Lab director
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
Christine I. Hooker received her PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University in 2002. She completed her clinical training at the VA Northern California and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow and later a research professor in the Neuroscience Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2007, Hooker joined the Psychology Department at Harvard University as a faculty member. In 2015, she joined Rush University Medical Center as the Stanley G. Harris Family Professor of Psychiatry. Her research uses functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or fMRI, to investigate neural mechanisms that facilitate social functioning in healthy adults and patients with schizophrenia disorder. Her work has been supported by the National Institute of Health, the MIND Institute, and the National Association for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression.
Research staff
Instructor of Psychiatry
Kristen M. Haut received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2010. She completed her clinical training at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and a visiting assistant professor at Williams College. Her research involves using multimodal neuroimaging techniques including fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging to investigate structural and functional connectivity brain abnormalities that contribute to the risk for and onset of psychotic disorders as well as how these abnormalities contribute to cognitive deficits, such as impaired working and episodic memory, in individuals with schizophrenia. Her clinical interests include psychodiagnostic and neuropsychological assessment, cognitive-behavioral therapy and social skills training. A Chicagoland native, she is enjoying spending time with her family and getting reacquainted with the city’s food, music and yoga.
Research assistants
Briana Galindo, BA
Briana received her BA in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in May 2017. She has almost two years of research experience in the psychology and sociology departments at UIC. Prior to graduating, she did research investigating the prevalence of trauma in individuals with schizotypal personality traits. Her current research interests include improving cognition and social cognition in individuals with severe mental illness and also exploring how our experiences shape our behavior. When she's in not in a lab she likes to go to movies and spend time with her dog.
Savannah Lokey, MA
Savannah received her B.S. in psychology from Arizona State University in 2015. She then went on to the National Institutes of Health's Post-Baccalaureate IRTA program, where she worked in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition. Her primary project as an IRTA examined emotion processing and attention in individuals with Moebius Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder resulting in congenital paralysis of the face. She is currently a rising second-year student in UIC's clinical psychology program. Broadly, her interests center on determining neural correlates underlying social cognition deficits in schizophrenia, as well as the role that childhood trauma plays in the development of psychosis. Her current project in the SNAP lab examines neural differences in embodied cognition in individuals with schizophrenia.