Tina Gupta

Tina Gupta will join the University of Oregon as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology under the College of Arts and Sciences in Fall 2025. With expertise in clinical psychology and affective neuroscience, she focuses on adolescent emotional development and severe mental illness risk markers.

• Research Interests: Adolescent Development, Psychosis-risk, Resilience, Emotion Processing, Reward Processing, Early Intervention
• Methods: Clinical interviews, behavioral measures, facial expression coding, neuroimaging, eye-tracking, computational statistics

Her work bridges clinical psychology and developmental psychopathology to identify biological and environmental factors contributing to severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia. She specifically examines disruptions in emotional processes and protective resilience mechanisms in at-risk adolescents.

Dr. Gupta employs multi-modal approaches including fMRI, EMG, and longitudinal tracking to map brain-behavior relationships. Her recent publications analyze anhedonia trajectories, facial expressivity changes, and inflammation's role in adolescent mental health.