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Roxann Roberson-Nay, PhD
Assistant Professor


Education: University of Maine, Ph.D.; University of Maryland, NIMH Post-doctoral Fellowship; 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 Phone: 828-0273
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
Email: rroberson-nay@mcvh-vcu.edu

Recent Publications
  • Roberson-Nay, R., McClure, E.B., Monk, C., Nelson, E., Guyer, A.E., Zarahn, E., Blair, J., Leibenluft, E., Ernst, M., & Pine, D.S. (in press). Increased amygdala activity during successful memory encoding in adolescent major depressive disorder: An fMRI study. Biological Psychiatry.

  • Rich, B.A., Vinton, D., Roberson-Nay, R., Hommer, R., Berghorst, L.H., McClure, E., Fromm, S., Pine, D.S., & Leibenluft, E. (in press). Limbic hyperactivation during processing of neutral facial expressions in children with bipolar disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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

  • Terleph, T.A., Klein, R.G., Roberson-Nay, R., Mannuzza, S., Moulton, J.L., Woldehawariat, G., Guardino, M., & Pine, D.S. (2006). HPA-axis activity and stress-responsivity in juveniles: Results from a home-based CO2-inhalation study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163, 738-740.

  • Turner, S. M., Beidel, D. C., & Roberson-Nay, R. (2005). Offspring of anxious parents: Reactivity, habituation, and anxiety-proneness. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43, 1263-1279.

  • Pine, D.S., Klein, R.G, Roberson-Nay, R., Mannuzza, S., Moulton, J., L., Woldehawariat, G., & Guardino, M. (2005). Response to 5% carbon dioxide in children and adolescents: Relationship to panic disorder in parents and anxiety disorders in subjects. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 73-80.





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