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" and you can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.121100 .

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Congratulations to Rachel on completing her doctoral training in clinical psychology! We are excited she will be staying on as a...

Amanda's early career development award, titled "AMP-C: A Digital Therapeutic for Reward Dysfunction in Co-Occurring Depression and...

Amelia is joining us after completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh.

Shirley joins us after receiving her B.A. from Was hington University in St. Louis. Welcome Shirley!

Congratulations, Dr. Burke! This award recognizes researchers whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great...

Congratulations, Grace. We are so proud of you and your hard work!

This award will support travel to this year’s annual conference in Toronto where our clinical psychology intern Rachel Walsh will present...

Welcome to our new PI, Dr. Amanda Collins. Dr. Collins' research primarily focuses on reward dysfunction as a transdiagnostic mechanism...

Congratulations to our clinical psychology intern Rachel Walsh for being awarded the Sleep Research Society Foundation's Small Research...

Congratulations to our former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Naoise Mac Giollabhui on his appointment as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical...

Congratulations to our CRC Grace Ding for being awarded the SSCP Aspiring Researcher Award at the Association for Behavioral and...