overview Dr. Laplante is a licensed psychologist and clinical director of the UF Fear and Anxiety Disorders Clinic.
selected publications academic article Defensive Mobilization in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Profile of Fear Or Anxious Misery?. Psychophysiology. 49:S60. 2012-09-01 Aversive Imagery in Panic Disorder: Agoraphobia Severity, Comorbidity, and Defensive Physiology. Biological Psychiatry. 70:415-424. 2011-09-01 Continuous Electrocortical Dynamics in Face Perception: Is Preferential Processing of Social Cues Specific To Social Phobia?. Psychophysiology. 48:S49. 2011-09-01 Defensive Mobilization Amidst Pervasive Distress: Response Profiles in Gad. Psychophysiology. 48:S70. 2011-09-01 Defensive Response Heterogeneity and the Anxiety Disorder Spectrum: From Focal Fear To Broad Distress. Psychophysiology. 48:S9. 2011-09-01 Aversive Imagery in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Trauma Recurrence, Comorbidity, and Physiological Reactivity. Biological Psychiatry. 67:346-356. 2010-02-01 Emotional Imagery in Specific Phobia: Fear Focus, Intensity and Comorbidity. Psychophysiology. 47:S82. 2010-01-01 Situational Avoidance, Interoceptive Sensitivity and the Psychophysiology of Panic Disorder. Psychophysiology. 47:S82. 2010-01-01 Hyper- and Hypo-Reactivity in Ptsd: Trauma Recurrence and Negative Affectivity. Psychophysiology. 46:S38-S39. 2009-09-01 The Image of Fear: Anxiety Diagnosis, Negative Affectivity, and the Reflex Physiology of Defense. Psychophysiology. 46:S8. 2009-09-01 The Time Course of Attention To Facial Expressions Distinguishes Healthy Controls, Socially Anxious Individuals, and Social Phobia Patients. Psychophysiology. 46:S39. 2009-09-01 Fearful Imagery in Social Phobia: Generalization, Comorbidity, and Physiological Reactivity. Biological Psychiatry. 65:374-382. 2009-03-01 Defensive Reactivity in Social Phobia: Influence of Fear Generalization and Chronicity. Psychophysiology. 45:S78. 2008-01-01 Response Mobilization in Panic Disorder and the Role of Agoraphobia. Psychophysiology. 45:S78. 2008-01-01
investigator on Anxiety, Comorbidity, Negative Affect, and Fear Circuit Activation awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2017 From Fear to Anxious Misery: Developing a Defense Circuit Dimensional Classifier awarded by National Institute of Mental Health 2012 - 2016
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education and training Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Ottawa , Department of Psychology 2003 B.Sc. in Honors in Psychology, Concordia University Montreal , Department of Psychology 1996
awards and honors 1996-1997 Recipient of the University of Ottawa Admission Scholarship from the School of Graduate Studies and Research, upon the recommendation of the School of Psychology,University of Ottawa 1993-1996 Dean's List of the Faculty of Arts and Science, based on the academic performance from Concordia University 1997-1999 Recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) from the Ministry of Education and Training of Ontario, Government of Ontario 1998-2001 Recipient of the Fonds FCAR- Doctoral Research Scholarship from the Department of Research, Science and Technology, Government of Quebec 1997-2001 Recipient of the University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa 1993-1994 Recipient of The Lucille Irvine Memorial Scholarship, selected on the basis of the academic performance in the Department of Psychology, upon the recommendation of the Department of Psychology, Concordia University 1993-1994 Recipient of The Charles J. Brown Memorial Scholarship, selected on the basis of the academic performance across faculties, upon the recommendation of the Loyola Foundation, Concordia University 2004 Recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Canadian Psychological Association