Dr. Jutta Joormann

Biography

Jutta Joormann is the Richard Ely Foundation Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She earned her Ph.D. in 2000 from Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Her primary research goal is to understand the basic cognitive processes that contribute to individual differences in emotion and mood regulation, which can increase the risk of onset of depression and anxiety disorders, and hinder recovery from these disorders. Her main research interests include the identification of cognitive risk factors for depression, the comorbidity of anxiety and depression, and emotion regulation. Joormann's current work examines the roles of attention, memory, and individual differences in cognitive control related to depression, and she investigates the processes linked to rumination and the adaptive versus maladaptive forms of emotion regulation. Her lab integrates a multitude of measures, including cognitive tasks, psychophysiological measures of stress reactivity, neuroendocrine assessments, genotyping, and brain imaging.

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