Rachel K Gerstein, M.A.

Email: rgerstein@temple.edu

Bio: Rachel is currently in her fifth year of graduate studies at Temple University. She received her M.A. from Temple University in 2006 and her B.A. from the

University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Rachel's current research involves cognitive style in bipolar disorder and major depression, the Behavioral Activation System (BAS) and the course of bipolar disorder, and suicidality. Rachel currently works with Dr. Lauren Alloy.

Representative presentations and/or publications:

Alloy, L.B., Abramson, L.Y., Walshaw, P.D., Cogswell, A., Smith, J.M., Neeren, A.M., Hughes, M.E., Iacoviello, B.M., Gerstein, R.K, Keyser, J., Urosevic, S., &

Nusslock, R. (2006). Behavioral Approach System (BAS) sensitivity and bipolar spectrum disorders: A retrospective and concurrent behavioral high-risk design. Motivation and Emotion, 30, 143-155.

Alloy, L.B., Abramson, L.Y., Walshaw, P.D., Keyser, J., & Gerstein, R.K. (2006).  A cognitive vulnerability – stress perspective on bipolar spectrum disorders in a normative adolescent brain, cognitive, and emotional development context.  Development and Psychopathology , 18, 1055-1103.

Goldberg, J.F., Gerstein, R.K., Wenze, S.J., Welker, T.M., Beck, A.T. (2008).  Dysfunctional attitudes and cognitive schemas in bipolar manic and unipolar depressed outpatients: Implications for cognitively based psychotherapeutics.  The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 196(3), 207-210.