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Sarah Woronko

Graduate Student
Research Area: Clinical Science


Spontaneously-generated thoughts, internalizing symptoms, physiology

Sarah Woronko is a doctoral student in the Clinical Science program. Following graduation from Vanderbilt University, Sarah worked as a clinical research coordinator at the Laboratory for Affective and Translational Neuroscience at McLean Hospital for two years. As a graduate student, Sarah is interested in leveraging multi-modal methods (e.g., EEG, behavior) to understand the development and maintenance of internalizing symptoms. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the relations between repetitive negative thinking, spontaneously generated thoughts, and resting state physiology that confer risk for internalizing symptoms. 

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Representative Publications

1. Woronko, S. E., Li, M., Scott Jr, J. N., Kuhn, M., Esfand, S. M., Bogdanov, M., Boyle, B. W., Linton, S. R., Borchers, L. R., Zhukovsky, P., Miller, C., Bolton, P., Li, S., Meisner, R. C., *Lees, T., & *Pizzagalli, D. A. (2025). Alterations in aperiodic neural activity associated with major depressive disorder. Nature Mental Health, 3(10), 1181-1190. doi:10.1038/s44220-025-00494-4 [*Equal contribution].

2. *Lees, T., *Woronko, S. E., Li, M., Scott Jr, J. N., Kuhn, M., Esfand, S. M., Bogdanov, M., Boyle, B. W., Linton, S. R., Borchers, L. R., Zhukovsky, P., Miller, C., Bolton, P., Li, S., Meisner, R. C., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2025). Differences in high-frequency connectivity among large-scale functional networks linked to major depressive disorder and treatment-resistant depression. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 5(6), 100602. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.100602. [*Equal contribution].

3. Woronko, S. E., Cardenas, E. F., Bean, C. A. L, Gupta, R., Humphrey, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Neural reactivity to infant faces and trait mindfulness as prospective predictors of postpartum depressive symptoms. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: 10.3758/s13415-025-01319-8.

4. Bogdanov, M., Scott Jr., J. N., Esfand, S. M., Boyle, B. W., Lees, T., Li, M., Woronko, S. E., Linton, S. R., Miller, C., Li, S., Bolton, P., Meisner, R. C., & Pizzagalli, D. A. (2025). Test-retest reliability and repeatability of behavioral and electrophysiological markers in an Eriksen Flanker Task. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: 10.3758/s13415-025-01336-7.

5. Woronko, S. E., Jessup, S. C., Armstrong, T., Anwyl-Irvine, A. L., Dalmaijer, E. S., & Olatunji, B. O. (2023). A novel probe of attentional bias for threat in specific phobia: Application of the “Mouseview.js” approach. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 96.  doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102700.