Ashley Knapp, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Ashley Knapp, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor within the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Her research interests involve leveraging emerging technologies to study the vulnerability of anxiety and related psychopathology in adolescents and to develop and evaluate effective prevention programs designed to reduce the incidence of anxiety and related disorders. She was recently awarded a NIMH-funded K01 award focused on digital mental health, with emphasis on harnessing digital tools to extend preventive interventions to underserved youth in community settings. She received her PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Arkansas (2016), where she was awarded a NIMH-funded F31 to develop and evaluate a brief anxiety “preintervention” for at-risk youth. She went on to complete postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth College (2018) and at the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at Northwestern University (2019).
Selected Publications
- Chilenski SM, Pasch KE, Knapp A, Baker E, Boyd RC, Cioffi C, Cooper B, Fagan A, Hill L, Leve LD, Rulison K. The Society for Prevention Research 20 years later: A summary of training needs. Prev Sci. 2020 Oct;21(7):985-1000. doi: 10.1007/s11121-020-01151-1. PMID: 32743792; PMCID: PMC7462903.
- Knapp AA, Feldner M, Allan NP, Schmidt NB, Keough ME, Leen-Feldner EW. Test of an Anxiety Sensitivity Amelioration Program for at-risk youth (ASAP-Y). Behav Res Ther. 2020 Mar;126:103544. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.103544. PMID: 31981802.
- Zhang R, Nicholas J, Knapp AA, Graham AK, Gray E, Kwasny MJ, Reddy M, Mohr DC. Clinically meaningful use of mental health apps and its effects on depression: Mixed methods study. J Med Internet Res. 2019 Dec 20;21(12):e15644. doi: 10.2196/15644. PMID: 31859682; PMCID: PMC6942194.
- Knapp AA, Lee DC, Borodovsky JT, Auty SG, Gabrielli JL, Budney AJ. Emerging trends in cannabis administration among adolescent cannabis users. J Adolesc Health. 2018 Sep 8. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.07.012. PMID:30205931