Amanda Watts

Amanda Watts is a Researcher at Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, focusing on psychiatric neuroimaging and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her work bridges clinical psychology and neuroscience, with recent contributions to harmonizing PTSD assessment methods and investigating brain age deviations in PTSD patients through large-scale collaborations like ENIGMA. She holds a Researcher academic rank and is affiliated with Yale's mental health research initiatives.

Research Interests: Ms. Watts specializes in PTSD neurobiology, clinical measurement harmonization, and advanced neuroimaging techniques. Her studies explore how trauma impacts brain structure/function and translate findings into clinical practice. She collaborates with global research networks to standardize PTSD assessment tools.

Publications: Her recent work includes pivotal studies on PTSD severity scale standardization (2023) and brain age analysis in PTSD using multi-site neuroimaging data (2022). These publications address critical gaps in understanding PTSD's neurobiological underpinnings.