Congratulations to the winners for the best original research paper on neurobiology, psychopharmacology, psychosocial treatments, or experimental psychopathology of anxiety disorders and depression.

This award is supported by the official ADAA journal, Depression and Anxiety, published by Wiley-Blackwell.

2012

Roxann Roberson-Nay, PhD

Virginia Commonwealth University
Childhood Separation Anxiety Disorder and Adult Onset Panic Attacks Share a Common Genetic Diathesis

Christopher Lowry, PhD

University of Colorado Boulder
Elevated tph2 mRNA in a Rat Model of Chronic Anxiety

2011

First Place
Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD
New York University
Memory Reconsolidation Studies and Their Implications for PTSD

Honorable Mention
Heide Klumpp, PhD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Trait Anxiety Modulates Anterior Cingulate Activation to Threat Interference

Honorable Mention
Carmen Andreescu, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Altered Cerebral Blood Flow Patterns Associated With Pathologic Worry in the Elderly

2010

Greg Hajcak, PhD
Stony Brook University
Distinct Electrocortical and Behavioral Evidence for Increased Attention to Threat in Generalized Anxiety Disorder