Naomi Sadeh

Naomi Sadeh

Principal Investigator, National Center for PTSD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry at BUSM
Naomi  Sadeh

Naomi Sadeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at BUSM and a principal investigator in the Behavioral Science Division of the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004 and her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. She completed a clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist.

Broadly, her research interests lie in understanding how individual differences in biology, personality, and cognition-emotion interact with stress exposure to confer risk for emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and self-destructive behavior across the lifespan. Her research has focused on identifying risk and protective factors for self-directed and other-directed violence (e.g., suicide attempts, non-suicidal self-injury, violent crime, aggression), involvement in the criminal justice system, and personality disorders associated with chronic dysregulation and destructive behavior (e.g., psychopathy, antisocial & borderline personality disorders). Her more recent research focuses on identifying biomarkers of PTSD, examining neurobiological signatures of impulse control problems in PTSD, and investigating how motivational and emotional processes relate to reckless and self-destructive behavior in trauma-exposed groups.

Contact Information

National Center for PTSD
VA Boston Healthcare System
150 South Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02130
p: (857)-364-5924

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