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Reuma Gadassi Polack is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, Yale University. Her research focuses on emotion regulation processes in adolescents and their impact on mental health outcomes such as depression and anxiety. She employs interdisciplinary methods combining clinical assessments, daily-diary methodologies, and neuroimaging techniques (e.g., MRI).
Key research areas include parent-adolescent dyadic emotion regulation dynamics, social interpretation biases, and the role of contextual factors (e.g., war-related stress, pandemic conditions) in mental health. Her work emphasizes translational research linking biological, psychological, and social factors in emotional disorders.
Recent studies investigate the stability of emotional networks in youths, cortisol reactivity in perinatal populations, and the application of machine learning to longitudinal mental health data. She collaborates with faculty including Jutta Joormann, Hedy Kober, and Dylan Gee on projects published in journals like Emotion and Social Neuroscience.
