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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Vermont, 1993
Office: (603) 646-2196, Moore 349
Email: paul.j.whalen@dartmouth.edu
Go to the Whalen Lab Web site
Interests:
The focus of my research is to better understand the neural substrates of
biologically relevant learning in the human. To this end, my laboratory studies
the human amygdala as a model system for such learning. Building upon animal
and human research documenting the role of the amygdala in emotion,
specifically fear, we aim to expose the more subtle abilities of this system in
the modulation of moment-to-moment levels of vigilance.
Selected Publications:
Somerville LH, Whalen PJ. Prior experience as a stimulus category confound:
An example using facial expressions of emotion. Social, Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience, 2006; 1:271-274.
Whalen PJ, Kagan J, Cook RG, Davis FC, Kim H, Polis S, McLaren DG,
Somerville LH, McLean AA, Maxwell JS, Johnstone T. Human amygdala responsivity
to masked fearful eye whites. Science, 2004; 306:2061.
Kim H, Somerville LH, Johnstone T, Polis S, Alexander AL, Shin LM, Whalen
PJ. Contextual modulation of amygdala responsivity to surprised faces. J Cog
Neurosci, 2004; 16:1730-1745.
Somerville LH, Kim H, Johnstone T, Alexander A, Whalen PJ. Human
amygdala response during presentation of happy and neutral faces: Correlations
with state anxiety. Biological Psychiatry, 2004; 55:897-903.
Kim H, Somerville LH, Johnstone T, Alexander A, Whalen PJ. Inverse
amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to surprised faces.
Neuroreport, 2003; 14:2317-2322.
Whalen PJ, Shin LM, McInerney SC, Fischer H, Wright CI, Rauch SL. A
functional MRI study of human amygdala responses to facial expressions of fear
vs. anger. Emotion, 2001; 1:70-83.
Shin LM, Whalen PJ, Pitman RK, Bush G, Macklin ML, Lasko NB, Orr SP,
McInerney SC, Rauch SL. An fMRI study of anterior cingulate function in
posttraumatic stress disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 2001; 50:932-942.
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