Congratulations to Elliot on receiving the UW Clinician Scientist Training Program Trainee Research Award! His project, entitled “Default Mode Network Impairments in Comorbid Anxiety and Cannabis Use Disorders,” will examine default network correlates of self-referential processing using drift diffusion models in people with comorbid social anxiety disorder and cannabis use disorder, compared to those with social anxiety disorder alone.
Congratulations to Yuchen on receiving the Summer 2024 Psychology Department Scholar Award!
Angela was recently featured on the BrainSTEM podcast, which is hosted by Dr. Hilary Marusak and produced by Amanpreet Bhogul. In this episode, she discusses “The Neuroscience of Anxiety: Expert Insights and Personal Journeys,” and shares valuable insights into current conceptualizations and therapeutic approaches for anxiety disorders. The episode is now published and out on all streaming platforms [Listen Here] or [Watch Here]!
We are proud to announce the graduation of Kavin Srinakarin (Ken), an honors research student in our lab, who has made significant contributions through their thesis on “Learning Safety from Like Others: Effect of Gender Categorization on Vicarious Extinction Learning.” Congratulations Ken on this achievement!
Check out the lab’s recent publication, “Self-focused Brain Predictors of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Response in a Transdiagnostic Sample”. We found that pre-treatment default mode network connectivity was associated with treatment response in patients with social anxiety disorder and body dysmorphic disorder [Read Here]
Congratulations to Morgan Opdahl on receiving the James Steele Endowed Scholarship 2024!
Congratulations to Kavin Srinakarin (Ken) on receiving the UW Levinson Emerging Scholars Award 2023-24!
Angela is quoted in an article in Right as Rain (a digital publication from UW Medicine) on Illness Anxiety Disorder [read here].
Angela ended her term as Chair of the NTTR SIG and becomes Chair of the Leadership and Elections Committee at ABCT!
Congratulations to Gillian on receiving the T32 Vision Training Grant from the National Eye Institute!
Angela gave the Edwards Lecture with Dr. Adam Guastella of the University of Sydney to 500+ in-person and virtual attendees! See her recorded lecture here!
Congratulations to Gillian for achieving honorable mention on her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Angela was quoted in SELF magazine on telling the difference between BDD and poor body image. Check it out here!
Congratulations to Ken as he’s been selected for the APA Summer Undergraduate Psychology Experience Research (SUPER) fellowship for this summer 2023, as well as the Mary Gates Research Scholarship 2023-24! These are very selective and competitive. Way to go, Ken!
Congratulations to our STAR undergraduate research assistant, Serenity Greene! Serenity has recently presented her poster titled “Association Between Public Self-Consciousness and Vicarious Extinction Learning Among Socially-Anxious Individuals” at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at UW. We are very proud and excited to see what Serenity works on in the future!
Our Lab’s first Undergraduate Honors Students, Cecilia Mustelin and Nikita Nerkar, have successfully defended their Honors theses to the Psychology Honors committee! In addition, Nikita has been awarded the Guthrie Prize for her Honors thesis. Nikita’s thesis was nominated by the Psychology faculty for its high writing quality. We are so proud of both Cecilia and Nikita, and we are so thrilled to see what they achieve in the future! Congratulations!
To learn more about their thesis projects, click here: https://www.uwconnectlab.com/research/research-oxytocin/.
Angela was selected to receive the 2022 Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Award for Early Career Achievement in STEM! She will be honored at the AWIS banquet this summer. Congratulations!
Angela received the Royalty Research Fund award to study sex differences in the neural mechanisms of oxytocin’s effects on vicarious extinction learning in women with social anxiety disorder!
Congratulations to Nikita Nerkar for being selected to receive the UW Mary Gates Research Scholarship for Fall 2021! Nikita was selected among a highly-competitive pool of UW undergraduates for her strong Honors proposal, focusing on cultural factors in Social Safety Learning, and for her promising career objectives. You go, Nikita!
We welcome CoNNeCT’s first generation of PhD students Yuchen Zhao (clinical), Emily Iannazzi (clinical), and Gillian Grennan (neuroscience)! We’re delighted to have these new additions to our team!
Jennifer Mosley received the Emily Holmes Translational Neuroscience Training Award from the NTTR SIG! She will be using the award to attend a two-week computational modeling training at UW. Congratulations Jennifer!
Angela received the 2021 Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award! This grant will serve a two-year project examining the neural and behavioral effects of oxytocin on vicarious extinction learning in individuals with social anxiety disorder.
Nikita Nerkar received an Honors Research Award from the UW Psychology Department to examine the role of interdependent vs. independent self-construals in moderating oxytocin’s effects on vicarious extinction in individuals with social anxiety disorder. Congratulations Nikita!
Neurocognitive Therapies and Translational Research (NTTR) SIG launched its inaugural webinar series. The first installment features Dr. Catherine Harmer from the University of Oxford.
Angela interviewed with The Daily about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and its misconceptions
Angela becomes Chair of the Neurocognitive Therapies and Translational Research (NTTR) SIG, An ABCT Special Interest Group
Angela featured in the New England Psychologist
Angela was interviewed on Radio Health Journal about body dysmorphic disorder
