Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)

Overview

Dr. Benca-Bachman’s received her PhD in psychiatry and statistical genetics from University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests focus on how genetic and environmental factors contribute to the development and maintenance of psychopathology and its neural correlates. Her long-term research goals are to better understand the etiology and bi-directional relationships between psychopathology and substance use, executive functioning, and sleep, as well as how they manifest in the brain. To understand this, she uses a wide range of methods from genetic to neuroimaging analyses integrating big secondary datasets as well as deeply phenotype primary data collection from both human and animal models.

Brown Affiliations