TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
IN AFFECT AND COGNITION
Lab Director
Anna Weinberg, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University, 2014
Canada Research Chair in Clinical Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
anna.weinberg@mcgill.ca
Office: 2001 McGill College, 1407
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Lab: 2001 McGill College, 1450
Post-docs
Juhyun Park, Ph.D.
Juhyun is a postdoctoral researcher in the TRAC lab. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from Seoul National University. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She is interested in identifying individuals who are vulnerable to depression and anxiety-related disorders using multi-methods (e.g., clinical interviews, behavioral/neural measures, experience sampling method) and advanced statistical methods (e.g., multilevel modeling, mixture modeling). Juhyun is particularly interested in understanding cognitive-affective processes that confer risk for depression and anxiety across lifespan (e.g., emotion regulation) and how they interact with contextual factors (e.g., trauma/stress). In the TRAC lab, Juhyun will be primarily examining the associations between neural responses to reward, positive emotion regulation, stress, and depression among adolescents.
Awards:
American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award, 2020
Association for Psychological Science Student Grant Competition, 2020
Simon Morand-Beaulieu, Ph.D.
Simon is a postdoctoral scholar in the TRAC lab. He earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the Université de Montréal, where he studied the brain mechanisms of cognitive-behavioral therapy for adults with Tourette syndrome. Before joining the lab, he completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. At Yale, Simon studied cognitive control in children with Tourette syndrome and ADHD, as well as tic control through voluntary tic suppression and behavioral therapy. Simon has recently received funding from the Tourette Association of America to begin a new project investigating the neural correlates of anger and irritability in children with Tourette syndrome using EEG. Apart from his work on Tourette syndrome and related conditions, his other interests include the study of how dyadic processes and parent-child interactions may impact child and adolescent mental health.
Funding:
CIHR Fellowship (2020-2023)
Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Tourette Syndrome, Tourette Association of America & American Brain Foundation, in partnership with the American Academy of Neurology (2022-2024)
Awards:
FRQS Étudiant-chercheur Étoile Award (2017)
Graduate Students
Iulia Banica
Iulia is a sixth-year PhD student, currently on internship at Western Psychiatric Hospital. She received her B.Sc. in Honours Psychology from the University of Waterloo. Iulia is particularly interested in investigating the effects of stress and abuse on error and threat processing, and how these relate to anxiety and depression.
Funding:
Canada Graduate Scholarship-- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2018)
FRQ-SC Ph.D. Funding (2019-2021)
Awards:
SPR Student Poster Award, 2020
Clara Freeman
Clara is a fifth-year PhD student in the lab. She completed her B.A. in psychology at Cornell University. Clara is interested in how social information processing and reward relate to depression and other psychopathology across development.
Funding:
Tomlinson Fellowship, McGill University (2018-2021)
FRQ-S Ph.D. Funding (2020-2022)
Awards:
SPR Student Poster Award, 2019
Smadar Levin Award, Society for Research in Psychopathology, 2022
Lidia Panier
Lidia is a third-year PhD student in the lab. She completed her M.A. (Social Sciences: Psychology) at the University of Chicago. She is interested in the effects of stress on reward processing across depression and anxiety, as well as the unique differences between these internalizing disorders.
Funding:
Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives, Graduate Student Fellowship (2021-2022)
FRQ-S Ph.D. Funding (2022-2024)
Héléna Renault
Héléna is a third-year PhD student in the lab. They completed their undergraduate degree (BA, Honours Psychology) at McGill and are interested in how neural responses to reward interact with various types of stress as well as how these factors relate to depression.
Funding:
Judith Mappin Fellowship, McGill University (2020, 2022)
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2021)
Grace Allison
Grace is a second-year PhD student in the TRAC lab. She completed her B.A. in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in biobehavioral indices of reward and threat processing, social functioning, and stress reactivity, as they relate to the development and maintenance of internalizing psychopathology.
Funding:
Judith Mappin Fellowship, McGill University (2021)
Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives, Graduate Student Fellowship (2022-2023)
Awards:
SSCP Distinguished Contribution Award at APS Student Poster Competition, 2022
APS Student Research Award, 2022
Corinne Sejourne (co-mentored)
Corinne is a second-year PhD student working jointly in the TRAC Lab and Behavioural Medicine Lab. She received her undergraduate degree (B.A., Honors, Human Biology) from Brown University. She is interested in developing treatment interventions to promote healthier stress responses in mothers and caregivers as measured by emotional and physiological markers.
Funding:
Tomlinson Fellowship, McGill University (2021-2023)
Lab Managers
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Loran Carpentier
Loran recently completed his undergraduate degree (B.Sc., Honours Psychology) at McGill University. He completed his senior honours thesis at the TRAC Lab, examining how neural responses to rewards are impacted by COVID-19-related stress. Loran is also interested in the neuropsychology underlying psychopathologies and neurodevelopmental disorders. He wishes to work with teenagers and young adults in the future, either as a clinician or as a research psychologist.
Anna Walls
Anna is an incoming fourth-year undergraduate honours psychology student at McGill University. She is mainly interested in studying the neural effects of psychopathologies such as anxiety and aggression on adolescent development. Anna is excited to gain valuable research experience with the TRAC lab and in the future hopes to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology.
Connie Yun
Connie has recently completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at McGill University. Her studies have allowed her to engage in research-intensive courses, which subsequently sparked her interest in exploring different aspects of psychopathology. She is particularly interested in the relevance of cultural differences within this field of study.
