Reflecting on DSAN Lab’s 2024 journey: ✅Advanced projects on adolescent self-belief & social feedback processing ✅ Built a dedicated team & external collaborations ✅ Developed lab protocols & resources. We’re ready to tackle new challenges and opportunities in 2025! 🚀

We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to become a LUMeNary Emory Psychology in Summer 2025! ✨ Applications accepted here: staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/job And feel free to reach out to me!

DSAN Lab is presenting at DACC 2025 Center for Vital Longevity UT Dallas, contributing to its expansion into developmental research! 🎉 Visit us to explore and discuss our preliminary work on adolescent development in social-emotional contexts.

We presented four posters at DACC Center for Vital Longevity! The lab had an incredible time—discussing research with fellow researchers and contributing to the topic of adolescence and social emotion. We were grateful for this opportunity and we’re already looking forward to DACC 2027!

Excited to announce that we are looking to hire two research assistants to help with our R01s investigating onset of mood disorders in adolescents! This is a great opportunity for those interested in applying to clinical psychology Ph.D. programs. temple.taleo.net/careersection/…

Our human relationship project (see the past thread below) has now been officially published in Nature Human Behavior nature.com/articles/s4156…. The article PDF can be freely download here rdcu.be/edpa2. We also wrote a behind-the-paper blog communities.springernature.com/posts/mapping-….

Another reminder! 🚨 On April 9 and 10, Comets Giving Days are your chance to support the CVL. Your donation funds research and helps future scientists like Israel Smitherman, a first-year PhD student! #CometsGivingDays #SupportScience #CVL #UTD youtu.be/MWT-a_DoE5I?si…

I am SO excited to share my latest #preprint with collaborators Robb Rutledge, zeb kurth-nelson, Martin Chadwick, summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind: "Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence" arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091 A short 🧵 1/7

Our April issue is now live! nature.com/neuro/volumes/…

I’m hiring! 👀 for a Lab Manager starting in June. Apply by May 2 for full consideration. More info on lab: agingwell.utdallas.edu Apply: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/29116

The DSAN Lab’s first presentation at SANS! Our amazing undergraduate student, Hamshitha, presented our work on how joint trajectories of victimization and perpetration impact structural brain development in early adolescence. Center for Vital Longevity

UTD Psych labs at SANS! So wonderful to be together with colleagues and students. Huge thanks to the organizers for making SANS 2025 such a meaningful experience!

Join us May 2 at 9:30 a.m. for Dr. Michael Rugg’s lecture: "Using cognitive neuroscience to understand age-related differences in episodic memory," as part of the School of BBS at UTD Colloquium Lecture Series at Polykarp Kusch Auditorium. Watch virtually here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

We are hiring multiple research assistants to join our team focused on youth depression and suicide projects using real-time monitoring and neuroimaging. Come join our team! Please RT! opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/research-…

Why mental health research matters: using smartphone games to understand how mental health impacts our decisions - we recently found that how motivated we feel in the moment shapes how rewarding things appear to us doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

🔥🔥🔥 It is with great excitement that I share our new paper A consensus statement on potential negative impacts of smartphone and social media use on adolescent mental health 🧵 below

The DSAN Lab joined an event organized by the Center for Children and Families and had a beautiful Saturday morning! Kids stopped by our table to try a fun emotion recognition quiz and learn about opportunities to participate in our studies 🍀

Team members from the Ofen Lab and Yoon DSAN Lab had a great time at last weekend’s Center for Children and Families Family Celebration! They loved connecting with families, sharing insights about their research, and spreading the word about the CVL!🧠 #UTD #CCF #CVL

My colleagues and I wrote this for anyone in or considering a post-bacc research program. We share ten simple rules to help you thrive, from managing your time to building your network. Based on real experience. doi.org/10.1371/journa… #ResearchTraining #AcademicTwitter #Neuro

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see paper, thread doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…