Kayla Donaldson (she/her/hers)
Clinical Psychologist
Kayla is a licensed clinical psychologist on the Clinician Investigator Team at the Minneapolis VA and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UMN. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Stony Brook University under the mentorship of Drs. Aprajita Mohanty and Roman Kotov, and her doctoral clinical internship and post-doctoral research at the Minneapolis VA under the mentorship of Dr. Scott Sponheim. She previously completed a BS in Psychological Science and a BA in Communication at Purdue University. Kayla's research has focused broadly in two domains: (1) the electrophysiological underpinnings of auditory and visual processing and their relationships to psychotic symptom progression, and (2) the neural mechanisms of cognitive functioning and emotion perception in psychosis. Her primary interests are in integrating neural and psychophysiological, behavioral, and computational methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying cognitive functioning and sensory processing in psychotic disorders. She is particularly interested in how these mechanisms inform the course of psychotic symptom progression.
