Clinical Affective Neuroscience Laboratory

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People

Faculty

Dr. Gregory Strauss

Dr. Gregory Strauss

Dr. Gregory Strauss

Dr. Strauss is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Georgia. He is the director of 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 not be recruiting a graduate student to apply during the fall 2023 cycle/fall 2024 start date*

Dr. Lauren Luther

Dr. Gregory Strauss

Dr. Gregory Strauss

Dr.Luther is junior faculty in the psychology department and the CAN Lab. Her research takes an experimental therapeutics approach to treating negative symptoms in adults diagnosed with schizophrenia. She is currently focusing on identifying novel cognitive and neural mechanisms of avolition that can be augmented using mobile health interventions that incorporate cognitive and behavioral treatment approaches.
Google Scholar Profile    Email:  lauren.luther@uga.edu

*Note: Dr. Luther will not be recruiting a graduate student to apply during the fall 2023 cycle/fall 2024 start date*

Employees

Alysia Berglund

Ashley Zollicoffer

Ashley Zollicoffer

Alysia is our lab manager. She also coordinates the GAINS and CAPR R01 clinical high-risk studies and the R61 cognitive training fMRI grant.  She is originally from Hawaii. Her primary research interests are in emotion processing and cognition in schizophrenia and psychosis risk syndromes.

Ashley Zollicoffer

Ashley Zollicoffer

Ashley Zollicoffer

Ashley is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the GAINS R01 clinical high-risk study. She is originally from California and graduated from Florida A&M  University with a master’s degree in Community Psychology. Her research  interests involve cultural and environmental influences on psychosis. 

Delaney Collins

Ashley Zollicoffer

Delaney Collins

Delaney is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the ProNET grant evaluating  biomarkers and clinical factors associated with psychosis risk. She is originally from Wisconsin. Her research interests  involve the initial onset of psychotic symptoms and functional outcomes  of individuals with schizophrenia.

Gifty Ayawvi

Sierra Jarvis

Delaney Collins

Gifty is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the CAPR  grant. She is originally from Georgia and graduated from UGA  with a B.S. in Psychology. Her primary research interests involve  culture, racism, and psychological health outcomes.

Sierra Jarvis

Sierra Jarvis

Sierra Jarvis

Sierra is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the ProNET  grant evaluating biomarkers and clinical factors associated with psychosis risk. She is originally from Utah. Her research interests involve the etiology of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.

Lauren Arnold

Sierra Jarvis

Sierra Jarvis

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.

Graduate Students

Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa is a 6th year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student. She is originally from Arizona. Her research interests involve emotion regulation and mechanisms underlying negative symptoms in individuals with schizophrenia and youth at clinical high-risk  for psychosis using EEG/ERPs and fMRI. She is funded by an F31 grant from NIMH to explore the neural basis of avolition/anhedonia as a reduction in the positivity offset in schizophrenia

Ian Raugh

Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa Bartolomeo

Ian is a 4th year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student. He is originally from Maryland. His research interests involve examining mechanisms underlying transdiagnostic  impairments in emotion regulation and acceptance, specifically using  digital phenotyping technologies. Ian’s web link: https://imraugh.wordpress.com/

Luyu Zhang

Lisa Bartolomeo

Sydney James

Luyu is a 2nd year graduate student in Clinical Psychology. He is originally from China. His research interests involve the etiology of schizophrenia. He is focusing on a bioecosystem model of negative symptoms and interactions between environmental and neural factors using multiple methods, such as fMRI, digital phenotyping, environmental coding, and social network analysis.

Sydney James

Anna Knippenberg

Sydney James

Sydney is a 2nd year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student. She is originally from North Carolina. Her research interests involve identifying mechanisms underlying negative symptoms. She is focusing on a bioecosystem model of negative symptoms which evaluates cultural components of the broader macrosystem using a multi-method approach that consists of digital phenotyping, network analysis, and cultural scales.

Anna Knippenberg

Anna Knippenberg

Anna Knippenberg

Anna is a 1st 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.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Ada Hutcheson

Sabrina Yavari

Sabrina Yavari

Sabrina Yavari

Sabrina Yavari

Sabrina Yavari

Shiyuan Zhang

Sabrina Yavari

Shiyuan Zhang

Lab Mascot

Blue James

Good boy blue is the CAN Lab's furry mascot. His lab duties include stealing the show with his cuteness, activating the ventral striatum of lab members with tail wags and licks, fighting off rival labs who try to steal our research ideas, eating copious amounts of food at lab parties, barking at R when it fails to comply with his Mommy's wishes, cuddles, adorableness, mischief, driving all of the girl dogs crazy, and sporting CAN lab gear like the handsome dog model that he is. 

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 in private practice in San Francisco.

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 a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University.

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. Michael Spilka

Dr. Michael Spilka

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.

Lab Alumni (Research 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 a postdocotral fellow at Tufts University working with Heather Urry.

Izie Dickinson

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

Ian Raugh

Ian was our initial CAN lab manager when the lab moved to UGA from 2017-2019. He is currently a grad student in Clinical Psychology at UGA working with Dr. Strauss in the CAN Lab

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.

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 August University (Medical College of Georgia).

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

Claudia Haase

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

Augusta University

Brown University

Phil Corlett

Al Powers

Scott Woods

Brown University

Augusta University

Brown University

Amitai Shenhav

Augusta University

Augusta University

Louisiana State University

Brian Miller

Louisiana State University

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Louisiana State University

Alex Cohen

University of Arkansas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Brian Kirkpatrick

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dan Allen

Weill Cornell Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

Tony Ahmed

Binghamton University

Weill Cornell Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

Hiroki Sayama

Mark Lenzenweger

Indiana University

Weill Cornell Medicine

University of Alabama, Birmingham

Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani

University of Alabama, Birmingham

University of Alabama, Birmingham

University of Alabama, Birmingham

Adrienne Lahti

UCSD/San Diego VA

University of Alabama, Birmingham

UCSD/San Diego VA

Eric Granholm

SDSU

University of Alabama, Birmingham

UCSD/San Diego VA

Emily Kappenman

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Anne Collins

Hong Kong University

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Wing Chung Chang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

University of California, Berkeley

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Raymond Chan

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