Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Neurosurgery
Division of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Texas Medical School/Houston
Houston, Texas

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Psychology, University of Florida, 1996
  Dissertation: Children's Cognitive and Physiological Responses to Affective Pictures
  Chairman: Peter J. Lang, Co-Chairman: W. Keith Berg.



• M.A., Psychology, University of West Florida, 1992
  Thesis: Effects of Stress on Cognitive Monitoring and Monitoring Instruction
  Chairman: Samuel R. Mathews, III.



• B.A., Psychology, University of West Florida, 1989.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• 7/01 to present - Project Director: Adolescent Social Context and Healthy Development: Psychosocial Pathways and Biological Mechanisms, Texas Program for Society and Health, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Supervisor: Alvin R. Tarlov



• 7/01 to present - Faculty Associate, University of Texas - Houston School of Public Health, Supervisor: Steven Kelder



• 7/01 to present - Adjunct Asst. Professor, Rice University, Supervisor: Robert Dipboye



• 6/00 to 6/01 - Instructor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Supervisor: Sheldon White



• 9/98 to 1/99 - Adjunct Asst. Professor, Brandies University, Supervisor: Joseph Cunningham



• 1/97 to 6/00 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Supervisor: Jerome Kagan



• 5/96 to 12/96 - Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Supervisor: Peter Lang

Teaching Experience:

• Adjunct Asst. Professor: Spring, 2002; Developmental Psychology, Rice University.



• Lecturer: Spring 2001; Developmental Neuropsychology, Harvard University.



• Lecturer: Fall, 2000; Motivation and Emotional Development and Psychophysiological Methods in Developmental Psychology, Harvard University.



• Adjunct Asst. Professor: Fall, 1998, Introductory Statistics, Brandeis University.



• Instructor: Fall, 1995, Developmental Psychology, University of Florida.



• Teaching Assistant: Spring, 1990, Developmental Research Methods, University of Florida. W. Keith Berg, Instructor.



• Teaching Assistant: Fall, 1989, Developmental Psychology, University of Florida; Patricia H. Miller, Instructor.



• Teaching Assistant: Summer, 1989, Developmental Psychology, University of West Florida; Patricia Kowalski, Instructor.



• Teaching Assistant: Spring, 1989, Developmental Psychology, University of West Florida; Samuel R. Mathews, III, Instructor.



• Teaching Assistant: Fall, 1988, Cognition and Learning, University of West Florida; Samuel R. Mathews, III, Instructor.

GRANT AWARDS

• NIMH Grant K01 MH069821, Principal Investigator (Pending), Psychobiological Consequences of Low Social Status.



• AHA Beginning Grant-in-Aid # 0365089Y, Principal Investigator (Pending), Neuropsychological mechanisms of disparities in cardiovascular disease: An investigation of Mexican American adolescents.



• NIMH Grant F32 MH11403, Principal Investigator (1997 - 1999), Children’s temperament and emotional reactivity.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

Kagan, J., Snidman, N. C., McManis, M. H., Woodward. S. A., & Hardway, C. (2002). One measure, one meaning: Multiple measures, clearer meaning. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 463 - 475.

McManis, M. H., Kagan, J., Snidman, N., Woodward, S. A., Lewis, M., & Kahn, V. (2002). EEG asymmetry and behavior in children. Developmental Psychobiology, 41, 169 - 177.

Woodward, S. A., McManis, M. H., Kagan, J., Deldin, P, Snidman, N. C., Lewis, M., & Kahn, V. (2001). Infant Temperament and the Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response in Later Childhood, Developmental Psychology, 37, 533 - 538.

Kagan, J., Snidman, N., McManis, M., & Woodward, S. (2001). Temperamental contributions to the affect family of anxiety. The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24, 677 - 688.

McManis, M. H., Bradley, M. M., Berg, W. K., Cuthbert, B. N., & Lang, P. J. (2001).

Emotional reactivity in children: Verbal, physiological, and behavioral responses to affective pictures. Psychophysiology, 38, 1 - 10.

Cuthbert, B. N., Schupp, H. T., Bradley, M. M., McManis, M. H., & Lang, P. J. (1998). Probing Affective pictures: Attended startle and tone probes. Psychophysiology, 35, 344-347.

Submitted for publication:

Sorenson, D., McManis, M. H., & Kagan, J. (Submitted). What are they thinking? Cognitive and emotional modulation of the startle reflex.

Woodward, S. A., McManis, M. H., Kagan, J., Deldin, P., Snidman, N. C. (Submitted). The relation between infant temperament to pre-adolescent ERP response in a visual oddball paradigm.

