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Amanda
Farris
(Rutgers INS)
E-mail:amandafarris24@gmail.com
I graduated from Central Michigan University in 2005, focusing in
psychology and neuroscience. My undergraduate research used a behavioral
paradigm of Parkinson’s disease in the rat to look at retention
of function in a simple task after 6-OHDA lesion or haloperidol
injection. In search of clinical experience, I spent the following
2 years (2006-2008) on fellowship at NIH, with the Molecular Imaging
Branch, NIMH. The focus of this lab is the development and implementation
of PET tracers to investigate the physiology and pathophysiology
in animal and man. As a PhD student in the Integrative Neuroscience
program, I am interested in the mechanisms underlying the cognitive
deficits of Parkinson’s disease patients on and off medications
including antiparkinsonian medication (LDOPA), anticholinergics
and dopamine agonists. Also, I am interested in looking into the
high comorbidity in Parkinson’s disease with mental illness, such
as depression and anxiety.
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Kohitij Kar
E-mail:
kk77@njit.edu
My name is Kohitij Kar. I am currently doing my Master's Thesis
at Dr Gluck's Lab. At the same time I will be starting as a Integrative
Neuroscience PhD Student at Rutgers. So this also works out as a
nice long lab rotation. I am interested in neuro-imaging. In this
regard, I am working with Dr David Eidelberg and Dr Miklos Argyelan
at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, in collaboration
with the Gluck Lab. Prior to this I have been mostly involved in
Computational Modelling. I have programmed the Gluck and Myers Cortico-Hippocampal
model in MATLAB and applied that to the Weather Prediction Task
in an attempt to investigate whether the model's simulations fit
into the fMRI study reports. It has been a very good learning experience
so far in the lab. I am looking forward to a successful career in
Neuroscience and am sure that the Gluck Lab has already played a
big role in it.
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Alopi
Patel
E-mail: alopi514@pegasus.rutgers.edu
I am currently in my senior year and in the Honors
College. I am majoring in Psychology and going to medical school
next year. I am studying the role of the striatum during reward-related
learning using a computer based neuropsych task, Hi/Low, and fMRI
with the Delgado Lab. I will focus on this for my Honors Senior
Thesis Project. I am honored to have had the opportunity to work
in this lab and I look forward to many more months.
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Monica
Valentin
E-mail: monicaan@pegasus.rutgers.edu
I am a Honors College senior at Rutgers University.
I have been working
in the Gluck Lab since September 2006. In my time in the lab I have
preformed research in various areas of learning and memory. Including
conducting the research I have presented a poster titled "Understanding
dopamine function in cognitive sequence learning: Dissociation between
sequence learning and working memory load" at the annual CNS
conference in
2007. In addition, I presented a similar poster at the Pavlvian
Society
Conference in 2008. After the conclusion of my senior year I will
be
entering medical school at UMDNJ.
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Priyanka
Khanna (Neuropsychology):
E-mail: pkhanna@pegasus.rutgers.edu
I am an Honors College undergraduate majoring
in Chemistry. Currently, I am working in the lab under Dr. Myers
on a genetics study. We are testing to see how a gene involved with
seratonin affects learning and memory. I will apply the experience
and knowledge I am acquiring at the Gluck Lab towards my future
career in medicine.
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Rakhee
Krishna
E-mail:rakheekrishnaj@gmail.com
I am a clinical psychologist with an MPhil and
PhD from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences,
India. Neuropsychological testing was the method of inquiry for
my MPhil and PhD research on Aphasia and Learning Disability respectively.
I am now interested in combining clinical neuropsychological and
cognitive neuroscience techniques to make inroads in understanding
brain-behavior relations especially in psychiatric disorders. Given
the opportunities available at Dr.Gluck’s lab, I thought this was
a good place to start with, to gather experience on studying the
cortico-striatal and hippocampal functions from a cognitive neuroscience
point of view and later work towards comparing the functional neural
networks in PD and OCD for my postdoctoral research.
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Martin
Guthrie
E-mail:martingu@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Postdoctoral Researcher.
I have a background of degrees in medicine and electronic engineering
before gaining a PhD in computational neuroscience at Edinburgh
University. My main area of interest is in creating biophysically
realistic models of the basal ganglia. My aim is to be able to use
these models to elucidate the mechanisms involved in basal ganglia
dysfunction and so provide guidance to research into diseases such
as Parkinson's Disease and Huntington's Chorea.
