Great news! Hamshitha and Haley received the ‘2025 Undergraduate Research Scholars Award.’ Stay tuned for their research presentation in April 2025!

We are thrilled to welcome two new PhD students, Israel and Max, to the lab!

We bid farewell to Siri Boinapalli, who made valuable contributions to our studies during the summer.

Great news! The IRB for our project titled “Development of Cognitive Ability, Mental Health, and Personality in Youth” has been approved!

Israel and Dr. Yoon attended the 2024 SRNDNA Computational Modeling Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania.

The lab has gained access to data from the NIMH Data Archive’s Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. Additionally, the IRB for our research on the effects of social victimization trajectories on structural brain development has been approved!

Dimple’s abstract, “Neuroanatomical Mediators of Developmental Differences in Defensive Responses Following Social Evaluative Threat,” was accepted for a poster presentation at Flux 2024 (Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Society).

Dr. Yoon presented a poster titled “Longitudinal Relations Among Depressive Symptoms and Interpersonal Problems Across Mid to Late Adolescence in Girls,” her postdoc project at UC Davis, at the Society for Adolescence. Dr. Yoon also coauthored a talk led by Dr. Alva Tang, titled “Adolescents’ Learning of Reflected Self-Views in Close Friendships and Internalizing Symptoms: A Pilot Study.”

Thomas presented the lab introduction poster following Dr. Frank Lin’s talk on “Hearing Loss & Brain Health.”

We launched the DSAN Lab with our first cohort of lab members: Thomas, Dimple, Haley, Kathryn, and Hamshitha!