Melissa Pax

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mpax2@nd.edu

Biography

Melissa Pax earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Cognitive Science from Case Western Reserve University. Upon graduation, she joined the Division of Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she aided in a neuroimaging study investigating short-term memory deficits in patients with psychosis-related disorders. Eventually, she obtained a Master of Science in Computer Science at Northeastern University with the hope of continuing to bridge computational neuroscience research alongside clinical science. In 2025, she joined the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory to begin a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Her research interests include investigating functional connectivity patterns observed in traumatic brain injuries. By better understanding these relationships, she seeks to understand how they could better inform treatment outcomes in patients.