Denise graduated from Northwestern with a B.S. in Education and Social Policy with concentration in Human Development and Psychological Services. She most recently served as a clinical research assistant at Rush and sexual assault crisis intervention advocate at Northwest CASA. Denise enjoys investigating the associations of early life stressors and the development of mental illness. She is happy to have returned to her alma mater and intends to apply her experiences to a career conducting research and delivering treatment to vulnerable populations.

Rachel is a recent Northwestern University graduate, and the newest lab manager at ADAPT. She is especially interested in learning differences and adolescent development. She hopes to attend medical school and become a psychiatrist or surgeon. Rachel is excited to continue working with the ADAPT team and gain experience in clinical psychology!

Alara recently graduated from Northwestern University with a major in Manufacturing and Design Engineering with a double major in Psychology. Alara is especially interested in sensory processing, as she plans on designing environments and systems for individuals who experience the sensory environment differently. She is hoping to obtain a PhD in Clinical Psychology after graduation. Alara is very excited to gain research experience with the ADAPT lab.

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After graduating from Longwood University with a B.S. in Psychology, Juston worked in the Social Neuroscience and Psychopathology Lab at Harvard University. During his time in the SNAP Lab, Juston was involved in several projects investigating neural and motor abnormalities in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. He continued and expanded his research on motor abnormalities in the Master's program in Experimental Psychology at the College of William & Mary. Juston is currently a graduate student in Dr. Vijay Mittal's ADAPT lab in Chicago. His research interests focus on the use of multimethod approaches (psychophysiology, neural/cognitive markers, etc.) to characterize the factors that best predict transition to formal psychosis in order to facilitate the development of interventions to mitigate the likelihood of conversion.

Taylor graduated from Illinois State University with a B.S. in Psychology. During her time at ISU, Taylor worked with PATH Crisis to answer emotional support and suicide phone calls. She first began her research career at ISU working with at-risk youth in Champaign as a research apprentice for Champaign Area Relationship Education for Youth (CARE4U). While she continues to work on her M.A. in Counseling at Northwestern University, Taylor is currently an intern on the SASS/Mobile Crisis Response team at Kenneth Young Center in Mount Prospect. Taylor is largely interested in serious mental illness and cases that are considered especially intense. She aims to continue on with her education to gain a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology, and to fulfill her dream of becoming a Clinical Psychologist.

Alyssa is an undergraduate student at Northwestern University in her third year. She is majoring in Human Development and Psychological Services (HDPS) and Psychology. She is very interested in the field of clinical psychology and hopes to pursue a career as a licensed clinical psychologist. Alyssa is excited to be a part of the ADAPT research team!

Chloe is a second year undergraduate at Northwestern University majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Psychology. She is very interested in mental health and the intersection between medicine and psychology. Aside from her interest in research, she loves tennis, photography, and volunteering at the hospital. After graduating, she plans to attend medical school. Chloe is very excited to join the ADAPT team!

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Albert is a second year undergraduate at Northwestern majoring in biological science. He is currently pursuing a career in the medical field where he is interested in the brain. Through the ADAPT lab, Albert hopes to better understand psychopathology research and its implications on medicine. 

Kathryn is a fourth year majoring in Neuroscience and Global Health with a Certificate in Leadership. She is particularly interested in developmental neurobiology and brain disorders. After graduation, she is planning to pursue a Masters in Public Health at Northwestern and ultimately go into medicine. Kathryn is excited to work with the ADAPT lab and gain experience in clinical research and psychology.

Mara is an undergraduate student at Northwestern University double majoring in Neuroscience and English. She is particularly interested in adolescent development, and she hopes to attend medical school in the future. Mara is looking forward to gaining research experience and joining the ADAPT team!

Carson is a third year undergraduate at Northwestern University majoring in Biology and minoring in Psychology. He is planning to pursue psychiatric medicine and is very interested in the intersection between mental health and neurology. When away from the lab Carson enjoys being a member of Kesem at Northwestern, strategy board games and singing! Carson is very excited to be a part of the ADAPT team!

Jordyn is an undergraduate at Northwestern majoring in Human Development and Psychological Services. She is interested in exploring emotional behavior in those at a clinical high risk for developing psychosis, and she plans to pursue graduate school in clinical psychology after she graduates.

Rebecca is a fourth year undergraduate student at Northwestern University majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Religious Studies. She is planning to pursue a career in medicine, and is particularly interested in neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders. Rebecca is very excited to join the ADAPT team!

Shalaka is a third year student at Northwestern majoring in Neuroscience with a minor in Legal Studies. After graduating, she hopes to attend medical school and pursue a career in Forensic Psychiatry. Shalaka is very interested in learning about brain disorders and their intersection with the legal system. She is excited to gain experience in psychology and neuroscience research with ADAPT!

