Nathaniel comes from Marin County and graduated from Stanford in 2018 with a degree in psychology. At Stanford he worked as a research assistant in Dr. James Gross' lab studying the regulation of emotions in groups as well as the emotional dynamics between group members. Nathaniel also studied the effects of depression and anxiety on brain structures.

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Alex graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Bachelor of Science in psychology with a minor in neuroscience in May 2021. While at the University of North Carolina, he worked in Dr. Prinstein's lab where he studied adolescent interpersonal relationships, depression, and suicide. He looked for subjective biomarkers of stress and their effect on mental health. Alex also worked in Dr. Muscatell's Social Neuroscience Lab were he studied how the brain responds to health messages in people from different cultural backgrounds. Alex joined the CAN Lab in June 2021.

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Amanda graduated from the University of Scranton in May 2022. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Philosophy with a minor in Biochemistry. She worked in Dr. Son's neurobiology lab at the University of Scranton, where she studied the effects of developmental hypoxia on neural development and behavior. Amanda joined the CAN Lab in August 2022. 

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Ashlin earned his Bachelor of Science in psychology at the University of Oregon in 2016. As an undergraduate, he assisted several labs that study the neurobiological basis of behavior. After graduating, Ashlin worked as a lab manager at the University of Massachusetts Boston for Dr. Keith Welker and Dr. Rhiana Wegner. Currently, Ashlin is a data analyst at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center for Dr. Virginia Sturm and Dr. David Perry. He is interested in studying the neural substrates of affective and reward processes, as well as psychiatric disorders associated with deficits in these areas.

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Tiffany Chow joined the CAN Lab as a postdoctoral scholar in 2018. She received her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2017. Her graduate work assessed the neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial direct current stimulation, and wearable camera technology. 

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Eleanor Palser joined the CAN lab in December 2018. Eleanor works with UCSF's Dyslexia Center, studying social and emotional processing in neurodevelopmental conditions, such as dyslexia and autism. To do this, she combines self-report, physiological and neuroimaging methods. Previously, she received a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London. During her doctoral studies, she investigated the role of afferent bodily signals or "interoception" in several aspects of cognition and emotion, applying this to the clinical features of autism and anxiety. 

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Amie Wallman-Jones joined the CAN lab in February 2023. She previously received her PhD from the University of Bern in Switzerland. Her graduate work assessed how physical activity influences interoceptive processing, where she used a multi-method approach to reveal the active ingredients driving this relationship. 

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Belinda Zhang is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology and she joined the CAN lab in August 2021. Her dissertation wok focuses on studying the associations between autonomic nervous system activity and real-world socioemotional abilities in children with dyslexia. 

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