Lab News

Read about some of the exciting things happening in our lab and the accomplishments of our lab members!

Dr. Amanda Collins joins Harvard Medical School faculty as an Assistant Professor!

Congratulations to Amanda on her promotion to Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School!

Congratulations to Shirley on her first-author paper!

Congratulations to Shirley, one of our clinical research coordinators, on her first-authored paper in Journal of Affective Disorders ! Her paper is titled "Insomnia longitudinally predicts reduced reward motivation in adults with elevated depressive symptoms." You can read more about her paper here .

Congratulations to Deano on his conference poster award!

Congratulations to Deano on being recognized with an award at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). His poster, titled "The Impact of Negative Urgency on the Longitudinal Associations between Family Relationship Quality and Adolescent Alcohol Use" won an award for best poster at ABCT!

Congrats to Ethan on his 1st author paper in Psychological Medicine!

Congratulations to Ethan on his 1st author paper "Real-time prediction of passive and active suicidal ideation in an adolescent clinical sample: Ecological momentary assessment of interpersonal risk factors and mediating mechanisms" in Psychological Medicine . Check out Ethan's paper here: doi:10.1017/S0033291725102547

Congrats to Dev Goel on her conference research award!!

Congratulations to Dev on being recognized with an award at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies for her child maltreatment research poster!

See our new paper in JAMA Pediatrics on national trends in child maltreatment

Check out our new paper on national trends in child maltreatment in the U.S., in which we found overall declines in child abuse and neglect over time, but persistent disparities over a 12-year period: Liu, R. T., Levin, R. Y., & Turnamian, M. R. (in press). A whole-population study of national trends in child abuse and neglect by sex, race, and ethnicity in the US. JAMA Pediatrics. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.4487

Drs. Haliczer and Park publish new paper in Psychological Medicine

Congrats to Lauren and Yeonsoo on their shared 1st-author paper characterizing longitudinal trajectories in suicidal thinking among...

Dr. Amanda Collins receives grant from the American Psychological Foundation

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Collins, who was awarded a John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant for Psychologists Investigating Serious...

Congratulations Ethan!

Congrats to Ethan on his first 1st author paper, "Emotion Dysregulation in College Students: Contributions of Maladaptive Personality...

Congratulations to Dr. Ana Sheehan!

Congrats to Ana on receiving her PhD in clinical psychology! We are thrilled that Ana will be staying in the Mood and Behavior Lab as a...