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Alexander Williams, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders

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ORCID : 0000-0002-9684-7542

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I am a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University where I work with Dr. Todd Farchione. In 2024, I earned my PhD from Northwestern University where I worked with Dr. Rick Zinbarg. My research explores the development of internalizing problems, such as anxiety and depression, the potential of mindfulness strategies to prevent their onset, and approaches to treating them in a cost-effective and scalable way. I am also interested in ways that hierarchical models of psychopathology (e.g., the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology) can be used to improve inference in clinical research.

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Willenbockel HF, Williams AT, Lucas A, Reynolds MB, Joulia E, Ruchhoeft ML, Dowerg B, Cabrales P, Metallo CM, Cordes T. In vivo itaconate tracing reveals degradation pathway and turnover kinetics. Nat Metab. 2025 Sep; 7(9):1781-1790. PMID: 40931213; PMCID: PMC12460153; DOI: 10.1038/s42255-025-01363-1;

Williams TF, Williams AL, Cowan HR, Walker EF, Cannon TD, Bearden CE, Keshavan M, Cornblatt BA, Addington J, Woods SW, Perkins DO, Mathalon DH, Cadenhead KS, Stone WS, Mittal VA. The hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology in clinical high risk for psychosis: Validation and extension. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2024 Apr; 133(3):235-244. PMID: 38546628; PMCID: PMC11273326; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000893;

He Y, Zinbarg RE, Goldsmith JZ, Williams AL, Pinsof WM. Sensitivity to change of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC) intersession scales. Psychother Res. 2024 Apr; 34(4):461-474. PMID: 37695995; DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2023.2244150;

Jani VP, Williams AT, Carvalho L, Cabrales P. Changes in oxygen delivery during experimental models of cerebral malaria. Exp Parasitol. 2023 Nov; 254:108608. PMID: 37673369

Zinbarg RE, Schmidt M, Feinstein B, Williams AL, Murillo A, Echiverri-Cohen AM, Enders C, Craske M, Nusslock R. Personality predicts pre-COVID-19 to COVID-19 trajectories of transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2023 Aug; 132(6):645-656. PMID: 37261781; PMCID: PMC10524577; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000803;

Zinbarg RE, Williams AL, Kramer AM, Schmidt MR. In R. F. Krueger & P. H. Blaney (Eds.),The Oxford textbook of psychopathology. Generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobia. Oxford University Press. 2023; 147-180.

Muller CR, Williams AT, Walser C, Eaker AM, Sandoval JL, Cuddington CT, Wolfe SR, Palmer AF, Cabrales P. Safety and efficacy of human polymerized hemoglobin on guinea pig resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock. Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 28; 12(1):20480. PMID: 36443351

Yarrington JS, Vinograd M, Williams AL, Wolitzky-Taylor KB, Zinbarg RE, Mineka S, Waters AM, Craske MG. Fear-potentiated startle predicts longitudinal change in transdiagnostic symptom dimensions of anxiety and depression. J Affect Disord. 2022 Aug 15; 311:399-406. PMID: 35597470; DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.080;

Jani VP, Munoz CJ, Govender K, Williams AT, Cabrales P. Implications of microvascular dysfunction and nitric oxide mediated inflammation in severe COVID-19 infection. Am J Med Sci. 2022 Sep; 364(3):251-256. PMID: 35469768

Zinbarg RE, Williams AL, Mineka S. A Current Learning Theory Approach to the Etiology and Course of Anxiety and Related Disorders. Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 2022 May 09; 18:233-258. PMID: 35134320; DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-072220-021010;

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Belcher DA, Williams AT, Munoz CJ, Muller CR, Walser C, Palmer AF, Cabrales P. Attenuating ischemia-reperfusion injury with polymerized albumin. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2022 Feb 01; 132(2):489-496. PMID: 34913740

Williams AL, Conway CC. Correlation between laboratory-based vicarious threat learning and emotional disorder symptom dimensions. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2022 Mar; 74:101696. PMID: 34678632; DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2021.101696;

Jani VP, Jani VP, Munoz CJ, Govender K, Williams AT, Cabrales P. Application of negative tissue interstitial pressure improves functional capillary density after hemorrhagic shock in the absence of volume resuscitation. Physiol Rep. 2021 Mar; 9(5):e14783. PMID: 33661575

Williams AL, Craske MG, Mineka S, Zinbarg RE. Neuroticism and the longitudinal trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in older adolescents. J Abnorm Psychol. 2021 Feb; 130(2):126-140. PMID: 33315412; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000638;

Williams AL, Craske MG, Mineka S, Zinbarg RE. Reciprocal effects of personality and general distress: Neuroticism vulnerability is stronger than scarring. J Abnorm Psychol. 2021 Jan; 130(1):34-46. PMID: 33271037; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000635;

Lucas A, Belcher DA, Munoz C, Williams AT, Palmer AF, Cabrales P. Polymerized human hemoglobin increases the effectiveness of cisplatin-based chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer. Oncotarget. 2020 Oct 20; 11(42):3770-3781. PMID: 33144918

Williams AT, Muller CR, Govender K, Navati MS, Friedman AJ, Friedman JM, Cabrales P. Control of systemic inflammation through early nitric oxide supplementation with nitric oxide releasing nanoparticles. Free Radic Biol Med. 2020 Dec; 161:15-22. PMID: 33011274

Williams AT, Lucas A, Muller CR, Munoz C, Bolden-Rush C, Palmer AF, Cabrales P. Resuscitation From Hemorrhagic Shock With Fresh and Stored Blood and Polymerized Hemoglobin. Shock. 2020 Oct; 54(4):464-473. PMID: 32097242

Mineka S, Williams AL, Wolitzky-Taylor K, Vrshek-Schallhorn S, Craske MG, Hammen C, Zinbarg RE. Five-year prospective neuroticism-stress effects on major depressive episodes: Primarily additive effects of the general neuroticism factor and stress. J Abnorm Psychol. 2020 Aug; 129(6):646-657. PMID: 32478531; PMCID: PMC10988785; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000530;

Vinograd M, Williams A, Sun M, Bobova L, Wolitzky-Taylor KB, Vrshek-Schallhorn S, Mineka S, Zinbarg RE, Craske MG. Neuroticism and interpretive bias as risk factors for anxiety and depression. Clin Psychol Sci. 2020 Jul; 8(4):641-656. PMID: 32923175; PMCID: PMC7485931; DOI: 10.1177/2167702620906145;

Williams AL, Conway CC. Empathy does not amplify vicarious threat learning. Behav Res Ther. 2020 Apr; 127:103577. PMID: 32145454; DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2020.103577;

Jani VP, Lucas A, Jani VP, Munoz C, Williams AT, Ortiz D, Yalcin O, Cabrales P. Numerical Model for the Determination of Erythrocyte Mechanical Properties and Wall Shear Stress in vivo From Intravital Microscopy. Front Physiol. 2019; 10:1562. PMID: 32038273

He Y, Hardy NR, Zinbarg RE, Goldsmith JZ, Kramer A, Williams AL, Pinsof WM. The Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC) Initial Scales: Are they sensitive to change? Psychol Assess. 2019 Sep; 31(9):1107-1117. PMID: 31219281; DOI: 10.1037/pas0000729;

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 23 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2020

Bar chart showing 23 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2020

Year	Publications
2019	1
2020	9
2021	3
2022	4
2023	4
2024	1
2025	1

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