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Author Biographies 493of the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin, as well as the effects of early experienceon subsequent social bonding.Clancy Blair, Ph.D., M.PH., is Associate Professor in the Department of HumanDevelopment and Family Studies at Penn State University. His work focuses onthe ways in which neurobiology and experience interact to shape the developmentof self-regulation in early childhood.C. Sue Carter, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the BrainBody Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is best known for herwork on prairie voles, which led to a novel understanding of the neurobiology ofmonogamy and social bonding. Her research program continues to describe newroles for neuropeptide hormones, including oxytocin, vasopressin, and corticotropin-releasinghormone in social behavior and emotional regulation.Kiki Chang, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciencesat the Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Child Psychiatry. Heis Director of the Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Clinic, where he specializes in pediatricpsychopharmacology and treatment of depression and bipolar disorder inchildren and adolescents. He is currently conducting phenomenologic, biologic,pharmacologic, and genetic studies of bipolar disorder in adults and children withthe aim of detecting prodromal bipolar disorder in children who might then betreated to prevent the development of the full disorder.Dennis S. Charney, M.D., is Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs for MountSinai School of Medicine, and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences of theMount Sinai Medical Center. From 2000 to 2004, he was Chief of the Mood andAnxiety Disorder Research Program and the Experimental Therapeutics and PathophysiologyBranch at the National Institute of Mental Health. His research focuseson the greater fundamental understanding of neural circuits, neurochemistry, andfunctional neuroanatomy of the regulation of mood and anxiety and the psychobiologicalmechanisms of human resilience to stress.Nicole Cooper, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry atthe Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Chief Psychologist of the Mood andAnxiety Disorders Program. She specializes in the study and treatment of posttraumaticstress disorder and other mood and anxiety disorders. She has justlaunched two studies investigating trauma and resilience in medical students andin adolescents.Shivali H. Dhruv, M.A., is a graduate student in the Emory Neuroscience Programinterested in clinical research on the etiology of major mental disorders. She