forbes ER, Hariri AR. Temporal stability of individual differences in amygdala reactivity. Am J Psychiatry. 2007;164(1):1613-1614.
  • Silk JS, Dahl RE, Ryan ND, Forbes EE, et al. Pupillary reactivity to emotional information in child and adolescent depression: links to clinical and ecological measures. Am J Psychiatry. 2007;164(12):1873-1880.
  • Forbes EE, Shaw DS, Dahl RE. Alterations in reward-related decision making in boys with recent and future depression. Biol Psychiatry. 2007;61(5):633-639.