Patricia J. Deldin, Ph.D.
Lab Director
Lab Director
Melynda D. Casement, M.S.
I am interested in the cognitive and neurophysiological bases of psychopathology. My current research investigates the relationship between sleep chronophysiology and affect-based memory and decision making in Major Depressive Disorder.
Hyang-Sook Kim, M.A.
My primary research interest is to understand the role of cognition in emotion and emotional disorders. In particular, I would like to research the biases in information processing which contribute to the development and maintenance of abnormal emotional states.
Jinsoo Chun, M.A.
Currently I'm working on recording EEG data inside the fMRI scanner with spiral pulse sequence. I'm also working on analyzing N200 and P300 component collected from schizophrenic and schizoaffective patient; currently I'm trying to find some distinctive features of those two components that describe response inhibition of the aforementioned groups.
Laura Girz, B.A.
I am currently examining adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism, rumination, and depression. I am looking to see whether rumination mediates the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depressive symptoms.
Jean Kwek
The Learning To Decide project with Kirti and Melynda is my first research project, looking at offline learning and if it improves over sleep or just over time.
Surbhi Gupta, B.S.
I recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in biochemistry. I have been with the Deldin lab for four years now and have worked on various projects investigating sleep disparities within depressives and schizophrenics. Currently I am working with the big sleep project looking at sleep eegs and an archival project concerning ultradian rhythm.
Ivy Tso, M.Phil.
My research interests are social cognition and emotional information processing in schizophrenia. I am currently working on projects that examine (a) the relationship between schizophrenia symptoms, neurocognition, socio-emotional functioning, and functional outcome; (b) the differential predictive power of negative affect on functional outcome in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; and (c) functional neuroanatomy of reward processing in schizophrenia.
Philip Cheng
Kirti Thummala
Emotional Processing Deficits in People with Depression. Response time to incongruent emotional word adjectives superimposed over Ekman's emotional faces are used to asses how emotion processing is impaired in individuals with depression. Also: Offline Learning and Decision Making with Iowa Gambling Task.
Daniel Ehrmann
I am a junior undergraduate at the University of Michigan. My studies concentrate on psychology, with a minor in science, technology, and society as part of a pre-medicine education. My research projects currently focus on the relationships between attention, memory, and mood-congruent processing. I also study the impact of sleep-disordered breathing on various forms of psychopathology.
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