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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

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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.

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Caroline Nester

I am a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology with emphasis in Neuropsychology PhD program at the Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY. Before graduate school, I researched remote memory in older adults with cognitive impairment and worked as a neuropsychological psychometrician. Through this experience, I grew to love working with geriatric populations, both clinically and in research settings. My current research interests include screening methodology for early diagnosis of neurocognitive impairment, as well as exploring psychometrics and assessment tools used in clinical settings.

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Katherine H. Chang

​I am a graduate student in the doctoral Clinical Psychology program with emphasis in Neuropsychology at the Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY.  Before graduate school, I volunteered in the Memory Care program at UCLA for older adults with memory problems.  Through working with these individuals and their caretakers, I developed a passion for working with the geriatric population clinically and a desire to understand underlying mechanisms that factor into the development of cognitive impairment.  After researching the effects of stem cells on cognition in a normal aging murine model, I joined Dr. Rabin's lab for my doctoral research to focus on diversity and cultural issues in self-report of cognitive concerns.

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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.

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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.

Current Lab Members

Rob Lavin

Hannah Bodek 

Jack Cameron

Nicole Sergeyev

Former Graduate Students

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

Our Lab

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