Andrea Gold, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Brown University Alpert Warren School of Medicine, and a Staff Psychologist at the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center (PARC). Prior to joining PARC, she completed a postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She received her Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and her doctorate in clinical psychology at Yale University, with her clinical internship in the dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) specialization track at the Yale School of Medicine.
In her doctoral and postdoctoral training, Dr. Gold used functional neuroimaging, psychophysiology, and behavioral methods to study the neural mechanisms of pediatric and adult anxiety disorders. In addition to her clinical research on anxiety, she simultaneously developed expertise in DBT, an evidence-based treatment for severe, chronic emotional dysregulation, suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and borderline personality disorder (BPD).
As a member of the PARC team, Dr. Gold Dr. is the Team Leader for the DBT-X Track, where she is developing an adaptation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) targeting exposure for adolescents with OCD and other fear disorders co-occurring with emotional dysregulation, suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious (NSSI) behaviors, and/or borderline personality disorder (BPD) traits. In her ongoing work integrating exposure therapy and DBT, she teaches and supervises trainees in the DPHB Child Division. Dr. Gold is also on the Board of Directors for the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD), where she is passionate about reducing stigma and promoting education and awareness of BPD and emotional dysregulation.
| Gold, A.L., Decker, S.E., & Axelrod, S.R. "Dancing with DBT Dialectical Dilemmas: Case Example of the Acceptance and Change Protocol (ACP)." DBT Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 1, 2023, pp. 27-34. |
| Egolf, Amy, Gold, Andrea L. "Interpersonal effectiveness in action: The therapeutic milieu for DBT assertiveness skills practice." The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, vol. 39, no. 3, 2023, pp. 1-4. |
| Gold, A.L. & Finkelstein, J. "Thinking and Acting Dialectically is Challenging and Freeing: Tools for Teaching Dialectics." DBT Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 2, 2023, pp. 29-37. |
| Groenewold NA, Bas-Hoogendam JM, Amod AR, Laansma MA, Van Velzen LS, Aghajani M, Hilbert K, Oh H, Salas R, Jackowski AP, Pan PM, Salum GA, Blair JR, Blair KS, Hirsch J, Pantazatos SP, Schneier FR, Talati A, Roelofs K, Volman I, Blanco-Hinojo L, Cardoner N, Pujol J, Beesdo-Baum K, Ching CRK, Thomopoulos SI, Jansen A, Kircher T, Krug A, Nenadić I, Stein F, Dannlowski U, Grotegerd D, Lemke H, Meinert S, Winter A, Erb M, Kreifelts B, Gong Q, Lui S, Zhu F, Mwangi B, Soares JC, Wu MJ, Bayram A, Canli M, Tükel R, Westenberg PM, Heeren A, Cremers HR, Hofmann D, Straube T, Doruyter AGG, Lochner C, Peterburs J, Van Tol MJ, Gur RE, Kaczkurkin AN, Larsen B, Satterthwaite TD, Filippi CA, Gold AL, Harrewijn A, Zugman A, Bülow R, Grabe HJ, Völzke H, Wittfeld K, Böhnlein J, Dohm K, Kugel H, Schrammen E, Zwanzger P, Leehr EJ, Sindermann L, Ball TM, Fonzo GA, Paulus MP, Simmons A, Stein MB, Klumpp H, Phan KL, Furmark T, Månsson KNT, Manzouri A, Avery SN, Blackford JU, Clauss JA, Feola B, Harper JC, Sylvester CM, Lueken U, Veltman DJ, Winkler AM, Jahanshad N, Pine DS, Thompson PM, Stein DJ, Van der Wee NJA. "Volume of subcortical brain regions in social anxiety disorder: mega-analytic results from 37 samples in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group." Molecular Psychiatry, 2023. |
