Margo is a research assistant currently studying abroad with our lab. She is a 4th year medical student from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands with a bachelor degree in Biomedical Sciences and in Medicine. She became interested in neuropsychiatry after working with teenagers with Pervasive Developmental Disorders. She will focus on running subjects and analyzing DTI […]
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David I. Leitman, Ph.D. (P.I.)
I am a cognitive neuroscientist. My research focuses on social communication, its development and the auditory processing mechanisms in music and speech. I apply these interests to the study of neurodevelopmental illnesses and, in particular, schizophrenia. I have a longstanding interest in emotion, music, philosophy and mental illness. Most of my work to date has […]
Georgia Zellou, Ph.D.
A Research and Linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, I work with Dr. Zellou on phonemic perception tasks. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research specializations include experimental acoustic and articulatory phonetics, laboratory phonology, and psycholinguistics. She has also recently accepted a faculty position at UC […]
Christian Kohler, M.D.
A colleague in the Neuropsychiatry Program at the University of Pennsylvania, I work with Dr. Kohler on many projects. He received his doctorate in medicine from Innsbruck University in Austria. His research focuses on emotion processing in healthy individuals and individuals with brain disorders, and he is currently working to set up a clinic for […]
Delphine Dahan, Ph.D.
A colleague in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, I am working with Dr. Dahan on an upcoming project involving social collaborations in subjects with schiozophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorders. She received her doctorate from the University of Paris La Sorbonne Rene Descartes. Her research specializations include speech comprehension and physical realization of […]
James Christopher Edgar, Ph.D.
A researcher and professor in the Neuroradiology Division at the Children’s Hospital of Philadlephia, I work with Dr. Edgar on projects involving neuroimaging technicques, including EEG, MEG, and MRI. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Mexico. His research interests include multimodal imaging and facial processing in schizophrenia and autism spectrum […]
Rachel Mitchell, Ph.D.
Dr. Mitchell and I are currently collaborating on a project exploring prosodic perception in bipolar disorder. Together, we presented the Prosody-Centric Neuropsychological Connectome at the 2013 International Congress of Schizophrenia Research in Orlando, FL.
Krystal Gamez, M.A.
As a research assistant, Krystal has a hand in many of my current projects, from initial recruitment and running subjects to data analysis and manuscript preparation. She is also responsible for the design and maintenance of this site. She is currently attending Immaculata University for her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests include […]
Christopher Yard, B.S.
As a research assistant, Chris is responsible for programming many of our current tasks in PsychoPy and creating a standalone program that will allow other research labs across the world access and run these tasks easily. His research interests started out with a curiosity about neurological disorders, specifically neurodegenerative disorders. He very much enjoys physiological […]