Paula is a third year undergraduate student at Northwestern University double majoring in Neuroscience and Computer Science. She is interested in the intersection between these fields and in understanding the role technology can play in furthering scientific research. She is excited to gain clinical research experience in the ADAPT lab.

Sophia is a fourth year student at Northwestern University majoring in Psychology and minoring in Chinese Language. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in psychiatric medicine. Sophia is particularly interested in the neurobiology of brain disorders and its relationship with emotions and social behavior. She is very excited to be a part of the ADAPT team and learn more about psychology through clinical research!

Mary is a 3rd year undergraduate at Northwestern studying Neuroscience. She is interested in cognition, perception of our environment, and the social determinants of health. After undergrad, she hopes to move on to grad school or medical school and engage in work that combines in some capacity neuroscience with social justice advocacy. Outside of classes, she is trying to learn to cook delicious food!

Franchesca is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Connecticut, where she worked on research projects investigating spatial working memory and conditioned place preferences in populations at risk for eating disorders. After graduating, she worked at the NIMH in the Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Branch, Section on Integrative Neuroimaging. Using structural neuroimaging techniques, her work at NIMH examined longitudinal developmental trajectories of brain regions thought to underlie the unique social and emotional phenotype of Williams syndrome. At UIC, Franchesca’s mentor is Dr. Ellen Herbener and, as a collaborating graduate student in the ADAPT lab, she hopes to merge her work from both of these groups to facilitate the investigation of deviations from normative social and emotional development in prodromal populations.

Kat is a second year undergraduate student at Northwestern University. She is majoring in both Psychology and Mathematics. She is very interested in research, specifically in the field of clinical psychology, and hopes to pursue it as a career. Kat is extremely excited to be part of the ADAPT team!

Rosemary is an undergraduate student majoring in Neuroscience at Northwestern University. She is interested in brain development, mental disorders and its brain effects, and she is pursuing a career in medicine. She is excited to join the ADAPT lab to gain research experience and learn more about the implications of clinical research on medical practices!

Helena is a third year undergraduate student at Northwestern University. She is majoring in Neuroscience, with a concentration in Human Cognition and Behavior, and minoring in Global Health Studies. She hopes to pursue a career in research after graduation, focusing on topics such as neurological disorders and psychiatry. Helena is looking forward to being a part of the ADAPT team!

Audrianna is a second year undergraduate at Northwestern pursuing a dual degree in Bienen and Weinberg. She is currently pursuing a career in the medical field, and is excited to join the ADAPT lab and gain experience in clinical research and psychology!

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Emmeline is currently a second-year undergraduate at Northwestern University studying Neuroscience with a concentration in Chemistry and hoping to minor in both Spanish and Global Health. After graduation, Emmeline hopes to attend medical school and work in emergency medicine, but she is open to exploring other fields. She is excited to work at ADAPT to gain clinical research experience and learn about the brain through experience rather than only in a classroom setting.

Joe received his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 2011. His research focuses on identifying the neural mechanisms of cognitive flexibility, with a focus on understanding how behavior is guided by the interaction of internal goals and external information. He has interests in understanding how these mechanisms are disrupted in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and substance abuse. During this postdoctoral training, he focused on investigating how brain connectivity differs between controls and high risk individuals, and how connectivity varies with symptoms and behavioral measures. He is now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University in the Psychology Department.

Christopher's  training has focused on working with adolescents and adults who are living with or are at risk for severe mental illnesses, and clients from marginalized populations including peripartum women and LGBTQ people. His research interests focus on the role of family environmental and neurobiological variables in the course, prevention, and treatment of bipolar disorder, psychosis, and suicidality in adolescent and young adult populations.  He has collaborated with the ADAPT team on several ongoing research projects.  He is currently Directing a clinic in Portland.

Dan, a Wilcutt Lab student, and member of the ADAPT team, is now on his APA approved clinical Internship. His primary interests include early identification and remediation of developmental learning disabilities (e.g., dyslexia, math disability, ADHD) and the dissemination of evidence-based remedial practices.

Sekine graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a B.A. in psychology and a minor in neuroscience. During her time at the UMN, she worked as a research assistant at the Research on Adolescent Depression (RAD) lab studying neurobiological and cognitive underpinnings of adolescent depression. She had experience with adolescents who had depression, bipolar disorder, and non-suicidal self-harm. She is interested in neuroimaging and neurobiological basis of psychopathology and hoping to attend graduate school in clinical psychology in the near future.  She recently accepted an offer to Join the Nusslock lab as an imaging analysis RA.

Jessie graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in psychology. As an undergrad, she focused on social-behavioral psychological research, such as delayed gratification and altruism at the Gilbert Lab at Harvard, and the efficacy of a bystander intervention training programs to prevent sexualized violence on college campuses at the Morean Clinical Lab at Oberlin. She is very interested to further explore clinical research— particularly that which focuses on early intervention treatments-- and is excited to learn more about psychosis and prodromal populations while working at ADAPT as a Post-Bach RA. 

