Meet Our Team & Collaborators

Dr. Weinsztok (she/her) completed a postdoctoral fellowship from 2021-2024, under the mentorship of Dr. Amlung in the BEAN Lab and the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment. Dr. Weinsztok’s work explores the effect of alternative commodity availability on substance use and its utility as a component in the assessment and treatment of alcohol use disorder. During her postdoc, she was awarded a Frontiers TL1 training grant through the University of Kansas Medical Center to advance her research in these areas. Dr. Weinsztok is currently a Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University.

Herry completed his Ph.D. from the Neuroscience Graduate Program at McMaster University in 2022 (supervised by Dr. Amlung and Dr. Margaret McKinnon). Herry's Master's Thesis in the lab  research focused on studying Episodic Future Thinking and its effects on delay discounting and alcohol demand among individuals with addictive disorders. For his dissertation research, he investigated the intersection between simple vs. complex trauma, dissociation, and substance use. Dr. Patel is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego.

Dr. Stancato completed her Ph.D. in Behavioral Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2022. Stefanie's research mainly been studying delay and probability discounting with substance and alcohol use with college students. Currently, she is a Research Psychologist with the U.S. Army at Fort Leavenworth, where she assists research psychologists with their research focusing on leader development in the Army. 

Dr. Morris completed her Ph.D. in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at McMaster University in 2020, supervised by Dr. Amlung. Her dissertation examined differences in intracortical myelin via MRI between those with substance use disorders and healthy controls. She is also conducting studies examining resting state functional connectivity, cortical thickness, and other brain correlates in people who use alcohol and other substances. Dr. Morris completed a postdoctoral fellowship at York University and is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick.

Lana completed a Masters degree in Neuroscience from McMaster University in 2020. Her thesis investigated deficits in affective decision-making on the Iowa Gambling Task in justice-involved adults in the Canadian federal prison system. She also served as the Project Coordinator of the Peter Boris Centre's collaborative project with the Correctional Service of Canada. Lana is now a PhD student in the Clinical Neuropsychology Program at York University. 

Dr. Naudé completed a research practicum in the lab during the fall 2020 semester. During his time in the lab, he contributed to analyzing data for two manuscripts focusing on impulsive delay discounting in polysubstance users and a clinical sample of people with various anxiety disorders. Dr. Amlung was a member of Dr. Naudé's doctoral committee (his primary mentor was Dr. Derek Reed). Dr. Naudé is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at with Dr. Matthew Johnson at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Dr. Naish was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory when we were located at McMaster University and the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research. Dr. Naish conducted research on neuromodulation (including transcranial direct current stimulation) and delay discounting among people who use cannabis. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Naish pursued additional Masters-level training in psychotherapy.