Emily Drucker
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Emily Drucker is a senior at Hunter College, majoring in 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. She has also worked under Dr.'s Karim Ibrahim and Amanda Dettmer at the Yale University Child Study Center, exploring the neurobiological outcomes of early adversity in humans and non-human primates.
Before returning to academia, Emily had a 15+ year career as a fine dining pastry chef in some of NYC's best 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. Emily spent time working at NYU in the lab of Dr. Chiye Aoki, exploring the neurobiological basis of individual differences in resilience and neuroplasticity, and is currently a member of Dr. Regina Miranda's lab at Hunter College, studying youth cognition and suicide. After obtaining her Bachelors, Emily plans to apply to graduate programs in neuroscience or psychology. |