Dr. Arienzo graduated from “Universita` Politecnica delle Marche”in Italy with a major in Biomedical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in functional neuroimaging at the University of Chieti in Italy. He conducted his doctoral research at Columbia University investigating visual mapping of somatosensory areas. At UCLA he worked on brain mapping in clinical population with mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Arienzo is interested in human brain mapping in preclinical and clinical pediatric population with mood disorders, developing a fine grained understanding of mental flexibility and attention bias. His expertise is in multimodal imaging, building macro-level brain models of cognitive function.

James analyzes functional imaging data, constructs three-dimensional models, and aids in the construction of new experimental paradigms. He is continuing to study the neurobiology of depression and mood disorders with rotations in imaging, optogenetics and animal models laboratories.

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” -Heraclitus

Jacklynn is graduate student completing her PhD in Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. Her studies focus on adversity and affect self-regulation as it relates to pediatric mood disorders.

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” -C.S. Lewis

Dr. Iordanescu is interested in developing novel neuroimaging paradigms to investigate disorder specific abnormalities in the brain circuitry map by using fMRI to probe neurocognitive functions in specific brain regions. Dr. Iordanescu received a PhD in Psychology (Brain, Behavior, and Cognition) from Northwestern University.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

Dr. McMahon trained as a Clinical Psychologist in the U.K. and has worked with children and adolescents with mood disorders in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. McMahon sees children and families within the Pediatric BRAIN Center for triage for assessment and treatment. Her research interests include mapping neurocognitive function of children with Bipolar Spectrum Disorders and examining the impact of pharmacological and psychological treatments on neurocognitive ability.

“All men by nature desire knowledge” -Aristotle

Dr. Yang is interested in brain responses elicited by negative and positive stimuli in pediatric bipolar disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). She also explores the brain connectivity of affective andcognitive circuitries with dynamic causal modeling and independent component analysis, the correlationbetween neural functions and clinical symptoms.

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still” -A Chinese proverb