Chloe Boyle is a biobehavioral research scientist with interdisciplinary training in health psychology, clinical psychology, and psychoneuroimmunology.  Her research aims to characterize psychobiological mechanisms underlying risk and resilience to onset and recurrence of depressive disorders. She is particularly interested in how inflammatory signaling can induce dysregulation in the reward system to cause the symptom of anhedonia, or loss of interest or pleasure. Her work has examined whether elevated inflammation alters specific dimensions of reward processing (e.g., motivation vs. pleasure) at multiple levels of analysis (e.g., subjective, behavioral, or neural reward dysregulation.)

She has also studied different risk factors for vulnerability to inflammation-induced reward dysregulation, including menopausal status, sex, age, and anxiety. The aim for this work is to facilitate identification of vulnerable individuals prior to onset of depression, and to inform the development of more precise and targeted interventions for depression treatment.

A complete list of publications can be found at:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E8rs840AAAAJ&hl=en