Robyn McQuaid
Robyn McQuaid is a doctoral student in the Department of Neuroscience at Carleton University. She currently holds a CIHR doctoral award to study how genetic factors interact with our social environment to influence well-being. Her primary research interests include early-life stress, oxytocin, prosocial behaviors and depression. Her work has shown that individuals who carry the more prosocial/socially sensitive oxytocin gene variant may thrive in a positive environment but, this same gene variant may encourage susceptibility in a negative environment.