People

Principal Investigator

Hwamee Oh Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (primary) Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (secondary)

Affiliated faculty of the Carney Institute for Brain Science

Faculty trainer, Brown Neuroscience Graduate Program

Ph.D., Biopsychology-Cognitive Neuroscience, SUNY-Stony Brook, 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC-Berkeley, 2009-2014

email: Hwamee_Oh@brown.edu
phone: 401-863-3961
office:  252 Duncan Bldg. Butler Hospital, 700 Butler Drive, Providence, RI 02906 |              332 Metcalf Research Building, 190 Thayer Street, ProvidenceRI 02912

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Ji-Hyun Kim, Ph.D.

Ji-Hyun, trained as a cognitive neuroscientist, is interested in neural and computational bases of human higher cognitive function and how they change with aging and Alzheimer’s disease pathology using task-based fMRI and PET.

Jenna Blujus, Ph.D.

Jenna is studying neurocognitive bases of the risk and resilience in aging and Alzheimer’s disease pathology using multimodal neuroimaging, behavioral assessments, and plasma markers.

 

Rowena Chin, Ph.D.

 

Medical Students

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Andrew Chen, B.A. 

As a first-year medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Andrew examines the neural basis of loneliness and how individual differences in this subjective experience relate to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

 

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Benjamin Zide, B.A. 

Ben is a first year medical student at AMS with a longstanding interest in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease research. At Brown, he is excited about further exploring the neurobehavioral and pathological changes associated with the aging brain.

 

Neuroimaging Data Specialist

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Courtney Burton, Ph.D.

Courtney is working on the Biofinder-Brown study and interested in using neuroimaging methods to study brain structure and function in clinical populations and the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease and dementias.

 

Lab manager/Research Assistants

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Jasmine Ranieri

B.S. Physiology & Neurobiology, Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Connecticut, 2024

Jasmine is interested in the intricate pathophysiological  mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases, along with how modern neuroimaging techniques can be harnessed to enhance diagnostic accuracy and optimize treatment

of dementias such as Alzheimer’s.

 

Nick Hu

Xiaoyang (Nick) Hu

B.S. Mathematics, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science, University of Michigan, 2022

Nick is interested in understanding the emergence and deterioration of executive functions in humans and AI systems using neuroimaging and computational methods.

 

 

Undergraduate Students

Jeremy Fleming

Neuroscience at Brown, 2021-

 

Eileen Wu

Public Health and Literary Arts at Brown, 2023-

 

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Aleksandra Dubno

Neuroscience at Brown, 2024-

 

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Hannah Moon

Cognitive Neuroscience at Brown, 2024-

 

Lab Alumni

Sarah Bao, Mathematics, Computer Science, & Computational Neuroscience at Brown, 2023-2024

Drew Kim, Neuroscience at Brown, 2024

Adea Rich, MPH, Brown University School of Public Health, 2022-2024

Gelila Messay., Cognitive Neuroscience at Brown, 2022-2024

Graham Kupsaw, Neuroscience at Brown, 2020-2023

Bryanna Vilnaigre, Neural Science at NYU, Brown Carney Institute-BPENDURE Summer Research Intern, 2023

Elliot Park, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC-Berkeley, Summer Research Intern, 2023

Young Seo, Neuroscience at Bowdoin College, Summer Research Intern, 2023

Catherine Dion, Ph.D. student in Neuropsychology, University of Floria, Brown Clinical Psychology Program Internship, 2022-2023

Iris Cheng, Neuroscience at Brown, 2020-2023

Lindsey Walsh, Biology and Psychology, Stonehill College, Research Externship, 2022-2023

Maxine Slater, Program in Liberal Medical Education at Brown, 2020-2023

Elizabeth Sharp, B.A., Lab Manager and Research Assistant 2021-2023

Cristina Roman, Ph.D. Postdoctoral fellow 2020-2021

Shanti Mechery, B.S., Lab Manager and Research Assistant 2019-2021

Sophia Ahn, Program in Liberal Medical Education at Brown 2020-2021

Elizabeth Kaplan, Neuroscience at Brown, 2020-2022

Annika Rogers, Neuroscience at Brown, 2020-2022

Vineetha Yadlapalli, Neuroscience at Brown, 2020-2022

Sucheta Chakravarty, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow 2021-2022

William Park, Health and Human Biology on Premed at Brown, 2021-2022

Mia Dominick, Health and Human Biology at Brown, 2021-2022

Melanie Morales Aquino, Health and Human Biology at Brown, 2021-2022

Katheryne Gonzalez, Cell & Molecular Biology at Brown, 2022

 

Collaborators

Brown University

Name Title
Buka, Stephen Professor of Epidemiology
Carskadon, Mary Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Crawford, Lorin Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Dibble, Elizabeth Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
Eloyan, Ani Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Vice Chair of Biostatistics
Festa, Elena Senior Lecturer in Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Greenberg, Benjamin Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Heindel, William Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Jones, Rich Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neurology
Jones, Stephanie Professor of Neuroscience
Lee, Athene Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator
McLaughlin, Nicole Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Nassar, Matt Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Salloway, Stephen Martin M. Zucker Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neurology
Sedivy, John Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology, Associate Dean and Director, Center for the Biology of Aging
Serre, Thomas Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Science and Professor of Computer Science., Professor of Computer Science
Song, Joo-Hyun Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Thompson, Louisa Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior