Dr. Halladay earned her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from UCLA in 2013. After completing a four-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, she started her research lab at Santa Clara University, in the South Bay Area of California, where she researches the intersection between reward and aversion in the brain. As a professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program at SCU, Dr. Halladay teaches courses that span introductory to advanced Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience.