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Emily L. Dennis has a B.A. degree in Psychology from Whitman College (’08) and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UCLA with Dr. Paul Thompson. There she researches brain structural and functional connectivity – specifically, how they change over development, are influenced by genetics, and how they are related to cognitive function. She worked previously with Dr. Fumiko Hoeft, in the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research at Stanford University, and with Dr. Ian Gotlib, in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory, also at Stanford University.