Lauren is a first year doctoral student in the integrative neuroscience program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research efforts combine both kinesthetics and cognition to study performance in athletes with concussions. Previously, she completed her MS in neuroscience at Creighton University where she utilized electroencephalography to study neural biomarkers of proprioception and helped to develop a novel, patent-pending device that, when placed anywhere on the body and calibrated to specific movement patterns, can deliver auditory and tactile feedback while recording various kinematic values. With the combination of these technologies, she was able to study baseball pitcher development and subsequent neural correlates. Her BS in neuroscience and psychology was also completed at Creighton University where she studied respiratory biomarkers for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. She found an increase in specific inflammatory markers that were decreased through the use of specific metabolic therapies, such as the ketogenic diet. As a former collegiate athlete, Lauren still loves to workout in her free time and, notably, has been hiking and spending extra time at Lake Tahoe since her move to Western Nevada.