Profile
My 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. My lab investigates how information processes, especially attention and cognition, are impacted by prolonged trauma exposure and re-shaped through therapeutic interventions. I am also particularly interested in the physiological signature of chronic trauma, and the ways in which it differs from the signature of acute trauma. We use 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听.
Degrees Held
PhD 2008, University of Michigan
Recent Publications
Rabellino, D., D'Andrea, W., Siegle, G., Frewen, P.A., Minshew, R., Densmore, M., Neufeld, R.W., Th茅berge, J., McKinnon, M.C., Lanius, R.A. (2017). Neural correlates of heart rate variability in PTSD during sub- and supraliminal processing of trauma-related cues.听Human Brain Mapping, 38(10), 4898-4907.
D'Andrea, Wendy & Graham-Berman, S (2016). Social Context and Violence Exposure as Predictors of Internalizing Symptoms in Mothers and Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence.听Journal of Family Violence,听8(11), 1-11.
Siegle, Greg J; D'Andrea, W, Jones, N., Hallquist, M., Stepp, S., Fortunato, A., Morse, J., & Pilkonis, P. (2015) Prolonged physiological reactivity and loss: Association of pupillary reactivity with negative thinking and feelings.听International Journal of Psychophysiology听98(2), 310-320.
Freed, Steven; D'Andrea, W. (2015). Autonomic arousal and emotion in victims of interpersonal violence: shame proneness but not anxiety predicts vagal tone Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 16(4), 367-383.
Minshew, Reese; D'Andrea, W. (2015). Implicit and explicit memory in survivors of chronic interpersonal violence.听Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice, and policy. 7(1) 67 2015.
Seng, J., D鈥橝ndrea, W. & Ford, J. (2014). Complex trauma symptomotology in a sample of pregnant women.听Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, 6(1), 41-49.
Doukas, Ashley, D'Andrea, W., Doran, J., & Pole, N. (2014). 听Psychophysiological Predictors of Working Alliance Among Treatment-Seeking Women With Complex Trauma Exposure. Journal of traumatic stress 27(6) 672-679.
D鈥橝ndrea, W., Pole, N., +DePierro, J., +Freed, S & Wallace, B.D. (2013). Heterogeneity of defensive responses after exposure to trauma: Blunted autonomic reactivity in response to startling sounds. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 90(1), 80-89.
D鈥橝ndrea, W., Bergholz, L., +Fortunato, A. & Spinazzola, J. (2013). Play to the Whistle: A pilot investigation of a sports-based intervention for traumatized girls in residential treatment. Journal of Family Violence, 28(7), 739-749.
DePierro, J., D鈥橝ndrea, W. & Pole, N. (2013). Attentional biases in female survivors of chronic interpersonal violence: Relationship to PTSD symptoms and physiology. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 4.
D鈥橝ndrea, W. & Pole, N. (2012). A naturalistic study of the relation of psychotherapy process to changes in symptoms, information processing and physiological activity in complex trauma. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, 4(4), 438-446.
D鈥橝ndrea, W., Chiu, P., King, B., & Deldin, P. (2012). Linguistic predictors of PTSD symptoms following the 9/11 Attacks. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26(2), 316-323.
D鈥橝ndrea, W., Ford, J., Stolbach, B., Spinazzola, J. & van der Kolk, B.A. (2012). Understanding interpersonal trauma in children: What we鈥檝e learned since the DSM-IV, and why a developmental trauma disorder diagnosis is needed in future DSMs. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 82(2), 187-200.
D鈥橝ndrea, W., Sharma, R., Zelchowski, A. & Spinazzola, J. (2011).听 Physical health problems after single trauma exposure: When stress takes root in the body. American Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, 17(6), 378-392.
van der Kolk, B.A. & D鈥橝ndrea, W. Towards a Developmental Trauma Disorder Diagnosis for childhood interpersonal trauma. In R. Lanius, E.Vermetten & C. Pain (Eds).听听(London: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
D鈥橝ndrea, W., Chiu, P., King, B., & Deldin, P. (2010). Linguistic Predictors of PTSD Symptoms Following the 9/11 Attacks.听Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26(2), 316-23.
Peterson, C., Park, N., Pole, N. D鈥橝ndrea, W. & Seligman, M.E.P. (2008). Strengths of character and posttraumatic growth. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 21(2), 214-217.
Pole, N., Cumberbatch, E., Taylor, W., Metzler, T., Marmar, C. & Neylan, T. (2005). Comparisons between high and low peritraumatic dissociators in cardiovascular and emotional activity while remembering trauma. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 6(4), 51-67.
D鈥橝ndrea, W., Pole, N. & Odera, L. (2005). Trauma, alexithymia and PTSD symptoms: Does gender matter?听Depression and Anxiety, 22(4), 242.