Johannah Bashford-Largo Ph.D., M.Ed., PLMHP, is a Research Scientist at the Child and Family Translational Research Center. Dr. Bashford-Largo received her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Springfield College where her training specialized in working with adults with intellectual and developmental disorders. After some time as a clinician, she decided to pursue a career in research utilizing her clinical background.
Dr. Bashford-Largo went on to become the Research Mental Health Clinician for the Center for Neurobehavioral Research at Boys Town National Research Hospital under Dr. James Blair and Dr. Karina Blair. Her research used functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging to explore neurological components of psychopathology including depressive and anxiety symptomatology.
She then transitioned to working under Dr. Sahil Bajaj in the Multimodal Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Institute of Human Neuroscience. During this time she received her Ph.D. training at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior (CB3) under Dr. Maital Neta at the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. During her time training, she continued to use structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging as well as machine learning methods to research different forms of adolescent anxiety disorders. She continues to adjunct lecture for the Department of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Dr. Bashford-Largo's research utilizes neuroimaging techniques to investigate the complex interplay between brain function and psychopathology.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NE 2020-2024Ph.D., Psychology - Neuroscience & Behavior ProgramDissertation: “Exploring the interplay of anxiety, cognitive processes, and neural substrates within transdiagnostic samples.”
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NE 2020-2023M.A., Psychology - Neuroscience & Behavior ProgramThesis: “Exploring valence biases within internalizing and externalizing symptomatology.”
SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE, SPRINGFIELD, MA 2016-2018M.Ed., Clinical Mental Health Counseling
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, NE 2009-2013B.A., Psychology
Bashford-Largo, J., Nakua, H., Dominguez, A., Hatch, M., Blair, K.S., Dobbertin, M., Blair, R.J.R., Bajaj, S. 2023. A shared multivariate brain-behavior relationship in a transdiagnostic sample of adolescents. Biological Psychiatry: CNNI. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2023.07.015
Dobbertin, M., Aloi, J., Bajaj, S., Bashford-Largo, J., Mathur, A., Zhang, R., Ringle, J.L., Carollo, E., Schwartz, A., Elowsky, J., Tyler, P., Blair, R.J.R., Blair, K. 2023. Neural Correlates of Automatic Emotion Regulation and their association with Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents During the First 90- Days of Residential Care. Translational Psychiatry. 10.1038/s41398-023-02723-9
Bajaj, S., Blair, K., Tyler, P., Dobbertin, M., Ringle, J., Zhang, R., Bashford-Largo, J., Mathur, A., Schwartz, A., Elowsky, J., Blair, R.J.R. 2023. Machine learning based identification of structural brain alterations underlying suicide risk in adolescents. Discover Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44192-023-00033-6
Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Mathur, A., Elowsky, J., Schwartz, A., Dobbertin, M., Blair, R.J.R, Blair, K., Bajaj, S., 2022. Reduced cortical volume in default mode network in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder. Depression and Anxiety. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.23252
Bashford‐Largo, J., Aloi, J., Lukoff, J., Johnson, K., White, S.F., Dobbertin, M., Blair, R.J., Blair, K.S., 2020. Reduced top‐down attentional control in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder. Brain Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1994
Aloi, J., Blair, K.S., Crum, K.I., Bashford-Largo, J., Zhang, R., Lukoff, J., Carollo, E., White, S.F., Hwang, S., Filbey, F.M., Dobbertin, M., Blair, R.J.R., 2020. Alcohol use disorder, but not cannabis use disorder, symptomatology in adolescents is associated with reduced differential responsiveness to reward versus punishment feedback during instrumental learning. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 5, 610–618. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2020.02.003