Graduate Students
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Alemu, KaleAdvisors: Mara Mather & Research Interests: Association between heart rate variability & emotion regulation/well-being, interventions focused on increasing parasympathetic activity to strengthen regulatory control of brain regions involved in emotion, multimodal neuroimaging techniques |
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Aviv, LizzieAdvisor: Darby Saxbe Research Interests: Dyadic functioning over the transition to parenthood; romantic relationships between co-parents; community-based and participatory couples/family interventions |
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Beale, LexyAdvisors: Gayla Margolin & Amy West Research Interests: Peer relationships; internalizing disorders, adolescent social media use, social maladjustment |
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Brodell, ReginaAdvisor: Stan Huey Research Interests: Impact of trauma/early life adversity on development (i.e. executive functioning skills); gang intervention; resilience; educational interventions for high-risk youth |
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Cardenas, SofiaAdvisor: Darby Saxbe Research Interests: Neuroimaging, parenting behavior, biopsychosocial models of family well-being and health |
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Dews, AridenneAdvisors: Amy West & Darby Saxbe Research Interests: Digital intervention delivery; psychosocial interventions treatment accessibility for at-risk youth; internalizing disorders; emotional awareness and emotional development |
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Dutt, ShubirAdvisors: Dan Nation, Mara Mather & Gayla Margolin Research Interests: Brainstem degeneration in Alzheimer's disease; structural and functional neuroimaging of aging populations; locus coeruleus integrity and cerebral blood flow in cognitive aging and dementia |
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Ewusi Boisvert, EsthelleAdvisors: Matthew Kirkpatrick & Gerald Davison Research Interests: Addiction, comorbidity; prevention and treatment of psychopathology; vulnerable populations |
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Fenton, LauraAdvisors: Duke Han, Bruna Martins-Klein & Darby Saxbe Research Interests: Healthy aging and neurodegenerative disease; early signs of cognitive decline; modifiable risk factors for dementia; multimodal imaging techniques |
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Fritz, HannahAdvisors: Sonya Negriff & Gayla Margolin Research Interests: Developmental psychopathology; childhood maltreatment and early life adversity; intergenerational transmission of trauma; PTSD in children; peer relationships; child psychosocial adjustment; resilience; neuroimaging |
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Galbraith, KatharineAdvisor: Stan Huey Research Interests: Evidence-based treatment for juvenile justice and at-risk youth, adolescent substance use, trauma, digital health, family-based interventions |
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Gold, AlainaAdvisors: Gayla Margolin & Chris Beam Research Interests: Romantic relationships across the lifespan; co-parenting; aging; stress & resilience; longitudinal data analysis |
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Gonzales, CassieAdvisors: Jonathan Tarbox & Gayla Margolin Research Interests: Autism spectrum and related disorders assessment treatment; dissemination of services across diverse and underserved populations |
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Jhaveri, NinaAdvisor: Stan Huey Research Interests: Culture, mental health, and health psychology; technology-enabled assessment and intervention |
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Marshall, AnisaAdvisors: Dan Nation & Chris Beam Research Interests: Structural and functional neuroimaging; stress; cerebrovascular and physiological markers for healthy aging, cognitive impairment, and dementia; neuropsychology |
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Marshall, NarcisAdvisor: Darby Saxbe Research Interests: Parent-child attachment; brain and behavioral development in relation to early life adversity; psychobiology of parenthood; pro- and antisocial behavior |
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Mateo Santana, AdrelysAdvisor: Chardée Galán Research Interests: Developmental consequences of early adversity (e.g., violence exposure and racial discrimination) on youth's behavior, emotions, and psychopathology; protective factors of early adverse experiences; culturally and contextually-relevant interventions |
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Morris, AlyssaAdvisor: Darby Saxbe Research Interests: Perinatal and early-life risks and protective factors; parental stress and mental health; parenting-infant bonding; neurobiological and genetic markers of risk and resilience; child psychopathology |
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Pilgrim, MattAdvisor: Chris Beam Research Interests: Modifiable risk factors of Parkinson's disease and ADRD; healthy aging, cognitive decline, cognition in neurodegenerative diseases |
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Preston, EmmaAdvisors: Amy West & Gayla Margolin Research Interests: Non-suicidal self-injury, suicide, social media, harm reduction, intervention development and dissemination |
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Rasmussen, HannahAdvisor: Gayla Margolin Research Interests: Parent-child and romantic relationships; early adversity and its relation to parenting; psychophysiology; behavioral observations |
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Ryjova, YanaAdvisor: Gayla Margolin Research Interests: Close dyadic relationships including romantic, peer, and family relationships; co-parenting; child development; developmental psychopathology; culture and mental health |
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Saldich, EmilyAdvisors: Susan Luczak & Chris Beam Research Interests: Etiology and maintenance of alcohol and other substance use; prevention and intervention strategies for reducing alcohol-related harm
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Satinsky, EmilyAdvisors: Chardée Galán & Stan Huey Research Interests: Global mental health; health disparities; childhood adversity; substance use; depression; HIV; peer support; social norms |
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Sible, IsabelAdvisors: Mara Mather, Dan Nation & Gayla Margolin Research Interests: Cerebrovascular and physiological signatures of healthy and pathological aging; emotional wellbeing and vulnerabilities in aging populations |
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Tureson, KaylaAdvisors: John Ringman & Chris Beam Research Interests: Neuropsychology, health disparities related to HIV, cognitive aging, sociocultural factors, and cross-cultural assessment
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Waizman, YaelAdvisor: Darby Saxbe Research Interests: Impacts of early life adversity and stress on brain and socioemotional development; risk and resilience factors; child and parental psychopathology |
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Walden, Kyla-RoseAdvisors: Susan Luczak & Gerald Davison Research Interests: Etiology and maintenance of alcohol use problems in minority populations (e.g., ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+); identity-related stress and alcohol use; real-time assessment methods for alcohol research |
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Woodward, DianaAdvisors: Amy West & Gayla Margolin Research Interests: Dissemination and implementation science; mental health treatment delivery innovation; clinical decision making; clinician training and engagement; strategies for improving treatment engagement and adherence for at-risk youth; community mental health settings |
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Xu, EllieAdvisor: Jon Stange Research Interests: Affect regulation; mood disorders; cognitive and affective flexibility |
Zapetis, SarahAdvisor: Jon Stange Research Interests: Cognitive flexibility; affect regulation; mood disorders; ambulatory assessment techniques; neuroimaging; autonomic psychophysiology |
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Zhou, ElayneAdvisor: Stan Huey & Jessie Borelli Research Interests: Racial/ethnic minoritized youth and families; health disparities and health equity; racial stress and trauma; strengths-based interventions; culturally relevant measurement; community-based participatory research. |
- Department of Psychology
- University of Southern California
- SGM 501
- 3620 South McClintock Ave.
- Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061
- Phone: (213) 740 - 2203