Investigator, Other (M) Psychiatry, Mass General Research Institute

Member of the Faculty of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

Master's in Psychology (Clinical) Mississippi State University 2019

Bachelor's in Biology University of Arkansas 2017

Doctorate in Psychology (Clinical) Mississippi State University 2023

comorbidity; depression; reward processing

Amanda C. Collins is a Member of the Faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, with a primary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and the Depression Clinical and Research Program. Dr. Collins’ research primarily focuses on reward dysfunction as a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying the etiology and maintenance of psychopathology, including depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. The two areas of her research focus on: (1) the application of advanced statistical methods to predict changes in psychopathology and (2) the development and testing of both in-person and digital interventions. She is particularly interested in bridging these two areas of research by using advanced methods to understand what interventions work best and for whom, with the overall goal of developing more personalized interventions to treat reward dysfunction transdiagnostically. Dr. Collins utilizes a multimodal approach, including self-reports, experimental paradigms, ecological momentary assessments, and passive sensing, to investigate the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of psychopathology. She also has extensive experience with longitudinal data analysis, including multilevel and time-varying vector autoregressive modeling, mixed-effects modeling, network analysis, and machine learning to investigate how reward dysfunction changes over time and influences the course, severity, and treatment of psychopathology. Her work has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop and evaluate digital interventions for co-occurring disorders.