Karen Muñoz, M.S.

EDUCATION and TRAINING
 
UNDERGRADUATE:
1997-2001                          Haverford College, Haverford, PA                        B.A., 2001
                                           Psychology, Neural and Behavioral Sciences concentration
 
POSTBACCALAUREATE:
2001-2005                         CBDB, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD                         Postbaccalaureate Fellow
                                          Imaging Genetics (Mentor: A.R. Hariri)
 
GRADUATE:
2005-2009                         University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA                M.S., 2009
                                          Clinical-Developmental Psychology (Advisor: A.R. Hariri)
                                          Thesis: Amygdala and Ventral Striatal Reactivity
                                                      in Adolescents at High-Risk for Depression

2009-present                    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA                 Ph.D. in progress
                                         Clinical-Developmental Psychology
                                               (Advisors: A.R. Hariri, P. J. Gianaros, and E.E. Forbes)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
HONORS
Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Training Program Fellow                                     2008-2009
HealthEmotions Research Institute Symposium Scholar                                 2007, 2009
K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship recipient, University of Pittsburgh                           2005-2006
APA John Merck Fund Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental
Disabilities Fellow                                                                                           2005
Intramural Research Training Award recipient                                               2001-2005
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
1.  Muñoz K.E., Meyer-Lindenberg A., Hariri A.R., Mervis C.B., Mattay V.S., Morris C.A., & Berman K.F.  Abnormalities in Neural Processing of Emotional Stimuli in Williams Syndrome Vary According to Social vs. Non-Social Content (under review).
2.  Muñoz K.E., Hyde L.W., & Hariri A.R. (2009).  Imaging genetics. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 48 (4): 356-61.
3.  Fakra E, Hyde LW, Gorka A, Fisher PM, Muñoz KE, Kimak M, Halder I, Ferrell RE, Manuck SB, Hariri AR (2009).  Effects of HTR1A C(-1019)G on amygdala reactivity and trait anxiety. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66 (1): 33-40.
4.  Fisher P.M., Muñoz K.E., & Hariri A.R. (2008).  Identification of neurogenetic pathways of risk for psychopathology.  American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C (Seminars in Medical Genetics) 148C: 147-153.
5.  Garolera M., Coppola, R., Muñoz K.E., Elvevåg B., Carver F.W., Weinberger D.R., & Goldberg T.E.  (2007).  Amygdala activation in affective priming: A Magnetoencephalogram study.  Neuroreport, 18 (14): 1449-53.
6.  Drabant E., Hariri A.R., Meyer-Lindenberg A., Muñoz K.E., Mattay V.S., Kolachana B.S., Egan M.F., & Weinberger D.R.  (2006).  Catechol-O-methyltransferase Val¹⁵⁸Met Genotype and Neural Mechanisms related to Affective Arousal and Regulation.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 63: 1396-1406.
7.  Meyer-Lindenberg A., Hariri A.R., Muñoz K.E., Mervis C., Mattay, V.S., Morris C., & Berman K.F.  (2005).  Neural correlates of genetically abnormal social cognition in Williams syndrome.  Nature Neuroscience, 8 (8): 991-993.
8.  Pezawas L., Meyer-Lindenberg A., Drabant E.M., Verchinski B.A., Muñoz K.E., Kolachana B.S., Egan M.F., Mattay V.S., Hariri A.R., & Weinberger D.R.  (2005).  5-HTTLPR polymorphism impacts anatomy human cingulate-amygdala interactions: a susceptibility gene for depression.  Nature Neuroscience, 8 (6): 828-834.
9.   Hariri A.R., Drabant E.M., Muñoz K.E., Kolachana B.S., Mattay V.S., Egan M.F., & Weinberger D.R.  (2005).  A susceptibility gene for affective disorders and the response of the human amygdala.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 62 (2): 146-152. 
10.  Compton R.J., Fisher L.R., Koenig L.M., McKeown R., & Muñoz K.  (2003). Relationship between coping styles and hemispheric asymmetry.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(5), 1069-1078.