Research Interest

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  Primary focus on three interrelated domains; (1) prevention and treatment of anxiety pathology, (2) investigation of biobehavioral parameters that affect the generation and maintenance of anxiety pathology, and (3) the relationship between anxiety pathology and physical health.

  
  

Current Research

• We have a broad research agenda. Our laboratory is currently participating in approximately 10 different grant funded studies (NIMH, NIDA, OC Foundation, James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program). These studies focus on translational research, prevention, and treatment of anxiety psychopathology as well as smoking.

  
  

  
  

Selected Publications

• Maner, J. K., Miller, S. L., Schmidt, N.B., & Eckel, L. A. (2010). The endocrinology of exclusion: Rejection elicits motivationally tuned changes in progesterone. Psychological Science, 21, 581-588.

  
  

  Schmidt, N.B., Keough, M.E., Mitchell, M.A., Reynolds, E.K., MacPherson, L., Zvolensky, M.J., & Lejuez, C.W. (2010). Anxiety sensitivity: Prospective prediction of anxiety among early adolescents. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 503-508

  
  

  Keough, M.E., Timpano, K.R., Riccardi, C.J., & Schmidt, N.B. (2010). Suppressing the white bears interacts with anxiety sensitivity to predict mood and anxiety symptoms. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 408-413.

  
  

  Richey, J.A., Schmidt, N.B., Hofmann, S.G., & Timpano, K.R. (2010). Temporal and structural dynamics of anxiety sensitivity in predicting fearful responding to a 35% CO2 challenge. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 423-432.

  
  

  Timpano, K.R., Hasler, G., Riccardi, C., Murphy, D.L., & Schmidt, N. B., (in press). The genetics of anxiety: Recent findings and considerations for future research. In G.G. Bernston & J.T. Cacioppo (Eds.) Handbook of Neurosciences for the Behavioral Sciences. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

  
  

  Schmidt, N.B., Buckner, J.D., Pusser, A., Woolaway-Bickel, K., Preston, J.L. (in press). Randomized controlled trial of False Safety Behavior Elimination Therapy (F-SET): A unified cognitive behavioral treatment for anxiety psychopathology. Behavior Therapy.

  
  

  Wendland, J.R., Moya, P.R., Timpano, K.R., Anavitarte, A.P., Kruse, M.R., Wheaton, M.G., Ren-Patterson, R.F., Schmidt, N.B., & Murphy, D.L. (in press). A haplotype containing quantitative trait loci for SLC1A1 gene expression is associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Molecular Psychiatry.

  
  

  Hunter, L.R. & Schmidt, N.B. (2010). Anxiety psychopathology in African American adults: Literature review and development of an empirically-informed, sociocultural model. Psychological Bulletin, 21, 211-235.

  
  

  Schmidt, N.B., & Keough, M.E. (2010). Treatment of panic. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 6, 241-256.

  
  

  Bunaciu, L., Feldner, M. T., Blumenthal, H., Babson, K. A., Schmidt, N. B., & Sachs-Ericsson, N. (2010). A test of the relations between avoidance of panic-related situations and substance use, substance dependence, and depression among subclinical panickers. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 158-163.