People

Director: Scott M. Hayes

Dr. Hayes is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, Associate Director of Clinical Functional Imaging of the Neuroimaging Research Center at VA Boston Healthcare System, and core faculty member of the BU Memory Disorders Research Center.   Dr. Hayes graduated from Skidmore College (Biology, Psychology) and completed his doctoral work in Clinical Psychology (Neuropsychology) and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Arizona.  He completed an NRSA-funded cognitive neuroscience-clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and the Bryan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Duke University Medical Center.  A licensed psychologist, Dr. Hayes clinical interests include neuropsychological assessment of age-related neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, microvascular disease, and frontotemporal dementia, as well as amnesia.  CV

Lab Coordinator

Huiting Liu is a Psychology Research Technician at the Memory Disorders Research Center and the National Center for PTSD—Behavioral Science Division, VA Boston Healthcare System. Prior to joining the MDRC, she was a research assistant at the New York State Psychiatric Institute for Dr. Katherine Shear and at Columbia for Dr. George Bonanno and Dr. Lawrence Yang. She received a B.A. in psychology and policy studies from Grinnell College and an M.A. in clinical psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include the cognitive processes involved in the development of PTSD and other anxiety disorders as well as issues in geropsychology.

Research Assistant

Margaret Cadden is a Research Assistant at the Memory Disorders Research Center.  She received her B.S in neuroscience from Bates College in 2011. While at Bates, she researched and wrote an honors cognitive neuroscience thesis under the advisory of Nancy Koven, PhD. This research examined the relationship among vitamin D blood serum levels, corpus callosum volume, and cognition in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis. Her research interests include the cognitive deficits resulting from autoimmune and neurodegenerative disorders, as well as topics concerning neuroplasticity and neurogenetics.

Students

Adriana Tzigantcheva is a Research Intern at the Memory Disorders Research Center. She is currently studying Behavioral Neuroscience at Northeastern University, anticipating her B.S. in 2012. Past research positions include being an AMGEN Scholar at the University of California, San Diego and a Co-op Lab Technician at the Center for Clinical Investigations at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she aided in the research of human olfactory thresholds and factors affecting the human circadian rhythm, respectively. Her research interests lie in the fields of learning and memory, sensory perception, and the circadian rhythm.

 

Alumni

Amanda Mikedis, B.A.
Pursuing Ph.D in Clinical Psychology at Clark University
amanda.mikedis@gmail.com

Joelle Mamon
Junior at University of Rochester

Collaborators:

Mieke Verfaellie, PhD, VA Boston and Boston University: Lab website

Jasmeet Pannu Hayes, PhD, VA Boston and Boston University: Lab website

Margaret Keane, PhD, Wellesley College: Lab website

David Salat, PhD: Lab website

Daniel Forman, MD, VA Boston; Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Reisa Sperling, MD: Lab website

Roberto Cabeza, PhD, Duke University: Lab website

Lee Ryan, PhD, University of Arizona : Lab website

Lynn Nadel, PhD, University of Arizona: Lab website