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Anna Manelis PhD

  • Lab Director
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

    Education & Training

  • PhD in Psychology, Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health
  • PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Rutgers University
  • Postdoctoral in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
  • Postdoctoral in Cognitive Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University
Awards
Daniel S. Lehrman Fellowship, 2006
T32MH019983 (P.I. Lynne Reder), 2009 - 2012
MNTP workshop, NIRS modality, Pittsburgh, 2011
The MEG Research Seed Fund of UPMC-Brain Mapping Center ($10,000), 2012
Career Development Institute for Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburgh, 2015
Travel Support Scholarship to the NSF-funded Big Data Neurosciences Workshop, Bloomington, IN, 2017
BRIDGE Center Developmental Fund Seed Grant ($15,900), 2020
Research Interests
  • Cross-sectional and longitudinal multimodal neuroimaging using fMRI, MRI, DTI and fNIRS modalities
  • Big and wide data analyses
  • Behavioral and neural correlates of emotional working memory across ages, psychiatric diagnoses, and mood states
  • Behavioral and neural correlates of emotional working memory in mild traumatic brain injury in adolescents
  • The relationship between obesity and depression
  • Positive visual imagery and its relationship to encoding of and memory for positive stimuli in mood disorders
  • The relationship between falls and depression in older adults
Research Grants

R01MH114870, PI Manelis, 2018 - 2023

The contribution of aberrant anticipatory processing to spectrum depression and mania, and cognitive and emotional dysfunction in major depressive and bipolar disorders

R01 MH114881, MPIs Versace and Konotos, 2017 - 2022

Emotion regulation circuitries in youth with mild traumatic brain Injury

NIH T32MH019983, PI Reder, 2009 - 2012

Combining computational & empirical methods in cognitive neuroscience (Psychology Training Grant).

NIMH 2 R01 MH060952-11, PI Birmaher; MPIs Axelson, Phillips, 2011 - 2015

Children of bipolar parents: A high-risk follow-up study

K01MH104348, PI Manelis, 2015 - 2020

Task preparation abnormality in individuals with unipolar and bipolar depression

R03MH115894, PI Manelis, 2018 - 2022

Aberrant brain functioning during working memory tasks in mood disorders across diagnoses and age groups: Secondary data analysis.