about

I am a PhD student working with Professor Armin Schwartzman at the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego, and have a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Southern California. My research focuses on brain imaging statistics, including developing analysis methods and open-source software.


publications

2023
L Khatib, J Dean, V Oliva, G Riegner, N Gonzalez, J Birenbaum, G Cruanes, J Miller, M Patterson, H Kim, K Chakravarthy, F Zeidan. The role of endogenous opioids in mindfulness-meditation and sham mindfulness-meditation for the direct alleviation of evoked chronic low back pain: a randomized clinical trial. Nature Neuropsychopharmacology

2022
G Riegner, G Posey, V Oliva, Y Jung, W Mobley, F Zeidan. Disentangling self from pain: mindfulness meditation-induced pain relief is driven by thalamic-default mode network decoupling. PAIN

2020
A Jinich, E Garland, J Baumgartner, N Gonzalez, G Riegner, J Birenbaum, L Case, F Zeidan. Neurophysiological mechanisms supporting mindfulness meditation–based pain relief: an updated review. Current Pain and Headache Reports

2019
G Riegner. Thesis on recognition memory for melody. USC undergraduate neuroscience program


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