Alison Schreiber, PhD

Alison Schreiber, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the UK College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Schreiber earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her clinical psychology predoctoral internship at the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System. Following her doctoral studies, she completed her postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh, where she was supported by a competitive NIMH T32 fellowship. Broadly situated within the field of computational psychiatry,  her program of research aims to characterize the lower-level social, cognitive, and affective processes that contribute to interpersonal difficulties in patients with borderline personality disorder. To answer these questions, she uses a variety of advanced quantitative methods (e.g., computational modeling, machine learning) to synthesize multimodal data (e.g., task behavior, neuroimaging, electrocardiogram recordings). Her current research focuses on elucidating the neurocomputational underpinnings of affect-based impulsivity. Dr. Schreiber’s work has been funded by NIH.