Principal Investigators //
- Corey Hill Allen, PhD >
- Nathaniel Anderson, PhD >
- Felicha Candelaria-Cook, PhD >
- Arvind Caprihan, PhD >
- Bethany Edwards, Ph.D. >
- Aparna Gullapalli, PhD >
- Carla Harenski, PhD >
- Jon Houck, Ph.D. >
- Kent A. Kiehl, PhD >
- J. Michael Maurer, PhD >
- Andrew R. Mayer, PhD >
- John Phillips, MD >
- Sephira Ryman, PhD, MS >
- Julia M. Stephen, PhD >
- Andrei Vakhtin, Ph.D. >
- Claire E. Wilcox, MD >
Bethany Edwards, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Dr. Edwards is a research scientist and licensed clinical psychologist. She has more than 15 years of experience conducting behavioral and neuroscientific research in forensic populations. Her work largely focuses on examining psychosocial (e.g., substance use, maladaptive personality traits) and neural characteristics that heighten risk for externalizing and antisocial behavior. She utilizes a multimodal approach, integrating across various levels of analysis to examine their utility in understanding and predicting behavior. As such, her work utilizes the Mind Research Network’s mobile MRI system to collect clinical and neuroimaging data from incarcerated populations in New Mexico. Dr. Edwards strives to conduct meaningful clinical research that will aid in informing and improving management and treatment strategies implemented within the criminal legal system.
Selected Publications //
- Joint ICA of ERP and fMRI during error-monitoring. >
- A review of psychopathy and Cluster B personality traits and their neural correlates in female offenders. >
- Psychopathy and substance use in relation to prostitution and pimping among women offenders. >
- Psychopathy, borderline personality disorder, and substance use in incarcerated females. >
- Do psychopathic traits vary with age among women? A cross-sectional investigation. >
- Reduced structural integrity of the uncinate fasciculus in incarcerated adult women scoring high on psychopathy. >
- Traumatic brain injury and psychopathic traits in justice-involved adult women.
- Psychometric properties of the Trauma Checklist 2.0 and its predictive utility of felony re-offending among high-risk juvenile offenders. >
- The utility of expert-rated and self-report assessments of youth psychopathic traits for predicting felony recidivism among formerly incarcerated youth. >
- Psychopathy and substance use predict recidivism in women: A seven-year prospective study. >
- Aberrant resting-state functional connectivity in incarcerated women with elevated psychopathic traits >
- Psychopathic traits and altered resting-state functional connectivity in incarcerated adolescent girls >
- Dysfunctional error-related processing in female psychopathy. >
- Emotional Intelligence in Incarcerated Female Offenders With Psychopathic Traits >
- Neural correlates of moral and non-moral emotion in female psychopathy >
