Braim C. Luciano-Vázquez is a Post-baccalaureate Scholar at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). He joined the Moghaddam Lab in Fall 2018, where he is studying sex differences in animal models of psychiatric disorders. Braim graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPRRP) in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. During his undergraduate studies, he studied abroad at the Autonomous University of Madrid (2015) and at Kent State University in Ohio (2016-2017).
As an undergraduate, he worked under the tutelage of various professors such as Dr. Dolores Miranda Gierbolini, Dr. Nicole Vélez Agosto and Dr. Ruth Nina Estrella, among others. Braim has studied the impact of schizophrenia in Puerto Rican families, the characteristics of ADHD in children and the academic stress in students diagnosed with ADHD, among other topics related to mental health. Furthermore, in 2017 he worked with Dr. Erica Kaldenberg in the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at the University of Iowa. In this internship, he created an omnibus social validity survey using Wolf’s social validity framework to access the social validity of the Expressive Writing Program, a direct instruction course for adult with intellectual disabilities and autism. After completing his Neuroscience Post-baccalaureate at OHSU, Braim wants to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.