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Megha Duvvuri, Amar Camara, and Kaitlynn Ellis presented their work at VTRF 2025. Congratulations!

Leighton's paper, "Emotion regulation strategies as moderators of the relationship between negative life events and trait anxiety", has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Congratulations Leighton!

At the 2024 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting in Phoenix, AZ, Dr. Kaczkurkin discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on internalizing symptoms in youth as part of the symposium The COVID Counterfactual: Measuring Neurodevelopmental Trajectories That Cross Through the Pandemic Era.

Congratulations to Megha Duvvuri, Gabby Baugh, Shayaan Essani, Sochanita Deu, and Amar Camara for presenting at their work at the Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Fair!

Dr. Kaczkurkin chaired a symposium and presented research at the 2024 Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting in Prague, Czech Republic. Her presentation, titled "Dimensions of Internalizing Psychopathology Associated with Brain Structure in Children," explored the neurobiological substrates linked to mental health dimensions in youth.

Congratulations to our lab members, Karen Herrera, Shayaan Essani, Megha Duvvuri, Sochanita Deu, Gabby Baugh, Camille Archer, Gabrielle Reimman, and Kaitlynn Ellis, for presenting at VKC Science day 2024!

Gabby's paper, "Longitudinal association of youth prosocial behavior with dimensions of psychopathology", was accepted by the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Advances. Congratulations Gabby!

Leighton's review, "Structural brain correlates of anxiety during development," has been accepted for publication in the Springer Series in Behavioral Neuroscience, "New discoveries in the brain sciences of fear and anxiety: from basic to clinical neuroscience." Congratulations Leighton!

Leighton successfully defended her dissertation, "A Hierarchical Model of Youth Internalizing Symptoms and Associated Neurostructural Differences". Congratulations Leighton, we are so proud!

Camille's manuscript, "Concurrent and Longitudinal Neurostructural Correlates of Irritability in Children", was accepted by Neuropsychopharmacology. Congratulations Camille!

Congratulations to Gabrielle Reimann! Her manuscript, "Longitudinal association of youth prosocial behavior with dimensions of psychopathology", has been accepted by the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Advances.