Alice Hua, PhD
Counseling Psychologist
Dean's Office
School of Medicine

She collaborates with deans, faculty, program directors, and staff to integrate mental health discussions and psychological skills building as part of the medical school curriculum. She is also on the Wellness and Mental Health Committee, which is a collaboration between students, staff, and faculty members who are dedicated to addressing wellness and mental health needs of students in the School of Medicine. Her approach is affirming of all identities and their intersections. She works with clients to acknowledge their strengths, address the impacts of culture and oppressive systems on mental health, and build skills rooted in clients’ goals and values.

She earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in the Psychiatry and Neurology departments. Her research focused on how the brain supports emotions and empathy, as well as how the emotional lives of caregivers impact their mental health. She draws from her knowledge of brain-behavior relationships and affective science to enhance clinical care.

• Poor Disgust Suppression Is Associated with Increased Anxiety in Caregivers of People with Neurodegenerative Disease.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2021 Wells JL, Hua AY, Levenson RW
• Emotional and Cognitive Empathy in Caregivers of Persons with Neurodegenerative Disease: Relationships with Caregiver Mental Health.
  Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science 2021 Hua AY, Wells JL, Brown CL, Levenson RW
• Smaller Volume in Left-Lateralized Brain Structures Correlates with Greater Experience of Negative Non-target Emotions in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
  Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2021 Chen KH, Hua AY, Lwi SJ, Haase CM, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Levenson RW
• Emotion Recognition and Reactivity in Persons With Neurodegenerative Disease Are Differentially Associated With Caregiver Health.
  The Gerontologist 2020 Brown CL, Wells JL, Hua AY, Chen KH, Merrilees J, Miller BL, Levenson RW
• Comparing two facets of emotion perception across multiple neurodegenerative diseases.
  Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2020 Brown CL, Hua AY, De Coster L, Sturm VE, Kramer JH, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Levenson RW
• Physiological, behavioral and subjective sadness reactivity in frontotemporal dementia subtypes.
  Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2019 Hua AY, Chen KH, Brown CL, Lwi SJ, Casey JJ, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Levenson RW
• Neurodegenerative Disease Caregivers' 5-HTTLPR Genotype Moderates the Effect of Patients' Empathic Accuracy Deficits on Caregivers' Well-Being.
  The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2019 Wells JL, Brown CL, Hua AY, Soyster PD, Chen KH, Dokuru DR, Coppola G, Haase CM, Levenson RW
• Evaluating Patient Brain and Behavior Pathways to Caregiver Health in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
  Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2019 Hua AY, Wells JL, Haase CM, Chen KH, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Levenson RW
• Resting parasympathetic dysfunction predicts prosocial helping deficits in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.
  Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 2018 Sturm VE, Sible IJ, Datta S, Hua AY, Perry DC, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Seeley WW, Rosen HJ
• Network Architecture Underlying Basal Autonomic Outflow: Evidence from Frontotemporal Dementia.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2018 Sturm VE, Brown JA, Hua AY, Lwi SJ, Zhou J, Kurth F, Eickhoff SB, Rosen HJ, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Levenson RW, Seeley WW
• Early affective changes and increased connectivity in preclinical Alzheimer's disease.
  Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018 Fredericks CA, Sturm VE, Brown JA, Hua AY, Bilgel M, Wong DF, Resnick SM, Seeley WW
• Enhanced Positive Emotional Reactivity Undermines Empathy in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia.
  Frontiers in neurology 2018 Hua AY, Sible IJ, Perry DC, Rankin KP, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Rosen HJ, Sturm VE
• Early vs late age at onset frontotemporal dementia and frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
  Neurology 2018 Seo SW, Thibodeau MP, Perry DC, Hua A, Sidhu M, Sible I, Vargas JNS, Gaus SE, Rabinovici GD, Rankin KD, Boxer AL, Kramer JH, Rosen HJ, Gorno-Tempini ML, Grinberg LT, Huang EJ, DeArmond SJ, Trojanowski…
• Prosocial deficits in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia relate to reward network atrophy.
  Brain and behavior 2017 Sturm VE, Perry DC, Wood K, Hua AY, Alcantar O, Datta S, Rankin KP, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Kramer JH
• Advancing functional dysconnectivity and atrophy in progressive supranuclear palsy.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2017 Brown JA, Hua AY, Trujllo A, Attygalle S, Binney RJ, Spina S, Lee SE, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Rosen HJ, Boxer AL, Seeley WW
• Increased subjective experience of non-target emotions in patients with frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
  Current opinion in behavioral sciences 2017 Chen KH, Lwi SJ, Hua AY, Haase CM, Miller BL, Levenson RW
• Dominant hemisphere lateralization of cortical parasympathetic control as revealed by frontotemporal dementia.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 Guo CC, Sturm VE, Zhou J, Gennatas ED, Trujillo AJ, Hua AY, Crawford R, Stables L, Kramer JH, Rankin K, Levenson RW, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Seeley WW