NEUROPSYCHOLOGY COGNITION AND MOBILITY LAB
Who We Are
Current Ph.D. Students
Andrew Fox, M.A.
Andrew Fox is a fifth-year student with research interests in neuropsychology and aging. His dissertation focuses on examining various proxy measures of cognitive reserve and its relationship to processing and memory in older adults with and without multiple sclerosis.
Ashley Hoh, M.A.
Ashley Hoh is a fifth-year student. Her research interests lie in neuropsychology and protective factors in older adults with neurodegenerative diseases.
Di-Hua Luo, M.A.
Di-Hua Luo is a fifth-year student. Her research interests involve neuropsychology of aging and cognitive and functional decline in neurodegenerative diseases.
Robert Leavenworth, M.A.
Robert Leavenworth is a fifth-year student interested in the impact of neurodegenerative diseases on disability outcomes and quality of life in older adults.
Ana Eustace
Ana is a fourth-year student. Her interests surround brain-behavior relationships and using neuroimaging to detect predictors of cognitive and physical decline in neurodegenerative diseases.
Gargi Doulatani, M.A.
Gargi Doulatani is a fourth-year student. She is interested in studying the impact of neurodegenerative diseases on cognition, aging, and overall quality of life in older adults.
Dana Hirst, M.A.
Dana Hirst is a fourth-year student. Her research interests lie in neuropsychology and aging. She is currently interested in the relationship between cognitive decline and functional outcomes in older adults with neurodegenerative diseases.
Emma Pinsky
Emma Pinsky is a fourth-year student. She is interested in studying neuropsychology and aging, with a focus on improving everyday functioning in people with neurodegenerative diseases.
Hannah Hoff
Hannah is a third-year student. Her research interests lie in neuropsychology and aging, with a focus on the relationship between neurodegenerative disease features and quality of life.
Margaret Zhong
Maggie is a third-year student. She is interested in elucidating disease progression in neurodegenerative diseases, integrating structural, functional, and cognitive aspects.
Solange Roussetzki
Solange Roussetzki is a second-year student. She is interested in the brain-behavior relationship, specifically the impact of cognitive impairments on emotion in diverse older adults with neurodegenerative diseases.
Ally Howell
Ally Howell is a second-year student. She is interested in utilizing neuropsychological tools to study mental health outcomes in aging populations with neurodegenerative diseases.
Arianna Fiorentino
Arianna Fiorentino is a first-year student. She is interested in studying the impact of psychological and social factors on cognition in individuals with neurodegenerative diseases.
Students on Internship
Hannah Cohen, M.A.
Hannah Cohen is currently on internship at Northwell Health-LIJ Zucker Hillside Hospital in the neuropsychology track.
Sarah Cote, M.S., M.A.
Sarah Cote is currently on internship at the Charleston Consortium in the neuropsychology track.
Doyen Kim, M.A.
Doyen Kim is currently completing her internship in the neuropsychology track at Harvard - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Siddharth Nayak, Ph.D.
Siddharth Nayak is a second-year postdoctoral fellow with research interests in neuroimaging and aging. He is interested in understanding brain-behavior relationships utilizing signal and image processing. His current work focuses on examining various measures of functional connectivity and its relationship to cognitive and motor outcomes in older adults with and without multiple sclerosis.
Research Assistants
Olivia Kato
Olivia Kato is a full-time research assistant who assists Dr. Holtzer’s graduate students in all study procedures. She, alongside Hannah Hoff, is responsible for the recruitment and testing for the collaborative study with Villanova University looking at brain activity and cognitive functioning in older adults. She wants to pursue a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is interested in executive functioning in older adults.
Matthew Lawson
Matthew Lawson is a full-time study coordinator, co-leading recruitment efforts for the Holtzer and Feldman Labs' joint Asthma-Aging study. He will be starting medical school this upcoming summer and is interested in pursuing oncology.