Ian H. Gotlib

Title
Professor

Department
Psychology

Research Interests
Neural foundations of information-processing biases in affective disorders, psychophysiology of depression, depression in children and adolescents, intergenerational transmission of risk for psychopathology

Email
gotlib@psych.stanford.edu

Phone
(650)725-9216

Fax
(650)725-5699

Address
Bldg 420, Jordan Hall
Mail Code: 2130
Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory:
Web: http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~mood

Faculty Research Description
Dr. Gotlib examines information-processing styles of depressed children, adolescents, and adults, patterns of brain activation, neural response, and psychophysiological reactivity of depressed patients in response to different emotional stimuli, and the
emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and biological functioning of children of depressed mothers.

Canli, T., Sivers, H., Whitfield, S.L., Gotlib, I.H., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2002). Amygdala response to happy faces as a function of extraversion. Science, 296, 2191.

Rottenberg, J., Kasch, K.L., Gross, J.J., & Gotlib, I.H. (2002). Sadness and amusement reactivity differentially predict concurrent and prospective functioning in Major Depressive
Disorder. Emotion, 2, 135-146.

Kasch, K.L., Rottenberg, J., Arnow, B., & Gotlib, I.H. (in press). Behavioral activation and inhibition systems and the severity and course of depression. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology.

Gotlib, I.H., Gilboa, E., & Sommerfeld, B.K. (2000). Cognitive functioning in depression: Nature and origins. In R.J. Davidson (Ed.) Anxiety, depression, and emotion (pp. 133-163). New
York: Oxford University Press.

Goodman, S.H., & Gotlib, I.H. (1999). Risk for psychopathology in the children of depressed mothers: A developmental model for understanding mechanisms of transmission. Psychological
Review, 106, 458-490.

Areas of Study
SBRC
Neurosciences Ph.D. Program
Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory