Scholarship Awarded

Kara Kerr, a Tulsa University Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology and member of the Simmons Laboratory at LIBR has been named as a recipient of the 2015 Academy for Eating Disorders Early Career Scholarship. This competitive award includes a travel scholarship to the International Conference on Eating Disorders later this year in Boston, MA. Congratulations to Kara on her achievement!

Paper Accepted for Publication

A two-part meta-analysis article by Dr. Paul Hamilton, Madison Farmer and Phoebe Fogelman of LIBR on "Depressive Rumination, the Default-Mode Network, and the Dark Matter of Clinical Neuroscience" has been accepted into the journal Biological Psychiatry. Congratulations to the authors!

Registration is now open for the March William K. Warren, Jr. "Frontiers in Neuroscience" Conference.

Topic: “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”   
Presenter: Jitender Sareen, MD, FRCPC, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba;Director of Research and Anxiety Services in the Department of Psychiatry at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg
Where: Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Room
When: March 3rd, 2015 at 12 noon

To register, please call 918-494-6490 or email kecochran@saintfrancis.com.
The event is free and open to the public.

All are encouraged to attend!

On Monday, February 23rd, please join us as we welcome Dr. Reese Minshew to LIBR. She will present her work "Neither Here Nor There: Trauma, Affect Regulation, and the Role of the Cerebellum" at 12 noon in the LIBR Conference Room A. 

Dr. Minshew is a candidate for a postdoctoral position in Dr. Aupperle’s laboratory. Her research interests relate to the neural and peripheral physiological underpinnings of traumatic stress. Her master’s thesis focused on implicit and explicit memory in survivors of chronic interpersonal violence. Her presentation at LIBR will describe the results from her dissertation focused on cerebellar function related to childhood trauma.