Lyn Yvonne Abramson (born February 7, 1950) is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was born in Benson, Minnesota. Lyn Yvonne Abramson (born February 7, 1950) is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was born in Benson, Minnesota.

My research interests include the cognitive, psychosocial, biological, and developmental processes in the onset, course, and intervention of unipolar depression and bipolar disorder. Much of my work on unipolar depression has focused on developing and testing cognitive vulnerability – stress models such as the Hopelessness Theory, and we have begun to integrate these models with recent research on the psychoneuroimmunology of depression. Our work on bipolar disorder derives from the Behavioral Approach System (BAS) perspective and emphasizes that individuals at risk for bipolar disorder are particularly likely to develop hypomanic/manic symptoms in the face of events activating approach behavior. Finally, we study dysregulation of social and circadian rhythm in bipolar disorder and are integrating this perspective with the BAS theory.