Annmarie MacNamara

Annmarie MacNamara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Texas A&M University, leading the Multimethod Affect and Cognition (MAC) lab. Her research integrates neuroimaging and psychophysiological techniques such as fMRI, ERP, and eyeblink startle to investigate emotional processing in psychiatric health and disease. Her work focuses on understanding how emotional responses become maladaptive in anxiety and depression, aiming to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficacy.

Key research areas include affective neuroscience, cognitive factors influencing emotional reactivity, and translational approaches to mental health. She collaborates with the Institute for Neuroscience and actively accepts graduate students for 2024-2025. Her recent studies explore error-processing mechanisms, neurobiological predictors of anxiety/depression, and the generalization of emotion regulation strategies. Though no specific awards are listed, her work emphasizes high-impact translational research.

Publications span ERP-based emotion regulation reviews, transdiagnostic fear models, and neuroimaging studies of comorbidity. Her lab's interdisciplinary approach bridges clinical and basic science to address emotional disorders' neural underpinnings.