Faculty

Lauren M Bylsma, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Phone 412-624-8363
Email

Education & Training

PhD
University of South Florida Clinical Psychology
VA Puget Sound, Seattle DivisionClinical Psychology
University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineChild and Adolescent Psychiatry

Specialty Certifications

Licensed by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology

Current Appointments

Co-Director, Center for Advanced Psychotherapy
Assistant Director, HOPE TEAM (Help Overcoming Prodromal Experiences Through Early Assessment & Management)

Professional Affiliations

Member, Society for Affective Science
Member, Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Member, Society for Research in Psychopathology
Member, Society for Ambulatory Assessment
Member, Society for Psychophysiological Research
Member, FLUX: International Congress for Integrative Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Selected Honors & Awards

Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology, Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR)
NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
McGuigan Dissertation Award, American Psychological Foundation

Research Interests

Depression risk, developmental neuroscience; Emotional reactivity & regulation, reward process; Multimodal assessment of emotion, psychophysiology
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. Panaite V, Rottenberg J & Bylsma LM. (2020). Affective dynamics and depression symptom trajectories. Journal of Affective Science. In press.
  2. Stone LB, McCormack CC & Bylsma LM. (2020). Cross system autonomic balance and regulation: Associations with depression and anxiety symptoms. Psychophysiology, e13636.
  3. Stone LB, Lewis G & Bylsma LM. (2020) The autonomic correlates of dysphoric rumination and post-rumination savoring. Physiology & Behavior, 113027.
  4. Hamilton JL, Ladouceur CD, Silk JS, Franzen PL & Bylsma LM. (2020) Higher rates of sleep disturbance among offspring of parents with recurrent depression compared to offspring of nondepressed parents. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 45(1), 1-11.
  5. Bylsma LM, Yaroslavsky I, Rottenberg J, Jennings JR, George CJ, Kiss E, Halas K, Dochnal R, Lefkovics E, Benak I, Baji I, Vetro A & Kovacs M. (2015) Juvenile onset depression alters cardiac autonomic balance in response to psychological and physical challenges. Biological Psychology, 110, 167-174.

Clinical Interests

Adult mood and anxiety disorders; Child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders; Cognitive behavioral therapy
Selected Clinical Publications & Products
  1. Bylsma LM, Mauss IB & Rottenberg J. (2016) Is the divide a chasm?: Bridging affective science with clinical practice. Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment, 38(1), 42-47.
  2. Bylsma LM, Gracanin A & Vingerhoets AJ. (2020). A clinical practice review of crying research. Psychotherapy. Manuscript in Press.
  3. Bylsma LM, Gracanin A & Vingerhoets AJ. (2017) Why humans weep. In Blume-Marcovici (ed.), When Therapists Cry: Reflections on Therapists Tears in Therapy. New York, NY: Routledge.

Education Interests

Research mentoring; Clinical supervision: cognitive behavioral therapy; Research methodology training: psychophysiology
Selected Education Publications & Products
  1. Bylsma LM. (2018) Social Anxiety Disorder: Assessment and Management. CMEtoGO Psychiatry, 7(4). American Physician Institute. https://www.masterpsych.com/psychiatry-cme-to-go/
  2. Rottenberg J & Bylsma LM. (2014) Emotional functioning in depression. In Gotlib, I.H. & Hammen, C.L. (eds.). Handbook of Depression: Guildford Press.
  3. Bylsma LM & Panaite V. (2012) Depression. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Psychology. ScholarOne Books.
  4. Bylsma LM & Rottenberg J. (2011) Uncovering the dynamics of emotion regulation and dysfunction in daily life with ecological momentary assessment. In Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M, Nyklicek, I. & Zeelenberg, M. (eds.),Emotion Regulation and Well-being (pp. 225-244). Springer, New York, NY.

Pitt Psychiatry Hosts Virtual Research Matinee—An Afternoon of Discovery, Reflection, and Celebration 

Last week we reinvented our annual in-person Research Day as a virtual Research Matinee, a Department-wide exploration of innovative research, career reflections and honors for outstanding faculty and staff. Attendees included nearly 200 Psychiatry faculty, trainees, and staff, who tuned in for plenary speaker Mary Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab), followed by the perennially popular Speed Dat(a)ing, in which six...

Lauren Bylsma Receives Early Career Award from Society for Psychophysiological Research 

Dr. Lauren Bylsma Receives SPR's Highest Honor

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce that Lauren Bylsma, PhD, has received a Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology from the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR). Dr. Bylsma received this prestigious award at the Society’s annual meeting in Washington, DC (September 25–29, 2019), where she also delivered the Early Career Award Address, “A...

Findings by Dr. Cecile Ladouceur et al. Indicate that Error-Related Negativity (ERN) Amplitude in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders Remains Elevated Following Treatment

Ladouceur et al Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2018

Pediatric anxiety disorders begin in childhood or early adolescence and frequently lead to other psychiatric disorders in adulthood, including anxiety disorders and depression. Anxiety disorders are associated with an overactive action monitoring system, as indexed by a larger event-related potential named the error-related negativity (ERN). This leads researchers to hypothesize that it could represent a potential...