Graduate Achievements
This page highlights recent first-author publications, PhD placements, and other news that promotes the success of our current graduate students, and recently graduated students.
Aug. 01, 2024
Relations of Lifetime Perceived Stress and Basal Cortisol With Hippocampal Volume Among Healthy Adolescents and Those at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Katrina Aberizk
Jul. 04, 2024
Examining the association between prenatal cannabis exposure and child autism traits: A multi-cohort investigation in the environmental influences on child health outcome program
Chaela Nutor
May. 23, 2023
Positive affect improves a transdiagnostic model of perinatal depression symptoms
Blaire Pingeton
May. 15, 2023
Trial history influences the malleability of gender differences in children’s mental rotation performance
Yaxin Liu
May. 15, 2023
Oxytocin receptor antagonism during early vocal learning reduces song preference and imitation in zebra finches
Natalie R. Pilgeram
Apr. 07, 2023
Polygenic influences on the behavioral effects of alcohol withdrawal in a mixed-ancestry population from the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism (COGA)
Chelsie Bachman
Feb. 16, 2023
Development of an online peer support program for adolescents with food allergies
Melissa Engel
Feb. 10, 2023
Rhesus monkeys with damage to amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex perform well on novelty-based memory tasks
Joshua Krasney
Feb. 07, 2023
Hippocampal Connectivity With the Default Mode Network Is Linked to Hippocampal Volume in the Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Syndrome and Healthy Individuals
Katrina Aberizk
Oct. 21, 2022
Distribution of vasopressin 1a and oxytocin receptor protein and mRNA in the basal forebrain and midbrain of the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus)
Jeanne Powell
Oct. 13, 2022
Maternal Adversity and Epigenetic Age Acceleration Predict Heightened Emotional Reactivity in Offspring: Implications for Intergenerational Transmission of Risk
Brooke McKenna
Sep. 24, 2022
Support for learning under naturalistic conditions
Lucy Cronin-Golomb
Aug. 08, 2022
TNF-alpha Antagonist Infliximab Increases Willingness to Expend Effort in Patients with Depression and High Inflammation
Sarah Etuk
Postdoctoral Placements and Student Awards
Please join Emory Psychology in congratulating Nilo Vafaie and her mentor, Dr. Phil Kragel. Part of Nilo’s work that she is completeing for her Master's was not only accepted for presentation at the SANS, but also nominated for a data blitz, for which only top submissions are considered. Congratulations, Nilo!
Emory Psychology would like to welcome back Dr. Kristin Bonnie, Frans de Waal's former PhD student. She will be joining Emory Oxford's Faculty as new Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Acting Professor of Psychology at Oxford College of Emory University. It’s great to have Dr. Bonnie affiliated with Emory once again. Congratulations on your new appointment!
Please join the Psychology Department in congratulating Chaela Nutor, Ami Ikeda, and Jocelyn Stanfield, on their acceptance to attend the FRONTIERS IN ADDICTION RESEARCH AND PREGNANCY (FrARP), This NIH-sponsored advanced training course provides skills development, hands-on laboratory research taught and mentored by addiction research leaders, and ongoing mentoring resulting in comprehensive, sophisticated training in clinical and translational strategies for addressing the current challenges in addiction during pregnancy and for designing better therapies for the future. Congratulations, all!
Congratulations to Katrina Aberizk (and her mentor, Dr. Elaine Walker) on being selected to receive a President’s Award from the Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP). Katrina was selected based on her outstanding research work.