Jennifer U. Blackford, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Jenni.Blackford@Vanderbilt.edu
http://www.blackfordlab.com
Dr. Jennifer Blackford has been a member of the faculty since 1999. In 2006, she began her independent research career and is a part of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Program. She uses fMRI and genetics methods to understand how temperament confers risk for anxiety and depression.
Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (Developmental Psychology)
M.S., Vanderbilt University (Developmental Psychology)
B.S., Florida State University
Research interests
Neural and genetic substrates of temperament; temperamental risk for psychiatric disease; fmri; amygdala; serotonin; simulation studies of novel statistical methods
Representative publications
1. Blackford, JU. (in press). Propensity Scores: A method for matching on multiple confounding variables in Down syndrome research. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
2. Blackford, JU, Salomon RM, Waller, NG (2009). Detecting change in biological rhythms: A multivariate permutation test approach to Fourier-transformed data. Chronobiology International, 26(2), 258-281.
3. Hahn, MK, Blackford, JU, Haman, K, Mazei-Robison, M, English, B, Prasad, H, Steele, A, Hazelwood, L, Fentress, H, Myers, R, Blakely, RD, Sanders-Bush, E., Shelton, R. (2008). Multivariate permutation analysis associates multiple polymorphisms with subphenotypes of major depression.. Genes, Brain, and Behavior, 7(4), 487-495.
4. Blackford, JU (2007) Statistical Issues in Development Epidemiology and Developmental Disabilities research: Confounding Variables, Small sample size, and Numerous Outcome variables. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 33, 93-120.
5. Rosenbloom, ST, Crow, AN, Blackford, JU, Johnson, KB. (2007). Factors influencing perceptions of clinical documentation tools. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 40, 106-113.
