Leena Mohapatra, MS

Leena is a doctoral candidate in the Child Clinical Psychology track at the University of Miami. She received her B.S. in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is interested in the development of attentional processes that facilitate behavior and emotion regulation in children. She is the recipient of a predoctoral fellowship from Autism Speaks to support her dissertation study in which she is examining neural correlates of attention in relation to children's peer interactions in a sample of young children at risk for autism.