Our Lab

Professor Rick Richardson
Principal Investigator 

PhD, Kent State University, USA

Jess Brandt
Combined PhD/Clinical MA  Student

Thesis topic: Understanding individual differences in the experience of disgust.

 

Elizabeth Virakorn 
PhD Student

Thesis topic: The effects of stress on learned fear and its inhibition in adolescence

 

Jia Teo
Combined PhD/Clinical MA Student

Thesis topic: Social buffering of fear inhibition in adolescents

 

Angel Roth

Combined PhD/Clinical MA Student

Thesis topic: Group parent-child interaction therapy for toddlers (PCIT-T) as an early intervention for externalising and internalising symptoms

 

Yen-Ning Lin

PhD Student

Thesis topic: Erasing fear memories through early-life extinction: the role of NMDA receptors

Happy Tu

PhD Student

Thesis topic: Early life adversity and vicarious learning 

 

Emily Wall

Combined PhD/Clinical MA  Student

Thesis topic: Dopamine and Extinction in Adolescence

 

Lauren Sams 

Combined PhD/Clinical MA Student
Thesis topic: Emotional Regulation following Early-Life Immune Activation

Dr. Myf Cohen
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Area: Extinction Across Development: Behavioural and Neural Analyses

 

Honours Students 

Ashleigh Cohen - The Effect of Early-Life Adversity on Pharmacological Enhancement of Extinction Retention in Adolescent Rats.

Teresa Chen - Individual Differences in Infant Memory Retention and Reminder-Induced Recovery: Implications for Anxiety-Like Behaviour in Juvenile and Adult Rats

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