Tina Gupta
Biography
Dr. Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and directs the Changes in Adolescent Risk and Emotions (CARE) Lab. Her research examines how emotional and reward processes develop, and how they become disrupted, in youth at risk for severe mental illness (SMI), including those at clinical high risk for psychosis. Adolescence is a period of rapid change across the brain, body, and behavior, when young people are figuring out what they care about as they navigate increasingly complex relationships and social worlds. This makes it a time of great potential for growth, but also a window when early signs of SMI, such as persistent loss of interest, lasting sadness, or unusual perceptual experiences, may first emerge. Dr. Gupta's work follows how young people's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors unfold both across development and day to day, in the context of their relationships, early life experiences, and everyday adolescent behaviors. She also studies the neurobiological changes of adolescence, including brain development and pubertal maturation, and how they shape risk for negative symptoms such as anhedonia. Her work also aims to identify the protective factors that help at-risk youth stay well and to translate findings into mechanism-based targets for early identification, prevention, and intervention. Her lab uses a multi-method, multi-level approach that combines clinical interviews, behavioral tasks, facial expression coding, ecological momentary assessment and daily diaries, eye-tracking, neuroimaging, hormonal and immune markers, and advanced computational and statistical modeling. Ultimately, her goal is to understand how, why, and for whom vulnerability emerges during adolescence, so that young people have the best chance to thrive as they grow into who they are.
Dr. Gupta is not accepting a doctoral student for Fall 2027.
Selected Publications (see full listing at Google Scholar):
Konstas, K., & Gupta, T. (2026). Blunted affect in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 293, 32-38.
Gupta, T., Seah, T.H.S., Eckstrand, K.L., Rengasamy, M., Horter, C., Silk, J.S., Jones, N.P., Ryan, N.D., Phillips, M.L., Haas, G.L., Nance, M., Lindenmuth, M., Forbes, E.E (2024). Two-year trajectories of anhedonia in adolescents at transdiagnostic risk for severe mental illness: Association with clinical symptoms and brain-symptom links. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 133(8), 618.
Gupta, T., Eckstrand, K. L., Lenniger, C. J., Haas, G. L., Silk, J. S., Ryan, N. D., ... & Forbes, E. E. (2024). Anhedonia in adolescents at transdiagnostic familial risk for severe mental illness: Clustering by symptoms and mechanisms of association with behavior. Journal of Affective Disorders, 347, 249-261.
Gupta, T., Eckstrand, K. L., & Forbes, E. E. (2024). Annual Research Review: Puberty and the development of anhedonia–considering childhood adversity and inflammation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65(4), 459-480.
Gupta, T., Antezana, L., Porter, C., Mayanil, T., Bylsma, L. M., Maslar, M., & Horton, L. E. (2023). Skills program for awareness, connectedness, and empowerment: A conceptual framework of a skills group for individuals with a psychosis-risk syndrome. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1083368.
Gupta, T., Osborne, K. J., Nadig, A., Haase, C. M., & Mittal, V. A. (2023). Alterations in facial expressions in individuals at risk for psychosis: a facial electromyography approach using emotionally evocative film clips. Psychological Medicine, 53(12), 5829-5838.
Gupta, T., Cowan, H. R., Strauss, G. P., Walker, E. F., & Mittal, V. A. (2021). Deconstructing negative symptoms in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis: evidence for volitional and diminished emotionality subgroups that predict clinical presentation and functional outcome. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47(1), 54-63.
Gupta, T., Haase, C. M., Strauss, G. P., Cohen, A. S., & Mittal, V. A. (2019). Alterations in facial expressivity in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(4), 341.
Gupta, T., & Mittal, V. A. (2019). Advances in clinical staging, early intervention, and the prevention of psychosis. F1000Research, 8.