Mara Kuvaldina, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC

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Mara Kuvaldina, PhD, is a research psychologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an Associate Director of the Clinical Trials Network for Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases. She completed her postdoctoral training at Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Fulbright Scholarship at the New School for Social Research.

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC

Administrative Titles

  • Associate Director of the Clinical Trials Network for Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases

Gender

  • Female

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • PhD, 2010 Cognitive Psychology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Fellowship: University of Helsinki, New School for Social Research, Helsinki, Finland

Research

Dr. Kuvaldina's research focus is on neuromodulation for chronic inflammatory illnesses and infectious diseases (Lyme disease). She combines methods of experimental cognitive psychology, applied physics and psychometry to find potential biomarkers and personalized neuromodulation regimen.

Research Interests

  • Cognitive Control
  • Unconscious Information Processing

Selected Publications

  1. Biniaz-Harris N, Kuvaldina M, Fallon BA. Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease and Vagus Nerve Stimulation. Antibiotics (Basel). 2023 Aug 22;12(9):1347. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12091347. PMID: 37760644; PMCID: PMC10525519.
  2. Murray L, Alexander C, Bennett C, Kuvaldina M, Khalsa G, Fallon B. Kundalini Yoga for Post-Treatment Lyme Disease: A Preliminary Randomized Study. Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Jul 15;10(7):1314. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10071314. PMID: 35885840; PMCID: PMC9315934.
  3. Lanz J, Biniaz-Harris N, Kuvaldina M, Jain S, Lewis K, Fallon BA. Disulfiram: Mechanisms, Applications, and Challenges. Antibiotics (Basel). 2023 Mar 6;12(3):524. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12030524. PMID: 36978391; PMCID: PMC10044060.

For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov