Advisory Board and Editors Psychiatry & Psychology
Raymond Niaura
Director of Science at the Schroeder Institute, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society in The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Past President of the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco; Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the American Academy of Health Behavior.
Alyson Norman
Lecturer in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Plymouth. My areas of research include appearance psychology with special reference to disfigurement research, cognitive behavioural therapy and acquired brain injuries. I am also involved in medical research with specific expertise in systematic reviewing.
Lies Notebaert
Dr Lies Notebaert is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychological Science, and Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion. Her research aims to disentangle the complex interactions between cognition, emotion, and behavior, particularly in individuals exposed to adversity. Lies takes a cognitive science approach to study why some individuals are more resilient to adversity than others. She has a particular interest in the role of cognitive flexibility in individuals’ capacity to show adaption to change.
Giovanni Ottoboni
My research interests spread across the domains of clinical and general psychology.
I am interested in studying how to implement psychosocial care programs for frail people at best. In particular, I am exploring the ways decision-making processes can improve the services supporting people with dementia and the strategies to make more effective palliative care programs.
Since late 2018, I have been co-coordinating an E+ project, the SiDeCar project, which aims to develop a Higher Education program of studies focused on psychosocial care for people with dementia.
Finally, I am interested in studying the implicit and explicit mental processes mediating reflexive representations and the ones supporting both human-human and human-objects interaction.
Pierpaolo Pani
Dr. Pierpaolo Pani is a Associate Professor within the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SAPIENZA, University of Rome. He received a MSc in Experimental Psychology and PhD in Neurophysiolgy (Behavioral and Integrative) at Sapienza University (Rome), and was a post-doc in KULeuven (Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology).
Dr. Pani's main topics of investigation include Cognitive control, executive functions, goal-oriented behavior and decision making. These topics include behavioral and psychophysiological investigations in humans; behavioral and neuronal dynamics investigations in mammals; characterization of executive functions control in psychiatric conditions.
Godfrey D Pearlson
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Yale University School of Medicine and founding Director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living, Hartford, CT. Medical school, University of Newcastle/Tyne, UK. Graduate degree in philosophy, Columbia University, NY. Psychiatry chief residency & postdoctoral training, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Founding Director & Professor, Division of Psychiatry Neuroimaging, Johns Hopkins SOM.
Joel Pearson
The lab investigates how we experience, simulate, understand and remember information from the world around us. More specifically we investigate the phenomenology, mechanisms and neural basis of mental imagery, working memory, decision-making, visual perception, learning and the clinical applications for all these processes. We currently utilise behavioural methods, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), all with human subjects.
Francesca Peressotti
FP is Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione (DPSS), University of Padova, Italy. She was Director of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences, at the University of Padova from 2013 to 2017. From 2010 to 2013 she was Coordinator of the PhD program in Cognitive Sciences of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences. From 2018 to 2020 she has been elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP). She was elected member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology (2013-2016), and elected member of the Executive Committee of the Experimental Psychology Section of AIP (2008-2013). She acted as a PI in several research projects funded by the University of Padua, the Italian Ministry for the Scientific Research and the National Science Fundation (US).
FP’s research is aimed at investigating the functional architecture of the language system and it is primarily based on data coming from behavioral and electrophysiological measures, comparing the performance of different individuals, such as, e.g., adults, children, bilinguals, deaf people, signers. In a general sense, the approach used is to look at the language system taking into account experimental data coming from different domains focusing on the interactions between the language system and other cognitive functions, such as spatial attention, visual short memory, executive functions, emotions.
Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters
I am a behavior change professional on the cross-section between behavior change science (psychology), methodology and statistics and technology (ICT).
Main interests include: behavior change, statistics, methodology, online research methodology and intervention development.
Luisa A.M. Pinto
Luisa Pinto is Assistant Researcher at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho in Portugal, and Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Health Sciences, University of Minho. She is also manager of a spin-off enterprise “BNML – Behavioural & Molecular Lab” of the ICVS. Luisa is Associate Member of EpiGeneSys, a FP7 European Community-funded Network of Excellence; Editor of the journal Advances in Biology.
Renato Polimanti
Dr. Renato Polimanti is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. His scientific interests include Human Genetics, Biological Psychiatry, Computational Biology and Human Evolution.
Ruth Propper
Dr. Ruth E. Propper is a Professor in the Psychology Department at Montclair State University, where she is the director of the Cerebral Lateralization Laboratory. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Toledo in Cognitive Neuropsychology, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Mental Health Research Center, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Harvard Medical School, in the laboratory of Drs. Allan Hobson and Robert Stickgold. There, she studied the role of sleep and dreaming on memory consolidation. She was also a Visiting Researcher in the Golby Laboratory: A Surgical Brain Mapping Laboratory, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, examining individual differences in handedness effects on brain organization.
Propper has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, 2 book chapters, and more than 50 presentations at national and international conferences. She extensively mentors undergraduate and graduate research students, training more than 50 students in her laboratory over the course of her career to date.