Dr. Aislinn Sandre

Biography

Aislinn Sandre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Western University. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from McGill University, where she also completed postdoctoral training at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Sandre's research is focused on identifying developmental pathways of psychopathology and examining brain processes involved in affective information. She is particularly interested in how these processes develop over time, the differences that emerge due to family and environmental influences, and how these differences may heighten the risk for psychopathology. Her area of interest includes exploring how interventions that target family environmental factors, such as stress reduction, can modify affective processing and potentially reduce the risk of psychopathology. Dr. Sandre primarily uses Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) and Electroencephalography (EEG) to measure neural responses to affective stimuli, including emotional faces, rewards, and threats across the lifespan, with studies involving infants, children, adolescents, and adults. Her work also employs laboratory tasks, structured diagnostic interviews, and observational measures of parent-child interactions to assess affective functioning.

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