Connie is excited to gain direct research experiences relating to her interests in psychology while working with the TRAC lab this year. Her future plans involve pursuing graduate studies in clinical psychology and she hopes to eventually become a clinical research psychologist.
Research Assistants
Brigida Bono
Brigida is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Honours Psychology with a minor in sociology. She is interested in developmental psychopathology, with a particular interest in internalizing disorders. She plans to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology.
Enqi Wang
Enqi is going into the fourth year of undergraduate study at McGill University, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Neuroscience. She is currently working as a volunteer research assistant in TRAC lab. Her interests mainly revolve around psychopathology and vulnerabilities to mental health problems. She is passionate about pursuing future studies in the field of clinical psychology.
Leila Rafai
Leila is in her final year of her undergraduate degree (B.Sc., Honours Psychology) at McGill University. She is currently working on her senior honours thesis at the TRAC lab and is excited to gain hands-on experience working with EEG as well as exploring the domain of psychopathology. She is interested in pursuing graduate studies in neuropsychology.
Lidie Silva Andres
Lidie is completing her undergraduate degree at McGill University (B.Sc., Honours Psychology and Minor in Neuroscience). She is excited to get more experience using EEG and in data analysis. Lidie is interested in learning more about the differences between anxiety and depression, as well as studying how neural responses to uncertainty, social acceptance or rejection predict behavior changes. She wants to pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology or neuroscience.
Graduate Student Alumni
Paige Ethridge, Ph.D.: Clinical Psychologist, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton
Aislinn Sandre, Ph.D.: Post-doc at Columbia University, Teacher's College
Undergraduate Alumni
Seonwoo Hong (Clinical Psychology, University of British Columbia)
Arianna McCagg
Zeina Moussa
Mila Goulon
Mica Ostry
Sonya Akberdina
Lunaa Hao
Maya Ahia (Clinical Psychology, University of Toronto)
Joelle Schaffer (Clinical Psychology, Toronto Metropolitan University)
Jasmine Kotsiopoulus (Master of Arts in Research and Clinical Training in Psychology, Concordia University)
Ghislaine Niyonkuru (Clinical Psychology, University of Ottawa)
Talia Schroeder (research student, Dr. David Dunkley's lab, McGill University)
Lina Badran
Helen Liu
Fiona Sewall
Ashley Jussaume
Chloe White (Clinical Psychology, Simon Fraser University)
Viveca Lee (research assistant, Eating Disorders Continuum, Douglas Hospital)
Alexandra MacTavish (graduate student, child clinical psychology, University of Windsor)
Kiki Brabander (graduate student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University)
Ella Christiaans (graduate student, Educational Psychology, McGill University)
Fauzia Saiyed (Counseling Psychology Doctoral Student at Lehigh University)
Claire Punturieri (research assistant, Experimental therapeutics and pathophysiology branch of the NIMH)
Ariel Boyle (graduate student, Clinical Psychology, Concordia University)
Iman Lahouaoula (medical student, UBC)
Erin Matsuba (graduate student, psychology, Syracuse University)
Manlu Liu (graduate student, University of British Columbia)
Jamie Borenstein-Laurie (graduate student, Clinical Psychology, Concordia University)
Emma Stewart (graduate student, Neuroscience, University of Western Ontario)
Benazir Hodzic-Santor (medical student, University of Toronto)
Insub Kim (graduate student, Stanford University)
Tiana Corovic (law school, University of Toronto)
Agnessa Karapetian (PhD student in cognitive computational neuroscience, Einstein Center for Neurosciences, Berlin)
Julia Ferrone (graduate student, PsyD in School Psychology, Adelphi University)
Nicole Ledwos (graduate student, integrated program in neuroscience, McGill University)
Hazal Ozlen (project manager, Villeneuve lab, the Douglas)
Anne Baptiste (graduate student, Concordia University)
Emily Snook (medical student, University of Toronto)
Mert Kimyaci (research assistant in the Regulation, Affect and Development Lab, McGill University)
Wendy Wang
Sasha Novozhilova
Seffie Yip
David Figeuroa Perez
Jiaqi Zhao
Erica Di Caprio
Veronica Rusu
Emily Demers
Karin Cinalioglu
Charlene Osei-Afrifa
Ruby Atesoglu
Alison Yang
Sarah Bernier
Emilie Hess
Blair Lavery
Dila Bilal
Catherine Labasi-Sammartino
Christine Koppenaal
Samantha Scholes
Sarah Lefebvre
Margot Kelly-Hedrick
Christine Koppenaal
Charles LaPierre
Shannon Dawe
Sarah Sieur
Kelly Cool
Jennifer Burns
Shona Mistry
Sasha Topilova
Zainab Yahya
Bettina Trabelsi
Rachel Shepherd
Katie Mound
Ellie Basra
Oliver Huang
Friends &
Collaborators
Autumn Kujawa, Vanderbilt University
Melanie Dirks, McGill University
Anja Riesel, University Hamburg
Sarah Racine, McGill University
Alexis May, Wesleyan University
Greg Hajcak, Florida State University
Roman Kotov, Stony Brook University
Stewart Shankman, Northwestern University
E. David Klonsky, University of British Columbia
Christopher Patrick, Florida State University
Norbert Kathmann, Humboldt University
Dan Foti, Purdue University
Signy Sheldon, McGill University