Dr. Kasey Van Hedger is a postdoctoral fellow in psychology and neuroscience at Western University in London, Ontario (Canada). She was a research mentee and honor’s thesis student with Dr. Byron Zamboanga as an undergraduate at Smith College. Dr. Van Hedger earned her PhD at the University of Chicago working with Drs. Kimberly Rios (social psychology) and Greg Norman (social neuroscience/psychophysiology) and completed a previous postdoctoral fellowship in the Human Behavioral Pharmacology Lab of Dr. Harriet de Wit. As a current postdoctoral fellow with BrainsCAN, Dr. Van Hedger conducts studies examining the structure and function of the striatum using 3T and 7T MRI. Her daily activities involve interacting with patients with Parkinson’s disease and patients with psychiatric disorders like alcohol use disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.