Rachael Danielle Rubin

Education

• Rehabilitation and Clinical Health Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carle Health, 2018-2020
• APA-Accredited Clinical Psychology Internship, Carle Health, 2017-2018
• Respecialization in Clinical Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014-2018
• Ph.D. in Psychology-Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013
• B.S. in Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006

Academic Positions

• Co-Director Bioethics and Medical Humanities Thread, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, 2025-Present
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, 2020-Present
• Research Affiliate, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022-2025
• Research Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017-2023
• Carle Foundation Hospital-Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2014-2017
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013-2014

Professional Registrations

• IDFPR Licensed Clinical Psychologist, 2020-Present

Research Interests

• Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory Systems, Flexible Cognition, and Social Behavior
• Hippocampal Function, Relational Memory, and Amnesia
• Traumatic Brain Injury, Translational Neuroscience, and Rehabilitation

Chapters in Books

• Sher, T. G., Rubin, R. D., Kruepke, M. D., & Menon, S. V. (2019). Public health and family psychology. In B. H. Fiese, M. Celano, K. Deater-Deckard, E. N. Jouriles, & M. A. Whisman (Eds.), APA Handbook of Contemporary Family Psychology: Applications and Broad Impact of Family Psychology (pp. 625-638). American Psychological Association.
• Warren, D. E., Rubin, R., Shune, S., & Duff, M. C. (2018). Memory and language in aging: How their shared cognitive processes, neural correlates, and supporting mechanisms change with age. In M. Rizzo, S. Anderson, & B. Fritzsch (Eds.), The Wiley handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain (pp. 270-295). Wiley Blackwell.
• Rubin, R. D., & Cohen, N. J. (2017). Memory, relational representations, and the long reach of the hippocampus. In D. E. Hannula & M. C. Duff (Eds.), The Hippocampus from Cells to Systems (pp. 337-366). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Selected Articles in Journals

• Rajesh, A., Daugherty, A. M., Jain, S., Henry, D., Barbey, A. K., & Rubin, R. D. (2020). Comorbid conditions differentiate rehabilitation profiles in traumatic versus nontraumatic brain injury: A retrospective analysis using a medical database. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 35(6), E524-E534.
• Rubin, R. D., Schwarb, H., Lucas, H. D., Dulas, M. R., & Cohen, N. J. (2017). Dynamic hippocampal and prefrontal contributions to memory processes and representations blur the boundaries of traditional cognitive domains. Brain Sciences, 7(7), 82.
• Barbey, A. K., Belli, A., Logan, A., Rubin, R., Zamroziewicz, M., & Operskalski, J. T. (2015). Network topology and dynamics in traumatic brain injury. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 4, 92-102.
• Jackson, K., Rubin, R., Van Hoeck, N., Hauert, T., Lana, V., & Wang, H. (2015). The effect of selective head-neck cooling on physiological and cognitive functions in healthy volunteers. Translational Neuroscience, 6(1), 131.
• Zamroziewicz, M. K., Paul, E. J., Rubin, R. D., & Barbey, A. K. (2015). Anterior cingulate cortex mediates the relationship between O3PUFAs and executive functions in APOE e4 carriers. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 7, 87.
• Wang, H., Wang, B., Jackson, K., Miller, C. M., Hasadsri, L., Llano, D., Rubin, R., Zimmerman, J., Johnson, C., & Sutton, B. (2015). A novel head-neck cooling device for concussion injury in contact sports. Translational Neuroscience, 6(1), 20–31.
• Rubin, R. D., Watson, P. D., Duff, M. C., & Cohen, N. J. (2014). The role of the hippocampus in flexible cognition and social behavior. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 742.
• Rubin, R. D., & Cohen, N. J. (2014). Insights into Hippocampal-Dependent Declarative Memory: Recent Findings and Clinical Implications. Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, 24(2), 34-42.
• Duff, M. C., Kurczek, J., Rubin, R., Cohen, N. J., & Tranel, D. (2013). Hippocampal amnesia disrupts creative thinking. Hippocampus, 23(12), 1143-1149.
• Rubin, R. D., Chesney, S. A., Cohen, N. J., & Gonsalves, B. D. (2013). Using fMR-adaptation to track complex object representations in perirhinal cortex. Cognitive Neuroscience, 4(2), 107-114.
• Rubin, R. D., Brown-Schmidt, S., Duff, M. C., Tranel, D., & Cohen, N. J. (2011). How do I remember that I know you know that I know?. Psychological Science, 22(12), 1574-1582.
• Mercado, E., Schneider, J. N., Green, S. R., Wang, C., Rubin, R. D., & Banks, P. N. (2007). Acoustic cues available for ranging by humpback whales. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(5), 2499-2502.

Professional Societies

• American Psychological Association (APA)
• APA Division 22 Rehabilitation Psychology
• APA Division 38 Society for Health Psychology
• APA Division 2 Society for the Teaching of Psychology
• Brain Injury Association of America