Nicole Short (Psychology) was recently awarded the Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award from the Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA) at its annual conference in Chicago. The Donald F. Klein award is awarded annually to an early career investigator for the best original research paper on neurobiology, psychopharmacology, psychosocial treatments, or experimental psychopathology of anxiety disorders and depression.

This award is named for Donald F. Klein, MD (1928-2019), who revolutionized psychiatric thinking through his discovery in the early 1960s that imipramine, a recently developed psychotropic medication, was effective in blocking panic attacks. Dr. Short's award-winning research paper used ecological momentary assessment and dynamic structural equation modeling to identify trajectories of and associations between nightmares and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in the early aftermath of sexual assault. It was led by UNLV clinical psychology doctoral student Ashby Boland.