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Jessica McAleer

Graduate Student

Psychiatry

About

Jessica is a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. She joined the CoNECt Lab under Dr. Olusola Ajilore in 2020 to research mood disorders, specifically depression and anxiety. Jessica received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2019 with a minor in Biological Sciences. Her current research focuses on the effects of transcranial stimulation on emotional processing and regulation in patients with anxiety

Selected Publications

McAleer, J., Stewart, L., Shepard, R., Sheena, M., Kabir, S., Swank, I., Stange, J. P., Leow, A., Klumpp, H., & Ajilore, O. (2023). Differential effects of transcranial current type on heart rate variability during emotion regulation in internalizing psychopathologies. Journal of affective disorders, 327, 7–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.102

McAleer, J., Stewart, L., Shepard, R., Sheena, M., Stange, J. P., Leow, A., Klumpp, H., & Ajilore, O. (2023). Neuromodulatory effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on emotion regulation in internalizing psychopathologies. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, 145, 62–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2022.10.015