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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.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*

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 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 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 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 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.

Katiah completed her PhD in 2013. Her dissertation examined emotional maintenance in schizophrenia using ERPs. She is currently in private practice in San Francisco.

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 a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University.

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.

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