Biography
Arin Connell is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training at Case Western Reserve University. His research interests focus broadly on understanding the etiology of depression and anxiety disorders across childhood and adolescence, and on translating such developmental models into prevention and intervention programs for at-risk youth. Connell adopts a multi-method approach to research related to depression that includes attempts to integrate psychosocial and neurobiological risk and protective factors.
Much of his work incorporates both observations of children and families and measures of psychophysiological and neurobiological functioning. At present, Connell's lab is set up to examine both autonomic nervous system functioning in parents and children (e.g. heart-rate/heart-rate variability, respiration, skin conductance, and startle-reflexes), as well as central nervous system processes via EEG and Event Related Potential recordings. He hope that by examining multiple levels of functioning, studies will yield a richer and more detailed understanding of emotional processes related to the development and treatment of depression and anxiety in youth.