Director
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Greg Hajcak, Ph.D. PhD, University of Delaware (2006) Professor Director, MRI Research Facility Department of Psychology Department of Biomedical Sciences Florida State University hajcak@gmail.com Curriculum Vitae 850.645.9268 Office: Psychology B439 Lab: Psychology A411 |
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Postdoctoral Researchers
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Aiden Payne
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University (2019) I’m interested in the use of EEG to investigate relationships between cognitive, motor, and affective problems in children with neurodevelopmental disorders to guide assessment and intervention. My present work focuses on the relationship between anxiety and standing balance control. Specifically, I will compare a brain response elicited by a sudden balance disturbance to an anxiety-related brain response elicited by mistakes in a simple cognitive task in children with and without anxiety disorders, and in response to an anxiety-related intervention. Curriculum Vitae payne@psy.fsu.edu |
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Doctoral Students
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Liz Mulligan
Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychology Resident at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) My research examines the role of interplay between neural and endocrine systems in precipitating mood and anxiety disorders in women. Long-term goals of this line of research will be to develop screening protocols for internalizing disorders in women experiencing hormonal transition (e.g., puberty, hormonal cycling, pregnancy, and menopause) that leverage neural and hormonal biomarkers, and to develop interventions that target neural and hormonal correlates to mitigate depression and anxiety. Curriculum Vitae mulligan@psy.fsu.edu |
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Kreshnik Burani
Clinical Psychology, Intern at The Charleston Consortium Psychology My research interests are concerned with the etiology and maintenance of anxiety and mood disorders. Specifically, I am interested in combining psychophysiological (e.g., ERPs, startle reflex) and self-report measures to study symptoms and constructs of these disorders to better understand their trajectory. Moreover, I am interested in exploring if psychophysiological measures can help identify at-risk individuals. Curriculum Vitae kburani@gmail.com |
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Colin Bowyer
Clinical Psychology, 6th Year I’m interested in the construct of reward-sensitivity and related networks. My goal is to disentangle relationships between physiological, behavioral, and self-report measures of reward in an effort to better understand reward-sensitivity as a trait dimension. Curriculum Vitae bowyer@psy.fsu.edu |
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Austin Gallyer
Neuroscience, 6th Year My research focuses on understanding the neural networks that may play a role in the transition from thinking about suicide to engaging in suicidal behavior. Specifically, I’m interested in discovering the distinct yet interdependent roles of the areas in the salience network, and how dysfunction in this network may lead to reduced fear of death and suicide. My current work leverages virtual reality to approximate suicidal behavior in the lab, and continuous theta-burst stimulation to manipulate the activity of the salience network. Curriculum Vitae agallyer@neuro.fsu.edu |
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Jess Simon
Neuroscience, 5th Year My research focuses on parsing neural correlates of effort and reward. I am interested in developing novel tasks to better understand the functionality of event-related potentials (ERPs), specifically the P300. Furthermore, I aim to use this knowledge to relate depressive symptoms, such as apathy and anhedonia, to psychophysiological measures. Curriculum Vitae simon@psy.fsu.edu |
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Alex Kallen
Clinical Psychology, 4th Year My research examines how psychophysiological and behavioral measures relate to both current and future externalizing symptoms in youth. I have specific interests in inhibitory control deficits, and how various correlates can help inform those at the greatest risk of worsening externalizing symptoms. My long-term goals include validating risk markers for future substance use, aggression, and disinhibited behavior to bolster early intervention efforts. Curriculum Vitae amk13f@fsu.edu |
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Nicholas Santopetro
Clinical Psychology, 3rd Year I want to examine whether ERPs can be used to distinguish different phenotypes of psychopathology, with an emphasis on teasing apart neural markers unique to comorbid anxiety and depression. Moreover, I am interested in trying to modulate certain ERPs among internalizing populations to see if increasing or decreasing these specific brain activity can help reduce certain symptoms or risk for those disorders. Curriculum Vitae santopetro@fsu.edu |
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Brittney Thompson
Clinical Psychology, 2nd Year My research interests involve using psychophysiological measures such as EEGs to predict treatment outcome for patients with mood and anxiety disorders. My long term goals are to use neuromodulation techniques alongside psychophysiological measures to create more effective interventions for depressive disorders. bt21f@fsu.edu |
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RAD Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholars & Graduate Students
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Julia Klawohn, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2017-2019),
A. Hunter Threadgill, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2019-2020), CJ Brush, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2019-2022) |
Jon Rayn (Graduate, 2022)
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Lab Coordinators
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Lauren Keith
keith@psy.fsu.edu |
Geffre Jean Francois
gj20b@fsu.edu |
Andrew Garron
garron@psy.fsu.edu |
DIS and Volunteer Research Assistants
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Shelbie Bobrow Anabel Dorfman Caitlin Parvizi Jenna Pennella Kira St. Juste Chandler Nielson Gwyneth Clark Matthew Fantini Josephine Watson Mark Banky |
Mary Metro Elijah Toomey Caitlin Huyck Elaina Kokinakos Haley Nichols Stephen Jensen Dorothy Ripps Briana Riahifar Laine Nuessle Christian Porter |
If you are interested in joining the RAD Lab as a DIS student or volunteer, please send a completed application and your resume/cv to hajcaklab@gmail.com.
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Florida State University 1107 West Call St Psychology Dept. Bldg. A411 Tallahassee, FL 32306 850.644.9869 hajcaklab@gmail.com |
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