Raana Mohyee, B.A.
raana.mohyee@temple.edu
Raana is a research assistant in the Ellman Laboratory. In the Spring of 2019, she completed her bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science with honors at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked as a research assistant in the D’Esposito Laboratory on a project that examined the use of perfusion-weighted and resting-state functional MRI to measure neurological outcomes in chronic stroke patients. As a member of the Ellman Lab, Raana has managed the Healthy Brains Project for which she has led analysis of multimodal MRI data. Her research interests include the interaction between the immune and nervous systems, especially the role of glial cells in shaping neuronal processes such as neuronal differentiation, synapse formation, and myelination, and how these give rise to large-scale changes in brain structure. Additionally, Raana is passionate about the characterization and treatment of refugee mental health outcomes following exposure to psychological traumas.
PEER reviewed articles
Mohyee, R., Elliott, B. L., Pike, M., Kring, A., Olson, I. R., Breen, E., Cohn, B., Cirillo, P., Krigbaum, N., Olino, T., D’Esposito, M., Cogan, A., Patwardan, B., Ellman, L. M. (In Preparation). Decreased hippocampal neurite density in middle-aged adults following prenatal exposure to maternal inflammation.
Mohyee, R., Elliott, B. L., Kring, A., Olson, I., D’Esposito, M., Cogan, A., Cohn, B., Cirillo, P., Krigbaum, N., Ellman, L. M. (In Preparation). Sex differences in the effect of childhood trauma on microstructure of the hippocampus in middle age.
Mohyee, R., Elliott, B. L., Pike, M., Kring, A., Olson, I. R., Breen, E., Cohn, B., Cirillo, P., Krigbaum, N., Olino, T., D’Esposito, M., Cogan, A., Patwardan, B., Ellman, L. M. (In Preparation). Prenatal exposure to maternal inflammation and altered hippocampal microstructure in middle age: interactions with childhood trauma.
conference posters and presentations
Mohyee, R., Elliott, B. L., Pike, M., Kring, A., Olson, I. R., Breen, E., Cohn, B., Cirillo, P., Krigbaum, N., Olino, T., D’Esposito, M., Cogan, A., Patwardan, B., Ellman, L. M. (2023). Decreased hippocampal neurite density in middle-aged adults following prenatal exposure to maternal inflammation. Poster presented at the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society annual meeting, Boulder, CO, June 12-15, 2023.
Mohyee, R., Elliott, B. L., Pike, M., Kring, A., Olson, I. R., Breen, E., Cohn, B., Cirillo, P., Krigbaum, N., Olino, T., D’Esposito, M., Cogan, A., Patwardan, B., Ellman, L. M. (2023). Decreased hippocampal neurite density in middle-aged adults following prenatal exposure to maternal inflammation. Poster presented at the Society for Biological Psychiatry annual meeting, San Diego, CA, April 27-29, 2023.
Mohyee, R., Elliott, B. L., Kring, A., Olson, I., D’Esposito, M., Cogan, A., Cohn, B., Cirillo, P., Krigbaum, N., Ellman, L. (2022). Myelin expression in the subiculum is associated with childhood trauma exposure and stress sensitivity in adulthood. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 08-11, 2022.
Elliott, B. L., Ballard, I.C., Mohyee, R., Olson, I.R., & Murty, V.P. (2022). In-Vivo Structural Connectivity of the Reward System Along the Hippocampal Long-Axis. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 13-26, 2022.
Ivanova, M., Pappas, I., Inglis, B., Herron, T. J., Baldo, J. V., Mohyee, R., Kayser, A. S., D’Esposito, M., Dronkers N. F. (2020). Perfusion levels in the left hemisphere are associated with language outcomes in chronic post-stroke aphasia. Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Virtual, October 12-24, 2020.
Salahpour, S., Mohyee, R. (2018) Global VRET Refugee Project: Assessing and treating mental health needs of Syrian refugees in California. Presented at the 15th annual Unite for Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference, New Haven, CT, April 14-15, 2018.