Jessica Tharaud is a 2nd year PhD student in the Clinical Science Program.  Jessica is a current pre-doctoral fellow in the Behavioral-Biomedical Interface Program, funded by a T32 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.   She graduated with a degree in Psychology and Spanish from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. There, she examined constructions of emotion in narratives from the Harvard Study of Adult Development. After graduation, Jessica taught English in Madrid, Spain on a Fulbright scholarship and worked at Rush University Medical Center studying outcomes of PTSD treatment. Her research interests include the relationship between transdiagnostic factors such as emotion regulation and the development of comorbid ADHD and internalizing disorders.  Jessica's first-year project research is applying a network perspective to understand emotion regulation as transdiagnostic link between ADHD and depression symptoms within the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) cohort.