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Athens, GA
Joined May 2016
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Just a reminder to check out our new job posting! 📝 lnkd.in/eaRb8_xA
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We Are Hiring! 📢 Join our team as an Assistant/Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health. If you’re passionate about advancing research at the intersection of biology, behavior, & health, apply now and help shape the future of this exciting field! ugajobsearch.com/postings/40…
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BEAT WEEK IS HERE!🐘 AL decided to drop in and become a part of our developmental science research! Your contribution of any amount this week supports our work at GCDS. Every dollar counts and helps us beat Alabama (on and off the field)! 🏈💪❤️gail.uga.edu/commit?search=9…
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Georgia Center for Developmental Science retweeted
Midlife mortality from deaths of despair (suicide, drug overdose, alcoholic liver disease) has risen sharply since the concept was defined, with particularly large increases for American Indian or Alaska Native and Black individuals from 1999 to 2022. ja.ma/46Fw0Al
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Georgia Center for Developmental Science retweeted
Excited to share our new paper @JAMAPsych: “Exploration-Exploitation and Suicidal Behavior in Borderline Personality Disorder and Depression” with Michael Hallquist, @DrAngelaIanni, @AleksaKaurin, @aidangcw, and @AlexDombrovski1. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… #suicide #BPD #MDD 🧵:
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Georgia Center for Developmental Science retweeted
Black adolescents’ experiences with racial discrimination may put them at higher risk of depression and anxiety, according to a study published this week in JAMA Network Open that sheds light on the long-term impact of racism. wapo.st/45o4qXK
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We had an incredible time today learning from UGA FACS Alumni Shaun Golden from Golden Opportunity For You. Shaun works with youth as a motivational speaker, helping kids, teens, and young adults build resilience against everyday stress.
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Georgia Center for Developmental Science retweeted
Wrote a review with my two former postdoctoral advisors! Learned from the best: Resting state functional brain connectivity in child and adolescent psychiatry: where are we now? nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
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Congratulations to YDI student @LinhaoZhang_ for achieving the Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award! Linhao's dissertation will use three studies to examine the impact of sleep on neural development and adolescent risk for psychopathology.
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Congrats to YDI alum @MalloryRCotton for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers, early in their careers.
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A HUGE round of applause for our undergrad researchers who presented at the CURO symposium last night! More photos in the comments of these students' amazing work.
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Georgia Center for Developmental Science retweeted
“We need to be more vigilant and supportive of those around us that we expect to be resilient, like our farmers.” — Dr. Christina Proctor, TEDxUGA 2024 @PublicHealthUGA
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Georgia Center for Developmental Science retweeted
My first (postdoc) fMRI paper is out! Together with the amazing @Dr_BCallaghan, who initiated and designed this project to begin with, and @DANLAB_Columbia, we show parental buffering effects on youth' amygdala and mPFC during fear learning. Specifically: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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