Christa Pereira, PsyD

Asst Adjunct Professor
Neurology
[email protected]
+1 415 476-1686

Dr. Pereira graduated from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology-Stanford PsyD Consortium in 2014. She has a background in psychology, developmental biology, neuroimaging and neuropsychology. Her research interests include brain development across the lifespan. She is currently working on a pediatric HIV brain imaging study with Dr. Victor Valcour.

When she is not working, she enjoys spending time outdoors, watching movies, playing soccer, and listening to jazz. 

Publications: 

Anatomical and behavioral correlates of auditory perception in developmental dyslexia.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Qi T, Mandelli ML, Watson Pereira CL, Wellman E, Bogley R, Licata AE, Chang EF, Oganian Y, Gorno-Tempini ML

Probabilistic Decision-Making in Children With Dyslexia.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Pereira CLW, Zhou R, Pitt MA, Myung JI, Rossi PJ, Caverzasi E, Rah E, Allen IE, Mandelli ML, Meyer M, Miller ZA, Gorno Tempini ML

Enhanced visceromotor emotional reactivity in dyslexia and its relation to salience network connectivity.

Cortex

Virginia E. Sturm, Ashlin R.K. Roy, Samir Datta, Cheng Wang, Isabel J. Sible, Sarah R. Holley, Christa Watson, Eleanor R. Palser, Nathaniel A. Morris, Giovanni Battistella, Esther Rah, Marita Meyer, Mikhail Pakvasa, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Jessica Deleon, Fumiko Hoeft, Eduardo Caverzasi, Zachary A. Miller, Kevin A. Shapiro, Robert Hendren, Bruce L. Miller, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini

White matter hyperintensities correlate to cognition and fiber tract integrity in older adults with HIV.

Journal of neurovirology

Watson C, Busovaca E, Foley JM, Allen IE, Schwarz CG, Jahanshad N, Nir TM, Esmaeili-Firidouni P, Milanini B, Rosen H, Carmichael OT, Thompson PM, Valcour VG