people

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.

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.

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

Julianna is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the R33 fMRI cognitive training grant. She completed her B.A. in psychology with honors at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include genetic liability and cognitive impairment in schizophrenia, mobile app-based interventions, and the utilization of fMRI in brain/behavioral studies.

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 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

Josie is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the CAPR and ProNET grants. She is originally from Ohio and graduated from the Ohio State University with a B.A. in psychology and minors in German and English. Her primary research interests involve using neuroimaging and computational methods to predict psychosis risk.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

 Larry Sweet

Dean Sabatinelli

Elaine Walker

David Goldsmith

Michael Treadway

Vijay Mittal

Jim Gold

Bob Buchanan

Will Carpenter

Lauren Ellman

Jason Schiffman

Phil Corlett

Al Powers

Scott Woods

Brian Miller

Alex Cohen

Brian Kirkpatrick

Dan Allen

Tony Ahmed

Hiroki Sayama

Mark Lenzenweger

Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani

Lauren Luther

Adrienne Lahti

Eric Granholm

Emily Kappenman

Amitai Shenhav

Wing Chung Chang

Raymond Chan