Professional Bio

Dr. Burkhouse’s program of research broadly focuses on identifying behavioral-brain risk phenotypes and preventive interventions for youth depressive disorders. Much of this work focuses on utilizing multiple levels of analysis (i.e., behavioral, ecological momentary assessment, EEG, fMRI) to identify cognitive-affective and reward processing styles involved in the transmission of depression from parents to their offspring. A second focus of her research involves applying this mechanism-based work to prevention efforts for youth at high risk for internalizing disorders. The ultimate goal of this work is to improve the identification and prevention of internalizing disorders in children and adolescents.

Selected Publications (* denotes mentee):

Burkhouse, K. L., Dao, A., Argiros, A., *Granros, M., Cardenas, E., Dickey, L., *Feurer, C., Hill, K., Pegg, S., Venanzi, L., Tabachnik, A., & Kujawa, A. (in press). Targeting positive valence systems function to prevent anhedonia and depression in children: An RDoC-informed approach to prevention. Behaviour Research and Therapy.

*Feurer, C., *Granros, M., *Calentino, A. E., *Suor, J. H., & Burkhouse, K. L. (in press). Risk for youth anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The interactive impact of financial stress and prepandemic electrocortical reactivity to negative self‐referential stimuli. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(3), e22250.

Burkhouse, K. L. & Kujawa. A. (2023). Annual research review: Emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression diagnoses: A systematic review of neural and physiological research. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 64, 583-607.

*Suor, J. H., *Calentino, A. E., *Granros, M., & Burkhouse, K. L. (2022). Maternal error-related negativity relations with offspring error-related negativity and negative parenting styles: A novel model of internalizing psychopathology risk. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7, 435-442.

*Suor, J. H., *Granros, M., *Calentino, A. E., Phan, K. L., & Burkhouse, K. L. (2021). The interplay of childhood maltreatment and maternal depression in relation to the reward positivity in youth. Development and Psychopathology, 1-11.

^*Feurer, C., *Granros, M., *Calentino, A.E., *Suor, J.H., *Patel, K., & Burkhouse, K.L. (2021). The interplay of stress and electrocortical reactivity to reward in the prospective prediction of depression symptoms during COVID-19. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 140, 124-131.

Burkhouse, K. L., Stange, J. P., Jacobs, R. H., Bhaumik, R., Bessette, K. L., Peters, A. T., Fitzgerald, K., Monk, C., Welsh, R. C., Phan, K. L., & Langenecker, S. A. (2019). Developmental related changes in resting-state functional networks among individuals with and without internalizing psychopathologies. Depression and Anxiety, 36, 141-152.

Burkhouse, K. L., Gorka, S. M., Klumpp, H., Kennedy, A. E., Francis, J., Ajilore, O., Craske, M. G., Langenecker, S., Shankman, S. A., Hajcak, G., & Phan, K. L. (2018). Neural responsiveness to reward as an index of depressive symptom change following cognitive-behavioral therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 79(4).

Burkhouse, K. L., Jacobs, R. H., Peters, A. T., Ajilore, O., Watkins, E. R., & Langenecker, S. A. (2017). Neural correlates of rumination in adolescents with remitted major depressive disorder and healthy controls. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 17(2), 394-405.

Burkhouse, K. L., Owens, M., Feurer, C., Sosoo, E., Kudinova, A., & Gibb, B. E. (2017). Increased neural and pupillary reactivity to emotional faces in adolescents with current and remitted major depressive disorder. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(5), 783-792.