
She has extensive research experience, first in Dr. James Meador-Woodruff's (Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology) laboratory engaging in postmortem gene expression studies of schizophrenia and mood disorders.
More recently, she has been working with Dr. Rajesh Kana (Psychology) analyzing the results of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) tests performed on cognitively normal children and children with autism spectrum disorders to determine the role of theory of mind networks in causality and social understanding.