Funded by the James McKeen Cattell Fund, this award had been helping recipients pursue new research by supplementing the regular sabbatical allowance provided by their home institutions so they can…
Author: Barbara Branson
Melissa Engel awarded Denise Bunning Community Leadership Award at the 2023 Food Allergy Research and Education Summit
We would like to congratulate Melissa on this award which highlights her contributions she has made as a community leader both in her research and in daily life. She runs…
Are some children more biologically susceptible to the effects of intergenerational trauma than others? Brooke McKenna, PhD and collaborators publish ‘Infant epigenetic aging moderates the link between Black maternal childhood trauma and offspring symptoms of psychopathology’
Published in Development and Psychopathology, Infant epigenetic aging moderates the link between Black maternal childhood trauma and offspring symptoms of psychopathology seeks to expand on findings that can tell us…
“Changing life on a contextual dime”– The Kelly Lab publishes ‘Testosterone facilitates nonreproductive, context-appropriate pro- and anti-social behavior in female and male Mongolian gerbils’
Published in Hormones and Behavior vol. 156, Testosterone facilitates nonreproductive, context-appropriate pro- and anti-social behavior in female and male Mongolian gerbils expands on the findings of this study, examining the…
October Monthly Insight: Motivation, Emotion and Their influences on Learning and Memory
BY LUCY CRONIN-GOLOMB FEATURING WORK FROM THE LUMeN LAB (PI: DR. ALEXANDRA COHEN) The ability to learn from and remember salient information is essential for an individual to survive and…
September Monthly Insight: Young Children’s Science Learning from Shared Book Reading
BY LUCY CRONIN-GOLOMB FEATURING WORK BY HILARY MILLER-GOLDWATER, PHD Have you ever flipped through storybooks for kids, maybe for your own kids, or on a rainy afternoon at the library?…
August Monthly Insight: Memory and the Building Blocks of Knowledge
BY LUCY CRONIN-GOLOMB How do we build a knowledge base over time? One way is through direct experience. For example, a child might learn that red and yellow make orange…
Dr. Donna Maney is named a Harvard Radcliffe fellow
Psychology professor Donna L. Maney is a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023-24 class of fellows, a cohort whose projects contend with the urgent, the beautiful and the vast: from reckoning with the…
What is the brain basis of pleasure in humans? Drs. Phillip Kragel, Michael T. Treadway and Emory collaborators publish ‘a mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain’ seeking answers
Published in Nature Human Behavior, ‘A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain’ expands on findings that provide evidence for the basis of human pleasure that is distributed across…
Challenges and Opportunities for Experimental Psychopathology and Translational Research
Published by Michael T Treadway https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14332-8_11