Dr. Syeda Raiha
Assistant Professor
Introduction
She did her BS (hons) and MS in Clinical Psychology from Pakistan (University of the Punjab). She received training in different branches of Clinical Psychology ( Treatment of Child Psychopathology, Treatment of Adult Psychopathology, Speech Therapy) and a few branches of Applied Psychology (School Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Counseling) at 14 different organizations/institutes as part of Academic training, following which, she started working as a Clinical Psychologist and Speech Therapist in 2011. She got extensively trained in Autism and Speech Therapy, as a part of on-job training by Autism experts and Speech Therapy Trainers from UK.
After serving as a Clinical Psychologist and a Speech Therapist in Pakistan for a couple of years, she went to Beijing, China, to pursue PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (the latest and the most advanced branch of Psychology) from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (with qs ranking among top 100 universities of the world ; having current worldwide qs ranking = 73). She is the first Cognitive Neuroscientist in Pakistan. After the completion of her PhD, she served at University of Education, Division of Education, for a short duration, before joining University of Jhang, as Assistant Professor, at Department of Psychology.
Currently, she is serving at Department of Psychology, University of Jhang.
| Qualifications | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Degree Title | Specialization | Institute Name | Year/Session |
| PhD | Cognitive Neuroscience | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing | 2013-2019 |
| MS | Clinical Psychology | University of the Punjab Lahore | 2009-2011 |
| BS | Clinical Psychology | University of the Punjab Lahore | 2004-2008 |
| FSc | Pre engineering | Hajvery College for Women Lahore | 2002-2004 |
Research and Publications
- Altered Reward Processing System in Internet Gaming Disorder [2020] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7746551/ Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 599141. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.599141
- Social value orientation modulates context-based social comparison preference in the outcome evaluation: An ERP study [2018] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002839321830085X Neuropsychologia, Volume 112, April 2018, Pages 135-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia
- Corrigendum to “Social value orientation modulates context-based social comparison preference in the outcome evaluation: An ERP study" [2018] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393218301477 Neuropsychologia, Volume 113, May 2018, Pages 151, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.
Field of Interest
- Addiction
- Depressive Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders
- Stress
- Cognitive Control
- Emotions
- Emotional control
- Attention
- Suicide
- Reward Processing
- Speech