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Dr. Kaiser is a clinical psychologist who uses integrated behavioral, developmental, and neuroscientific methods to understand Major Depression and related affective disorders. Together with members of her research laboratory, Dr. Kaiser is working to understand neurocognitive dysfunction in depression, including abnormalities in the structure, molecular signaling, and coordinated activity of brain networks involved in emotion regulation. Dr. Kaiser explores these topics from a developmental perspective, with special interest in using neurocognitive risk markers to predict the onset and course of mood disorders in teens or young adults. Clinically, Dr. Kaiser is testing how neurocognitive functioning may be enhanced to foster affective health, with the goal of translating basic science into improved treatment and emotional wellness.

Dr. Kaiser received a dual-Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Neuroscience in 2013 from the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, completing her predoctoral Clinical Internship at Yale University School of Medicine. After receiving her doctoral degree, Dr. Kaiser trained as a postdoctoral Fellow in affective and translational neuroscience at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital in the Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research (2013-2016). Dr. Kaiser launched the RADD Lab as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA (2016-2018), and moved the lab to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ in 2018. Dr. Kaiser is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.

Highlighted Publications:

Kaiser, R. H., Moser, A. D., Neilson, C., Jones, J., Peterson, E. C., Hough, C., Rosenberg, B. M., Sandman, C. F., Schneck, C. D., Miklowitz, D. J., & Friedman, N. P. (EPub Nov 25, 2022). Mood symptom dimensions and developmental differences in neurocognition in adolescence. Clinical Psychological Science. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.03.020

Kaiser, R. H., Chase, H. W., Phillips, M. L., Deckersbach, T., Parsey, R., Fava, M., McGrath, P., Weissman, M., Oquendo, M. A., McInnis, M. G., Carmody, T., Cooper, C. M., Trivedi, M. H., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (EPub April 05, 2022). Dynamic resting-state network biomarkers of antidepressant treatment response. Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.03.020

Peterson, E. C.*, Snyder, H. R., Neilson, C., Rosenberg, B. M., Hough, C. M., Sandman, C. F., Ohanian, L., Garcia, S., Kotz, J., Finegan, J., Ryan, C., Gyimah, A., Sileo, S., Miklowitz, D., Friedman, N. P., & Kaiser, R. H. (2022). General and specific dimensions of mood symptoms are associated with impairments in common executive function. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 838645, 1-18. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.838645

Kaiser, R. H., Kang, M., Lew, Y., Van Der Feen, J., Aguirre, B., Clegg, R., Goer, F., Esposito, E., Auerbach, R. P., Hutchison, R. M., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2019). Abnormal frontoinsular-default network dynamics in adolescent depression and rumination: A preliminary resting-state co-activation pattern analysis. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, 1604-1612. doi: 10.1038/s41386-019-0399-3

Kaiser, R. H., Clegg, R., Goer, F., Pechtel, P., Beltzer, M., Vitaliano, G., Olson, D., Teicher, M., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2018) Childhood stress, grown-up brain networks: Corticolimbic correlates of threat-related early life stress and adult stress response. Psychological Medicine, 48, 1157-1166. doi: 10.1017/S0033291717002628

Kaiser, R. H., Andrews-Hanna, J., Wager, T., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2015). Large-scale network dysfunction in Major Depressive Disorder: A meta-analysis of resting-state functional connectivity. Journal of the American Medical Association: Psychiatry, 72, 603-611. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.0071