Erika E. Forbes, PhD
Erika E. Forbes, PhD, is a Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Pediatrics, and Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a doctorate in clinical and developmental psychology, and her research combines affective neuroscience and developmental psychopathology to address mental health in adolescence and early adulthood.
Dr. Forbes has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of five National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 awards, a National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) R21, a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R21, a NIMH R25, a NIMH K01, and several foundation grants, including NARSAD Young Investigator and Independent Investigator awards through the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. She is also a Wellcome Leap Multi-Channel Psych Performer.
She has been the Co-Investigator (CO-I) on a variety of studies, ranging from a multimodal neuroimaging investigation of dopamine response in young adults to a center study of neural predictors and mechanisms of treatment response in adolescent anxiety. Most recently, she translated her pathophysiology findings into transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies on neuromodulation of reward circuitry in adolescent depression and anhedonia and developed multimodal approaches that incorporate training to enhance positive affect (PA).
