Megan McFarland, M.S.
Megan is a graduate student in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience program. She received her B.S. in Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience from the University of Michigan before spending 2 years as a research assistant at Northwestern University examining psychomotor disturbances among individuals with depression. She recently completed her Masters investigating the behavioral and neural correlates of valence flexibility in self and other appraisals. She will complete her dissertation with Dr. Jacob Miller.
Stephanie (Novotny) Whitney, Ph.D.
Stephanie is our most recent graduate of the Child Clinical program. She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Miami and a M.S. in Child Development from the University of California at Davis before spending 4 years as a research assistant in a child and adolescent brain development lab in Hartford, CT. Her interests broadly focus on the interactions between cognitive processes and affective regulation. She is also interested in the physiological underpinnings of emotional experiences and emotion regulation processes. She completed her internship and will continue a fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center, examining neuropsychology across the lifespan.
Xiaoyuan (Reggie) Zhang, M.S.
Xiaoyuan graduated with a Masters of Public Health. With his interests in Psychology, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science, he joined the lab in Fall 2023. His thesis used computational modeling to examine drift diffusion models of working memory tasks. He has moved back to China and doing analytical research.
Evan Burdette, Ph.D.
Evan is in the Clinical Child Psychology Ph.D. Program. Joining the lab in 2018, Evan has broad interests in repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic risk factor for emotional disorders (e.g., depression). His Masters project examined individual differences in RNT when inhibiting cognitive and emotional (e.g., sad faces) using personal and standard face stimuli. He also has examined the intersection of RNT, fluctuations in sleep duration, and perceived coping through ecological momentary assessment collected during COVID-19. He completed his dissertation with Dr. Annette La Greca and is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders.
Travis Evans, Ph.D.
Travis was our first BRAIN doctoral student, joining in 2013. Broadly, he contributed to understanding how implicit processes (e.g. automatic attention deployment) and explicit processes (e.g. effortful decision-making) interactively contribute to reward and threat processing across anxiety disorders. For his master's thesis, he examined how the time-course of physiological threat responses is disrupted in social anxiety. His dissertation characterized the neural circuitry underlying implicit approach and avoidance responses to social cues and how this circuitry contributes to social behaviors in daily life. He completed his clinical internship at the Boston Veterans Administration in 2019 and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Boston VA/Massachusetts General Hospital. He is now an Assistant Professor at Auburn Univeristy.
Jamie Sherman, Ph.D.
Jamie Mash, now Jamie Sherman, was a child clinical psychology graduate student in CAMAT with Dr. Jill Ehrenreich-May. In 2013-2014, she worked with the BRAIN Group on collaborative projects comparing evidence-based treatments, i.e., unified protocol vs. attention bias modification, for anxiety and mood disorders in adolescents. She completed her clinical internship at Mailman Center in Miami. She is now in private practice.
