Dr. Deborah L. Mangold received her B.S. in Psychology at The Johns Hopkins University, M.S. in Clinical Psychology at The Loyola College in Maryland and Ph.D. in Biological Psychology at Howard University. Dr. Mangold’s doctoral dissertation focused on an examination of the effects of the opioid antagonist naloxone on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis in non-dependent individuals with a family history of alcoholism. Her doctoral thesis was completed under the direction of Dr. Gary Wand, in his laboratory at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Following the completion of her doctoral dissertation, Dr Mangold completed post-doctoral training in Neuroendocrinology and Human Genetics at the Brain Research Institute, The University of California, Los Angeles, in the laboratories of Dr. Anna Taylor and Dr. Ernest Noble. Dr. Mangold joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at UTSA in 2003 and is currently a member of the American Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Southwestern Psychological Society.
Dr. Mangold’s program of research focuses on the extent to which the HPA axis may mediate the relationship between stress (i.e., childhood trauma and acculturative stress) and greater risk for psychiatric disorders, alterations in immune function and health/ well-being.