Katharine Thakkar
Professor, Co-Director of Clinical Training
Psychology 110C
Biography
My research program aims to understand the mechanisms that contribute to psychosis and the factors that shape its course over time. I study how neurobiological processes related to perception, cognition, arousal, stress, and hormonal change contribute to psychotic symptoms and their variation across individuals and across different periods of life. My lab uses eye tracking, pupillometry, behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, intensive longitudinal assessment, and first-person reports of experie
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PhD, Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 2012
BA, Psychology, Boston University, 2004
BA, Mathematics, Boston University, 2004