Alex Rich
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Alex is a graduate student in the Levy Decision Neuroscience Lab at Yale. She received her B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where she worked with Drs. Ann Haynos and Lisa Anderson to investigate decision-making and ruminative processes in eating disorders. This work, in tandem with her time in Dr. Ben Hayden's lab examining the neural basis of decision-making in rhesus monkeys, lent to her current interests in translational neuroscience research examining transdiagnostic properties of cognition and behavior. Now as a graduate student in Dr. Ifat Levy's lab, she conducts her thesis research on the neural underpinnings of food-based learning and decision-making in obesity with binge eating.
Last Updated on March 18, 2026.
Education & Training
- BS
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Neuroscience (2021)
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2022
A graph theory neuroimaging approach to distinguish the depression of bipolar disorder from major depressive disorder in adolescents and young adults
Goldman DA, Sankar A, Rich A, Kim JA, Pittman B, Constable RT, Scheinost D, Blumberg HP. A graph theory neuroimaging approach to distinguish the depression of bipolar disorder from major depressive disorder in adolescents and young adults. Journal Of Affective Disorders 2022, 319: 15-26. PMID: 36103935, PMCID: PMC9669784, DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.016.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2021
The role of rumination and positive beliefs about rumination in eating pathology
Rich A, Haynos A, Anderson D, Ehrlich L, Anderson L. The role of rumination and positive beliefs about rumination in eating pathology. Eating And Weight Disorders - Studies On Anorexia, Bulimia And Obesity 2021, 27: 979-988. PMID: 34097284, PMCID: PMC9340430, DOI: 10.1007/s40519-021-01209-1.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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