Speakers
Ruchika Prakash, PhD – Professor of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, The Ohio State University
About the Talk
Dr. Prakash is a distinguished professor of psychology at The Ohio State University, where she also serves as director of the Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging. Her research focuses on evaluating mind-body interventions to improve cognitive and emotional health in older adults and those with neurological conditions, using neuroimaging and neuropsychological methods. She has published 91 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychology and Aging, and NeuroImage.
Her achievements have been recognized with several awards: the “Rising Star Designation” from the Association for Psychological Science in 2013, the Springer Early Career Achievement in Research on Adult Development and Aging from the American Psychological Association in 2016, and the Diversity and Inclusivity Champion Award from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in 2023. Her work is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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