Kylie Falcione's research and teaching examine compulsive media use, including gaming disorder and problematic media use, and its effects on brain function and mental health among adolescents and young adults.
Kylie Falcione's research focuses on understanding how and when media use becomes problematic. She investigates this question through an innovative mix of methods, including brain imaging, community-driven research, mixed-method survey studies, computer vision, longitudinal analyses, and computational approaches with big data. Her work has advanced the field by identifying key drivers of gaming disorder, developing clinical cut-off scores for the Problematic Media Use Measure, and uncovering brain mechanisms linked to the comorbidity between gaming disorder and mental health challenges. Kylie's research has been published in leading outlets such as JAMA Network Open, NeuroImage, and The Handbook of Mental Health Communication. She is currently on the academic job market.
M.A. (2023), University of California Santa Barbara, Communication
B.S. (2019), University of Alabama Birmingham, Psychology
B.A. (2019), University of Alabama Birmingham, Communication