Justin Riddle is an assistant professor at Florida State University in the Department of Psychology. As the principal investigator of the Riddle Lab, Justin is using simultaneous neuroimaging and brain stimulation to study the neural basis of cognitive control. Cognitive control is impaired in patients with psychiatric illness. A better understanding of the brain activity patterns that implement cognitive control will enable novel therapeutic interventions for psychiatry.
Justin is currently working on projects using concurrent electroencephalography (EEG) with rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to target neural oscillations during cognitive control tasks. In addition, Justin has pioneered novel transcranial alternating current stimulation techniques to delineate dimensions of cognitive control. These dimensions of cognitive control are altered by specific symptoms of major depressive disorder.
In the long term, Justin is passionate about realizing a future for psychiatry in which non-invasive brain stimulation is integrated with present interventions of psychotherapy and pharmacology.
Justin Riddle was a postdoctoral researcher in Flavio Frohlich’s lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Psychiatry. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley with Mark D'Esposito. He received his Bachelor degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science and Cognitive Science with a concentration in Neuroscience and Highest Honors. Justin has over eight years of combined teaching experience as a Graduate Student Instructor and as a student facilitator for the Democratic Education program at Cal (DeCal). Justin taught 13 semester of Quantum Consciousness with David Presti.
In his free time, Justin is continually striving to learn more about the nature of consciousness and is an avid board gamer.