LAB DIRECTOR
Lab Manager
Anusha Mohan
Anusha Mohan is the lab manager for the ASD Long-Term Outcomes Study (ALTOS). She previously worked as a Research Program Specialist in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include early intervention and long-term outcomes in autism and other developmental disorders.
Postdoctoral Researcher
MELINA WEST
Melina West is a postdoctoral research associate working on the ASD Long Term Outcomes Study (ALTOS). She completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include social and emotional functioning of individuals with developmental conditions such as ASD and those with optimal outcomes. She also studies maladaptive daydreaming, and is interested in the role of immersive mental experiences in mental health.
Graduate Students
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Anders Hogstrom (2014)  Anders Hogstrom is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. He came from Howard Nusbaum's laboratory at the University of Chicago. He is interested in the interaction between language and broader cognitive processes, such as attention, in autism spectrum disorders. His MA thesis concerned the influence of top-down expectations on speech processing in ASD. A pianist, he is also part of a collaborative project with Ed Large, to study musical expertise in ASD. |
Karla Rivera Figueroa (2016)  Karla Rivera Figueroa is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Her PhD dissertation is about the larger implications of the cultural stigma surrounding individuals with autism spectrum disorders in Latinx and African-American communities. |
Mackenzie Stabile (2017)  Mackenzie Stabile is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests include the interaction between cognitive processes such as cognitive control and language in autism spectrum disorders, learning, and mechanisms of change in individuals with optimal outcomes from autism spectrum disorders. |
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Elise Taverna is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests broadly include the cognitive and environmental factors underlying language and social outcomes in individuals with autism spectrum disorders, as well as mechanisms of optimal outcomes in ASD. Previously, she worked with Sophie Molholm at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, coordinating neuroimaging studies of sensory processing and cognition in autism spectrum disorders and other conditions. |
Jason Crutcher (2018)  Jason Crutcher is a graduate student in clinical psychology. Before coming to UConn for graduate school, he worked with Dr. Alex Martin at NIMH researching how structural differences in the brain relate to abnormalities in language and social cognition for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. His research interests broadly include language dysfunction in developmental disorders such as ASD. He is particularly interested in neural mechanisms underlying pragmatic language abilities for people with optimal outcomes from ASD. |
Lab Alumni
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Jillian deGroot Schuh (2005)
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Ashley de Marchena (2006)
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA |
Jessica Bean Jaworski (2007)
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Jessica Mayo (2008) |
Christina Irvine (2010)
Current Position: Clinical Psychologist, Portland, OR |
Brian Castelluccio (2012)
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Allison Canfield (2012)
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Joshua Green (2013)
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Current position: Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Catalpa Health; Assistant Adjunct Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Neurology, Division of Neuropsychology, WI
Current Position: Instructor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Neuropsychology, Baystate, Medical Center, Springfield, MA
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INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
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Irina Polyanskaya: Roskild University, Denmark
Irina’s thesis examines second-order false beliefs and recursive complement development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Cecilia Brynskov: Aarhus University, Denmark
Cecilia’s Ph.D. thesis examined structural language in Danish children with ASD, at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is currently on the faculty at Aarhus.
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Katherine Mumford University of Birmingham (U.K.)
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Marthe Høppener: Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen
Marthe is a Ph.D. student at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. She is interested in peer interactions among children with autism spectrum disorders, among other things. |
