Clinical Affective Neuroscience Laboratory

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People

Director

Dr. Gregory P. Strauss

Dr. Strauss is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Georgia. He directs the CAN Lab and Georgia Psychiatric Risk Evaluation Program (G-PREP). He is originally from Maryland. 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 2022 cycle/fall 2023 start date*

Employees

Anna Knippenberg

Anna Knippenberg

Anna Knippenberg

Anna is our lab manager in charge of our studies focused on individuals with schizophrenia. She also coordinates our R61 cognitive training for emotion regulation fMRI grant.  She is originally from Texas. Her research interests involve neural processes underlying cognitive and affective processes in schizophrenia.

Jason Levin

Anna Knippenberg

Anna Knippenberg

Jason is our lab manager in charge of our studies focused on individuals at risk for psychosis. He also coordinates the CAPR R01 grant.   He is originally from Illinois. His primary research interests involve mechanisms of cognitive impairment and blunted affect in schizophrenia.  Rumor has it that Jason counted to infinity...twice.

Alysia Berglund

Anna Knippenberg

Ashley Zollicoffer

Alysia is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the GAINS R01 clinical high-risk study.  She is originally from Hawaii. Her primary research interests are in emotion regulation and serious mental illness. 

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

Ashley Zollicoffer

Delaney Collins

Gifty is a full-time research coordinator paid to work on the CAPR and  Emotion Regulation grants. 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.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Michael Spilka

Dr. Michael Spilka

Dr. Michael Spilka

Dr. Spilka received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Calgary. He completed his clinical internship at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton and clinical postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at the University Health Network in Toronto. His research interests involve neurobiological mechanisms of schizophrenia. His methodological background is in fMRI, eye tracking, and neuropsychological assessment. 

Dr. Lauren Luther

Dr. Michael Spilka

Dr. Michael Spilka

Dr. Luther received her Ph.D. from IUPUI after completing her clinical internship at UIC Psychiatry. She then completed a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship in neuroimaging at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests focus on the mechanisms underlying negative symptoms in schizophrenia and the development of novel interventions for those mechanisms using an experimental therapeutics approach.

Graduate Students

Ivan Ruiz

Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa Bartolomeo

Ivan is a 7th year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student. He is originally from Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California. His research focuses on identifying mechanisms underlying negative symptoms of schizophrenia in relation to effort-cost computation using pupillometry. He will be completing his clinical internship at the Eastern Kansas VA Hospital in Leavenworth, KS beginning summer 2021.

Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa Bartolomeo

Lisa is a 5th 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

Luyu Zhang

Ian is a 3rd 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

Sydney James

Luyu Zhang

Luyu is a 1st 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

Sydney James

Sydney James

Sydney is a 1st 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.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Rachel Sinclair

Rachel Sinclair

Rachel Sinclair

Nia Cole

Rachel Sinclair

Rachel Sinclair

Ada Hutcheson

Rachel Sinclair

Ada Hutcheson

Junior Scientists

The Strauss Girls

Brilliant, funny, mischievous- their lab duties include providing background song and dance routines during lab meetings, Zoom bombing, coloring on Daddy's papers, eating popsicles, and stealing the show with their cuteness

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)

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.

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 working with Dr. Strauss in the CAN Lab.

Sydney James

Sydney was our lab manager from 2019-2021. She is currently a grad student in Clinical Psychology at UGA working with Dr. Strauss in the CAN Lab

collaborators

University of Georgia

Northwestern University

University of Georgia

 Larry Sweet

Dean Sabatinelli

Nathan Carter

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 Uchanan

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 Nevada, Reno

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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