Jackie graduated from Northwestern University as a psychology major. At Northwestern she was involved in many mentoring and mental health clubs on campus. She is very interested in clinical psychology research and in pursuing this field in the future! She is now working as a Chicago Program Fellow at Peer Health Exchange.

Amy graduated from Northwestern University, majoring in Human Development and Psychological Services (HDPS) and Psychology. She is especially interested in abnormal psychology, while clinical psychology has always been a passion as well. Amy is now a research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Ned graduated from Northwestern University majoring in Neuroscience with a focus in neurobiology. He is especially interested in learning about neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Ned was also a Spanish minor and enjoys playing tennis and guitar. He hopes to attend medical school and study orthopedics.

Emily graduated from Northwestern, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Religious Studies. She intends to get a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She currently works at LinkedIn as a business leadership program associate.

Victoria graduated from Northwestern University in her third year and is pursuing a dual degree in psychology and music cognition.  After graduating, she hopes to obtain a PhD in Clinical Psychology and hopes to focus specifically on PTSD in combat veterans.

Before becoming a graduate student in the Department of Psychology and Neurosceince and the University of Colorado Boulder, Derek served as the ADAPT’s clinic coordinator. Derek studied Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Denver and the University of Oxford as well as the basic sciences at Columbia University.  He has worked as a volunteer and research assistant on a mental health crisis prevention hotline and as a volunteer in several mental health treatment facilities around Boulder. Currently, his interests include biological, social and psychological markers of risk; emotion; cognitive behavioral and mindfulness based interventions for mental illness; and software applications for psychological stimuli.  In his free time, Derek enjoys the outdoors.

After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a double major in Psychology and English, Andrea began working as a research assistant at Duke University.  While at Duke, Andrea worked with children, adolescents, and their families to investigate post traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and childhood brain development.  For the past three years, Andrea has trained at the PRIME (Prevention through Risk Identification, Management, and Education) high-risk clinic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a graduate student in the Mittal lab at CU Boulder, and is interested in developing early identification and treatment strategies for adolescents and young adults.  She will be moving to Boston for Internship this summer!

 After graduating from Mount Holyoke College with a double major in Psychology and Religion, Emily worked at Harvard University in the Social Neuroscience and Psychopathology Laboratory.  At Harvard, Emily worked with children and young adults at risk for developing psychosis and individuals with schizophrenia to investigate social cognition, emotion, and targeted cognitive training as an early intervention strategy.  Emily was a graduate student at CU Boulder in the Mittal Lab and is interested in early identification and intervention for youths at risk for mental illness.

Dr. Azis received her PhD from King’s College London where she specialized in the clinical presentation and neurobiology of patients at Ultra High Risk of Psychosis. She worked in the Psychosis Studies Department at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in both clinical and research settings, with adults and children experiencing psychotic symptoms examining the neurobiological, clinical and cognitive factors underlying the onset of psychosis. She joined the lab in Fall 2017 to continue her research in to symptom dimensions and the relationship between clinical presentation and resting cerebral blood flow.

Dr. Claire Yee is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of School and Social Policy and Education and the Department of Psychology at Northwestern. In collaboration with Dr. Claudia Haase, she works with the ADAPT Lab to explore how the biological and emotional pathways of social reward and support differ in psychosis. She received her PhD from Arizona State University where she studied emotional mechanisms that foster attachment relationships. Her research focuses on the processes through which positive emotions facilitate close relationship formation and maintenance as well as investigating the unique contexts in which traditional relationship vulnerabilities can provide unexpected tradeoffs.

Grishma is a senior majoring in neuroscience and anthropology at Northwestern University. She is very interested in learning about the brain and its disorders. Apart from undergraduate research, she loves photography, being a part of NU Red Cross, volunteering, and listening to Spanish music. After graduating, she plans to attend medical school to pursue her dream of becoming a neurologist. 

Kimberly is an undergraduate majoring in Philosophy and Neuroscience with a minor in Global Health.  She is currently entertaining a career in law.  She is excited to work at ADAPT, as the lab's interdisciplinary nature is well suited to her widespread interests.  With this experience, she hopes to gain insight into to which area of research she would like to pursue in the future.

Katia is a fourth year undergraduate student at Northwestern University studying Psychology and Global Health. She is especially interested in the intersection between global service and medicine, and is currently pursuing a career as a physician in the hopes of becoming a surgeon. Aside from her interest in science, she loves to run, sing, and volunteer with children of all ages. Katia is looking forward to contributing to the ADAPT team this year and gaining experience in the psychological research field!

Defne is a senior at Northwestern University majoring in Neuroscience. She wants to work towards a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is specifically interested in working with early adolescents. Along with a career in academia and therapy, she hopes to translate English literature in psychology to Turkish because she likes to read and share knowledge. Defne is excited to join the ADAPT team and gain experience in clinical research.