Woodward, S. A., McManis, M. H., Kagan, J., Deldin, P., Snidman, N. C. (Submitted). ERP response in children to two types of novelty in a visual oddball paradigm.

Recent Conference Presentations:

McManis, M. H., Snidman, N. C., Woodward, S. A., Lewis, M. (1999). The startle probe in the study of behavioral inhibition. Paper presented at the 1999 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

Woodward, S. A., McManis, M. H., Snidman, N. C., & Lewis, M. (1999). Event related potentials to ecologically valid and invalid novel pictures in a visual oddball paradigm presented to ten-year-old inhibited and uninhibited children. Paper presented at the 1999 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

McManis, M. H., Bradley, M. M., Cuthbert, B. N., & Lang, P. J. (1997). Kids like to watch: Psych ophysiological responses to emotional pictures. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC.

Published Abstracts:

McManis, M. H., Kagan, J., Snidman, N. C. (2001). Contributions to the understanding of startle modulation in children: Gender, temperament and fear. Paper presented at the 41 st annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, Canada.

McManis, M. H., Kagan, J., Snidman, N., Woodward, S. A., Lewis, M. & Shissler, T. (2000). Children looking at pictures: Individual differences in startle modulation. Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, CA.

Woodward, S. A., McManis, M. H., Kagan, J., Deldin, P. J., Snidman, N., Lewis, M., & Shissler, T. (2000). ERPs from a visual oddball paradigm presented to 11-year­old children of two temperamental types. Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, San Diego, CA.

McManis, M. H., Snidman, N., & Kagan, J. (1999). Temperamental influences on affective modulation of the startle reflex in children. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Granada, Spain.

McManis, M. H., Kagan, J., Lewis, M., & Snidman, N. (1999). Asymmetric EEG activity and temperament in children. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Granada, Spain.

Woodward, S. A., McManis, M. H., Snidman, N., Deldin, P. J., Lewis, M., Kahn, V., & Kagan, J. (1999). Relation between four-month infant reactivity classification and brainstem auditory evoked potentials at ten years. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Granada, Spain.

Sorensen, D. A., McManis, M. H., & Kagan, J. (1999). What are they thinking? Cognitive and emotional modulation of the startle reflex. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Granada, Spain.

Woodward, S. A., McManis, M. H., Lewis, M., Fox, M. A., & Kagan, J. (1998). Event­related potentials to ecologically valid and invalid novel pictures in a visual oddball paradigm. Psychophysiology, 35 (suppl.), S89. Poster presented at the 38" annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Denver, CO.

McManis, M. H., Cuthbert, B. N., Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J. (1997). Sugar and spice versus snails and puppy dog tails: Gender and temperament in children's emotional responding. Psychophysiology, 34 (suppl.), S63. Poster presented at the 37 `h annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, North Falmouth, MA.

Schupp, H., Cuthbert, B. N., Bradley, M. M., McManis, M. H., Hillman, C. Cacciopo, J. & Lang, P. J. (1997). Quick pics: Emotional pictures and cortical ERPs. Psychophysiology, 34 (suppl.), S84. Poster presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, North Falmouth, MA.

Cuthbert, B. N., Schupp, H., Bradley, M. M., McManis, M. H., & Lang, P. J. (1996). Affective picture viewing: Task and stimulus effects of startle P3 and blink. Psychophysiology, 33 (suppl.), S32. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, Canada.

McManis, M. H., Bradley, M. M., Cuthbert, B. N., Schupp, H., & Lang, P. J. (1996). Kids cortical ERPs: Emotion and attention in picture processing. Psychophysiology, 33 (suppl.), S61. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, Canada.

Cuthbert, B. N., Schupp, H., McManis, M. H., Hillman, C., Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J. (1995). Cortical slow waves: Emotional perception and processing. Psychophysiology, 32 (suppl.), S26 [Abstract]. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, Canada.

McManis, M. H., Bradley, M. M., Cuthbert, B. N., & Lang, P. J. (1995). Kids have feeling too: Children's physiological responses to affective pictures. Psychophysiology, 32 (suppl.), S53 [Abstract]. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, Canada.

Schupp, H., Cuthbert, B. N., Hillman, C., McManis, M. H., Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J. (1995). Paying attention to emotion: Startle P3 and blink. Psychophysiology, 32 (suppl.), S67 [Abstract]. Poster presented at the 35" Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, Canada.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Society for Psychophysiological Research Society for Research in Child Development



• American Psychological Association

 




Division of Clinical Neurosciences
Department of Neurosurgery and
The Vivian L. Smith Center for Neurologic Research
University of Texas Houston Health Science Center
1333 Moursund Street Ste H114
Houston, Texas 77030