Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Bram Diamond graduated with high distinction and honors in research from the University of Rochester, earning a B.S. in brain and cognitive sciences with a minor in clinical psychology. As an undergraduate, he completed an honors thesis examining the use of preoperative MRI to predict intraoperative language mapping performance in epilepsy patients undergoing temporal lobe resection. Following graduation, Bram worked as a research coordinator in a computational neuroimaging laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital while collaborating with researchers at the Neuro ICU and volunteering at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. In 2020, Bram began the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His dissertation focused on the functional connectomics of successful cognitive aging in older adults, classified as “SuperAgers,” under the co-mentorship of Drs. Emily Rogalski and Adam Martersteck. In his second year, he was awarded a two-year NIH T32 training grant supporting early-career investigators studying mechanisms of aging and dementia. During his pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Bram worked with Dr. Athene Lee to investigate sociocultural factors that moderate the relationship between subjective cognitive concerns and beliefs about aging in older adults. He was invited to present his work at INS and he plans to submit his findings for publication. Bram is excited to remain at Brown as a postdoctoral fellow in Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Training Program (CNSP). He would like to thank his mentors, collaborators, family, and friends for their continued support throughout his training.