About The Author:
Hilary Weingarden, M.A. is completing her pre-doctoral internship in clinical psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Hilary attended Tufts University for her bachelor’s degree and is in her final year of the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at George Mason University, where she works with Dr. Keith Renshaw. Hilary’s clinical and research interests are broadly focused on cognitive and emotional risk factors for poor psychosocial outcomes in individuals with obsessive compulsive related disorders (OCRDs). She is particularly interested in the roles of shame and other non-anxiety emotions (e.g., disgust, guilt) in OCRDs.
Carla Nasca, Ph.D., is a post-doctoral fellow of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in the laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at the Rockefeller University, New York. Dr. Nasca received her B.A. in Molecular Biology and her M.S. in Electrophysiology from the University of Palermo in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Pharmacology from the University Sapienza in Rome, Italy, before moving to The Rockefeller University under the mentorship of Dr. Bruce McEwen.