Meet the Halladay Lab:

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

LINDSAY HALLADAY, PhD

lhalladay@scu.edu

Lindsay earned her B.A. in Psychology from Cal State San Bernardino, where she first started working with neural circuits in the developing basal ganglia. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from UCLA while working in Tad Blair's lab. Her graduate work investigated the role of neural circuitry underlying defensive action selection. Lindsay then spent four years in metro DC working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Andrew Holmes's lab at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Her primary research there examined neural circuitry underlying compulsive alcohol-seeking. Lindsay joined the Psychology Department at Santa Clara Univeristy in the fall of 2017 and received tenure in the spring of 2023. Broadly speaking, the Halladay lab investigates the neural intersection between reward and aversion. Current research projects aim to identify specific neural circuits mediating allostatic mechanisms related to stress- and/or alcohol-induced behaviors.