Assistant Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Phone: (412) 624-4553 Fax: (412) 624-4428 Email: kroeck@pitt.edu Website: http://www.psychology.pitt.edu/people/faculty/faculty.php?fc_id=82

Ph.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda

Research Interests

Research interests include mood disorders, circadian biology, behavioral genetics, and Seasonal Affective Disorder. Although past research has involved cognitive-behavioral interventions for depression, the focus of the lab in the future will be behavior genetics. I am currently investigating sequence variations in the gene for the photopigment melanopsin and related genes involved in non-visual light input to the brain as possible explanations for the relationship between season, environmental light levels, and depression as well as psychopathology in general.  Research activities include psychopathological assessment, psychophysiology, and molecular genetics. The lab is currently accepting graduate students in Clinical and/or Biological and Health Psychology.

Recent Publications

• Roecklein KA, Rohan KJ, Duncan WC, Rollag MD, Rosenthal NE, Lipsky RH, Provencio I: A missense variant (P10L) of the melanopsin (OPN4) gene is associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder. J Affect Disord: in press.
• Rohan KJ, Roecklein KA, Lacy TA, Vacek PM: Winter depression recurrence one year after cognitive-behavioral therapy, light therapy, or combination treatment. Behav Ther: in press.
• Rohan KJ & Roecklein KA: Seasonal affective disorder. In R. E. Ingram (Ed.), International encyclopedia of depression. New York, NY: Springer Publishing, in press.
• Rohan KJ, Roecklein KA, Tierney Lindsey K, Johnson LG, Lippy RD, Lacy TM, Barton FB: A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy, light therapy, and their combination for seasonal affective disorder. J Consult Clin Psychol 75: 489-500, 2007.
• Rohan KJ, Tierney Lindsey K, Roecklein KA, Lacy TJ: Cognitive-behavioral therapy, light therapy, and their combination in treating seasonal affective disorder. J Affect Disord 80: 273-283, 2004.