Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Area: Clinical, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Contact Information

Email: pjdeldin@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 2255 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-647-9863

Research and Teaching Interests

Our lab examines emotional information processing in mood disorders, schizophrenia and normal populations utilizing neurophysiological measures.  The goal of my research work is to understand the relationship between the brain, emotion, cognition and behavior in psychopathology.  My primary research program involves a series of recently completed and planned emotional information processing studies designed to distinguish memory, attention, and expectancy dysfunction in major depressives, dysthymics and controls.  ERP, fMRI and behavioral studies provide complementary portraits of cognitive and emotional processing associated with depression. 

Representative Publications

• Phillips, L. K., Voglmaier, M. M., & Deldin, P. J. (2007). A preliminary study of emotion processing interference in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Schizophrenia Research, 94, 207-214.
• Chiu, P. & Deldin, P. J. (2007). Neural evidence for enhanced error-detection in major depressive disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 608-616.
• Zarrinpar, A., Deldin, P. J., Kosslyn, S. (2006). Effects of Depression on Sensory/Motor versus Central Processing in Visual Mental Imagery. Cognition and Emotion, 20 (6) 737-758.
• Deveney, C. M. & Deldin, P. J. (2006). Cognitive Flexibility for Emotional Information in Major Depressive Disorder and non-psychiatric controls, Emotion, 6 (3), 429-437.
• Deldin, P.J., Phillips, L., & Thomas, R. (2006). A preliminary study of Obstructive Sleep Disordered Breathing in Major Depressive Disorder, Sleep Medicine, 7 (2), 131-139.

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