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Deployment Trauma

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PTSD One project in TRACTS is looking at how experiences during childhood might influence how service members react to stress later in life. Studies have shown that people’s reactions to stress are in part due to how much stress and psychological trauma they were exposed to when they were children...

Alzheimer's Disease

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For each disease, there are multiple risk factors including lifestyle, genetic predisposition, and environment. We at the GNL are interested in understanding how these different factors contribute to cognitive decline in dementia. For this study, we work with participants who are siblings, children...

Gena Heidary, MD, PhD

Person: Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Mass Eye and Ear/Boston Children's Hospital Director of Ophthalmology Fellowship Training Profiles: Harvard Catalyst Profile Mass Eye and Ear Profile (Clinical) Mass Eye and Ear Profile (Research) Boston Children's Hospital (Clinical) Boston Children's Hospital (Research)

William Milberg, Ph.D.

Person: GNL Founder and Co-Director, Co-Director TRACTS, Associate Director for Research, New England GRECC, VABHS, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Milberg is a clinical and research psychologist who founded the Geriatric Neuropsychology laboratory when he became part of the GRECC in 1981. At that time the focus of the lab was on the cognitive consequences of dementia and stroke in older adults, but since that time the laboratory has grown...

Nikki H. Stricker, Ph.D., ABPP/CN

Person: Neuropsychologist at Mayo Clinic
Dr. Nikki Stricker is a staff neuropsychologist within the VA Boston Healthcare System and the Neuropsychology Training Coordinator. She holds an academic appointment as Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Stricker completed her Ph.D. in 2008 from the San...

Kathryn Russo, B.S.

Person: Research Assistant, Bal Lab
Kathryn recently graduated from Temple University with a B.S. in neuroscience, and she was a research assistant in the Boston Attention and Learning Laboratory. Her research interests include attention, PTSD, molecular neuroscience, and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Michael Esterman, Ph.D.

Person: Co-director, Boston Attention and Learning Laboratory, VA Boston Healthcare System, Associate Director, Neuroimaging for Veterans Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine
Michael Esterman is a co-founder of the Boston Attention and Learning Lab. He received his degree in cognitive psychology at UC Berkeley, where he investigated spatial attention and object perception using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). In his post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins...