Dr. Kalina Michalska's research combines neuroimaging (fMRI), autonomic measures, and behavior observations to understand the neural systems underlying emotional processes engaged by the distress of others. She is interested in how those processes mature across development, how individual differences are expressed, and how these emotional processes relate to disruptive behavior problems and anxiety in childhood and beyond.

Key Research Areas:

Developmental neuroscience, fMRI, development of empathy, fear learning and memory, conduct disorder, pediatric anxiety