Clinical Affective Neuroscience Laboratory

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people

Faculty

Dr. Gregory Strauss

Dr. Strauss is the Franklin Professor of Psychology  at the University of Georgia. The Franklin Professorship is an honorific title bestowed  by the Dean of the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences to to a full professor for research accomplishments. Dr. Strauss directs the CAN Lab and Georgia Psychiatric Risk Evaluation Program (G-PREP). His research primarily examines the phenomenology, etiology, assessment, and treatment of negative symptoms in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis.   

Google Scholar Profile    Email: gstrauss@uga.edu  

*Note: Dr. Strauss WILL be recruiting a graduate student to apply during the fall 2025 cycle/fall 2026 start date*

Employees

Lauren Arnold

Zachary Carter

Zachary Carter

Lauren is a full-time research coordinator working on our fMRI studies examining mechanisms of negative symptoms in schizophrenia. She is originally from Georgia. Her interests involve using neuroscience methods (EEG, fMRI) to examine cognitive and emotional processes involved with the etiology of schizophrenia.

Zachary Carter

Zachary Carter

Zachary Carter

Zach is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the ProNET  grant evaluating biomarkers and clinical factors associated with  psychosis risk. He graduated from UGA with a B.S. in psychology. His  primary research interests involve the relationship between the gut  microbiome and schizophrenia as well as race and psychological health

Ada Hutcheson

Zachary Carter

Lauren Jennings

Ada  is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the CAPR grant. She  graduated from UGA with a B.S. in psychology and minor in social work.  Her primary research interests involve the interactions between trauma,  cognitive function, and the onset of psychosis

Lauren Jennings

Justin Barolette

Lauren Jennings

Lauren is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the ProNET grant. She  graduated with a B.S. in Brain and Behavioral Science from Purdue  University and a M.P.S. in Clinical Psychological  Science from the University of Maryland. Her primary  research interests involve the interaction between negative symptoms and cognitive impairments in psychosis

Zhixin Zhang

Justin Barolette

Justin Barolette

Zhixin is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the ProNET  grant. She is originally from China and graduated from Vanderbilt  University with a B.S. in Cognitive Studies and Neuroscience. Her  research interests involve biological and social influences on the  etiology of psychosis.

Justin Barolette

Justin Barolette

Justin Barolette

Justin is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the CAPR study.  He is originally from Florida and graduated from UCF with his B.S. in  Psychology. His primary research interest involves developmental psychopathology.

Graduate Students

Luyu Zhang

Anna Knippenberg

Sydney James

Luyu is a 5th year graduate student in Clinical Psychology. He is originally from China. His research interests involve digital neuropsychology. For his dissertation, he is focusing on the interaction between environmental exposures and state fluctuations in cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.

Sydney James

Anna Knippenberg

Sydney James

Sydney is a 5th year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student. She is originally from North Carolina. Her research interests involve cultural influences on the symptoms of schizophrenia and psychosis risk.  Her dissertation examines how cultural context influences state changes in negative symptoms.

Anna Knippenberg

Anna Knippenberg

Anna Knippenberg

Anna is a 4th year graduate student in Clinical Psychology. She is originally from Texas. Her research interests involve identifying mechanisms and treatments for anhedonia in schizophrenia using neuroscience methods. She is exploring a model of emotional memory impairment using fMRI and resting state functional connectivity circuits predicting the 5 domains of negative symptoms.

Lab Alumni (PHDs and POSTDOCS)

Dr. Katiah Llerena

Dr. Katiah Llerena

Dr. Katiah Llerena

Katiah completed her PhD in 2013. Her dissertation examined emotional maintenance in schizophrenia using ERPs. She is currently faculty at UCSF.

Dr. Sara Sullivan

Dr. Katiah Llerena

Dr. Katiah Llerena

Sara completed her PhD in 2016. Her dissertation focused on the effects of emotion regulation on subsequent cognitive control in schizophrenia using ERPs. She is currently a staff psychologist at the Bedford VA in MA.


Dr. Lindsay Morra

Dr. Katiah Llerena

Dr. Lindsay Morra

Lindsay completed her PhD in 2016. Her dissertation examined the association between metabolic dysfunction and cognition in schizophrenia. She is currently a staff psychologist in the psychiatry department at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Kayla Whearty

Dr. Katherine Frost Visser

Dr. Lindsay Morra

Kayla completed her PhD in 2017. Her dissertation examined the role of emotional memory impairment in anhedonia in schizophrenia using eye tracking. She  is currently a staff psychologist at NYU and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Hofstra University.

Dr. Katherine Frost Visser

Dr. Katherine Frost Visser

Dr. Katherine Frost Visser

Katie completed her Ph.D. in 2020. Her dissertation examined mechanisms of emotion regulation in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis using EMA. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University and Staff Psychologist at Butler Hospital.

Dr. Ivan Ruiz

Dr. Katherine Frost Visser

Dr. Katherine Frost Visser

Ivan completed his PhD in 2022. His dissertation examined whether effort fails to become a secondary reinforcer in schizophrenia. He is currently a postdoc at UCLA.

Dr. Michael Spilka

Dr. Lisa Bartolomeo

Dr. Lisa Bartolomeo

Michael was a postdoctoral fellow in the CAN lab from 2021-2022. He worked on fMRI projects on the R61 cognitive training grant and the CAPR clinical high-risk for psychosis study. He is currently working as a data scientist in private industry where he works with digital phenotyping technology.

