Abigail P. Lott,
PhD

Doctor's Bio

Abigail P. Lott, PhD, is an Associate Professor and board-certified psychologist serving patients with a wide range of psychological symptoms. Lott is Co-Director and Director of Treatment Research and Education of the Grady Trauma Project, a team focused on examining risk and resiliency factors for PTSD and other trauma-related disorders in civilian traumatized populations.

Her research focuses broadly on understanding the long-term impact of interpersonal trauma exposure (e.g. childhood maltreatment, domestic violence) and how emotion dysregulation serves as a pathway to the development and maintenance of trauma-related psychiatric outcomes, like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety.

Lott also focuses specifically on factors influencing intergenerational trauma-related risk and is working to identify modifiable treatment targets to address risk in mothers in pregnancy and postpartum periods. She incorporates clinical, behavioral, neural, physiological, and other biological measurement in her research to assist in better identifying clear mechanisms that may be targeted in treatment and improve psychiatric outcomes among traumatized individuals.