Amanda Guyer

Assistant Professor

M.A., M.Phil, & Ph.D., Yale University, 2003

At UCD since: 2009

Interests: Biological, Cognitive, Social-Emotional, Health & Mental Health

Life Phases: Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Emerging Adulthood

E-mail: aeguyer@ucdavis.edu

Research Interests:

Behavioral and neural function in typical and atypical development, developmental psychopathology, mood and anxiety disorders, behavioral inhibition, social-emotional cue processing, interplay between fear and reward response systems.

Courses Taught:

HDE 100B - Middle Childhood and Adolescence

Recent Publications:

Lindstrom, K., Guyer, A. E., Mogg, K., Bradley, B. P., Fox, N. A., Ernst, M., Nelson, E. E., Leibenluft, E., Britton, J. C., Monk, C. S., Pine, D. S., & Bar-Haim, Y. (In press). Normative data on development of neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying attention orientation toward social-emotional stimuli: An exploratory study. Brain Research.

Guyer, A. E., McClure-Tone, E. B., Shiffrin, N. D., Pine, D. S., & Nelson, E. E. (2009). Probing the neural correlates of anticipated peer evaluation in adolescence. Child Development, 80, 1000-15.

Bar-Haim, Y., Fox, N. A., Benson, B., Guyer, A. E., Williams, A., Nelson, E. E., Perez-Edgar, K., Pine, D. S., & Ernst, M. (2009). Neural correlates of reward processing in adolescents with a history of shyness and inhibited temperament. Psychological Science.

Guyer, A. E., Lau, J. Y. F., McClure-Tone, E. B., Parrish, J., Shiffrin, N. D., Reynolds, R. C., Chen, G., Blair, R. J. R., Leibenluft, E., Fox, N. A., Ernst, M., Pine, D. S., & Nelson, E. E. (2008). Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxiety. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65, 1303-12.

Pine, D. S., Guyer, A. E. & Leibenluft, E. (2008). Functional magnetic resonance imaging and pediatric anxiety. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47, 1217-21.

Guyer, A. E., Monk, C. S., McClure-Tone, E. B., Nelson, E. E., Roberson-Nay, R., Adler, A. D., Fromm, S. J., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S., & Ernst, M. (2008). A developmental examination of amygdala response to facial expressions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1565-82.

Guyer, A. E., McClure, E. B., Adler, A. D., Brotman, M. A., Rich, B. A., Kimes, A. S., Pine, D. S., Ernst, M., & Leibenluft, E. (2007). Specificity of facial expression labeling deficits in childhood psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48, 863-871.

Guyer, A. E., Kaufman, J., Hodgdon, H. B., Masten, C. L., Jazbec S., Pine D. S., & Ernst, M. (2006). Behavioral alterations in reward system function: The role of childhood maltreatment and psychopathology. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 1059-1067.

Guyer, A. E., Nelson, E. E., Perez-Edgar, K., Hardin, M. G., Roberson-Nay, R., Monk, C. S., Bjork, J. M., Henderson, H. A., Pine, D. S., Fox, N. A., & Ernst, M. (2006). Striatal functional alteration in adolescents characterized by early childhood behavioral inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 6399-405.

Related Links:

http://humandevelopment.ucdavis.edu

http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/people/aeguyer