Ashley Huggins

Assistant Professor, Clinical
Director, Cognition, Affect, and Traumatic Stress (CATS) Lab
Headshot - Ashley Huggins - Faculty Member

Psychology 426

aahuggins@arizona.edu
Pronouns:
She, Her, Hers

Research Interests: 

  • Neurobiological bases of PTSD and anxiety-related psychopathology

  • Fear learning and memory

  • Functional and structural MRI

  • Impact of socioenvironmental context (e.g., community violence) on brain health and function

  • Intersections between cognitive and emotional processes

Updated: 09/12/23 

Selected publications:

  • Huggins, A. A., Weis, C. N., Parisi, E. A., Bennett, K. P., Miskovic, V., & Larson, C. L. (2021). Neural substrates of human fear generalization: A 7T-fMRI investigation. NeuroImage, 239, 118308.
  • Webb, E. K., Huggins, A. A., Belleau, E. L., Taubitz, L. E., Hanson, J. L., deRoon-Cassini, T. A., & Larson, C. L. (2020). Acute posttrauma resting-state functional connectivity of periaqueductal gray prospectively predicts posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5(9), 891-900.
  • Huggins, A. A., McTeague, L. M., Davis, M. M., Bustos, N., Crum, K. I., Polcyn, R., ... & Danielson, C. K. (2022). Neighborhood disadvantage associated with blunted amygdala reactivity to predictable and unpredictable threat in a community sample of youth. Biological psychiatry global open science, 2(3), 242-252.

Courses Taught:

  • PSY 504A - Human Brain-Behavior Relationships (2023)
  • PSY 528 - Cognitive Neuroscience (2024)

*Year listed indicates when this individual last taught the specified course.

Updated: 11/13/23

Degree(s)

  • B.A., University of Southern California
  • M.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Clinical Internship in Neuropsychlogy, Charleston Consortium (Medical University of South Carolina and Charleston VA Medical Center)