Morgan Pearlman BS
Designation
- Graduate Research Assistant, REWARD Lab
- Department of Psychiatry, UIC
- she/her
- mpearl4 [at] uic.edu
- (312) 870-0375
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School of Public Health / Psychiatric Institute (SPHPI)
1601 W. Taylor St.
SPHPI MC 912
Chicago IL 60612
Morgan is a Clinical Psychology doctoral student with the mentorship of Dr. Natania Crane at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She is interested in exploring the emotional and neurobiological mechanisms underlying substance misuse, particularly related to cannabis. Building upon work conducted as an undergraduate at UIC and a research assistant at Yale, Morgan is currently exploring distinctions in reward motivation and experience of reward among cannabis users.
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Cannabis, alcohol, substance use disorders, reward, psychophysiology