Kirsten Gilbert
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
- Phone: 314-747-0001
- Email: gilbertk@nospam.wustl.edu
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: NIMH T32: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2017
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 2015
- PhD: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2014, 2014
- BA: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 2005, 2005
Major Awards
- NIMH K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, 2017
- Child Intervention, Prevention and Services (CHIPS) Institute Training Consortium, 2017
- NIMH Career Development Institute for Bipolar Disorder, 2015
- Outstanding Clinician Award, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 2014
Research Interests
Dr. Gilbert’s research examines how ‘too much self-control,’ in the form of heightened performance monitoring and ‘overcontrol’ develop in young children. She is interested in elucidating when overcontrol may be adaptive versus when it may contribute to psychopathology (e.g., social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive presentations, anorexia, social functioning deficits) in young children and adolescents. Dr. Gilbert also studies the development of reward processing/positive emotional functioning and the role of parenting and the parent-child relationship in overcontrolled phenotypes in youth. Dr. Gilbert utilizes behavioral, EEG/ERP techniques, and parent-child observational data in her research.
Key Publications
- Gilbert KE, Barclay ME, Tillman R, Barch DM, Luby JL, (2018 Sep). Associations of Observed Performance Monitoring During Preschool With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Anterior Cingulate Cortex Volume Over 12 Years. JAMA Psychiatry. 75(9): 940-948.
Read publication »Associations of Observed Performance Monitoring During Preschool With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Anterior Cingulate Cortex Volume Over 12 Years. - Gilbert K, Barch DM, Luby JL, (2020 Feb). The Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC): Behavioral and Neural Validation of a Parent-Report of Child Overcontrol in Early Childhood. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 51(1): 27-38.
Read publication »The Overcontrol in Youth Checklist (OCYC): Behavioral and Neural Validation of a Parent-Report of Child Overcontrol in Early Childhood. - Gilbert K, Perino MT, Myers MJ, Sylvester CM, (2020 May). Overcontrol and neural response to errors in pediatric anxiety disorders. J Anxiety Disord. 72: 102224.
Read publication »Overcontrol and neural response to errors in pediatric anxiety disorders. - Gilbert K, Hall K, Codd RT, (2020 January). Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Social Signaling, Transdiagnostic Utility and Current Evidence. Psychol Res Behav Manag. 13: 19-28.
Read publication »Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Social Signaling, Transdiagnostic Utility and Current Evidence. - Gilbert KE, Whalen DJ, Tillman R, Barch DM, Luby JL, Jackson JJ, (2019 12). Observed Personality in Preschool: Associations with Current and Longitudinal Symptoms. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 47(12): 1875-1888.
Read publication »Observed Personality in Preschool: Associations with Current and Longitudinal Symptoms. - Gilbert KE, Luking KR, Pagliaccio D, Luby JL, Barch DM, (2016 Nov). Dampening Positive Affect and Neural Reward Responding in Healthy Children: Implications for Affective Inflexibility. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 1-11.
Read publication »Dampening Positive Affect and Neural Reward Responding in Healthy Children: Implications for Affective Inflexibility.
Funded Research Projects
NIMH K23: Heightened Performance Monitoring and Overcontrol: Neural Markers and Caregiving Processes in Developmental Risk Trajectories
Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program:
Targeting the Transdiagnostic Mechanism of Performance Monitoring and Overcontrol in Adolescence: Adaption and Feasibility