Resh Gupta, M.S.

Resh Gupta, M.S., is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the Vanderbilt Brain Institute working under the direction of Dr. Autumn Kujawa. In 2015, she graduated with highest distinction and received a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). As an undergraduate student at UIUC, she conducted research on associative memory in younger and older adults. As a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, she has conducted research on the short and long-term consequences of proactive interference and has also examined differences in cognition and brain structure, vasculature, and white matter integrity between individuals at-risk or not-at-risk for Alzheimer’s disease. At the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt, Resh uses EEG/ERP, behavioral, and clinical outcome measures to investigate the effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on threat-related attentional biases in anxious populations. When she is not engaged in research, she enjoys spending time with family, creating art, and playing her accordion, piano, and guitar.