The presenter describes how an infant/preschool psychiatrist evolved as a researcher in collaboration with neuroscientists to investigate the neural correlates of emotion development and risk for psychopathology. The integration of phenomenological and neural data in early childhood and balancing these domains in a multi-disciplinary research team will be discussed. To design studies with high potential for clinical translation, we have integrated of neural data into clinical trials. New ventures integrating human and animal models towards this end will also be described.
