About Us
Meet our team
Colleen Mills-FiNnerty, PHD
Principle Investigator
Instructor (Affiliated), Stanford Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Research Health Science Specialist, Palo Alto Veterans Healthcare System
Colleen Mills-Finnerty earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, where she studied brain network dynamics underlying multidimensional decision making. Her postdoctoral work in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science focused on using concurrent brain stimulation and neuroimaging (TMS/fMRI) to understand the nature of information flow in the brain. As the Principle Investigator of the BiB Lab, she combines her background in psychology and psychiatry to research translational approaches to bridge between mental health, behavior, and treatment interventions.
Halee
staggs
Research Assistant
BS 2017, San Jose State University
Nichole hogoboom
MA student
BA 2017, San Jose State University
Mohannad khadr
Undergraduate Intern
BA 2022, San Francisco University
Tiffany Harvey
Undergraduate Intern
BS 2022, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Trevor
Zimmerman-Thompson
Undergraduate Intern
BA, 2021 California State University, Fullerton
Mentorship team
Lab Alumni
Funders
Current Funding
PI Mills-Finnerty: Supplement to VA CSR&D CDA2 #1 IK2 CX001916-01 "Understanding Predictive Factors of Cognitive Symptoms of Post-Covid Syndrome in Veterans"
PI Mills-Finnerty: VA CSR&D CDA2 #1 IK2 CX001916-01 "Causal brain mechanisms of value-based attentional capture in depression" (2019-2024)
Completed Funding
PI Mills-Finnerty: Kaggle Open Data Research Grant, "Characterizing attention to reward in healthy aging" (2020)
PI Mills-Finnerty: Gorilla Grant, "Characterizing attention to reward in healthy aging" (2020)
Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Care Advanced Fellowship (2015-2019)
CNI Innovation Awards (2015-2018):
PI Mills-Finnerty: Brain mechanisms of approach/avoidance behavior in aversive conditions
Co-I (PI Manjari Narayan, PhD): Assessing test-retest reliability of functional connectivity using multi-echo fMRI
PI Mills-Finnerty: Understanding brain connectivity underlying emotion regulation
Co-I (PI Christina Chick, PHD): Probing the causal circuitry of loss aversion in risky decision making