Principal Investigator
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, Providence, RI 02912
Postdoctoral Fellows
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.
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.
Graduate Students
Adea Rich, B.S.
Adea is interested in the intersection between cognitive neuroscience and public health to understand the biological processes of cognition, cognitive disorders’ pathology, and secondary prevention during the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s.
Medical Students
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.
Neuroimaging Data Specialist
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
Mackenzie Topper
B.S. Psychology & Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, 2023
Mackenzie is interested in associations between brain regions and their association with symptomatology linked to Alzheimer’s Disease and the genetics and biological processes behind neurodegenerative pathology.
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.
Project Coordinator
Sophia Wagner
B.S. Neuroscience, Pennsylvania State University, 2020
Sophia is coordinating for the Brown MICAAD and HEAD studies in the lab and is interested in resilience and pathology of neurocognition in those who have experienced adverse life events.
Undergraduate Students
Gelila Messay
Cognitive Neuroscience at Brown, 2022-
Jeremy Fleming
Neuroscience at Brown, 2021-
Sarah Bao
Mathematics, Computer Science, & Computational Neuroscience at Brown, 2023-
Eileen Wu
Public Health and Literary Arts at Brown, 2023-
Aleksandra Dubno
Neuroscience at Brown, 2024-
Hannah Moon
Cognitive Neuroscience at Brown, 2024-
Drew Kim
Neuroscience at Brown, 2024-
Hattie Grant
Neurobiology at Brown, 2024-
Lab Alumni
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 |