Stacey M. Schaefer

Ph.D.

Leader, MIDUS Neuroscience Project

she/her/hers

Co-Leader, MIDUS Admin Core

Biography

B.S. in Psychology and Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience), University of Pennsylvania

Co-Leader of the MIDUS Admin Core

PI of the MIDUS Affective Neuroscience Project, Emotion & Wellbeing study, and Emotion in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease study

Institute on Aging Office:

2245C Medical Sciences Center

1300 University Ave

Madison, WI 53706 USA

West Campus Office:

MIDUS Neuro, Keystone House

901 University Bay Dr

Madison, WI 53705 USA

My research focus is on the emotional determinants of health and wellbeing and has a goal of gaining a better understanding of how emotional, social, and biological processes interact to impact wellbeing and health outcomes (mental, physical, cognitive, and brain health) across the lifespan. Both psychophysiological (e.g. facial EMG) and neuroimaging (e.g. fMRI) measures are used to measure individual differences in the time course of emotional responses in the body and the brain to learn how these affective chronometry measures are related to indices of health, wellbeing, and brain aging, and identify the psychosocial, behavioral, and lifestyle factors that moderate those relationships.

Learn more about Dr. Schaefer’s research, lab, and training philosophy here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofc7wLuO8no&t=6s

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=30uAMg4AAAAJ&hl=en