“Title To Come”
Speaker: Carissa Philippi, PhD
Date: November 18, 2025, noon-1 p.m.
Location: Millennium Student Center, The Chamber Room
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About the Speaker
Dr. Carissa L. Philippi earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Iowa in 2011. She then completed a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she 
conducted neuroimaging (i.e., resting-state fMRI) and behavioral studies on self-related thought in brain injured patients, psychiatric patient populations, and psychopathic prison inmates.
Broadly, her research aims to understand the brain circuits underlying self-related processes, in both the healthy and dysfunctional brain (e.g., psychiatric illness). Self-related processing is essential for normal social and emotional functioning. For example, self-reflection helps individuals to generate social emotions (e.g., guilt) necessary for upholding social norms and forming social relationships. By contrast, a number of psychiatric and neurological conditions are associated with alterations in self-processing (i.e., excessive rumination in depression or diminished self-reflection in patients with medial prefrontal cortex damage) that can have detrimental consequences for our overall well-being.
Dr. Philippi's research involves fMRI, psychophysiology, and a variety of behavioral paradigms to study different types of self-related processing—such as self-reflection and self-agency—with healthy subjects and psychiatric patient populations.
About the Discovery Series
The NextGen Precision Health Discovery Series provides learning opportunities for UM System faculty and staff across disciplines, the statewide community and our other partners to learn about the scope of precision health research and identify potential collaborative opportunities. The series consists of monthly lectures geared toward a broad multidisciplinary audience so all can participate and appreciate the spectrum of precision health efforts.
For questions about this event or any others in the Discovery Series, please reach out to Mackenzie Lynch.