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Center Staff:

David H. Salat, Ph.D.
Director
Research Interests: aging, age-associated neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer’s disease, dementia), traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, neuroimaging methodology development (e.g., diffusion)

 

 

Abigail Sapiro
Administrative Officer

 

 

 

 

Patrick Kilduff
Systems Administrator

 

 

 

 

Shira Hao
Biomedical Engineer

 

 

 

 

Christopher Lawhorn
Biomedical Engineer

 

 

 

 

Affiliated Faculty:

 

Melissa Amick, Ph.D.
Research Interests: TBI, PTSD, suicide ideation, spinal cord injury, neuropsychology

 

 

 

Joseph DeGutis, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Developmental prosopagnosia, cognitive rehabilitation of attention, ADHD, PTSD/TBI, and age-related cognitive decline

 

 

Michael Esterman, Ph.D.

Associate Director of Functional Imaging, NeRVe Center
Research Interests: attentional control, PTSD, TBI, focal brain injury, fMRI, TMS, tCS

 

 

Francesca Fortenbaugh, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Space perception, sustained attention, multi-voxel pattern analysis, c

 

 

 

Elizabeth C. Leritz, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Aging, memory, neuropsychology, cognitive science, cognitive psychology, biological psychology, mild cognitive impairment, DTI

 

 

 

Regina E. McGlinchey, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Executive function, memory, learning, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, brain imaging, behavioral neuroscience, cognition disorders

 

 

 

William Milberg, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Executive function, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, brain physiology, cognitive neuropsychology, learning, memory, cognition disorders 

 

 

 

Meghan Pierce, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Deployment-related health issues affecting women veterans, PTSD, comorbid deployment-related pathologies, IPV

 

 

 

Mieke Verfaellie, Ph.D.
Research Interests: cognitive and neural bases of memory, memory disorders (e.g., selective amnesia), traumatic brain injury

 

 

 

 

 

NeRVe Alumni:

Emma Brown, B.S.

Neuroimaging Research Assistant, NeRVe Center

 

 

 

Julie Constantinescu, B.S.

Biomedical Engineer, NeRVe Center

 

 

 

Vincent Corbo, Ph.D.
Research Interests: PTSD, childhood trauma, stress, anxiety, structural brain imaging

 

 

 

Rinu Daniel, B.S.

Biomedical Engineer, NeRVe Center

 

 

 

Jasmeet P. Hayes, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Trauma, PTSD, memory, TBI, emotion-cognition interactions

 

 

 

Scott M. Hayes, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Memory, aging, medial temporal lobe amnesia, mild cognitive impairment, PTDT, mTBI, physical fitness

 

 

 

Gino Jackson, M.S., Major USMC (Retired)

Administrative Officer, NeRVe Center

 

 

 

Jirapat Likitlersuang, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Machine learning, brain imaging, assistive technology, computer vision, biomedical engineering

 

 

 

Arkadiy Maksimovskiy, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Neuroimaging, depression, addiction, reward, attention, psychopathology, frontal lobes, decision-making

 

 

 

Daniela J. Palombo, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Memory, imagination, hippocampus, fMRI, amnesia, decision-making, medial temporal lobes

 

 

 

Victoria Poole, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Attention, TBI, falls, mobility, aging, CV risk, older adults, mTBI, fMRI

 

 

 

Barnaly Rashid, Ph.D.

Research Interests: Functional connectivity, cardiovascular risk factors, genomic data, machine learning algorithms

 

 

 

Meghan E. Robinson, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineer, NeRVe Center
Research Interests: TBI, blast exposure, trauma-related neurodegeneration

 

 

 

Naomi Sadeh, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Trauma, violence/suicide, criminal behavior, personality disorders

 

 

 

Danielle Sullivan, Ph.D. - Engagement Manager - Medidata Solutions | LinkedInDanielle R. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Research Interests: DTI, TBI, PTSD, fMRI, functional connectivity, cognitive control

 

 

 

Jeffrey M. Spielberg, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Neuroimaging Analysis Development, NeRVe Center
Research Interests: Trauma, anxiety, PTSD, mood disorders, motivation