Lab Members

Professor

Sohee Park

Professor

Dr. Park’s research program lies at the intersection between clinical, cognitive and social neuroscience. Her lab studies the nature of cognitive and social functioning in individuals with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and people at elevated risk for psychosis in order to elucidate the etiology and neural basis of psychotic disorders, and understand the complex relationships among clinical symptoms, cognitive deficits, and brain abnormalities.

Graduate Students

Tatiana Baxter

Fifth Year Graduate Student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program

Tatiana graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Spanish, and History (European concentration). After graduating, she worked as a post-bac research assistant in the Body, Mind, and Brain Lab before beginning her doctoral work in the lab. Tatiana’s research primarily explores the phenomenology of bodily self-disturbances in schizophrenia spectrum conditions, including autoscopic phenomena (such as Felt Presence and Out-of-Body Experience) and sense of self. In her spare time, Tatiana enjoys cooking, hiking, and spending time with her son, three rescue dogs (Jagger, Plum, Angus), and cat (Arni).

Julia Lebovitz

Third Year Graduate Student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program

Julia graduated from Stanford University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Neuroscience Track) and a minor in Human Rights. Prior to her Ph.D. program, she worked as a research assistant in the Mood and Psychosis Research Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Julia is interested in spatial self-location and embodiment in depersonalization-derealization disorder and schizophrenia spectrum conditions. Specifically, she investigates specific mechanisms (i.e., sensory processing) that contribute to altered self-experience in these clinical populations. In her spare time, Julia enjoys hiking, running, playing tennis, and spending time with her dog, Nellie.

Hyeon-Seung 'Hanson' Lee

Sixth Year Graduate Student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program

Hanson’s research aim is to identify what underlying cognitive-affective mechanisms of schizophrenia develop, maintain, and aggravate its symptoms. To investigate the mechanisms, he would like to probe the specific components under neurocognitive impairments, social dysfunction, or self-aberrations of schizophrenia using experimental, neurobiological, and behavioral methodologies. In addition, he is also interested in exploring intact abilities and cognitive potential in individuals with schizophrenia that would give clinical implication or an opportunity to reduce prejudice toward them. He is currently working on projects of VR based social simulation training, 3D body mapping, and Peripersonal space.

Katrina Rbeiz

Fifth Year Graduate Student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program

Katrina graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Clinical Psychology, a B.A. in Global Studies, and a minor in French. Prior to pursuing her PhD in Clinical Psychology, Katrina worked as a Post-Baccalaureate Program Coordinator at the Medical University of South Carolina. Her research interests broadly include addressing disparities in the measurement and diagnosis of psychosis spectrum conditions in people across cultural backgrounds. She hopes to use a multi-method approach in identifying and treating the attenuated symptoms of psychosis in ethnic and racial minorities through developing culturally valid assessments and interventions. In her spare time, Katrina is an avid reader, a semi-decent runner and hiker, and a grocery store connoisseur.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sophia Kekes-Szabo

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sophia completed her PhD in the Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and is now a postdoctoral researcher in the Park lab. She is broadly interested in impaired navigation of social and physical spaces in clinical populations. Her current work aims to better understand social impairments and the neural basis of maladaptive social interactions in schizophrenia using a combination of behavioral tasks and neuroimaging. Outside of the lab, she enjoys reading, cooking, and spending time with her partner and dog, Bear.

Lab Managers

Yilin Chai

Lab Manager

Yilin graduated from Barnard College with a major in Psychology and a minor in Science, Policy, & Ethics. Her research interests focus on the interplay of cognition, emotion, and perception in individuals with schizophrenia, and how these processes shape psychotic symptoms. Outside of academics, she enjoys baking, cooking, and watching movies.

Ziqi Wang

Lab Manager

Joanna is a senior majoring in Cognitive Studies and Medicine, Health, and Society, with minors in Computer Science and Philosophy. She is interested in studying the self-disturbances, self-other boundaries in people with schizophrenia. Her hobbies involve singing, playing the guitar, and cooking!