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Centre for Neuroscience in Education

 

Lyla Parvez joined the Centre for Neuroscience in Education in 2019 when she began doing her PhD, under the supervision of Professor Usha Goswami and. Her thesis will investigate atypical neural processing of speech stimuli in children with Developmental Language Disorder.

As part of her research, Lyla has worked upon both the Botnar and the Yidan projects.

 

Biography

Lyla earned her MA in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, after completing a BA in Psychology (with a minor in Health, Medicine and Society) at the College of Arts and Sciences, Lehigh University. While studying for her MA she researched addiction within adults and adolescents at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

While studying Lyla worked as a Research Assistant at Columbia University, Harvard University, as well as the University of Oxford. During this time she did work on subjects including metacognitive abilities, trauma, language development, neuroimaging, and prosocial behaviour in children. Lyla has also been a Senior Associate researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai here she worked on projects on the impact of drug and alcohol addiction.

Publications

Key publications: 

Nia, A., Mann, C., Spriggs, S., DeFrancisco, D., Carbonaro, S., Parvez, L., Galynker, J., Perkel, C., & Hurd, Y. (2019). The Relevance of Sex in the Association of Synthetic Cannabinoid Use with Psychosis and Agitation in an Inpatient Population. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 80(4).  https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.18m12539

Nia, A., Parvez, L., Madden, L., & Barry, D. (2019) Cannabis Use and Lifetime History of Trauma and Relevant Sex/Gender Differences in Treatment Seeking Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder. [Unpublished article]

Mann, C. L., Nia, A. B., Spriggs, S., Carbonaro, S., DeFrancisco, D., Parvez, L., Perkel, C., & Hurd, Y. (2018). 2273 Synthetic cannabinoid usage among psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2(S1), 48. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2018.184

Parvez, L., & Wang, A. -L. (2018, June 18). Effect of Emotionally Silent Graphic Warning Labels on Risk Perception [Poster presentation]. Tobacco Regulatory Science Meeting, NIH TRSM, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Wang, A. -L., Parvez, L., Shi, Z., Fairchild, V., Aronowitz, C., & Langleben, D. (2018, April 27). Emotional Content Modulates Brain fMRI and Cognitive Effects of Repetitive Exposure to Graphic Warning Labels in Adolescents [Poster presentation]. Mount Sinai Brain Fair, New York, NY, USA.

Wang, A. -L., Parvez, L., Shi, Z., Fairchild, V., Aronowitz, C., & Langleben, D. (2018, June 19). Emotional Content Modulates Brain fMRI and Cognitive Effects of Repetitive Exposure to Graphic Warning Labels in Adolescents [Poster presentation]. Tobacco Regulatory Science Meeting, NIH TRSM, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching: 

While at the Univeristy of Cambridge, Lyla has supervised papers on organisational behaviour and autism by third and fourth year undergraduate students.

Doctoral Student
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