Shiba Esfand

Graduate Student

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Shiba is a Clinical Psychology Graduate Student in the Brain and Body Lab (BABLab) at UCLA. She is primarily interested in implementing multimodal methods to examine how exposure to early life adversity, and current stressors, can shape neural development and reward processing. Shiba is also interested in investigating how these factors may increase the risk of developing internalizing disorders in childhood and adolescence. She graduated from Boston University in 2021, where she worked in Dr. Melissa Kibbe’s Developing Minds Lab. After graduation she worked with Dr. Diego Pizzagalli at the Laboratory for Affective and Translational Neuroscience.