Postdoctoral Fellow
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Sherain Harricharan, Ph.D. (she/her)
Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Candidate
Trauma and Recovery Lab
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences
McMaster University
Sherain Harricharan received her undergraduate degree in Biology and Medical Sciences at Western University in 2015, and then went on to complete her doctoral degree in Neuroscience at Western University with Dr. Ruth Lanius in 2019. She is currently pursuing a second doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario under the supervision of Dr. Margaret McKinnon.
Sherain’s research focuses on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), employing various neuroimaging approaches to study altered neural circuitry patterns among traumatized individuals. Her research interests include studying how sensory processing pathways in the brain are altered as a function of trauma and dissociation, emphasizing their impact on the performance of higher-order cognitive functions, including emotion regulation, social cognition, perception, and attentional processing. Sherain is dedicated to identifying neural correlates that can aid in the development of clinically-oriented sensorimotor treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder that can be broadly applicable to all manifestations of the disorder, including dissociative symptomatology.
To date, she has published extensively in a variety of high-impact journals; she has 14 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the Scientific Committee for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She is also a member for the Interational Study for Traumatic Stress Studies and has spoken at numerous professional conferences since the start of her graduate studies in post traumatic stress disorder.
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Sunday, April 16, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM US Eastern Time