Dr. Lisa Bartolomeo

Dr. Lisa Bartolomeo

Dr. Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa defended her dissertation in 2023.  Her study examined the positivity offset theory of anhedonia in people diagnosed with schizophrenia and youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis. She completed her clinical psychology internship at UCLA and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA where she is studying schizophrenia.

Dr. Ian Raugh

Dr. Lisa Bartolomeo

Dr. Lauren Luther

Ian defended his dissertation in 2023. He examined state and trait mindfulness in people diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder. He completed his clinical internship at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital in Michigan and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University where he is studying emotion regulation in serious mental illness.

Dr. Lauren Luther

Dr. Lauren Luther

Dr. Lauren Luther

Dr. Luther was a postdoc and then research scientist from 2021-2024.  Her research takes an experimental therapeutics approach to treating negative symptoms in  schizophrenia. She is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB).  Those interested in applying to our lab are encouraged to apply to work with her too.

Lab Alumni (POSTBACC Coordinators)

Dr. Lauren Catalano

Lauren was our very first lab manager from 2010-2011 when the lab was at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed her PhD at University of Maryland College Park with Dr. Jack Blanchard and a post doctoral fellow at UCLA and the Los Angeles VA working with Dr. Michael Green. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and the Los Angeles VA.

Dr. Adam Culbreth

Adam was our lab manager from 2011-2013 when the lab was at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his PhD in clinical psychology with Dr. Deanna Barch at Washington University St Louis and a postdoctoral fellowship at Maryland working with Dr. Jim Gold. He is currently an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Dr. Katie Ossenfort

Katie was our lab manager from 2014-2015 when the lab was at Binghamton University. She completed her PhD in cognitive neuroscience with David Isaacowitz at Northeastern University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

Izie Dickinson

Izie was our lab manager from 2015-2016 when the lab was at Binghamton University. She is currently a registered psychiatric nurse.

Dr. Ian Raugh

Ian was our initial CAN lab manager when the lab moved to UGA from 2017-2019. He completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at UGA working with Dr. Strauss in the CAN Lab. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University.

Cristina Gonzalez

Cristina was an employee and lab manager from 2017-2020. She is currently a PhD student in IO Psychology working with Alicia Grandey at Penn State University.

Kelsey Macdonald

Kelsey was a research coordinator on our emotion regulation R21 grant in participants at clinical high-risk for psychosis from 2020-2021. She is currently a PhD student in developmental psychology at Florida International University.

Luyu Zhang

Luyu was a full-time paid research coordinator working on our R21 effort as a secondary reinforcer grant from NIMH from 2020-2021. He is currently a grad student in Clinical Psychology at UGA.

Sydney James

Sydney was our lab manager from 2019-2021. She is currently a grad student in Clinical Psychology at UGA.

Anna Knippenberg

Anna was a research coordinator and lab manager from 2020-2022. She is currently a grad student in Clinical Psychology at UGA working with Dr. Strauss in the CAN Lab.

Jason Levin

Jason was a research coordinator and lab manager from 2020-2022. He is currently a medical student at Augusta University (Medical College of Georgia).

Alysia Berglund

Alysia was a research coordinator and lab manager from 2020-2023. She is currently a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of Illinois where she works with Dr. Tom Kwapil.

Sierra Jarvis

Sierra was a research coordinator from 2021-2023. She is currently a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas working with Dr. Dan Allen.

Delaney Collins

Laney was a research coordinator from 2021-2023. She is currently a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas working with Dr. Dan Allen.

Gifty Ayawvi

Gifty was a research coordinator from 2021-2023. She is currently a PhD student in clinical psychology at UCLA working with Dr. Lauren Ng.

Ashley Zollicoffer

Ashley was a research coordinator from 2021-2024. She is currently a PhD student in clinical psychology at LSU working with Dr. Alex Cohen.

collaborators

University of Georgia

Northwestern University

University of Georgia

 Larry Sweet

Dean Sabatinelli

Emory University

Northwestern University

University of Georgia

Elaine Walker

David Goldsmith

Michael Treadway

Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Maryland Psychiatric Research Center

Vijay Mittal

Maryland Psychiatric Research Center

Maryland Psychiatric Research Center

Maryland Psychiatric Research Center

Jim Gold

Bob Buchanan

Will Carpenter

Temple University

Maryland Psychiatric Research Center

University of California Irvine

Lauren Ellman

University of California Irvine

Maryland Psychiatric Research Center

University of California Irvine

Jason Schiffman

Yale University

Louisiana State University

Augusta University

Phil Corlett

Al Powers

Scott Woods

Augusta University

Louisiana State University

Augusta University

Brian Miller

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

Alex Cohen

University of Arkansas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Louisiana State University

Brian Kirkpatrick

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dan Allen

Weill Cornell Medicine

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Tony Ahmed

Binghamton University

University of Alabama, Birmingham

University of Oklahoma

Hiroki Sayama

Mark Lenzenweger

University of Oklahoma

University of Alabama, Birmingham

University of Oklahoma

Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani

University of Alabama, Birmingham

University of Alabama, Birmingham

University of Alabama, Birmingham

Lauren Luther

Adrienne Lahti

UCSD/San Diego VA

University of California, Berkeley

University of Alabama, Birmingham

Eric Granholm

SDSU

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Emily Kappenman

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Amitai Shenhav

Hong Kong University

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wing Chung Chang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Raymond Chan

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