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Audrey Rouhandeh
Audrey is a fifth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PhD Health Emphasis Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She conducted her predoctoral thesis project under the direction of Dr. Zemon and Dr. Paige Siper at the Seaver Autism Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Audrey’s primary research interests include improving early identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related disorders in young children, including through the study of electrophysiological biomarkers. Audrey is also interested in the study of early interventions for children with autism and anxiety disorders, including examining the utility of electrophysiological biomarkers as an outcome measure in intervention studies.
Zachary Bergson
Zachary Bergson is a fifth-year student in the Systems Neuroscience lab. He is primarily interested in the neural correlates of Schizophrenia and Traumatic Brain Injury. He is also interested in advanced statistical modeling, data visualization, and machine learning. Prior to joining the lab he worked at the Wall Street Journal, where he was responsible for developing a charting application that helped journalists create data visualizations for the web and in print. Zachary is currently completing his internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Psychosis Track.
Naomi Uy
Naomi is a fifth-year student in the Systems Neuroscience Lab. Her research interests lie within the field of sensory perception and the neural correlates within sensory integration and processing. While involved in the Clinical Psychology PhD Health Emphasis Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, she performs research under the guidance of Dr. Zemon and Dr. Mahoney at the Albert Einstein Department of Neurology regarding the integration of visual and somatosensory stimuli. This study focuses on these perceptual pathways within older individuals at risk for dementia and delves into the correlation between the ability to integrate the target modalities and fall risk.
Carolina Frankini
Carolina is a fifth-year student in the Clinical Psychology PhD Health Emphasis Program at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology currently externing at Columbia University Medical Center, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience. She is currently performing research under Dr. Vance Zemon and Dr. Jeannette Mahoney at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to study how the brain processes and integrates sensory, motor, and cognitive information in individuals at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease compared to healthy older adults. The study includes a multitude of techniques to identify structural and neural correlates of visual-somatosensory integration and examine how these correlates are related to health outcomes, including fall risk and mobility. Carolina’s research interests include improvement in intervention and functional needs in patients with neurodegenerative and neurological disorders.
Maroo Shin
Maroo is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Health Emphasis Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. He is conducting multiple sclerosis (MS) research at Holy Name Hospital, NJ. Under the mentorship of Vance Zemon, Ph.D and Fred Foley, Ph.D. Maroo is comparing the effectiveness of visual evoked potential (VEP) and various standardized measures in detecting MS and assessing their performance across different disease stages. His goal is to identify early indicators of MS development using VEP and to explore how VEP can aid in evaluating the efficacy of MS treatments by detecting optic nerve abnormalities prior to the onset of clinical symptoms.
Shreya Vaidya
Shreya Vaidya is a fourth-year student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Health Emphasis Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in the Systems Neuroscience lab, currently working as a neuropsychology extern at Memorial Sloan Kettering in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with an emphasis on the neuropsychological assessment of adults with central nervous system and non-central nervous system cancers as well as geriatric patients. She is also continuing as a senior neuropsychology extern at Weill Cornell Medicine in the Department of Neurosurgery with diverse patient populations across the lifespan presenting with varying neurological conditions, including but not limited to, Parkinson's disease and movement-related disorders, epilepsy, brain tumors, cerebrovascular disorders, dementia, paraneoplastic syndromes, craniofacial disorders, neuromuscular and genetic disorders, severe traumatic brain injury, arteriovenous malformations, as well as post-COVID-19 neuropsychiatric sequelae. Shreya has also participated in and is continuing to partake in research relating to epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, and a case study on limbic encephalitis at Weill Cornell Medicine in the Department of Neurosurgery. Shreya’s broader research interests include evidence-based interventions utilizing neuropsychological evaluation to understand the cognitive, biological, and behavioral basis of neuropsychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders. Her scientific/clinical endeavors are aimed at encouraging early intervention to improve patient prognosis for the aforementioned disorders. Additionally, Shreya is conducting research on her pre-doctoral thesis and dissertation under the direction of Dr. Zemon and Dr. Herrera in the CUE (Coping with Unique Experiences) program at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, with individuals who are at a clinical high risk for psychosis and those diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Natalie Edman
Natalie is a third-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Health Emphasis Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She is studying electrophysiological biomarkers in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) under the direction of Dr. Zemon and Dr. Paige Siper at the Seaver Autism Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She wrote her pre-doctoral thesis on visual evoked potential (VEP) outcomes of low-dose ketamine treatment in children with activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) syndrome. In general, she is interested in studying the neurobiological underpinnings of different brain-based disorders, specifically ASD, and participating in research that links brain structure with behavior. Natalie is also the lab TA.
Lital Twizer
Lital is a third year student in the Systems Neuroscience Lab. Her research interests include studying neural and visual mechanisms underlying cognitive function and dysfunction. While involved in the Clinical Health Psychology PhD Program at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, she conducts research under the guidance of Dr. Zemon and Dr. Mahoney at the Division of Cognitive and Motor Aging at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine regarding the integration of visual and somatosensory stimuli. This study focuses on the perceptual pathways within older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, and delves into the relationship between the ability to integrate multi-sensory information and predicting cognitive decline and falls.
Tanya Verghese
Tanya Verghese is a third year student in Dr. Zemon's lab. Her research focuses on the intersection between types of auditory processing, aging, and cognitive decline. She is conducting her research under the guidance of Dr. Zemon and Dr. Jeannette Mahoney at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Mahoney's lab focuses on the interaction between motor, sensory, and cognitive systems in the process of healthy aging and in the development of mild cognitive impairment.
Gillian Broome
Gillian is a first-year Clinical Psychology PhD Health Emphasis student in the Systems Neuroscience Lab. Her research interests lie in sensory integration, particularly in understanding how aging and cognitive decline affect sensory processing in the brain. Gillian currently performs research under the guidance of Dr. Zemon and Dr. Mahoney at the Albert Einstein Department of Neurology regarding the integration of visual and somatosensory stimuli as a novel marker of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Hailey Silver
Hailey is a first-year student in the Clinical Psychology PhD Health Emphasis Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She is conducting her research under the direction of Dr. Zemon and Dr. Paige Siper at the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Hailey’s primary research interests include sensory functioning in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related monogenic causes ASD and intellectual and developmental disabilities and related electrophysiological biomarkers. Hailey is also interested in related symptomology in ASD and the utility of biomarkers and objective testing to gain a more holistic understanding of individual functioning.
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