Dr. Barkley-Levenson earned her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from UCLA in 2013, and served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California before joining the faculty of Hofstra University in 2015. At Hofstra, Dr. Barkley-Levenson is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, and she heads the Developmental Decision Neuroscience Lab focusing on behavioral and neural approaches to understanding risky decision-making behavior in adolescents and young adults. Her teaching interests include introductory psychology and behavioral neuroscience, and she loves providing students with the opportunity to explore the brain firsthand through hands-on lab courses in neuroscience research techniques and neurobiology.