Theresa has always been interested in various facets of learning and memory since her experiences at New York University in Dr. Joseph E. LeDoux's lab on the changes that occur in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala as a result of fear conditioning.

After graduating in 2000 with a BS in neuroscience and a minor in science education, Theresa took a break from the lab world and taught high school physical science, biology, and anatomy and physiology in Merrimack, NH.

Her interest in learning and memory now continues here as a graduate student in the Graybiel Lab.  She is currently working on a project that builds upon previous findings here in the lab of a neural signal (“extra peak”) that occurs at the end of a sequence-saccade task in an over-trained subject.  She is investigating how this, and other, neural signals develop over the course of training of an experimentally naïve subject during using a simple saccade task.