Natasha Soesanto

Natasha Soesanto (Alum)

Last Update: 2023

Natasha graduated Boston University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Biology. She is a second-year student in the Masters of Medical Sciences program at Boston University’s School of Medicine and is applying to medical school this cycle.

Currently, Natasha is a graduate research intern and completing her research thesis on how different forms of disrupted sleep disorders (such as Insomnia Disorder) affects neural responses to emotion regulation tasks as measured by fMRI.

Education

  • BA in Psychology, Minor in Biology | Boston University, Boston, MA

  • MA in Medical Sciences | Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Publications and Conference Presentations:

  • Plate, R.C., Powell, T., Bedford, R., Smith, T.J., Bamezai, A., Wedderburn, Q., Broussard, A., Soesanto, N., Swetlitz, C., Waller, R., & Wagner, N.J. (Submitted). Seeing but not looking in adults and children: faster attentional orienting, but less sustained attention, to angry faces during visual search.

  • Soesanto, N., & Sharma, A (2022). Implementation of Point-of-Care Diabetic Retinal Exams Using Autonomous AI in a Federally Qualified Health Center. Poster presented at the NJ Family Medicine Forum Poster Contest, Atlantic City, NJ.

  • Soesanto, N., Smith, K., Powell, T., & Wagner, N (2021). Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Augmentation During Social Stress Predicts Elevated Callous-Unemotional Traits in Males. Virtual conference presented at the 2021 Society for Scientific Study of Psychopathy.

  • Soesanto, N., Levine R., Darling L.N., & Wagner N.J. (2019). An investigation into the relations between peer-to-peer interactions and parasympathetic activity in pre-kindergarten classroom. Symposium presented at the 2019 annual Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program in Boston, MA.

  • Antonides-Jensen, N., Levine, R., Soesanto, N., & Wagner, N. (Aug, 2019). Methods of computing physiological data. Poster presented at the Boston University Research in Science and Engineering Program Poster Symposium, Boston, MA.

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