Lab Director
Michael T Treadway, PhD
Dr. Treadway is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist focused on understanding the molecular and circuit-level mechanisms of psychiatric symptoms related to mood, anxiety, and decision-making. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University in 2012, and completed his clinical internship and post-doc at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. As Director of the Translational Research in Affective Disorders Laboratory (TReADLab) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University, Dr. Treadway’s research employs a variety of methods, including multimodal neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, MRS, and PET), behavioral paradigms, computational modeling, and clinical/personality assessment. A particular interest has been the assessment of reward motivation in psychiatric populations, for which Dr. Treadway has developed several laboratory tasks, including the Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT).
Email: mtreadway (at) emory (dot) edu Google Scholar Page CV
Assistant Director
Jessica A Cooper, PhD
Dr. Jessica Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University with research interests in motivation and decision making. She received her PhD from the University of Texas in 2016, where she primarily studied decision making and reinforcement learning in healthy aging. Her work in the TReAD lab focuses on characterizing neurobiological and computational mechanisms of motivation and effort-based decision making in both healthy and clinical populations. She employs a variety of methods, including computational modeling, behavioral paradigms, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Jess has been funded by a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA) as well as K01 award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Email: jessica (dot) cooper (at) emory (dot) edu
Post Doctoral Research Fellows
Jon Ryan, PhD
Dr. Ryan graduated from Florida State University with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience prior to joining the TReaDLab. His primary research interests lie in utilizing neuroimaging and neuromodulatory techniques to parse underlying mechanisms associated with depressive symptomatology. He hopes to work towards the development of novel clinical interventions for treatment-resistant depression.
Boris Botzanowski, PhD
Dr. Botzanowski received his PhD in neuroscience under the supervision of Dr. Adam Williamson and Dr. Viktor Jirsa from the University of Aix-Marseille. During his PhD, he investigated and developed some possible applications of temporal interference, an emerging neuromodulation technique for non-invasive deep-brain stimulation.
Graduate Students
Shosuke Sosuki, MA
Shosuke graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Neuroscience. Before joining the TReAD lab, he spent 3 years working as a research assistant at Yale University, where he gained experience running multi-session clinical trials with fMRI and EEG components in Substance Use Disorders. He is primarily interested in using ecological paradigms to examine the interface between motivation and action. Outside of lab, he enjoys cooking, bouldering, and meditating.
Victoria Lawlor, MA
Victoria graduated from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Psychology and minor in Computer Science. Before joining the TReAD lab, she worked as a student intern and co-op research assistant at McLean Hospital, where she used EEG and computational modeling to investigate learning and memory processes in adults with depression. Victoria is interested in using neuroimaging and computational methods to probe dysfunctional value-based decision-making in depression and anxiety. She is also interested identifying linguistic markers of psychopathology using natural language processing.
Sarah Etuk, MA
Sarah graduated with a BA in neuroscience from Pomona college, and then completed the NIH PREP program at Northwestern University. Her work in the lab has focused on examining the role of inflammation and immunometabolism in context of motivational impairments in mood disorders. She is also interested in the neurobiological consequences of early life adversity and their role in the development of mental illness.
Marta Migo, MA
Marta graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Psychology, a B.F.A. in Drama, and minors in Computer Science and Philosophy. She then worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital for two years, in the Division of Neurotherapeutics. Currently, Marta is interested in using neuroimaging and computational psychiatry techniques to study free and perseverative thought patterns, such as worry and rumination, in mood and anxiety-related disorders.
Research Staff
Shiyin Liu, BS
Tatiana Pillsburry, BA
Jessica Kubert, BA
Samantha Betters, BS
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Wenqi Ge Emma Levy Coco Wu Nadia Piecyk Amelia Mo
Kira Young
Graduate Student Alumni
Andrew Teer, PhD
Drew Teer graduated from Yale University with a BA in Psychology in 2010, and graduated from Emory University with a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2020 after completing his internship at Grady Hospital. Drew is interested in the use of imaging both to shape existing treatments and to develop new therapies for internalizing disorders like depression and PTSD. He is currently completing his post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University.
Amanda Arulpragasam, PhD
Amanda graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Neuroscience and B.A. in Linguistics in 2012, and graduated from Emory University with a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 2021 after completing her internship at Dartmouth. Amanda is interested in using neuromodulatory techniques, including TMS and focused ultrasound to understand the role neural circuits play in the etiology and maintenance of mental illness. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Brown University.
Shabnam Hossein, PhD, PhD
Shabnam graduated from University of Houston with a Ph.D. in Physics, after which she spent one year working as a volunteer research assistant at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary research interests lie in understanding the underlying cognitive mechanisms that maintain psychopathological symptoms especially present in anxiety and mood disorders. She is also interested in applying methods of network science, which has been shown to be successful in many other disciplines, to study psychopathology.
Research Staff Alumni
Brittany DeVries
Emma Hahn
Makiah Nuutinen
Nadia Irfan
Asim Lal
Chelsea Leonard
Danielle Harrison
Melissa Letzler
Dan Cole
Undergraduate Research Assistant Alumni
Samuel Han
Jessica Kubert
Nimra Ahad
Leslie Mora
Jeffrey Yang
Maheen Nazarally
Michael Shi
Carson Bohl
Maryam Reyman
Mallory Warman
Isha Kumar
Emily Seigel
Kristi Kwok
Andrew Wei
Emily Mathis
Ila Gautham
Mihir Ghetiya
Annabel Lu
Heejae (Elina) Choi
William Yun
Theresa Benson
Anneka Soenstrom
Brian Shim
Shermin Punjwani
Nadia Irfan
Mark Gorman
Meg Airely
Lydia Zhang