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Katie Dickerson
E-mail: kd002k@mail.rochester.edu
I
graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in Brain
and Cognitive Sciences and minors in Biology and Spanish. While
studying at Rochester I participated in a 5th year scholarship program
where I designed my own program of study, "The Development of Western
Culture". As a new student to the Integrative Neuroscience program
at Rutgers University, I am very excited to become a member of the
Gluck lab. After completing my PhD I plan to pursue teaching and
conduct research at the university level.
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Abby
Wolff (Neuropsych. Beth Israel)
E-mail: awolff@chpnet.org
After graduating from Ithaca College in 2005 with a degree in psychology
I now work at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Currently,
I am working on the Beth Israel and Rutgers University collaboration
study entitled "Learning, Memory and Decision Making in Movement Disorder
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Marek Mandau,
M.S.:
(Joint with Delgado
Lab)
E-mail: mandau@psychology.rutgers.edu
As an undergraduate at Rutgers University, I sought
a curriculum that would enable me to learn about cognitive neuroscience.
I graduated with a B.A. in Biology (Psychology Minor), and an M.S.
in Biology from Rutgers University. At Rutgers I employed microscopy,
histology, and electrophysiology techniques to study the fish visual
system in vitro and in vivo. After defending my Master's thesis,
I spent 2 years at Rockefeller University investigating the effects
of novel opiates in the non-human primate model system in vivo using
PET, behavioral, and pharmacological (radioimmuno-) assays. I recently
joined the Delgado and Gluck labs at Rutgers-Newark in a joint effort
to explore the extent to which the striatum is involved in reinforcement
learning and the way in which prior information modulates learning
and decision-making using fMRI and experimental psychology applications.
After earning my doctorate degree, I would like to pursue studies
utilizing neuroimaging and
neurofeedback methods such as fMRI, EEG, and MEG to explore
brain computer interface (BCI) technologies to benefit people with
life-altering neurocognitive as well as physical sensory and motor
deficits.
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Andreia
Da Costa (Neuropsychology):
E-mail: andreiad@pegasus.rutgers.edu
My name is Andreia and I am currently a Junior
in the Honors College at Rutgers Newark. I am majoring in Clinical
Lab Sciences and have been working with Gluck Labs since the summer
of my Freshman year. I have been working with my partner Payal on
Classical Eyeblink Conditioning, but will soon start work on a Learned
Irrelevance project.
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Payal Trivedi (Neuropsychology):
E-mail: payalt@pegasus.rutgers.edu
As an Honors College
Biology major student, I hope to ultimately attain my childhood
dream of becoming an Emergency Room doctor while continuing to contribute
to research. Working under Dr. Myers and Dr. Servatius from UMDNJ/VA,
I along with my partner Andreia have spent quite some time working
on the Eyeblink Conditioning experiment with future plans in testing
learned irrelevance. Aside from spending my time in the lab, I work
part-time as a Pharmacy Technician at CVS Pharmacy in Kearny and
volunteer with the Ironbound EMT squad in Newark, as a certified
EMT Technician. I also will be assisting Dr. Morrison in the biology
lab as a biology peer tutor.
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Priya Bolikal
(Neuropsychology):
E-mail: pbolikal@pegasus.rutgers.edu
I am a undergraduate student in the 7-Year BA/MD
Program with Rutgers University-Newark and New Jersey Medical School.
As a certified Emergency Medical Technician, I actively volunteer
at the Edison First Aid and Rescue Squad #2 in Edison, NJ and love
the first hand patient contact and experience that I get. My interest
in medicine and patient care has led me to the Gluck Lab because
of its striking projects on memory disorders. I am currently working
under Dr. Myers and learning as much as I can about neuroscience
and memory disorders.
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Robb
Rutledge
E-mail: robb@nyu.edu I
am a graduate student in Paul Glimcher's lab at New York University.
I am interested in the role that dopamine plays in human decision-making.
I am doing experiments with the Gluck lab to determine how Parkinson's
disease and dopaminergic medication affect reinforcement learning
in a decision-making task.
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Haseeb
Mahmood:
E-mail: hmahmood@pegasus.rutgers.edu
I am a third year Honors College student majoring
in Biology. I will start working in the lab under Dr. Gluck in the
fall. I have volunteered at St. Joseph's Hospital, assisting patients
and transporting them around various sectors of the hospital. I
have had previous
experience conducting Lyme Disease research at the International
Center for Public Health. Currently, I am working as a tutor at
the Rutgers Learning Center, specializing in chemistry. My love
for patient interaction, as well as my desire to learn, is why I
want to pursue
medicine as a career goal.
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