Emily Drucker
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Emily Drucker is a junior at Hunter College majoring in Physiological Psychology. She has spent time working at Vanderbilt University with Dr. James Booth in the Brain Development Lab, where she studied the relation of early childhood adversity to language processing, emotion reactivity, and working memory.
Before returning to academia, Emily had a 15+ year career as a fine dining pastry chef in some of NYC's top restaurants. Her extensive background and lifelong passion for food and cooking has informed her research interests, which involve the intersections of neuroscience with nutrition, sexuality, psychedelics, and consciousness. Emily believes in the inherent connections between these fields and illuminating their capacity to inform the etiology and clinical intervention of complex-trauma and trauma-related psychological disorders. Starting in Fall 2024, Emily will be working at NYU in the lab of Dr. Chiye Aoki, exploring the neurobiological basis of individual differences in resilience and neuroplasticity, as well as the underlying mechanisms of ketamine as a treatment for depression. After obtaining her Bachelors, Emily plans to apply to Ph.D. programs in neuroscience or psychology. |