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Rebecca Dunayev, BS

Clinical Research Assistant

McLean Hospital

Email: rdunayev@mclean.harvard.edu

Affective Neuroscience of Trauma and Resilience Lab

Director: Elizabeth Olson, Ph.D. The Affective Neuroscience of Trauma and Resilience (ANTARES) lab conducts research on social, cognitive, and affective processes in psychopathology and resilience, with our work currently focusing on stress and trauma, reward processing, and social engagement. Broadly, our group is interested in changes in affective, cognitive, and social processing in people who have been exposed to stress, trauma, and/or childhood maltreatment, including individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While powerful translational models of deficits in fear learning...

Dr. Poornima Kumar launches the COMP Group in CDASR

Dr. Poornima Kumar has launched a new group with in the Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research. Her COMputational Psychopathology (COMP) group will seek to understand how we make decisions in our day-to-day lives to maximize reward and minimize punishment, and how this can go awry in individuals suffering from psychiatric illnesses. Specifically, they will investigate the neural, molecular, behavioral correlates of reinforcement learning and decision-making using neuroimaging, computational models, and machine learning statistical approaches. The long-term goal is to identify...

Dr. Andrea Cataldo receives P50 Seed Grant

Dr. Andrea Cataldo is a recipient of a P50 Seed Grant for her project entitled, “The Impact of Evidence Strength vs. Decisional Bias on the Positive Memory Deficit in Depression.” This seed project aims to test the feasibility of a novel, model-driven behavioral task to distinguish the familiarity vs. motivated retrieval accounts, with the long-term goal of evaluating memory vs. decision-making mechanisms as potential treatment targets for Major Depressive Disorder. Congratulations, Andrea!

Danna Gelfand

Mohammad S.E. Sendi, PhD

T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Email: msendi@mclean.harvard.edu

Steven Granger, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Email: sgranger@mclean.harvard.edu

Kevin Clancy, PhD

Instructor in Psychiatry,

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Email: kclancy@mclean.harvard.edu

Lauren Borchers, PhD

Mario Bogdanov, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Email: mbogdanov1@mclean.harvard.edu

Avalon Edwards

Michelle Thai, PhD

Instructor, Department of Psychiatry

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Email: methai@mclean.harvard.edu

Yara Pollmann, BS

Clinical Research Assistant

McLean Hospital

Email: ypollmann@mclean.harvard.edu

Molly Sapperstein, BS

Clinical Research Assistant

McLean Hospital

Email: msapperstein@mclean.harvard.edu

Tatiana Papageourgiou, B.S.