Events: Past
9/30/25 Meredith Gruhn: Childhood Adversity and Adolescent Stress Responses: Neurobiological and Psychosocial Pathways
Sep. 24, 2025—Clinical brown bag Meredith Gruhn, PhD Assistant Professor | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Childhood Adversity and Adolescent Stress Responses: Neurobiological and Psychosocial Pathways Childhood adversity is associated with heightened risk for psychopathology, yet the underlying pathways may differ depending on...
9/23/25 Katherine Schafer: A Hybrid Type I Implementation Trial of a Patient Portal Message to Reduce Suicidal Ideation
Sep. 23, 2025—Clinical brown bag Katherine Schafer, PhD Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Psychiatry, VUMC Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall A Hybrid Type I Implementation Trial of a Patient Portal Message to Reduce Suicidal Ideation Suicide prevention efforts increasingly rely on predictive algorithms to identify individuals at high risk for...
9/25/25 Jason Chow: A Special CCN Professional Development Talk
Sep. 23, 2025—CCN brown bag Jason Chow, PhD Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: Zoom A Special CCN Professional Development Talk My experience in the black box of industry. Transitioning from a Vanderbilt PhD student directly to industry can feel like trying to understand a black box that just does not respond to anything....
9/19/25 Alex Maier: Taking Arts + Science Literally: Five Takeaways from Poems about Research
Sep. 17, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Alex Maier, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Date: Friday, September 19, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Taking Arts + Science Literally: Five Takeaways from Poems about Research Our college advertises with the slogan: “When Art + Science come together, anything is possible.”...
9/18/25 Noah Fram: Rhythm as a prism for predictive coding in autism
Sep. 15, 2025—CCN brown bag Noah Fram, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Otolaryngology Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025 Time: 12:10-1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Rhythm as a prism for predictive coding in autism Over the last decade, predictive coding theories of autism have become more prominent. The proliferation of these theories has, in turn, exposed a need...
9/16/25 Sarah Szymkowicz: Cognitive Enhancement in Late-Life Depression Using Targeted Multi-Modal Techniques: Preliminary Findings from VUMC’s COG-D Study
Sep. 11, 2025—Clinical brown bag Sarah Szymkowicz, PhD, ABPP Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, VUMC Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Cognitive Enhancement in Late-Life Depression Using Targeted Multi-Modal Techniques: Preliminary Findings from VUMC’s COG-D Study This talk will review cognitive deficits and neural dysfunction commonly seen in late-life...
9/9/25 Lindsey C. McKernan- Uropsychology: New Opportunities for Intervention in Health Psychology
Sep. 11, 2025—Clinical brown bag Lindsey C. McKernan, PhD Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Urology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Time: 12:00- 1:00 Location: 316 Wilson Hall Uropsychology: New Opportunities for Intervention in Health Psychology Chronic urologic conditions such as interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome, overactive bladder,...
9/12/25: Jon Kaas & Huixin Qi – The Plasticity of the Somatosensory System and Recovery from Sensory Loss
Sep. 9, 2025—Neuroscience brown bag Jon Kaas, PhD Distinguished Centennial Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Huixin Qi Graduate Student Date: Friday, September 12, 2025 Time: 1:25- 2:15pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall The Plasticity of the Somatosensory System and Recovery from Sensory Loss The brain has the...
9/11/25 Geoff Woodman: Decoding the comparison process during visual search
Sep. 3, 2025—CCN brown bag Geoff Woodman, PhD Professor of Psychology E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Neuroscience, Director of National Eye Institute T32 Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 Decoding the comparison process during visual search For centuries theorists have proposed that attention shifts between interesting perceptual inputs (e.g., a shiny...
9/4/25 Matt Johnson- Roberson: A conversation with the new Dean of the College of Connected Computing
Sep. 2, 2025—CCN brown bag Matt Johnson-Roberson, PhD Dean of College of Connected Computing Date: Thursday, September 4, 2025 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: Wilson Hall 316 A conversation with the new Dean of the College of Connected Computing