Clinical Neuropsychology Lab
Dr. Laura Rabin
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Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Admissions Director, BC Mental Health Counseling Program
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
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Contact Information:
Email: lrabin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Phone: 718.951.5000 x6012
Fax: 718.951.4814
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Education:
B.A., Northwestern University
M.St., Oxford University
M.A., The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Ph.D., Fordham University
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dartmouth Medical School
Lab Director
Current Graduate Students
Meet the Lab
Meet our Lab
Aneela Rahman
I am a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology with emphasis in Neuropsychology PhD program at the CUNY Graduate Center, Queens College. My research interests lie in understanding and characterizing the cognitive changes associated with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease dementia. Particularly, I am interested in neuropsychological measures that detect subtle changes in memory, cognitive function and are associated with biomarker evidence of preclinical disease stages; with the long-term career goal of creating sensitive tests specifically geared toward minorities such as African Americans and Hispanics.
Pranitha Premnath
I am a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology-Neuropsychology PhD program at the Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY. Prior to graduate school, I worked on research related to neuropsychiatric symptom manifestation in older adults with and without cognitive impairment. This worked informed my current research interests, which focus on the intersection of depression, discrimination and cognitive functioning in older adults. In the future, I hope to bring my expertise to both research and clinical settings to provide equitable clinical care; with the added goal of reducing stigma related to receiving mental health services in diverse populations.
Stephanie Santiago-Michels
I am a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology- Neuropsychology PhD program at the CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College. I have broad interests in Alzheimer's Disease and related Dementias (ADRD), aging, neuropsychology, and health psychology. Specifically, my research objectives are to advance the understanding of mild to severe cognitive changes in adults as well as what role stress and trauma play in ADRD pathology. My long-term goals are to integrate research and clinical practice to employ an interdisciplinary approach to assessing cognitive health and it's potential decline, while simultaneously aiming to treat comorbid mental health conditions, such as PTSD, in various clinical populations.
Jin Kang
I am a graduate student in the doctoral Clinical Psychology program with emphasis in Neuropsychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, Queens College. My training prior to graduate school consisted of neuropsychological testing and research at Harborview Medical Center-University of Washington, with diverse clinical populations including those with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and epilepsy. I am interested in identifying and harmonizing both biomarkers and cognitive markers of memory and executive functioning decline in the context of preclinical and prodromal stages of ADRD. I also aspire to advance brain health literacy for ethnic minorities in Greater New York, particularly among Korean Americans.
Caroline Carlton
I am a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology with emphasis in Neuropsychology PhD program at the CUNY Graduate Center, Queens College. Prior to graduate school, I worked at Weill Cornell Medicine's Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic and Women's Brain Initiative focusing on preclinical integrative research and care for Alzheimer's disease prevention. My research goals are to help map out the progression of cognitive decline before diagnosis of dementia or MCI. I am particularly interested in the connection between menopause-related cognitive decline or brain fog and Alzheimer's disease risk. As females are two-thirds more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than their male counterparts, I hope to continue promoting women's health research to further understand the potential links between menopause and dementia.
Current Lab Members
Rob Lavin
Hannah Bodek
Jack Cameron
Nicole Sergeyev
Former Graduate Students
Dr. Katherine Chang is a recent graduate from the CUNY Queen's College Neuropsychology PhD Program 2024.
Dr. Caroline Nester is a recent graduate of the CUNY Queen's College Clinical Neuropsychology PhD Program 2024
Dr. Milushka Elbulok-Charcape is a recent PhD graduate from the Learning, Development, and Instruction Educational Psychology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation topic focused on mentorship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. Other research interests include: science academic identity in STEM education, vocabulary development in emergent bilinguals, and validity of multi-cultural assessment.
Dr. Crystal Quinn is a recent graduate of the Clinical Psychology with Emphasis in Neuropsychology doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center, Queens College. Her doctoral research focused on the assessment and detection of subtle declines in judgment ability in the preclinical stages of dementia using standardized, well-validated measures that are appropriate for culturally and socioeconomically diverse older adults.
Dr. Sarah Weinberger-Litman is an Associate Professor of psychology at Marymount Manhattan College. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Prevention and Control at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Spears Research Institute, where she examined religious and spiritual influences on health and illness. She is the associate producer of Hungry to be Heard, a documentary exploring eating disorders in the Orthodox Jewish Community.
Dr. Katherine Eskine is an Assistant Professor of psychology and neuroscience at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. Her research interests include evolutionary theories of music and creativity, neurophysiological changes associated with preclinical stages of dementia, the relation between music and dementia, and the science of teaching psychology.
Evan Grandoit is currently a PhD student in the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition (BBC) Psychology program at Northwestern University (https://www.reberlab.psych.northwestern.edu/people/evan-grandoit/). His research interests are investigating the effects of contextual framing on memory and learning (e.g., can having fun improve memory for item locations?). With direction from Dr. Rabin, he is studying the relationship between practice effects and Alzheimer's dementia.
Genéa Stewart is currently a PhD student in the Ed. Psychology program at the University of North Texas. Her previous professional experience as an engaged scholarship program director has inspired her research interests in measurement and evaluation. Under the guidance of Dr. Rabin, she investigated the predictive value of five factors (age, gender, psychology coursework, stigma attitudes, and perceived access) on mental health help-seeking attitudes and behaviors of diverse undergraduates.
Dr. Wendy Ramratan is currently a research scientist at the NYPD where she has worked for a couple of years. Dr. Ramratan uses data to help identify trends and risks, and leverages findings to help improve policing citywide.
Other Former Graduate Students
John Flynn, PhD | Carmen Carrión, PsyD | Ashu Kapoor, PhD
Avner Aronov, PsyD | Valdiva G. Da Silva, MA | Natalie Hung, PhD
Erica Meltzer, PhD | Beliz Hazan, PhD
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