Allie Adamis wins Vanderbilt Award for Doctoral Discovery
Apr. 29, 2025—Congratulations Allie Adamis Allie has won the Vanderbilt Award for Doctoral Discovery. The College of Arts and Science Vanderbilt Award for Doctoral Discovery (VADD), previously named the Summer Research Award (SRA) program, is designed to help graduate students with outstanding potential to accelerate progress on their research. VADDs provide funding to support student research at...
Jon Kaas Festschrift 2025
Apr. 28, 2025—Celebrating the Career of Jon Kaas Our Department and the Vanderbilt Brain Institute celebrated Jon Kaas on April 12th, with a whole day symposium of esteemed scholars, long-term friends, local colleagues, and Jon’s extended family. Speakers of the symposium highlighted the personal growth and encouragement they experienced while working with Jon. Leading his team of...
Melina Mueller wins Quesenberry Award
Apr. 24, 2025—Melina Mueller wins the Quesenbery Award The Lisa M. Quesenberry Scholarship was established by Irvin and Mary Ann Quesenberry and Kathryn Quesenberry to memorialize the accomplishments of their daughter and sister, Lisa M. Quesenberry. The scholarship is designed to provide research or study awards to motivated graduate students studying psychology at Vanderbilt University. Congratulations Melina!
4/1/25 Abigail Snow: Parent Emotion Socialization in Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome: Associations with Psychological Symptoms
Mar. 31, 2025—Clinical Brown Bag Abigail Snow Graduate Student Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom Parent Emotion Socialization in Adolescents with Tourette Syndrome: Associations with Psychological Symptoms Adolescents with Tourette syndrome (TS) are at heightened risk for experiencing psychosocial difficulties. While tics are the defining symptom of TS, there is evidence for widespread deficits in...
4/4/25 Mia Elbon: Do animals go as far as they can, or as far as they have to?
Mar. 31, 2025—Neuroscience Brown Bag Mia Elbon Graduate Student Date: Friday, April 4th, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Do animals go as far as they can, or as far as they have to? An animal’s “home range” is the surface area where it can normally be found over a given time. Larger animals have larger home ranges,...
4/8/25 Anne-Kathrin Fett, City of St. Georges University of London: Social cognition, trust and social functioning in psychotic disorders
Mar. 31, 2025—Clinical Brown Bag Anne- Kathrin Fett, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom Social cognition, trust and social functioning in psychotic disorders Loneliness and social isolation are associated with poor mental health. Many individuals with psychotic disorders experience chronic social isolation across their lifespan. Social cognition, reduced trust...
4/10/25 Zengbo Xie
Mar. 31, 2025—CCN Brown Bag Zengbo Xie Graduate Student Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 12:10-1pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Schrödinger’s blink: Can we be passive observers of our own behavior? Investigating the role of awareness in motor control is challenging because most actions are performed consciously. We have recently exploited eye blinking as a novel paradigm to tease...
4/11/25 Daniel Felleman, Distinguished Alumna: Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies
Mar. 31, 2025—Neuroscience Brown Bag Daniel Felleman, PhD Professor of Neurobiology & Anatomy McGovern Medical School Date: Friday, April 11, 2025 Time: 1:25-2:15pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Visual Cortex: Neurons, Modules, Maps, and Hierarchies The past forty years has seen a remarkable revelation on our understanding of the organization and function of the cerebral cortex, especially primate visual cortex....
4/15/25 Penny Peng: A Comprehensive Examination of Sex-differentiated Manifestations of ADHD Symptoms
Mar. 31, 2025—Clinical Brown Bag Penny Peng Graduate Student Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Time: 12:00-1:00pm Location: Zoom A Comprehensive Examination of Sex-differentiated Manifestations of ADHD Symptoms Penny (Zheyue) Peng is a second-year student in Vanderbilt’s Clinical Science program and is a member of Dr. Ashley Watts’ Mechanisms of Addiction and Psychopathology Lab. She previously earned...
4/17/25 Lasyapriya Pidaparthi: Eye tracking reveals the efficacy of object-based attention at filtering out salient distractors
Mar. 31, 2025—CCN Brown Bag Lasya Pidaparthi Graduate Student Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00 pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Eye tracking reveals the efficacy of object-based attention at filtering out salient distractors Visual attention allows us to focus on task-relevant information. Previous research has shown that covert attention can modulate the perceived contrast of a stimulus...