| Gold, A.L., Decker, S.E., Cooney, E.B. "At the Heart of the Dialectic: Knowing, Connection, and Joy." DBT Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 1, 2022, pp. 3-5. |
| Abend R, Burk D, Ruiz SG, Gold AL, Napoli JL, Britton JC, Michalska KJ, Shechner T, Winkler AM, Leibenluft E, Pine DS, Averbeck BB. "Computational modeling of threat learning reveals links with anxiety and neuroanatomy in humans." eLife, vol. 11, 2022. |
| Newsome P, Ruiz SG, Gold AL, Pine DS, Abend R. "Fear-potentiated startle reveals diminished threat extinction in pathological anxiety." International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2022. |
| Naim R, Kircanski K, Gold A, German RE, Davis M, Perlstein S, Clayton M, Revzina O, Brotman MA. "Across-subjects multiple baseline trial of exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for severe irritability: a study protocol." BMJ Open, vol. 11, no. 3, 2021, pp. e039169. |
| Gold, Andrea L. "Building commitment to change: Lessons from DBT." The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, vol. 37, no. 3, 2021, pp. 1-4. |
| Harrewijn A, Cardinale EM, Groenewold NA, Bas-Hoogendam JM, Aghajani M, Hilbert K, Cardoner N, Porta-Casteràs D, Gosnell S, Salas R, Jackowski AP, Pan PM, Salum GA, Blair KS, Blair JR, Hammoud MZ, Milad MR, Burkhouse KL, Phan KL, Schroeder HK, Strawn JR, Beesdo-Baum K, Jahanshad N, Thomopoulos SI, Buckner R, Nielsen JA, Smoller JW, Soares JC, Mwangi B, Wu MJ, Zunta-Soares GB, Assaf M, Diefenbach GJ, Brambilla P, Maggioni E, Hofmann D, Straube T, Andreescu C, Berta R, Tamburo E, Price RB, Manfro GG, Agosta F, Canu E, Cividini C, Filippi M, Kostić M, Munjiza Jovanovic A, Alberton BAV, Benson B, Freitag GF, Filippi CA, Gold AL, Leibenluft E, Ringlein GV, Werwath KE, Zwiebel H, Zugman A, Grabe HJ, Van der Auwera S, Wittfeld K, Völzke H, Bülow R, Balderston NL, Ernst M, Grillon C, Mujica-Parodi LR, van Nieuwenhuizen H, Critchley HD, Makovac E, Mancini M, Meeten F, Ottaviani C, Ball TM, Fonzo GA, Paulus MP, Stein MB, Gur RE, Gur RC, Kaczkurkin AN, Larsen B, Satterthwaite TD, Harper J, Myers M, Perino MT, Sylvester CM, Yu Q, Lueken U, Veltman DJ, Thompson PM, Stein DJ, Van der Wee NJA, Winkler AM, Pine DS. "Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group." Translational psychiatry, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 502. |
| Tseng WL, Abend R, Gold AL, Brotman MA. "Neural correlates of extinguished threat recall underlying the commonality between pediatric anxiety and irritability." Journal of affective disorders, vol. 295, 2021, pp. 920-929. |
| Gold AL, Abend R, Britton JC, Behrens B, Farber M, Ronkin E, Chen G, Leibenluft E, Pine DS. "Age Differences in the Neural Correlates of Anxiety Disorders: An fMRI Study of Response to Learned Threat." American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 177, no. 5, 2020, pp. 454-463. |
| Abend R, Gold AL, Britton JC, Michalska KJ, Shechner T, Sachs JF, Winkler AM, Leibenluft E, Averbeck BB, Pine DS. "Anticipatory Threat Responding: Associations With Anxiety, Development, and Brain Structure." Biological Psychiatry, vol. 87, no. 10, 2020, pp. 916-925. |
| Han, Gloria T., Gold, Andrea L., Righi, Giulia, Garcia, Abbe Marrs, Egolf, Amy. "Case report: Functional assessment of behavior in complex diagnoses: A transdiagnostic approach." The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, vol. 36, no. 8, 2020, pp. 1-7. |
| Linke J, Kircanski K, Brooks J, Perhamus G, Gold AL, Brotman MA. "Exposure-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: An Evidence-Based Case Study." Behavior Therapy, vol. 51, no. 2, 2020, pp. 320-333. |
