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Roxann Roberson-Nay, PhDRoberson-Nay
Assistant Professor


Education: University of Maine, Ph.D.; National Institute of Mental Health, Intra-mural Research Training Awardee

Specialties: assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents

Clinic Location: Virginia Treatment Center for Children
Clinic Phone: 828-3137
Office Fax: 828-2645

Research Interests: vulnerability factors associated with development of anxiety disorders; pathophysiology of fear and anxiety; continuity-discontinuity of child-adult anxiety dysfunctions; integration of basic research with clinical practice

Address: 515 North 10th Street, PO Box 980489 Richmond, VA 23298-0489

Recent Publications

Lau, J.Y.F., Lissek, S., Nelson, E.E., Lee, Y., Roberson-Nay, R., Poeth, K., Jenness, J., Ernst, M., Grillon, C., & Pine, D.S. (2008). Fear conditioning in pediatric anxiety disorders: Results of a novel experimental paradigm. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47, 94-102.

Roberson-Nay, R., Strong, D., Nay, W.T., Turner, S.M., & Beidel, D.B. (2007). Development of an abbreviated Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory using item response theory: The SPAI-23.
Psychological Assessment, 19, 133-145.

Biel, M.G., Klein, R.G., Mannuzza, S., Roizen, E.R., Truong, N.L. Roberson-Nay, R., & Pine, D.S. (2007). Does major depressive disorder in parents predict specific fears and phobias in offspring? Depression and Anxiety, 25, 379-382.

Dickstein, D., Rich, B. A., Roberson-Nay, R., Berghorst, L., Vinton, D., Pine, D.S., Leibenluft, E. (2007). Neural activation during encoding of emotional faces in pediatric bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 9, 679-692.

Perez-Edgar, K., Roberson-Nay, R., Guyer, A.E., Fox, N., Pine, D.S. (2007). Attention alters neural response to evocative faces in behaviorally inhibited adolescents. NeuroImage, 35, 1538-1546.

Vasa, R., Roberson-Nay, R., Klein, R.G, Mannuzza, S., Moulton, J., L., Guardino, M., Merikangas, A., Carlino, A.R., & Pine, D.S. (2007). Memory deficits in children with and at-risk for anxiety disorders. Depression and Anxiety, 24, 85-94.

Roberson-Nay, R., McClure, E.B., Monk, C., Nelson, E., Guyer, A.E., Fromm, S.J., Charney, D.S., Leibenluft, E., Blair, J., Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (2006). Increased amygdala activity during successful memory encoding in adolescent major depressive disorder: An fMRI study. Biological Psychiatry, 60, 966-973.





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