GRADUATE STUDENT
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
COGNITION, BRAIN & BEHAVIOR

CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE
BA IN NEUROSCIENCE, DUAL MAJOR IN PSYCHOLOGY 2018

EMAIL: JCASTILLO@G.HARVARD.EDU

RESEARCH

I am interested in exploring the role of metacognition in memory and emotion, and investigating how interactions between these concepts can influence decision-making.

PUBLICATIONS

Fedota, J. R., Ross, T. J., Castillo, J., McKenna, M. R., Matous, A. L., Salmeron, B. J., Menon, V., & Stein, E. A. (In Press) Time varying connectivity across the brain changes as a function of nicotine abstinence state. (BioRxiv):https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.25.917617v1

Abulseoud, O. A., Ross, T. J., Nam, H. W., Caparelli, E., Tennekoon, M., Schleyer, B., Castillo, J., Gu, H., Fedota, J. R., Yang, Y., & Stein, E. A. (2020). Short-term nicotine deprivation alters dorsal anterior cingulate glutamate concentration and concomitant cingulate-cortical functional connectivity. Neuropsychopharmacology. doi: 10.1038/s41386-020-0741-9

Chang, R., Castillo, J., Zambon, A. C., Krasieva, T. B., Fisher, M. J., & Sumbria, R. K. (2018). Brain endothelial erythrophagocytosis and hemoglobin transmigration across brain endothelium: Implications for pathogenesis of cerebral microbleeds. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 12(279). doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00279

Deshpande, H., Castillo, J., Ross, T. J., Fedota, J. R., & Stein, E. A. (In Prep) Subgroups of cigarette smokers demonstrate the hidden cost of sustained attention in abstinence.