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Reuma Gadassi-Polack, P.h.D

Email: reuma.gadassipolack@yale.edu

Reuma received her doctoral degree in Psychology from Bar-Ilan University, and her M.A. in Educational and Clinical Child Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reuma’s research focuses on the affective and interpersonal aspects of depression and personality disorders. She is currently working on projects investigating role of emotion regulation in the development of depression and other disorders. To approach these questions she uses various methods, including cognitive tasks, experience-sampling methods, and brain imaging.

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Nicholas Harp

Nick is interested in the links between mind-body wellness and affective experience. For instance, he has studied how physical activity and mindfulness-based interventions relate to affective bias, and he is interested in further exploring how physical activity or mindfulness interventions might reduce craving or negative affect in substance use disorders. He is also interested in the brain basis underlying such effects. For instance, he is currently using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine patterns of brain activity associated with clinically relevant outcomes (e.g., relapse in substance use disorders) in the service of improving treatments.

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Maria Christina Crouch

Email: maria.crouch@yale.edu

Maria Christina Crouch (Deg Hit’an and Coahuiltecan), PhD, is a clinical-community psychologist and an NIAAA F32 postdoctoral research fellow at Yale University. Her program of research is focused on the intersection of trauma-informed care, evidence-based practices, and practice-based evidence (Indigenous approaches) to address alcohol and drug issues, trauma, and related health impacts of social determinants among American Indian and Alaska Native communities from a cultural, strengths-based approach.  

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Adam Morris

Adam Morris is a postdoc in the Crockett Lab and the Kober lab. He recently finished his PhD in cognitive science at Harvard University. During his PhD, he studied “habits of thought” in decision-making: habitual cognitive mechanisms which guide abstract thought patterns and decision operations. He is currently investigating people’s awareness of their own implicit choice mechanisms, and the ways that this awareness can be improved through attentional training, such as mindfulness training.