Cat Camacho

Cat is a Neuroscience PhD Student at Washington University in St. Louis focused on using computational models and naturalistic data acquisition to identify neurodevelopmental trajectories that confer increased risk of developing depression and/or anxiety. Cat graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford in 2014, doing undergraduate and post-bacc work in the SNAP lab examining the neural correlates of early life stress, depression, and depression risk. Cat's PhD work focuses on developing techniques to use movies as a proxy for naturalistic emotion processing to study cognitive affective neurodevelopment, anxiety, depression, and social functioning in children. Cat's postdoctoral work will test a neurodevelopmental model of emotion processing in relation to pediatric anxiety risk in infants and toddlers.