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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Dr. Susan Y. Chi is a clinical psychologist and researcher focused on psychological interventions that integrate the mind and body to optimize cognitive and emotional functioning in individuals struggling with learning differences, executive function/degenerative disorders, and trauma. Dr. Chi also leads the development of the metacognitive and meta-emotion GritX Skills and Xpeditions.
Dr. Zohn Rosen is a Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Rosen is an experimental psychologist, and is currently an investigator on a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. He has a long history of managing large-scale research projects, and extensive experience in regulatory matters related to conducting studies in the US.
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