DSAN Lab

I’ll be reviewing PhD applications for Fall 2026. Our lab investigates healthy self-development, focusing on the socioemotional and neural processes that support or hinder it across adolescence and young adulthood. Info: labs.utdallas.edu/dsanlab/join...

26.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Our lab just completed our first pilot scanning session! 🧠
It was only possible thanks to the supportive staffs and colleagues who shared their experience with us 🙌 @cvlneuro.bsky.social

20.09.2025 19:32 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The DSAN Lab joined an event organized by the Center for Children and Families and had a beautiful Saturday morning!
Kids stopped by our table to try a fun emotion recognition quiz and learn about opportunities to participate in our studies 🍀

31.05.2025 21:51 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hierarchical Phenotyping of Psychopathology: Implications and Opportunities for Precision Psychiatry when Biology Could be Associated with both Symptoms and Syndromes As psychiatry increasingly embraces precision medicine principles, there has been increasing efforts to characterize the specificity of biology–psychopathology associations (e.g., is biology associate...

this is nice ... www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

09.05.2025 20:20 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

UTD Psych labs at @sansmeeting.bsky.social! So wonderful to be together with colleagues and students. Huge thanks to the organizers for making SANS 2025 such a meaningful experience!

25.04.2025 01:04 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The DSAN Lab’s first presentation at
@sansmeeting.bsky.social
! Our amazing undergraduate student, Hamshitha, presented our work on how joint trajectories of victimization and perpetration impact structural brain development in early adolescence.
@cvlneuro.bsky.social

24.04.2025 23:57 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

We presented four posters at DACC @cvlneuro.bsky.social! The lab had an incredible time—discussing research with fellow researchers and contributing to the topic of adolescence and social emotion. We were grateful for this opportunity and we’re already looking forward to DACC2027!

22.02.2025 23:44 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

DSAN Lab is presenting at DACC 2025 @cvlneuro.bsky.social, contributing to its expansion into developmental research! 🎉 Visit us to explore and discuss our preliminary work on adolescent development in social-emotional contexts.

20.02.2025 05:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.

Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social

A thread 🧵

elifesciences.org/articles/97731

24.01.2025 15:06 — 👍 83    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 3

Reflecting on DSAN Lab’s 2024 journey: ✅ Advanced projects on adolescent self-belief & social feedback processing ✅ Built a dedicated team & external collaborations ✅ Developed lab protocols & resources. We’re ready to tackle new challenges and opportunities in 2025! 🚀

12.01.2025 18:50 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Happy first anniversary to the DSAN lab! It’s been an incredible year—building our new lab, starting exciting projects, and forming meaningful collaborations together with these wonderful people.

17.12.2024 04:37 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

🎉 Congratulations to Hamshitha and Haley on receiving the 2025 Undergraduate Research Scholars Award! 🌟 Stay tuned for their work on the joint effects of victimization and perpetration on brain development, as well as simulating real-life social comparisons within friend dyads.

06.12.2024 23:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1