James Gross, Ph.D., email - website
Kim Basurto email
Jens Blechert, Ph.D.
Jens completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he studied fear conditioning in panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. He subsequently worked as a post-doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology Department in Freiburg, Germany, where he researched eating disorders and social phobia in children; he also completed his clinical training. At Stanford Jens is interested in the interplay of basic learning processes and emotion regulation strategies using peripheral psychophysiology and fMRI methods. email project website personal website
Barbara Braams
I am currently doing an internship at the psychophysiological lab,
supervised by Dr. Blechert. My home university is the University of
Amsterdam, where I am a master student of the research master Brain
and Cognitive Sciences. The project I'm working on at the SPL is about
fear acquisition and emotion regulation. We will look at whether the
usage of emotion regulation techniques has an influence on acquisition
of social fear. email
Matthew Boden, Ph.D.
Matthew is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and clinical psychology internship at the Veterans Administration, Palo Alto Health Care System. He currently investigates the bidirectional relation between emotions and beliefs, with a focus on how and when this relation contributes to psychopathology (e.g., delusions among individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia). In his clinical work, Matthew integrates change and acceptance-oriented therapies to treat symptoms and correlates of psychosis and emotion dysregulation.. email
Tal Carthy
Tal completed her M.A. in clinical psychology at Tel-Aviv University and worked for several years as a clinical psychologist, trained in a variety of approaches including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness based treatments. Her special clinical interest was in anxiety disorders. Currently, she is a fifth year graduate student in Bar-Ilan University and is a lab collaborator on research projects that examine (a) abnormalities in various aspects of emotion reactivity and regulation in anxious children, (b) the way these emotional abnormalities change due to medication therapy with SSRI, and (c) clinical implications. email
Elise Dan Glauser, Ph.D.
Elise completed her Ph.D. in Affective Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research on the unfolding of emotional processes focuses on the physiological concomitants (both central and peripheral) of subjective experience of emotion. She is particularly interested in understanding the interrelation between the different components of emotion such as experience, expressivity, and autonomous reactions. Furthermore, Elise investigates emotion induction in the laboratory via modulation of appraisal processes. Currently a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology, at Stanford University, she studies how various mono and multi-channel emotion regulation strategies will affect the magnitude and the coherence of emotional component activities. email
Emily Drabant
Emily is a fifth year graduate student in the Neuroscience Program at Stanford. Emily is primarily interested in how individual differences translate into susceptibility factors for psychiatric disease. She currently studies risk factors for mood and anxiety disorders, such as genetic variation and exposure to life stressors, and how they impact peripheral physiology, endocrine and immune responding, and brain function during emotional challenge paradigms. She also studies how these risk factors influence emotion regulation and cognitive processing of affective information. Emily co-directs the SAVOR project (“Sources of Affective Vulnerability or Resilience”) . email - website
Nicole Giuliani
Nicole Giuliani is a fifth year psychology graduate student studying the neuroanatomical bases of reappraisal. She is particularly interested in how the relationship between brain anatomy and emotional behavior develops through adolescence, with the goal of incorporating this research into science education in middle school.. email
Philippe Goldin, Ph.D.
Philippe completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
at Rutgers University, Clinical Psychology Internship at the UC San Diego /
San Diego VA consortium, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the
Department of Psychology at Stanford University. His clinical research
focuses on (a) functional neuroimaging investigations of cognitive
affective mechanisms in both healthy adults and in individuals with various
forms of psychopathology, (b) the effect of mindfulness meditation and
cognitive behavioral therapy on neural substrates of emotional reactivity,
emotion regulation, and attention regulation, and (c) the effect of
child-parent mindfulness meditation training on anxiety, compassion, and
quality of family interactions. email website
Rachel Habbert email
Max Hare email
Scott Jacobs
Scott Edward Jacobs is a third year graduate student in the personality area. He is currently investigating the effects of emotion regulation on cognitive performance by examining the role of emotion regulation processes during test taking. email
Hooria Jazaieri email
Janice Kuo, Ph.D.
Janice completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington, her Clinical Psychology Internship at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Her primary research interest is in the psychophysiological correlates of emotional reactivity and regulation in psychopathology, with an emphasis on borderline personality disorder (BPD). She is also interested in examining the physiological mechanisms associated with various psychosocial interventions, particularly the different acceptance and change strategies in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). email
Kateri McRae, Ph.D.
Kateri completed her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona with a specialization in Cognition and Neural Systems. She is working on several projects to disentangle the relationship between emotion and cognition as they interface during emotion regulation. In particular, she is interested in the neural systems representing both stimulus and person characteristics that impact the success of emotion regulation. Specific projects involve using fMRI to investigate the developmental trajectory of emotion regulation, the differential efficacy of various emotion regulation strategies, and the effect of previous emotional experiences on emotion regulation success. email
Andrei Miu, Ph.D.
Andrei completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, where he also holds an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience position in the Department of Psychology. His recent research focuses on the psychophysiology and genetic underpinnings of emotion and cognition. As a Fulbright Fellow in the SPL, he is interested in emotion regulation and decision making. email
Neekaan Oshidary
Neekaan is a fourth year undergraduate in Psychology with an emphasis in neuroscience. At the moment, he is working the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience lab, studying the effects of certain meditation techniques on negative affective responding. He plans on pursuing a co-terminal masters next year at Stanford. email
Carina Remmers
Carina is a Psychology Student from the „Free University“, Berlin, Germany. In Berlin, she worked as a research assistant in the “Languages of Emotion” research cluster and lead reading groups for children to improve both their emotional and language skills.
Interested in the far reaching significance and importance of emotion regulation research, Carina is amongst other projects currently involved in studying the influence of emotional processes on peculiar belief formation. email
Gal Sheppes, Ph.D.
Gal completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. During this period he studied the effectiveness of deliberate emotion regulation strategies under conditions of increased emotional challenge, and indirect/implicit cognitive vulnerability to depression. He also engaged in clinical training, working mostly with children. During his postdoctoral period, Gal is interested in conceptual work and empirical testing of emotion regulation models, in studying academic stress regulation, and in investigating emotion regulation difficulties among clinical populations. email
Ravi Thiruchselvam
Ravi Thiruchselvam is a first-year graduate student. He is interested in examining how automatic and unconscious processes (attentional biases, implicitly held beliefs, etc.) influence the mechanisms underlying emotion generation and regulation. He is also interested in whether deliberate forms of psychological training, such as mindfulness meditation, might lead to enduring changes in these processes in order to enhance awareness and control over one's emotional experiences. email
Grace Tang email
Ama Thrasher email
Alice Wang email
Kelly Werner , Ph.D.
Kelly completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, Clinical Psychology Internship at the Department of Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Kelly focuses on investigating the neural correlates of emotional and empathic processing in neurological and psychiatric populations. Furthermore, she is interested in understanding the influence of cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness meditation on the neural substrates of emotional processing in patients with social anxiety disorder. email
Michal Ziv
Michal Ziv is a full time research assistant at the CAAN lab. She is interested in investigating brain-behavioral mechanisms that might be affected by therapeutic interventions in patients with social anxiety disorder. In addition to her work at the lab, she is completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Haifa in Israel, where she examines the behavioral and neural correlates of individual differences in expectancy processes and their effect on the subjective experience of pain. email
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