I work in the Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory under the direction of Drs. Brett Clementz and Jennifer McDowell. I am interested in psychosis across diagnoses. My research uses methods including diffusion tensor imaging and eye-tracking to examine structural abnormalities and biomarkers of cognitive control.

Patrick attended the University of Dayton for his undergrad (BA in Psychology and Communication - Public Relations, minor in Anthropology) where he worked under Drs. Erin O'Mara and Jack Bauer until 2016. He completed a Master of Arts in Psychological Sciences from Northern Arizona University in 2018, working closely with Drs. Heidi Wayment, Ann Huffman, and Brian Eiler on projects ranging from concussion reporting behavior in collegiate football players to teaching computational social psychological methods to undergraduates. His masters thesis, which was one of the finalists in NAU's 3 Minute Research Project competition (below), used data scraping and computational methodology to model a cultural-level and its effect on the health of NCAA athletes.

Patrick's interest center around the relationships that exist between celebrities and their fans and the way that media facilitate these parasocial connections. He often uses large data sets scraped from social media sites to explore this phenomenon.

My research primarily investigates team cognition, as well as other emergent phenomena, and their consequent influence on team and multi-team system performance in complex environments. I am also interested in the theoretical advancement and incorporation of advanced quantitative methodologies (e.g., computational modeling, social network analysis, bayesian belief networks) in order to progress our understanding of the temporal and multilevel influences on the functioning of human systems.