Dr. Wendy D’Andrea is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at New School for Social Research in New York.

Dr. D’Andrea’s research focuses on the differences between acute trauma, such as an auto accident or single-incident assault, and chronic trauma, such as sustained physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Her lab investigates how information processes, especially attention and cognition, are impacted by prolonged trauma exposure and re-shaped through therapeutic interventions.

She is also particularly interested in the physiological signature of chronic trauma, and the ways in which it differs from the signature of acute trauma. Dr. D’Andrea’s lab uses measures of autonomic reactivity such as heart rate, skin conductance, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), to investigate these differences.

For more information, please visit the Trauma and Affective Psychophysiology Lab's website.