Gabrielle de Weck

Gabrielle is a PhD student in the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program of the Psychology Department. She received her B.S. in Biopsychology and B.A. in French from Tufts University in 2021, where she worked with Professor Ayanna Thomas in the Cognitive Aging and Memory lab to study the impact of stress and the misinformation effect on memory. As an undergraduate, Gabrielle also worked as a research assistant intern in the Harvard Aging Brain Study at MGH. Upon graduating from Tufts, she worked in Professor Li-Huei Tsai’s Lab at MIT, where she helped to run a series of translational studies investigating Gamma Entrainment Using Sensory Stimulation (GENUS) as a non-invasive treatment approach to Alzheimer’s disease. Gabrielle is interested in the idiosyncratic nature of aging and the factors that shape individual aging trajectories. She is particularly interested in the role of brain maintenance and disease resilience in healthy aging. Overall, Gabrielle’s research focuses on creating precise, personalized tools to improve our detection and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, with the ultimate goal of promoting healthier aging.