Dr. Victoria Cosgrove

Biography

Victoria Cosgrove is an Assistant Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She directs the StREaM (Stress, Resilience, Emotion, Mood) Laboratory, which focuses on studying the involvement of stress in the emergence of mood symptoms among adolescents and developing clinical interventions to minimize negative responses to stress. Her research aims to examine the psychological and biological impacts of disease and treatment-related stress on young cancer patients and their families, drawing from personal experiences during her daughter’s treatment for cancer. Dr. Cosgrove’s research has been recognized with several awards, including the McCormick Faculty Award and New Investigator Award from NIMH. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in child psychiatry at Stanford. In addition, her lab conducts various studies on psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for regulating arousal and decreasing inflammation in youth. Dr. Cosgrove has published extensively in the field and collaborates on international projects aimed at developing effective treatments for mood disorders in adolescents and young adults.

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