Karra Harrington, PhD
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Affiliation(s):
The Pennsylvania State University
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Areas of Interest:
Mental Health, loneliness, repetitive negative thinking, cognitive aging, neurodegenerative disease
Biography & Research:
Karra Harrington is a NIA T32 postdoctoral fellow at Penn State's Center for Healthy Aging and a clinical psychologist. Her research interests include reducing loneliness in vulnerable populations, prevention of age related cognitive decline and dementia, and development of digital tools to enhance psychological assessment and intervention methods. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Psychology (Clinical) from Deakin University. She is co-founder of the Write Smarter: Feel Better program and app, designed to support productivity and wellbeing for graduate research students.
