Colleen Sheller
Former Clinical Research Coordinator @Goldstein Lab - Mass General Hospital
Colleen graduated from Northeastern University in 2021, where she earned her B.S. in Psychology with a concentration in Biological and Chemical Sciences. While at Northeastern, Colleen worked in Dr. Sara Lazar’s Lab at MGH and Harvard Medical School using fMRI and neuropsychological assessments to study the neural and cognitive changes associated with a mindfulness training intervention in older adults. Additionally, Colleen worked with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett and Dr. Karen Quigley at the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab at MGH and Northeastern, studying how affect regulation strategies are protective of cognitive and affective functioning and how these strategies are associated with the structure and connectivity within the salience and default mode networks. Colleen worked on projects investigating the neuromodulatory effects of respiratory-gated Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) in patients with Major Depressive Disorder.