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Dean Carcone, Ph.D.
Primary supervisor: Dr. Anthony C. Ruocco, Co-Supervisor: Dr. Andy Lee
Education:
Honours B.Sc., Biology & Psychology, McMaster University
M.A., Counselling and Clinical Psychology (Field: Clinical Psychology), University of Toronto
Ph.D., Counselling and Clinical Psychology (Field: Clinical Psychology), University of Toronto
Awards:
2017 – 2020: CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship
2017: Ontario Volunteer Service Youth Award
2016: Canadian Psychological Association's Certificate of Academic Excellence
2016: University of Toronto Scarborough Graduate Student Research Award
2015: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2014: W.L. Mackenzie King Memorial Open Scholarship
2014: NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship
2014: John Bassili Memorial Scholarship
Research Interests:
Dean is interested in the complex relationship between mental illness, cumulative stress, and the brain. His research examines how the experience of stressful life events can influence the structure and function of the brain across different forms of mental illness. His dissertation adopts a trans-diagnostic approach to the study of this relationship in a mixed patient/control sample, focusing on how memory ability and related brain structures and function are disrupted following chronic stress.