Alexandra S. Creighton
About The Author:
Alexandra Creighton (B.Psych(Hons)) is a clinical psychology doctorate student from Monash University, Australia. She received her Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) degree from Monash in 2014, with her honours thesis examining the effectiveness of a memory intervention for older adults with dementia. Alex has continued to pursue her interest in the field of ageing and older adults through her doctoral research, which is examining anxiety in long-term care settings.
Carla Nasca, Ph.D., is a post-doctoral fellow of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in the laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at the Rockefeller University, New York. Dr. Nasca received her B.A. in Molecular Biology and her M.S. in Electrophysiology from the University of Palermo in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Pharmacology from the University Sapienza in Rome, Italy, before moving to The Rockefeller University under the mentorship of Dr. Bruce McEwen.