Faculty and Staff

Dr. Susan Bookheimer is Clinical Neuropsychologist and Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology. Dr. Bookheimer specializes in functional brain imaging with PET and functional MRI. Her work has focused on the organization of language and memory in the brain, in healthy adults and children and in neurologic conditions and developmental disorders. (Full profile)

Dr. Alexander Bystritsky is Director of the UCLA Anxiety Disorder Program and Professor-in Residence in Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the treatment of anxiety disorders, including OCD. He has published clinically influencial research on OCD, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. His current research involves developing novel treatments for anxiety. (Full profile)

Emily Hembacher currently works with Dr. Feusner studying the neurobiology of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Anxiety Disorders.  She graduated from UC San Diego where she volunteered in several labs, including the Attention and Perception lab where she assisted in memory consolidation studies, and Dr.
Ebbeson¹s Social Psychology lab, where she studied facial processing in witness identification procedures.  Her interests include neuroimaging, memory and cognition, and developmental psychology.

Hayley Moller is currently a first year undergraduate student at UCLA, and is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has volunteered in the Sutter Health physical therapy clinic and in an HIV research laboratory at UCSF. She is considering pursuing a medical profession, and is very enthusiastic about BDD research.

Dr. Moody is studying learning, reasoning, and memory at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She recently joined the BDD team to investigate visual information processing using fMRI.  She has other ongoing research on the effects of depression on learning and memory in patients with bipolar disorder and late-life depression.
She is also studying the impact of the Internet on learning in older adults.  Her postdoctoral research focused on explicit and implicit learning in Parkinson¹s disease.