Eva Kuzyk

Bio

Eva received her B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University in 2021. During her time at Emory, Eva interned at the Grady Trauma Project, a civilian trauma and PTSD research center, where her research focused on emotion dysregulation using person-centered analyses. After graduating, Eva worked at the Mood and Behavior Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, studying suicide and self-injury in high-risk adolescents using computation psychiatric methods.

Eva joined the BU CTE Center in August of 2022. She splits her time between the brain processing team, where Eva assists in the processing of post-mortem brain tissue, and the clinical team, where she conducts clinical interviews and assists in qualitative data collection.

Research Interests

Eva’s interests center primarily on the behavioral and neurobiological sequelae of trauma.

Spotlight

Selected Publications

1. Kuzyk, E., Mekawi, Y., Michopoulos, V., & Powers, A. (2022). Identifying latent profiles of emotion
   dysregulation in a sample of primarily black women with trauma exposure. Journal of Psychiatric
   Research.
2. Cheek, S., Kudinova, A., Kuzyk, E., Silva, L., Goldston, D., & Liu, R. (Under review). Cognitive
   Inflexibility and suicidal ideation among adolescents following hospitalization: the moderating role
   of life stress.
3. La Barrie, D. L., Mekawi, Y., Zegarac, M., Kuzyk, E., Stenson, A., Jovanovic, T., Bradley, B., Powers,
   A. (2022). Examining associations between child violence exposure and psychopathology: are there
   emotion specific dysregulation pathways. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and
   Policy.
4. Mekawi, Y., Kuzyk, E., Dixon, H. D., McKenna, B., Camacho, L., Martinez de Andino, A., Powers,
   A. (2021). Characterizing typologies of polytraumatization: a replication and extension study
   examining internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in an urban population. Clinical
   Psychological Science.
5. Fani, N., Currier, J. M., Turner, M. D., Guelfo, A., Kloess, M., Jain, J., Mekawi, Y., Kuzyk, E., Hinrichs,
   R., Bradley, B., Powers, A., Stevens, J. S., Michopoulos, V., & Turner, J. A. (2021). Moral injury in
   civilians: associations with trauma exposure, PTSD, and suicide behavior. European Journal of
   Psychotraumatology.
6. Mekawi, Y., Watson-Singleton, N. N., Kuzyk, E., Dixon, H. D., Carter, S., Bradley-Davino, B., Fani, N.,
   Michopoulos, V., & Powers, A. (2020). Racial discrimination and posttraumatic stress: examining
   emotion dysregulation as a mediator in an African American community sample. European Journal
   of Psychotraumatology, 11(1), 1824398.
7. Fani, N., Currier, J., Turner, M., Guelfo, A., Kloess, M., Jain, J., Mekawi, M., Kuzyk, E., Hinrichs, R.,
   Bradley, B., Powers, A., Stevens, J., Michopoulos, V., Turner, J. (Revise and resubmit).
   Development of a Brief Moral Injury Assessment for Civilians: Associations with Trauma
   exposure, PTSD, and Suicide Behavior.
8. Lazarus, T., Lazarus, G. T., Emory, E. K., Reardon, K. M., & Kuzyk, E. G. (2020). A South African
   Case Study. In Social Justice for Children and Young People: International Perspectives.
   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.