Research suggests that treating women with depression while they are pregnant may have positive effects on their infants’ brain development and emotional regulation.
Benjamin L. Hankin
Dr. Benjamin Hankin is the Fred and Ruby Kanfer Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. He completed his undergraduate at Northwestern University and his Ph.D in Clinical Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research takes a developmental psychopathological approach to understand risk factors and mechanisms in depression and related internalizing emotional disorders, especially in children and adolescents.
