Elena Goetz

EDUCATION and TRAINING
UNDERGRADUATE:
2002-2006                    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA                                        A.B., 2006
                                     Neurobiology, Certificate in Mind, Brain, and Behavior Studies
                                     Honors thesis: Accumulation of Amyloid-β in Human Cholinergic Neurons
                                                             in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease  (Supervisor: Changiz Geula)
GRADUATE:
2006-2007                    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA                                        (non-degree)
                                     Audited graduate course in neuroanatomy, completed graduate course in biostatistics
2008-present               Duke University, Durham, NC                                                    Ph.D. candidate, expected 2013
                                     Clinical Psychology (Advisor: Timothy Strauman)
                                                                                                                                                                                               
 
APPOINTMENTS and POSITIONS
2006-2008                            Affective Neuroscience Lab, Harvard University
                                    Research Assistant and Lab Manager (Principal Investigator: Diego Pizzagalli)
                                                                                                                                                                                               
 
HONORS
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship            2009-2012
James B. Duke Fellowship                                                                   2008-2013
Duke University Endowment Fellowship                                             2008-2009
Summa Cum Laude                                                                             2006
Harvard College Research Program travel award                              2005
Mind, Brain, and Behavior research award                                        2005
John Harvard Scholar, top 5% of class                                                2003, 2006
Harvard College Scholarship, top 10% of class                                  2004, 2005
Detur Book Prize, top 5% academic performance                              2004
National Merit Scholar                                                                       2002
Star Ledger Scholarship                                                                     2002
American Association of University Women academic grant           2002
                                                                                                                                                                                               
 
PUBLICATIONS
1. Pizzagalli, D.A., Goetz, E., Ostacher, M., Iosifescu, D., Perlis, R.H. (2008). Euthymic patients with Bipolar Disorder show decreased reward learning in a probabilistic reward task. Biological Psychiatry 64: 162-168.
2. Santesso, D.L., Dillon, D.G., Birk, J.L., Holmes, A.J., Goetz, E., Bogdan, R., Pizzagalli, D.A. (2008).  Individual differences in reinforcement learning: Behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging correlates. NeuroImage 42: 807-816.
3. Pizzagalli, D.A., Holmes, A.J., Dillon, D.G., Goetz, E.L., Birk, J.L., Bogdan, R., Dougherty, D.D., Iosifescu, D.V., Rauch, S.L., Fava, M. (2009). Reduced caudate and nucleus accumbens response to rewards in unmedicated subjects with Major Depressive Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry 166: 702-710.
                                                                                                                                                                               
 
PRESENTATIONS
 
1. Goetz, E., Norvin, D., Nicholas, A., Geula, C.  (2006).  Accumulation of amyloid-β within basal forebrain cholinergic  neurons occurs early in the course of aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Society for Neuroscience Abstract,  32: Session # 17.11.
2. Pizzagalli, D.A., Dillon, D.G., Evins, A.E., Holmes, A.J., Birk, J., Goetz, E., Pachas, G., Loebl, T. (2008). Effects of a single  dose of Bupropion on the neural substrates of reward processing in Major Depression: A  double-blind,  placebo-controlled fMRI study. Biological Psychiatry 63: 211S [Poster at the 63rd Annual Convention of the Society for Biological Psychiatry, May 1-3, 2008, Washington D.C., USA].