Aislinn Sandre, PhD

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Western University. My research focuses on identifying pathways to the development of psychopathology, particularly depression and anxiety, by studying variation in neural processing of affective information. Specifically, I seek to understand how and when disruptions in brain systems that support affective processing emerge and how these systems interact with the environment to increase vulnerability for depression and anxiety across the lifespan. In my work, I primarily use event-related potentials (ERPs) to measure neural processing of affective information in infants, children, adolescents, and adults. Ultimately, the long-term goals of my research are to identify people who are most at risk for developing psychopathology in order to inform more timely and targeted intervention and prevention strategies for these debilitating disorders.