Laboratory Director
Michael T Treadway, PhD
Dr. Treadway is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist focused on understanding the molecular and circuit-level mechanisms of psychiatric symptoms related to mood, anxiety, and decision-making. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University in 2012, and completed his clinical internship and post-doc at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. As Director of the Translational Research in Affective Disorders Laboratory (TReADLab) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, Dr. Treadway’s research employs a variety of methods, including multimodal neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, MRS, and PET), behavioral paradigms, computational modeling, and clinical/personality assessment. A particular interest has been the assessment of reward motivation in psychiatric populations, for which Dr. Treadway has developed several laboratory tasks, including the Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT).
Email: mtreadway@emory.edu
Office: (404) 727-3166
Fax: (404) 727-0372
Assistant Director
Jessica A Cooper, PhD
Dr. Jessica Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University with research interests in motivation and decision making. She received her PhD from the University of Texas in 2016, where she primarily studied decision making and reinforcement learning in healthy aging. Her work in the TReAD lab focuses on characterizing neurobiological and computational mechanisms of motivation and effort-based decision making in both healthy and clinical populations. She employs a variety of methods, including computational modeling, behavioral paradigms, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Jess has been funded by a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA) as well as K01 award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Email: j.cooper@emory.edu
