Emily L. Newman, PhD

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Emily is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ressler Lab where she examines persistent behavioral-, neural circuit-, and molecular-level changes in response to social stress. Emily earned her B.S. in Psychology from Tufts University, graduating with high honors for thesis work on glutamatergic contributions to alcohol-heightened aggression. She continued with her graduate training at Tufts University with support from a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F31). Emily’s doctoral studies combined novel behavioral approaches, molecular techniques and optogenetics to functionally characterize the role of neuropeptidergic cells in social stress-escalated alcohol consumption. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Ressler Lab, Emily is identifying molecularly defined social stress-sensitive neuronal populations that contribute to social fear extinction deficits. Her present work is supported by a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32).