University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jack B. Nitschke

Assistant Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology
Office:
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Room T229
Waisman Center
1500 Highland Ave.
Madison, WI 53705
Phone: 608-262-8600
Mail: jnitschke@wisc.edu

-on faculty for Clinical Internship Program in Department of Psychiatry
-on faculty for Clinical Area in Department of Psychology
Ph.D. 1998, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Previous Course Taught by Dr. Nitschke: The Biology of Psychopathology and Intervention

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My research career centers on the neuroscience of human emotion and affective disorders. One of my research goals is to determine the neurobiological substrates of heterogeneity in anxiety and depression. My studies use clinical and nonclinical samples and employ an array of methodologies including fMRI, EEG, eye-blink startle, neuropsychological tasks, cortisol, and autonomic psychophysiology. My students and I have developed laboratory-based models of anticipatory and reactivity processes elicited by emotional stimuli. Building on this work, we are currently examining the placebo effect as a function of expectancy. Another major interest of mine is the neural circuitry of positive emotion, with our fMRI research in this area employing novel paradigms for inducing potent positive emotions.