Dr. Karlsgodt received her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Psychology, after completing her undergraduate studies in Psychology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She then obtained further training as a Postdoctoral Scholar and research scientist in the Neurogenetics Affinity Group in the Semel Institute at UCLA before moving on to a position as an Assistant Investigator at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and The Zucker Hillside Hospital and Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. She is currently a Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at UCLA.

My academic interests lie at the intersection of clinical research, neuroscience, and cognition; in particular, in how new techniques being developed by the cognitive neuroscience field can be applied to help us understand more about the neural underpinnings of cognitive changes in neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. To explore this interest, I have employed a multimodal approach that includes functional MRI (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), small animal imaging of genetic mouse models, and behavioral testing in healthy subjects, patient populations, and animal models. I am particularly interested in development during adolescence, as it is a risk period for many neuropsychiatric disorders and is a time when higher level cognitive functions reach an adult-like state. I am also interested in understanding cognitive, symptomatic, and neural differences along the broader psychosis spectrum, including in subclinical psychosis.

Katherine Karlsgodt, Ph.D.                                                 kkarlsgo@ucla.edu
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