COGNITIVE AND
SENSORY IMAGING
(CASI) LABORATORY
Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham, PhD
Director, CASI Laboratory, Boys Town National Research Hospital
Assistant Clinical Professor, Creighton UniversityPostdoctoral Fellow – University of Nebraska Medical Center (2017)
PhD – Neuroscience, University of Nebraska - Omaha (2015)
BS – Psychology, Creighton University (2010)
Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham, PhD, is the Director of the Cognitive and Sensory Imaging (CASI) Laboratory at the Institute for Human Neuroscience, who has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications. Her work utilizes advanced neuroimaging methods such as magnetoencephalography (MEG) and structural MRI to identify the dynamics of brain function and dysfunction in children and adults. She has substantial experience in the identification and characterization of oscillatory cortical responses associated with attention, working memory, executive function, auditory processing, and motor control.
Dr. Heinrichs-Graham also has an extensive collaborative history and has provided MEG expertise to various teams examining cognitive processing in patients with various neurological and psychiatric disorders, in addition to a wealth of studies focusing on healthy brain development throughout the lifespan. Her current research focuses on the impact of mild-to-severe hearing loss and the amount and quality of hearing intervention on cognitive and neural development in children and adolescents.
Publications: 90+
Augusto Diedrich, BA
Graduate Student
CASI Lab BA – Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University
Augusto is a graduate research assistant in the CASI Lab, and his role in the lab includes participant recruitment, acquisition of neuropsychological, audiometric, and neuroimaging data, and data analysis. His current research interests involve identifying and characterizing the underlying neural dynamics of mental disorders and flexible behavior, including higher-order dynamic cognitive processes such as memory, attention, and learning. Outside of work, Augusto loves to play chess and violin, watch anime, and eat Nashville hot chicken!
Mike Shen, BS
Graduate Student
CASI LabBS – Neuroscience/Cognitive Science, University of Arizona
Zhiying (Mike) Shen is a graduate research assistant in the CASI Lab, and his roles involve data analysis and data acquisition for various research projects. His current research interests include how language emerges and develops in children and changes throughout life, how language is processed in real time and by what neural substrates, and how other cognitive abilities (e.g., multisensory integration, code switching) support and facilitate language. When not working, he does home gardening to supply his kitchen with fresh herbs and likes to wander into nature sporadically.
Jack Carroll, MSc
Research Assistant I
CASI LabMSc – Developmental Science, University of Edinburgh
BS – Psychology, Emmanuel College
As a research assistant in the CASI Lab, Jack is involved in participant recruitment, acquisition and scoring of neuropsychological and audiometric tests, and data analysis. He is interested in developmental cognitive psychology and developmental neuroscience, especially cognitive development in young children and the effects of psychological and environmental stressors. In his free time, Jack enjoys running, photography (particularly film photography), traveling, and visiting art museums.
Clare Reinhart, BS
Research Assistant I
CASI LabBA – Psychology, Rockhurst University
As a research assistant in the CASI Lab, Clare's roles involve participant recruitment, acquiring data, analyzing data for various research projects. Her future goals include attending graduate school to obtain a PhD in Clinical Psychology and eventually get her license as a clinical neuropsychologist. She enjoys playing sand volleyball with her friends and doing house renovations with her dad.
Grace Salloum, BS
Research Assistant I
CASI LabBS –Psychological Sciences & Criminology, Western Kentucky University
As a research assistant in the CASI lab, Grace's role involves analyzing data for various research projects. Currently, she is working on publishing her thesis study on mental illness and stigma, and other research interests include neurodevelopment in youth and brain activity in victims of crime trauma. Grace loves group watching bad psychological thrillers and has an orange cat named Cheddar who enjoys bagels as much as she does.
