Yael Grossman
Graduate Student in Neuroscience
Email: yael.grossman@mssm.edu

I am currently a graduate student in Mount Sinai School of Medicine. My interests include the different mechanisms by which an individual forms a decision (for example impulsive versus analytical decision making) and how these mechanisms may interact with one another and the environment, and be disrupted during neuropsychiatric disease.

Lia Cook
Volunteer, Professional Artist
Website: http://www.liacook.com/

My current practice incorporates concepts of cloth, touch, and memory. I use the detail, an intimate moment in time, often woven in oversize scale to intensify a shared emotional and sensual experience. I use a digital loom to weave images that are embedded in the structure of cloth. The digital pixel becomes a thread that when interlaced with another becomes both cloth and image at the same time. This woven image brings with it many of the sensual experiences that we associate with cloth. Child hood family snapshot and video stills are some of the raw materials that I draw on to investigate small, intimate details of the body or to capture a fleeting human expression. My practice involves research into new technologies and new ways to translate my images that make the structure visible and physically felt, attempting to create the image as physical object.

Kyle Lapidus, MD, PhD
Resident in Psychiatry, Physician-Scientist Track
Email: kyle.lapidus@mssm.edu

I am interested in mechanisms and therapeutics of mood disorders. Particularly, I am interested in treatment-resistant depression, including pharmacological and interventional techniques.

May Yuan
Volunteer

I am currently a senior in Great Neck South High School. I have done research for two years in school, and have experience with recruiting participants and data analysis. My interest lies in affect and social cognition—does emotion influence how we see the world around us? Currently, my project is on how disgust affects social attributions, using FAE (fundamental attribution error) as a model.

Abigail Orlando
Volunteer

I am a participant in my high school's Advanced Science Research Program, where I am able to design and implement my own experiment with the guidance of a mentor. I have a strong interest in the field of neuroscience and plan to spend the next two years in the Schiller Lab studying the role of mirror neurons in Social Psychology.