| Gold, A.L. "Feel your fear and do it anyway: The exposure lifestyle." DBT Bulletin, vol. 3, no. 1, 2020, pp. 6-10. |
| Gold, Andrea L., Yen, Shirley. "Implementation Challenges in Real World Settings: Commentary on Cognitive Behavioral Approaches." The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders, 2020, pp. 422-424. |
| Filippi CA, Sachs JF, Phillips D, Winkler A, Gold AL, Leibenluft E, Pine DS, Fox NA. "Infant behavioral reactivity predicts change in amygdala volume 12 years later." Developmental cognitive neuroscience, vol. 42, 2020, pp. 100776. |
| Lewis KM, Matsumoto C, Cardinale E, Jones EL, Gold AL, Stringaris A, Leibenluft E, Pine DS, Brotman MA. "Self-Efficacy As a Target for Neuroscience Research on Moderators of Treatment Outcomes in Pediatric Anxiety." Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, vol. 30, no. 4, 2020, pp. 205-214. |
| Sun D, Gold AL, Swanson CA, Haswell CC, Brown VM, Stjepanovic D, VA Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup., LaBar KS, Morey RA. "Threat-induced anxiety during goal pursuit disrupts amygdala-prefrontal cortex connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder." Translational psychiatry, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 61. |
| Gold, Andrea L., Yaptangco, Mona. "Getting unstuck: Dialectical strategies to reduce suffering and build a life worth living." The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, vol. 35, no. 3, 2019, pp. 1-6. |
| Cardinale EM, Kircanski K, Brooks J, Gold AL, Towbin KE, Pine DS, Leibenluft E, Brotman MA. "Parsing neurodevelopmental features of irritability and anxiety: Replication and validation of a latent variable approach." Dev Psychopathol, vol. 31, no. 3, 2019, pp. 917-929. |
| Michalska KJ, Feldman JS, Abend R, Gold AL, Dildine TC, Palacios-Barrios EE, Leibenluft E, Towbin KE, Pine DS, Atlas LY. "Anticipatory Effects on Perceived Pain: Associations With Development and Anxiety." Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 80, no. 9, 2018, pp. 853-860. |
| Busso DS, McLaughlin KA, Brueck S, Peverill M, Gold AL, Sheridan MA. "Child Abuse, Neural Structure, and Adolescent Psychopathology: A Longitudinal Study." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 56, no. 4, 2017, pp. 321-328.e1. |
| White LK, Sequeira S, Britton JC, Brotman MA, Gold AL, Berman E, Towbin K, Abend R, Fox NA, Bar-Haim Y, Leibenluft E, Pine DS. "Complementary Features of Attention Bias Modification Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders." American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 174, no. 8, 2017, pp. 775-784. |
| Gold AL, Steuber ER, White LK, Pacheco J, Sachs JF, Pagliaccio D, Berman E, Leibenluft E, Pine DS. "Cortical Thickness and Subcortical Gray Matter Volume in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders." Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 42, no. 12, 2017, pp. 2423-2433. |
| Gold AL, Shechner T, Farber MJ, Spiro CN, Leibenluft E, Pine DS, Britton JC. "Amygdala-Cortical Connectivity: Associations with Anxiety, Development, and Threat." Depression and Anxiety, vol. 33, no. 10, 2016, pp. 917-926. |
| Gold AL, Sheridan MA, Peverill M, Busso DS, Lambert HK, Alves S, Pine DS, McLaughlin KA. "Childhood abuse and reduced cortical thickness in brain regions involved in emotional processing." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 57, no. 10, 2016, pp. 1154-64. |
| Gold AL, Brotman MA, Adleman NE, Lever SN, Steuber ER, Fromm SJ, Mueller SC, Pine DS, Leibenluft E. "Comparing Brain Morphometry Across Multiple Childhood Psychiatric Disorders." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 55, no. 12, 2016, pp. 1027-1037.e3. |
