An early career psychologist whose work crosses into many areas and who researches where emotion and addiction meet
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Dr. Bradfordopens in new window (he/him) is an early career psychologist on faculty at Oregon State University. He earned his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital, and a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bradford is currently director of the BEAVERS Lab: Biology and Emotion of Addiction Via Experimental and Reproducible Science. He is a person with ADHD.
Dr. Bradford explores how specific characteristics of both stressors and reactivity to stress are related to psychological difficulties including co-occurring drug use, anxiety, and depression. As part of this work, he aims to increase the precision and equity of the measures and methods that scientists use to study psychophysiology.
Bradford, D.E., Curtin, J.J., Piper, M.E. (2015). Anticipation of smoking sufficiently lowers stress reactivity for nicotine deprived smokers. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(1), 128–136. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000007opens in new window
Bradford, D. E., DeFalco, A., Perkins, E. R., Carbajal, I., Kwasa, J., Goodman, F. R., Jackson, F., Richardson, L.N., Woodley, N., Neuberger, L., Sandoval, J.A., Haung, H.J., & Joyner, K. (2022). Whose signals are being amplified? Towards a more equitable clinical psychophysiology. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(2), 237–254. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221112117
Bradford, D. E., Dev, A. S., DeFalco, A., Whittaker, F., & Timpano, K. R. (2024). Increasing ecological validity in neuropsychopharmacology research on the relationship between alcohol use and uncertain stressors. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49(2), 353–354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-023-01672-7
Neuroscience, Biological, Pharmacology, Emotion, Addiction
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