Several CDASR researchers receive awards and grants
Several researchers from the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research have recently received awards and fellowships. Kreshnik Burani received a Joseph and Susan Gatto Foundation Award for Excellence in Imaging, Psychiatric Disorders or Drug Abuse Research, for his project entitled The Mechanistic Role of Reward Prediction Errors and Memory Encoding in Depressive Symptomatology and Coping. Kreshnik also received the 2025-2026 Erik Dorris Memorial Fellowship, for a second project entitled Examining the Behavioral and Neural Consequences of Stress-induced Anhedonia in Depression. ...
Read MoreDr. Diego Pizzagalli received the Neuropsychopharmacology Editor’s Award for a Review (NEAR)
Together with Dr. Angela Roberts (University of Cambridge), Dr. Pizzagalli received the Neuropsychopharmacology Editor’s Award for a Review (NEAR) for their review entitled “Prefrontal cortex and depression” The award was established in 2017, and is intended to recognize the top review-type article published in print in Neuropsychopharmacology during the previous year. Congratulations, Diego!
Read MoreKevin Clancy receives Joseph & Susan Gatto Foundation Award
Kevin Clancy has received a Joseph & Susan Gatto Foundation Award for his project entitled “Phenomenological and mechanistic properties of trauma-related intrusive memories and their roles in maladaptive coping behaviors”. This project aims to identify a mechanistic link between the vivid sensory features of trauma intrusions and harmful coping behaviors like substance use. Combining EMAs of intrusion properties and coping behaviors with fMRI and MRS, Kevin will test the hypothesis that maladaptive coping is driven by attempts to dampen the sensory vividness of intrusions, and that this...
Read MoreArkadiy Maksimovskiy is the recipient of “One Crimson” award
Arkadiy Maksimovskiy is the recipient of “One Crimson” award based on his undergraduate teaching—this award is given by student athletes “to acknowledge a member of the Harvard campus community they feel plays a meaningful role in their Harvard experience”. Congratulations, Arkadiy!
Read MoreLaura Murray awarded the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Mental Health Research Scholar Award
Laura Murray was awarded a Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Mental Health Research Scholar Award for her project entitled “Characterizing Anhedonia in Teens: Linking Common and Person-Specific Patterns of Resting-State Network Connectivity to Clinical Outcomes”. Congratulations Laura!
Read MoreManuel Kuhn awarded Eric Dorris Memorial Fellowship
Manuel Kuhn was awarded an Eric Dorris Memorial Fellowship for his project entitled “A Combined Investigation of the Protective Impact of the NOF/Q Antagonist LY-2940094 on Stress-induced Depression- and Anxiety-related Phenotypes in Humans”. Congratulations, Manuel!
Read MoreChristian Webb is the 2023 recipient of the Theodore Blau Early Career Award
I am delighted to announce that Christian is the 2023 recipient of the Theodore Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology, given by the Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Foundation. This award honors a clinical psychologist for accomplishments and promise in clinical psychology. Congratulations, Christian!
Read MoreDr. Rotem Dan accepted to Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program
Dr. Rotem Dan has been accepted for the 2023 Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program (CDLP). Congratulations, Rotem!
Read MoreDr. Isabelle Rosso accepted as Full Member at ACNP
Dr. Isabelle Rosso has been accepted as a Full Member at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). Congratulations, Isabelle!
Read MoreDr. Poornima Kumar receives NIMH R21 Award
Dr. Poornima Kumar has been awarded an R21 from NIMH entitled “Building Normative Models of Reinforcement Learning Decision Making Behavior.” The main goals of this proposal are to (1) parse Reinforcement Learning based Decision-Making (RLDM) sub-processes into mathematically-defined parameters in a large sample using a diverse set of tasks; (2) assess test-retest reliability of these parameters; and finally (3) build normative models of the parameters and chart the heterogeneity at the level of the individual. It is expected that resulting normative models will provide us with a framework...
Read MoreDr. Emily Belleau receives 2023 Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award
Dr. Emily Belleau has been selected as the 2023 Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award winner from the ADAA! ADAA offers this annual award to an early career investigator for the best original research paper on neurobiology, psychopharmacology, psychosocial treatments, or experimental psychopathology of anxiety disorders and depression. Emily received this award for her recent manuscript reporting CAP (Co-Activation Pattern) analyses of fMRI data collected in youth at increased MDD risk (due to maternal MDD). Congratulations, Emily!
Read MoreDr. Manuel Kuhn promoted to Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Neuroimaging and Instrumentation Core in LATN
Dr. Manuel Kuhn has been promoted to Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In addition, effective 12/1/22, Manuel will become the Director of the Neuroimaging and Instrumentation Core within the Laboratory for Affective and Translational Neuroscience. In this role, Manuel will provide assistance, consultation and support for the following areas: Task code implementation on diverse task presentation platforms (Eprime, presentation, Matlab PTB, PsychoPy) Task and device setup (e.g., button box, shocker, displays, handgrips, SCR, startle) on PRISMAs Review of fMRI session...
Read MoreDr. Isabelle Rosso elected co-Chair of SOBP’s Committee for Advancing Women’s Leadership
Dr. Isabelle Rosso has been elected co-Chair of the Committee for Advancing Women’s Leadership for the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP). This is a critical committee that will pursue important work for SOBP and the field. Congratulations, Isabelle, and thank you for your leadership!
Read MoreDr. Poornima Kumar launches the COMP Group in CDASR
Dr. Poornima Kumar has launched a new group with in the Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research. Her COMputational Psychopathology (COMP) group will seek to understand how we make decisions in our day-to-day lives to maximize reward and minimize punishment, and how this can go awry in individuals suffering from psychiatric illnesses. Specifically, they will investigate the neural, molecular, behavioral correlates of reinforcement learning and decision-making using neuroimaging, computational models, and machine learning statistical approaches. The long-term goal is to identify...
Read MoreDr. Andrea Cataldo receives P50 Seed Grant
Dr. Andrea Cataldo is a recipient of a P50 Seed Grant for her project entitled, “The Impact of Evidence Strength vs. Decisional Bias on the Positive Memory Deficit in Depression.” This seed project aims to test the feasibility of a novel, model-driven behavioral task to distinguish the familiarity vs. motivated retrieval accounts, with the long-term goal of evaluating memory vs. decision-making mechanisms as potential treatment targets for Major Depressive Disorder. Congratulations, Andrea!
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