BRAVO LAB

Hometown:

Pascagoula, Mississippi

 

Undergraduate Education:

Tougaloo College ('22), BA English and Psychology

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Current Research Interests:

As a member of Dr. Bravo’s Lab Zannie is interested in researching  risk factors of PTSD and SUD as well as the worsening of symptoms of these disorders in an effort to inform referral efforts  that will result in long term treatment.

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More About Me:

With an affinity for both literature and psychology, Zannie's his first research experience was in the summer of 2020 as a UNCF Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, researching for his project titled “Acts of Reclamation in Tanehisi Coates The Water Dancer and Octavia Butler’s Kindred”. Over the course of two years Zannie conducted extensive qualitative analysis of the protagonist in each of these neo-slave narratives and later combined quantitative component to his research that would demonstrate that a relationship exists between memory and trauma. His research also demonstrated that through confrontation of the traumatic experiences individuals can begin the process of healing.

 

In the summer of 2021 participated in Syracuse’s Undergraduate Trauma Research Training Program and underwent research for his project titled “Depression Symptom Severity, Childhood Trauma History, and Non-Childhood Trauma History as Predictors of PTSD Symptom Severity in a Medical Detoxification Setting” under the mentorship of Dr. Bryce Hruska. Within this program Zannie gained firsthand knowledge of the negative effects certain military experiences have on personnel and what coping mechanisms, such as substance use, are a used to address these effects.

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Hometown:

Bethesda, Maryland

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Undergraduate Education:

Denison University ('23), BS Psychology

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Current Research Interests:

Folly's current interests lie within neuropsychological disorders, mechanisms of mindfulness mediation, EEG/ERP imaging, health disparities, biopsychosocial risk factors & outcomes. 

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More About Me:

Folly’s research career started as an undergraduate at Denison University where he majored in Psychology. During his time as an undergraduate, Folly simultaneously worked in Dr. Nestor Matthews’ lab researching sentence length perception using psychophysics and Signal Detection Theory and Dr. Erin Henshaw’s lab examining COVID-19 related anxiety and its relationship with college students’ sense of locus of control in relation to their health and attitudes toward campus restrictions, their levels of depression, stress, physical-health, and social support.

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Prior to joining the Bravo lab, he worked in academia as a Senior Research Associate for Dr. Jane Couperus at Mount Holyoke College where he investigated neural representations of visual selective attention in adults and children, as well as examining individual differences such as socioeconomic status and their impact on cognition. Outside of the lab, Folly has focused in promoting public health outcomes through his work at the National Institute of Health, his service at Florida International University summer treatment program, and his work for the Psychology & Education Anti-Racism Committee in South Hadley, MA.

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In his free time Folly enjoys exercising (running, weightlifting, stress relief yoga), reading and creative writing, and practicing his Japanese through Japanese literature and film.