DeMond Grant

DeMond Grant is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University, specializing in cognitive functioning related to anxiety disorders. He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research utilizes event-related potentials (ERP), psychophysiological measures, and advanced statistics to study social anxiety and generalized anxiety disorder. Grant leads the LEAP Lab, focusing on understanding neural mechanisms underlying anxiety. Recent grants include studies on chronic worry (2016-2025) and e-cigarette effects (2016). He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, with notable work on ERP correlates of attentional control and heart rate evoked potentials in social anxiety. His work bridges clinical and cognitive neuroscience to advance interventions for anxiety-related disorders.

Education: PhD in Clinical Psychology, University at Buffalo, SUNY (2008).

Research Interests: Cognitive processes in anxiety disorders, ERP methodologies, psychophysiology, and translational neuroscience.

Funding: Multiple grants from NIH and other agencies, including the HEALthy Brain & Child Development Consortium (2021-2025) and Neural Mechanisms of Chronic Worry series (2016-2019).

Labs/Teams: Director of the LEAP Lab at Oklahoma State University, investigating anxiety disorder etiology and treatment.