Home Department: Psychology
Faculty Advisor: James McClelland
Talk Title: How Language Affect Thought in a Connectionist Model
Event: Cognitive Science Society Meeting 2007
Home Department: Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Emmanuel Mignot
Talk Title: Proteomic and metabolomic perspectives in the study of PLMS/RLS
Event: World Sleep Congress 2025 - Katie received the Wayne Hening Young Investigator Award from the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group.
Dr. Katrin Andreasson's group is investigating the role that innate immune responses play in the initiation and progression of neurological diseases. Recent advances in human genetics, particularly for neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, have highlighted a causal role for a disrupted immune response in disease pathogenesis. An injurious immune response may be a common denominator across many neurological disorders, both acute (brain trauma or stroke) and chronic (epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer's for eg.).