| Sylvester CM, Barch DM, Harms MP, Belden AC, Oakberg TJ, Gold AL, White LK, Benson BE, Troller-Renfree S, Degnan KA, Henderson HA, Luby JL, Fox NA, Pine DS. "Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Cortical Thickness in Adulthood." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 55, no. 2, 2016, pp. 122-9.e1. |
| McLaughlin KA, Sheridan MA, Gold AL, Duys A, Lambert HK, Peverill M, Heleniak C, Shechner T, Wojcieszak Z, Pine DS. "Maltreatment Exposure, Brain Structure, and Fear Conditioning in Children and Adolescents." Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 41, no. 8, 2016, pp. 1956-64. |
| Gold AL, Morey RA, McCarthy G. "Amygdala-prefrontal cortex functional connectivity during threat-induced anxiety and goal distraction." Biological Psychiatry, vol. 77, no. 4, 2015, pp. 394-403. |
| McLaughlin KA, Peverill M, Gold AL, Alves S, Sheridan MA. "Child Maltreatment and Neural Systems Underlying Emotion Regulation." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 54, no. 9, 2015, pp. 753-62. |
| Gold AL, Jarcho JM, Rosen DK, Pine DS, Ernst M. "Emotional and Nonemotional Conflict Processing in Pediatric and Adult Anxiety Disorders." Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, vol. 25, no. 10, 2015, pp. 754-63. |
| Brown VM, Strauss JL, LaBar KS, Gold AL, McCarthy G, Morey RA. "Acute effects of trauma-focused research procedures on participant safety and distress." Psychiatry Research, vol. 215, no. 1, 2014, pp. 154-8. |
| Brown VM, LaBar KS, Haswell CC, Gold AL, Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup., McCarthy G, Morey RA. "Altered resting-state functional connectivity of basolateral and centromedial amygdala complexes in posttraumatic stress disorder." Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 39, no. 2, 2014, pp. 351-9. |
| Killgore WD, Britton JC, Schwab ZJ, Price LM, Weiner MR, Gold AL, Rosso IM, Simon NM, Pollack MH, Rauch SL. "Cortico-limbic responses to masked affective faces across ptsd, panic disorder, and specific phobia." Depression and Anxiety, vol. 31, no. 2, 2014, pp. 150-9. |
| Morey RA, Gold AL, LaBar KS, Beall SK, Brown VM, Haswell CC, Nasser JD, Wagner HR, McCarthy G, Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Workgroup. "Amygdala volume changes in posttraumatic stress disorder in a large case-controlled veterans group." Archives of General Psychiatry , vol. 69, no. 11, 2012, pp. 1169-78. |
| Kim-Cohen, Julia, Rabbitt, Sarah, Henry, Jessica S., Gold, Andrea L. "Child Maltreatment." The Cambridge Handbook of Environment in Human Development, 2012, pp. 480-497. |
| Gold AL, Shin LM, Orr SP, Carson MA, Rauch SL, Macklin ML, Lasko NB, Metzger LJ, Dougherty DD, Alpert NM, Fischman AJ, Pitman RK. "Decreased regional cerebral blood flow in medial prefrontal cortex during trauma-unrelated stressful imagery in Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder." Psychological Medicine, vol. 41, no. 12, 2011, pp. 2563-72. |
| Shin LM, Bush G, Milad MR, Lasko NB, Brohawn KH, Hughes KC, Macklin ML, Gold AL, Karpf RD, Orr SP, Rauch SL, Pitman RK. "Exaggerated activation of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during cognitive interference: a monozygotic twin study of posttraumatic stress disorder." American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 168, no. 9, 2011, pp. 979-85. |
| Killgore WD, Britton JC, Price LM, Gold AL, Deckersbach T, Rauch SL. "Neural correlates of anxiety sensitivity during masked presentation of affective faces." Depression and Anxiety, vol. 28, no. 3, 2011, pp. 243-9. |
