Auditory Neuroscientist and Senior Imaging Analyst
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Goodyear, AZ, United States
Dr. Livengood specializes in auditory neuroscience, reward processing, and neurorehabilitation. Her dissertation focused on language, music, and social bonding in the developing brain, revealing parallels to brain injury recovery. During her post-doc with Drs. Breiter and Blood, she mastered computational modeling of the dopaminergic learning and reward system, contributing to theoretical (Breiter et al., 2014) and empirical studies (Livengood et al., 2017; Viswanathan et al., 2015). Notably, she demonstrated how dopamine response in the nucleus accumbens reflects musical preference and individual reward processing frameworks (Livengood et al., 2017).
Dr. Livengood pursued a fellowship with Dr. Pape, enhancing her Familiar Auditory Sensory Training (FAST) treatment for Disorders of Consciousness from Traumatic Brain Injury (DoC-TBI) by developing a music component (FAST-M) and conducting pilot tests. Post-fellowship, she collaborates with multiple labs, advancing neural network theory and analysis for neuropathologies like TBI and mental health disorders including PTSD, addiction, and depression.
Before her research career, Dr. Livengood worked in systems-level engineering focused on communication systems. She now combines her engineering and neuroscience expertise to advance neurorehabilitation, passionately developing collaborative therapies to restore neural processing in injured brains.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Sunday, November 3, 2024
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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