Dr. Carole Bandy’s research covers the areas of threat perception and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as well as hardiness and resilience, which is the ability to either remain unaffected by trauma or to recover from it quickly. She is especially interested in learning more about the correlation of related emotions and underlying brain activity revealed by EEG and eye-tracking. To that end, her leave focused on the research literature associated with the neurobiology of PTSD and frontal lobe asymmetry and emotion. She attended two EEG workshops and wrote two papers, including one on the efficacy of Transcendental Meditation in the relief of PTSD among South African college students.
