TRACE - Treatment and Assessment of Cognitive Effectiveness Lab

09/09/2026

Check out our new paper! Caitlin Donnelly PhD took the lead on examining the role of dissociative symptoms and childhood trauma in people with psychotic-like experiences. There are some important implications for psychosocial functioning and emotion processing. Published in Brain Sciences 🧠 Alliant University

Background: Childhood trauma and dissociation have each been associated with psychosis-spectrum symptoms, yet their combined relationships with social cognition and psychosocial functioning remain poorly understood. Guided by a theoretical framework of cognitive integration, the present study examin...

08/27/2026

Welcome TRACE Lab 2026-2027! Let's GO!! 🧠💪

07/24/2026

Congratulations are in order to my newly minted student Dr. Bryce Carson on his successful defense! 🎊 His dissertation examined discriminatory effects on psychosis risk among sexual and gender minorities relative to cishetero individuals. Congrats, Bryce!!!

06/30/2026

Seeking mental health professionals to take part in an online study to explore the relationships between mental health professionals and their patients with psychosis.

You may be invited to complete the full study that takes between 30 - 90 minutes.
Study visit involves completing online tasks and self-report questionnaires.
Study visits are conducted over Zoom with a member of our research team.
Individuals who complete a full study visit over zoom will receive a $40 gift card for their participation. If selected to complete the full study you will receive an email invite from our team after you have submitted your response to the initial survey. Your participation can help us reach our goal of better serving individuals with psychotic features!

06/30/2026

Hello, we are seeking participants for a research study. Please share this info. with anyone you know who may be interested who is living in the U.S., is an adult, between the ages of 21–65, and experiences obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive behaviors is invited to participate in a research study examining these experiences. Participation includes a brief eligibility screening and a virtual session with researchers. Participants will receive entries into gift card drawings for both study phases and be compensated with a $30 gift card for completing both the brief screening and virtual session. Please see the flyer for more details.

If interested in participating, here is the link to the brief study screening: https://alliant.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3yhf72uWjagd21E

05/23/2026

Happy Commencement! 🎓 Congratulations to all the graduates of 2026! And big congrats to my student, Dr. Alyssa Roth, for her Best Dissertation Award!! Her study was on Maternal Accommodation in Pediatric OCD. 🧠

05/21/2026

Congratulations to my student on her phenomenal defense today: The Effects of Two Reward Schedules on Cognitive Control Performance in Individuals on the Psychosis Spectrum

Hooray, Dr. Susan Koh!! 💐🥳

05/18/2026

The 2026 Alliant Conference on Clinical Psychology - Facing Uncertainty: Rooted in Resilience, was a wild success!

A big congratulations to Gab Hansen, MA and Mary Smith, MA for expedient work on putting together and getting printed a beautiful Program for the Conference. You can scan the QR code that is on Conference poster below or check it out here: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/73b9ffd31b.html

Some conference photos - one attendee was an alum from the class of 1975! Congrats to Kailee and Keenan on their first TRACE lab posters, and to Madison on her 4th (I think?)!

04/28/2026

TRACE Club had a great time at this weekend's NAMI Walk 2026! NAMIWalks Alliant University

04/22/2026

Dr. Veronica Perez is the Guest Editor of a Special Issue for Brain Sciences. Please see below for submissions due June 30th!

Special Issue - Neurocognitive Deficits and Remediation in Severe Mental Illness: Mechanisms and Treatments