Current Students and Alumni
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Lara Fahmy Abdou Gad | 1st Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
Klevis Karavidha | 1st Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
Tabitha Moses | 1st Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
Erin Edwards | 2nd Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
Lana Grasser | 2nd Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
James Matchynski | 2nd Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
Nolan O'Hara | 2nd Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
Nicole Zabik | 2nd Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
Johnathan Lynn | 3rd Year, Predoctoral Candidate |
Brian Silverstein | 4th Year, Doctoral Candidate |
Wafaa Sweidan | 4th Year, Doctoral Candidate |
Chaitali Anand | 5th Year, Doctoral Candidate |
Andrew Neff | 5th Year, Doctoral Candidate |
Natalie Wiseman | 6th Year, Doctoral Candidate |
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Michael Lisieski | 2018 Graduate |
Muzamil Arshad, Ph.D. | 2017 Graduate |
Erick Woodcock | 2017 Graduate |
Denise Briggs, Ph.D. | 2016 Graduate |
Hilary Marusak, Ph.D. | 2016 graduate |
Helen Wu | 2016 Graduate |
Dhruman Goradia, Ph.D. | 2015 Graduate |
Brianne Mohl, Ph.D. | 2015 Graduate |
Erik Brown, M.D., Ph.D. | 2013 Graduate |
| Lara Fahmy Abdou Gad larafahmy@wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
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| Klevis Karavidha kkaravidha@wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
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| Tabitha Moses tmoses@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisors | Mark Greenwald, PhD | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | To be announced | |
Research | Substance use, stress, trauma | |
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Personal Interests | Travel, reading, cats | |
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| Erin Edwards eedwards@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisors | Nora Fritz, PhD, DPT | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | To be announced | |
Research | Neurodegenerative Disease and Motor Learning | |
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Personal Interests | running, hiking, fishing | |
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| Lana Grasser lgrasser@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisors | Arash Javanbakht, MD | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | Tanja Jovanovic | |
Research | I study post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders. My main research focuses on studying the efficacy of dance/movement, art, yoga, and exercise therapies for the treatment of trauma-related disorders, in refugee, urban, and veteran populations. I am looking at inflammation and autonomic arousal as objective measures of efficacy that may also provide evidence towards underlying mechanisms. In addition, I am working with my team on multiple projects, including an augmented reality exposure therapy clinical trial, an fMRI study comparing instructional versus experiential fear learning and extinction recall, and stress risk and resilience in Syrian and Iraqi refugees and survivors of torture. | |
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Personal Interests | Ballet, Yoga, Travel, Wakeboarding, Theater | |
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| James Matchynski jamatchy@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
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| Nolan O'Hara Nolan O'Hara Education: Hometown: | |
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| Nicole Zabik nzabik@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisors | Christine A. Rabinak, PhD and Mark K. Greenwald, PhD | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | To be announced | |
Research | With tools such as functional imaging, behavior measures, and pharmacological manipulation, the questions I seek to answer are the following: (1) How does previous, regular cannabis use influence PTSD symptoms and efficacy of synthetic THC-assisted exposure therapy? and (2) How do healthy individuals use cannabis in the modern day, and how do these patterns deviate when someone suffers from PTSD? | |
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Personal Interests | If I'm not nerding out about my dissertation, I am most likely doing one of the following: cooking, making cold brew, weight training, or appreciating art. | |
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| Jonathan Lynn jonathan.lynn@wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisors | To be determined | |
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Research | Learning, memory and fMRS. | |
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Personal Interests | Drawing, reading and movies | |
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| Brian Silverstein bsilvers@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Eishi Asano, M.D., Ph.D. | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | Jeong-won Jeong, Ph.D., Noa Ofen, Ph.D., Alana Conti, Ph.D. | |
Research | Multimodal analysis combining intracranial EEG, cortico-cortical evoked potentials, and diffusion tensor imaging to study the neurobiological spatiotemporal dynamics of human auditory language perception and the structural networks that support it. | |
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Personal Interests | Outside of research, I'm active in social and political organizing around southeast Michigan. When I have time, I cook, attempt to play piano, practice martial arts, and go camping/hiking. | |
