Katharine Thakkar

Biography

Dr. Thakkar is a clinical psychologist with expertise in experimental psychology and brain imaging. She has a long-standing interest in the biological causes of psychotic disorders, and she currently directs the MSU Clinical Neuroscience Lab. Dr. Thakkar received B.A. degrees in Psychology and Mathematics at Boston University. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Vanderbilt University and her clinical internship at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, where ... she specialized in Clinical Neuropsychology. She was awarded a Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to conduct a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Utrecht.