Dr Jamie Feusner Jamie Feusner Director
Principal Investigator
Director of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Intensive Treatment Program and Associate Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He is currently funded by the NIH and the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation to study visual information processing in BDD.
Donatello Arienzo A postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
Teena Moody Investigating 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.
Courtney Sheen Courtney Sheen, M.A. is a staff research associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and linguistics from California State University, Northridge and her Master’s from Pepperdine University. A great deal of her work is in the administration of psychological assessments.
Cara Bohon Cara Bohon, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Vanderbilt University and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. She is currently involved in collaborations with the BDD research program looking at differences and similarities between BDD and anorexia nervosa in visual and emotion processing.
Faraz Alizadeh Faraz Alizadeh currently completing his Bachelors of Science in Integrative Biology and Physiology. His plans include attending medical school after graduation and opening a medical clinic in an undeserved community. As a research assistant in Dr. Jamie Feusner's Lab, he is studying anxiety and emotion processing in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder.
Sarah Madsen Sarah Madsen is a graduate student in the UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Ph.D. program. She received her B.S. in neuroscience and psychobiology from UCLA. Currently she is working in the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging under Dr. Paul Thompson. Her work focuses on using multiple brain imaging modalities to investigate the human brain in Alzheimer's disease, aging, and BDD. Sarah is also very involved with science teaching and outreach in the community.

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