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| Wafaa Sweidan wsweidan@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisors | Navid Seraji-Bozorgzad, M.D. | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | To be decided | |
Research | Microglial activation in Huntington's disease, orrelation with disease progression and white matter changes. | |
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| Chaitali Anand canand@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisors | Naftali Raz, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D., Noa Ofen, Ph.D. and John Woodard, Ph.D | |
Research | Glutamatergic basis for age-related differences in associative learning and memory | |
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Personal Interests | Badminton, running, photography and sketching. | |
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| Andrew Neff aneff@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Paul Burghardt, Ph.D. | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | Donald Kuhn, Ph.D., Francesca Luca, Ph.D. and Kevin Theis, Ph.D. | |
Research | The gut microbiome and human health | |
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Personal Interests | Dogs, cooking and nature | |
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| Natalie Wiseman nwisema@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Zhifeng Kou, Ph.D. | |
Advisory/Dissertation Committee | Alana Conti, Ph.D., E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D., Jeffrey StanleyPh.D. and Robert Welch, M.D. | |
Research | Brain metabolism changes after mild traumatic brain injury. | |
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Personal Interests | Games, crocheting, metascience and animals. | |
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| Michael Lisieski mlisiesk@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Shane A. Perrine, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Alana C. Conti, Ph.D., Mark K. Greenwald, Ph.D. and Jonathan D. Morrow, M.D., Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | The Effects of Cocaine Exposure on Hyperactivity, Susceptibility to Traumatic Stress, and Locus Coeruleus Function in Rats | |
Dissertation Defense Date | March 2018 | |
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| Muzamil Arshad muarsha@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Naftali Raz, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Boris Baltes, Ph.D., Alexander Gow, Ph.D., and Donald Kuhn, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | Change in Processing Speed and its Associations with Cerebral White Matter Microstructure | |
Dissertation Defense Date | May 2017 | |
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| Eric A. Woodcock, Ph.D. eric.woodcock@yale.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Mark Greenwald, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Boris Baltes, Ph.D., Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D., David Ledgerwood, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | Neuropharmacological Investigation of Stress and Nicotine Self-Administration Among Current Cigarette Smokers | |
Dissertation Defense Date | May 2017 | |
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| Denise Briggs, Ph.D. dibriggs@stanford.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Donald Kuhn, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Matthew Galloway, Ph.D., Jason Mateika, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | Cognitive, Psychiatric, and Neuropathological Manifestations of Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury | |
Dissertation Defense Date | March 2016 | |
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| Helen Wu, Ph.D. wuhelen@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Jeffrey Loeb, M.D., Ph.D. and Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Bruce Berkowitz, Ph.D., Matthew Galloway, Ph.D. and Donald Kuhn, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | Identification of Metabolite Biomarkers in Epilepsy using 1H MRS | |
Dissertation Defense Date | June 2016 | |
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| Hilary Marusak, Ph.D. hmarusak@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Moriah Thomason, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Mark Greenwald, Ph.D., David Rosenberg, M.D. and Richard Slatcher, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | Childhood Trauma and Emotion Processing Neurocircuitry | |
Dissertation Defense Date | March 2016 | |
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| Dhruman Goradia, Ph.D. dhruman.goradia@bannerhealth.com Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D., Naftali Raz, Ph.D. and Manuel Tancer, M.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | Evidence of Distinctive Structural Alterations that Differentiate ADHD Boys With and Without a Comorbid Reading Disability | |
Dissertation Defense Date | June 2015 | |
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| Brianne Mohl, Ph.D. brianne.mohl@ucdenver.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Joseph Casey, Ph.D., Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D., Lara Jones, Ph.D. and Noa Ofen, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | Neural Alterations Influencing Skilled Reading in ADHD: A Task-based fMRI Study | |
Dissertation Defense Date | February 2015 | |
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| Erik Brown, M.D., Ph.D. ecbrown@med.wayne.edu Education: Hometown: | |
Advisor | Eishi Asano, M.D., Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Committee | Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D., Jeffrey Loeb, M.D., Ph.D. and Jeffrey Stanley, Ph.D. | |
Dissertation Research Title | Multi-Modality Assessment of Language Function | |
Dissertation Defense Date | June 2013 | |
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