RESEARCH

 
 

Current Research: 

In addition to clinical practice, Madeline currently holds a part-time role with UNC School of Education where she serves as Director of Tealeaf - NC. Tealeaf (Teachers Leading the Frontlines; PI: Christina Cruz, M.D., Ed.M.) is a school-based preventative mental health intervention focused on equipping teachers with evidence-based skills to better support students with mental health difficulties across the state of North Carolina.

Madeline’s current research interests are centered on providing accessible & equitable mental health care in the community. However, these interests are informed by her doctoral research centered on developmental affective neuroscience with a focus on understanding the neurobiology of attachment and how parenting shapes the developing brain.

Previous Research

EARLY CAREER RESEARCH

UNC School of Medicine - Teachers Leading the Frontlines (Tealeaf), PI: Christina Cruz, M.D., Ed.M.

UNC School of Education - Practice Experiences for School Reintegration (PRES-R), PI: Marisa Marraccini, Ph.D.

UNC School of Medicine - Parent Evaluation Program (PEP), PI: Echo Meyer, Ph.D.

DOCTORAL RESEARCH

Duke University - Laboratory of NeuroGenetics, PI: Ahmad Hariri, Ph.D.; Co-Advisor Timothy Strauman, Ph.D.

POSTBACCALAUREATE RESEARCH

National Institute of Mental Health - Section on Affective Developmental Neuroscience (SDAN), PI: Daniel Pine, MD

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Cornell University - Early Childhood Cognition Laboratory (ECCL), PI: Tamar Kushnir, Ph.D.

Publications

  1. Farber, M.J., Gee, D.G., Hariri, A.R. (2020). Normative range parenting and the developing brain: a scoping review and recommendations for future research. Eur. J. Neurosci.

  2. Gold, A.L., Abend, R., Britton, J.C., Behrens, B., Farber, M.J., Ronkin, E., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D.S. (2020). Age differences in the neural correlates of anxiety disorders: An fMRI study of response to learned threat. Am J Psych.

  3. Kim, M.J., Farber, M.J., Knodt, A.R., Hariri, A.R. (2019). Corticolimbic Circuit Structure Moderates an Association Between Early Life Stress and Later Trait Anxiety. Neuroimage: Clinical.

  4. Farber, M.J., Romer, A.R., Knodt, A.R., Hariri, A.R. (2019). Maternal Overprotection in Childhood is Associated with Amygdala Reactivity and Structural Connectivity in Adulthood. Dev Cog Neuro.

  5. Farber, M.J., Romer, A.R., Kim, M.J., Knodt, A.R., Elsayed, N.M., Williamson, D.E., Hariri, A.R. (2018). Paradoxical Associations Between Higher Familial Warmth, Lower Stress, and Increased Amygdala Reactivity to Interpersonal Threat. Emotion.

  6. Gold, A. L., Shechner, T., Farber, M. J., Spiro, C. N., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D. S. and Britton, J. C. (2016), Amygdala–Cortical Connectivity: Associations with Anxiety, Development, and Threat. Depress Anxiety, 33: 917–926.

  7. Dorfman, J., Benson, B., Farber, M., Pine, D., & Ernst, M. (2016). Altered striatal intrinsic functional connectivity in pediatric anxiety. Neuropsychologia, 85, 159–168.

Presentations

  • Pandya, U., Farber, M.J., Daffre, C., Strauman, T.J., Brewster, A.B. (2020, August). Neural markers of metacognition before and after “curriculum as intervention”. Poster presented at Duke University, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Vertical Integration Program culminating meeting, Durham, NC.

  • Zucker, N., Rivera-Cancel, A., Datta, N., Erwin, S., Nicholas, J., Caldwell, K.A., Ives, L., Romer, A., Marsan, S., Farber, M.J., Maslow, G. (2020, May). Feeling and Body Investigators: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Treatment for Young Children with Functional Abdominal Pain. Poster presented at Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Remote Meeting due to COVID-19.

  • Paschall, K.A., Farber, M.J., Cooke, M.E. (2019, August). Associations Among Conscientiousness, Actual Stress, and Perceived Stress. Poster presented at Duke University, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Vertical Integration Program culminating meeting, Durham, NC.

  • Jackson, S.K., Farber, M.J., Strauman, T.J. (2018, August). Like Mother. Like Child? The Role of Maternal Depression on Future Child Internalizing Symptoms. Poster presented at Duke University, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Vertical Integration Program culminating meeting, Durham, NC.

  • Farber, M.J., Romer, A.L., Elliott, M.L., Radtke, S.R., Knodt, A.R., Hariri, A.R. (2017, May). Family functioning and amygdala reactivity to threat: affective responsiveness as a protective buffer. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Sciences and Cognitive Therapies 29th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

  • Farber, M.J., Gold, A.L., Averbeck, B., Shechner, T.S., Britton, J.C., Pine, D.S. (2016, June). Using computational modeling to assess fear learning in pediatric anxiety disorders. Presented at NIMH intramural group meeting, Emotion and Development Branch, Bethesda, MD.

  • Farber, M.J., Gold, A.L., Ronkin, E., Britton, J.C., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D.S. (2015, Nov). Threat appraisal during extinction recall in pediatric and adult anxiety disorders: an fMRI replication study. Poster presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 49th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

  • Farber, M. J (2013, Nov). The negative side effects of atypical antipsychotics. Poster presented at the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board 3rd Annual Fall Research Forum, Ithaca, NY.