TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
IN AFFECT AND COGNITION
Lab Director
Anna Weinberg, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University, 2014
Canada Research Chair in Clinical Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
anna.weinberg@mcgill.ca
Office: 2001 McGill College, 1407
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Lab: 2001 McGill College, 1450
Graduate Students
Paige Ethridge
Paige is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in the lab. She received her undergraduate (B.A. Honours, Psychology) from Western University. Paige is currently working on multiple projects related to reward sensitivity and vulnerability to depression. Paige successfully defended her dissertation titled Pathways to depression: Identifying links between familial risk, stress, and abnormal neural response to reward, and is now on internship at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton.
Funding:
Doctoral Research Award-- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2017 - 2020)
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2016)
Judith Mappin Fellowship, McGill University (2015)
Awards:
President’s Pick Psychophysiology Award for best student-written paper submitted to Psychophysiology
Aislinn Sandre
Aislinn is a fifth-year PhD student in the TRAC Lab. She received her undergraduate (B.Sc. Honours, Psychology) degree from Queen’s University. She is currently working on a research project to understand how child maltreatment creates maladaptive patterns of attention toward threatening social cues. Aislinn is also interested in examining intergenerational effects of maternal stress on infant stress responsivity and vulnerability for future psychopathology.
Funding:
Judith Mappin Fellowship, McGill University (2016)
Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives, Graduate Student Fellowship (2018-2019)
FRQ-S Ph.D. Funding (2019-2021)
Awards:
SPR Student Poster Award, 2017
Iulia Banica
Iulia is a fourth-year PhD student. 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 third-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
Héléna Renault
Héléna is a first-year PhD student in the lab. She completed her undergraduate degree (BA, Honours Psychology) at McGill and is 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)
Canada Graduate Scholarship – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2021)
Lidia Panier
Lidia is a first-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.
Lab Coordinator
Ashley Jussaume
Ashley completed her second honours thesis on the effects of maternal anxiety and parenting styles on infant neural responses to novelty. Ashley has also completed a summer project regarding how neural processes can modify the effects of experiences in adolescents. She is now working as the lab coordinator and is continuing this line of research.
Research Assistants
Joelle Schaffer
Joelle completed her senior honours thesis at the TRAC Lab exploring the associations between neural responses to social reward, stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, and depressive symptoms in a sample of mothers and daughters. She is now working as a research assistant, funded by the Psychology Undergraduate Research Award.
Seonwoo Hong
Seonwoo is a 4th-year Honours Psychology student at McGill. Her research interests include child development and psychopathology. She completed her honours thesis on the association between a blunted reward positivity and depression under stress. She is currently working as a research assistant, funded by the Science Undergraduate Research Award.
Undergraduate Alumni
Chloe White (research coordinator, Biopsychosocial Examination of Eating Patterns [BEEP] lab)
Viveca Lee (research assistant, Eating Disorders Continuum, Douglas Hospital)
Alexandra MacTavish (graduate student, child clinical psychology, University of Windsor)
Sasha Novozhilova
Kiki Brabander
Ella Christiaans
Fauzia Saiyed
Wendy Wang
Seffie Yip
David Figeuroa Perez
Jiaqi Zhao
Erica Di Caprio
Veronica Rusu
Emily Demers
Karin Cinalioglu
Charlene Osei-Afrifra
Ruby Atesoglu
Alison Yang
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)
Sarah Bernier
Emilie Hess
Insub Kim (graduate student, Stanford University)
Tiana Corovic (law school, University of Toronto)
Blair Lavery
Agnessa Karapetian
Dila Bilal
Julia Ferrone
Nicole Ledwos (graduate student, integrated program in neuroscience, McGill University)
Catherine Labasi-Sammartino
Christine Koppenaal
Hazal Ozlen (project manager, Villeneuve lab, the Douglas)
Samantha Scholes
Anne Baptiste (graduate student, Concordia University)
Sarah Lefebvre
Margot Kelly-Hedrick
Emily Snook (medical student, University of Toronto)
Christine Koppenaal
Margot Kelly-Hendrick
Charles LaPierre
Shannon Dawe
Sarah Sieur
Kelly Cool
Jennifer Burns
Mert Kimyaci
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