WELL LAB DIRECTOR
Dr. Rebecca L. Silton (she|her) is an associate professor in the psychology department at Loyola University Chicago. She is the founding director of the WELLbeing and Emotion Lab @ Loyola (WELL LAB). She received her BA in psychology from Macalester College and her PhD in clinical/community psychology from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She completed her clinical internship at University of Washington and postdoctoral fellowship at Seattle Childrens Hospital. Dr. Silton is an affective neuroscientist. Her current research is focused on understanding how to optimize positive emotions in order to cultivate wellbeing and vitality for individuals and their communities. Current research includes work that aims to advance innovative neuroscience-informed interventions that ignite healthy patterns of affective function and related patterns of neuroplasticity that are associated with positive health and wellbeing outcomes. Dr. Silton is grateful on a daily basis for the opportunity to work with her amazing research team of inspiring graduate and undergraduate students.
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WELL LAB GRADUATE STUDENTS
Andrew Rauch (he|him), MA is a fourth-year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Loyola University Chicago. He earned his BS in Management Science and Psychology with a specialization in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 2016. There, he worked with Dr. Amy Jak as an undergraduate research coordinator investigating the effectiveness of physical and computerized interventions in an aging population. Shortly after graduating, Andrew moved to the Bay Area for two years to coordinate for Dr. Claudia Padula’s BRAVE study at Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, which is investigating neural predictors relating to alcohol addiction in Veterans. Andrew is interested in how mental health apps reduce stress symptomatology and modulate associated patterns of neural activity in order to inform innovative development of efficacious scalable and accessible wellbeing interventions and strategies. You can read more about Andrew on his website: https://aarauch4.wixsite.com/website