Nauder Namaky, PhD
Biography
Nauder Namaky is interested in understanding how social connection affects the way we process emotional information and the implications this has for our mental health. His work incorporates neuroimaging, epigenetics, and machine learning methods to integrate information across different levels of analysis. Dr. Namaky is currently working with Dr. Jennifer Barredo and Dr. John McGeary as a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow in Suicide Research at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is excited to work on projects focused on characterizing different cognitive and neural profiles associated with suicidality, especially among Veterans. For example, understanding whether differences in behavioral inhibition are associated with differences in the lethality of suicidal behaviors.
He completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2022. There, Dr. Namaky worked with Dr. James Coan in the Virginia Affective Neuroscience lab and Dr. Bethany Teachman in the Program for Anxiety, Cognition, and Treatment lab to study the effect of supportive touch on neural signals of approach and avoidance motivation. He completed his predoctoral clinical internship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he completed rotations at Butler Hospital, the Providence VA Medical Center, and Women & Infants Hospital.
Outside of research, Nauder enjoys learning new languages, playing Iranian classical music, and giving it everything he’s got between the sticks for his rec league soccer team. He is also on a personal quest to try every Middle Eastern restaurant in the state of Rhode Island, and encourages anyone reading this to get in touch if they have or would like recommendations.