| Morey RA, Hariri AR, Gold AL, Hauser MA, Munger HJ, Dolcos F, McCarthy G. "Serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms and brain function during emotional distraction from cognitive processing in posttraumatic stress disorder." BMC Psychiatry, vol. 11, 2011, pp. 76. |
| Britton JC, Stewart SE, Killgore WD, Rosso IM, Price LM, Gold AL, Pine DS, Wilhelm S, Jenike MA, Rauch SL. "Amygdala activation in response to facial expressions in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder." Depression and Anxiety, vol. 27, no. 7, 2010, pp. 643-51. |
| Rosso IM, Makris N, Britton JC, Price LM, Gold AL, Zai D, Bruyere J, Deckersbach T, Killgore WD, Rauch SL. "Anxiety sensitivity correlates with two indices of right anterior insula structure in specific animal phobia." Depression and Anxiety, vol. 27, no. 12, 2010, pp. 1104-10. |
| Evans KC, Simon NM, Dougherty DD, Hoge EA, Worthington JJ, Chow C, Kaufman RE, Gold AL, Fischman AJ, Pollack MH, Rauch SL. "A PET study of tiagabine treatment implicates ventral medial prefrontal cortex in generalized social anxiety disorder." Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 34, no. 2, 2009, pp. 390-8. |
| Britton JC, Gold AL, Deckersbach T, Rauch SL. "Functional MRI study of specific animal phobia using an event-related emotional counting stroop paradigm." Depression and Anxiety, vol. 26, no. 9, 2009, pp. 796-805. |
| Kim-Cohen, Julia, Gold, Andrea L. "Measured Gene–Environment Interactions and Mechanisms Promoting Resilient Development." Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 18, no. 3, 2009, pp. 138-142. |
| Milad MR, Pitman RK, Ellis CB, Gold AL, Shin LM, Lasko NB, Zeidan MA, Handwerger K, Orr SP, Rauch SL. "Neurobiological basis of failure to recall extinction memory in posttraumatic stress disorder." Biological Psychiatry, vol. 66, no. 12, 2009, pp. 1075-82. |
| Evans KC, Wright CI, Wedig MM, Gold AL, Pollack MH, Rauch SL. "A functional MRI study of amygdala responses to angry schematic faces in social anxiety disorder." Depression and Anxiety, vol. 25, no. 6, 2008, pp. 496-505. |
| Wright CI, Negreira A, Gold AL, Britton JC, Williams D, Barrett LF. "Neural correlates of novelty and face-age effects in young and elderly adults." NeuroImage, vol. 42, no. 2, 2008, pp. 956-68. |
| Rauch SL, Wright CI, Savage CR, Martis B, McMullin KG, Wedig MM, Gold AL, Keuthen NJ. "Brain activation during implicit sequence learning in individuals with trichotillomania." Psychiatry Research, vol. 154, no. 3, 2007, pp. 233-40. |
| Britton JC, Gold AL, Feczko EJ, Rauch SL, Williams D, Wright CI. "D-cycloserine inhibits amygdala responses during repeated presentations of faces." CNS Spectrums, vol. 12, no. 8, 2007, pp. 600-5. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | PhD | Yale University |
| 2010 | MPhil | Yale University |
| 2009 | MS | Yale University |
| 2005 | BA | Cornell University |
| Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellow | National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience | 2013-2017 | Bethesda, MD |
2020 Toy Caldwell-Colbert Excellence in Teaching Award, Dept. of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2023 Seth Axelrod Excellence in Mentoring Award, Yale School of Medicine-NEABPD Annual Conference for outstanding contributions in supporting the next generation of professionals who treat and study borderline personality disorder, emotion dysregulation, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
| Psychologist | State of Rhode Island | 2017- | #PS01652 |
| Psychologist | State of Maryland | 2016-2018 | #05636 |
| Psychologist. Bradley Hospital, 2018- |
