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Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, speaks with the BBC about how poverty influences children’s brain development and their chances for success in life

June 01, 2017

Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, speaks with the BBC World Service about how poverty influences children’s brain development and their chances for success in life. You can listen to the story here.

Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, speaks about the neuroscience of trauma and adversity to journalists at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism

July 17, 2017

Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, speaks about the neuroscience of trauma and adversity to journalists at the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. The journalists were participating in the 2017 National...

Jessica Jenness, a postdoc in the Stress and Development Lab, has been awarded a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health that will support a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UW

August 01, 2017

Jessica Jenness, a postdoc in the Stress and Development Lab, has been awarded a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health that will support a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UW. Her...

Stress and Development Lab research is featured in the New York Times

September 08, 2017

The article describes research conducted by Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, on children's mental health following Hurricane Katrina. Specifically, the results of the study showed that children affected by Hurricane Katrina had meaningful increases in...

Stress and Development Lab research featured on NPR

October 16, 2017

A recent paper from the Stress and Development lab, published in Nature Communications, raises questions about existing research on "normal" brain development. Most studies of brain development in children have been comprised of samples that look very...

Hilary Lambert, graduate student in the Stress and Development Lab, wins dissertation award

December 19, 2017

Hilary Lambert, a graduate student in the Stress and Development Lab, wins the Frank W. Putnam Research Scholars award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. This award is named in the honor of Frank W. Putnam, a leader in the study...

Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, receives the Neuropsychopharmacology Editor's Award for a Transformative Original Report

December 15, 2017

Kaite A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, receives the Neuropsychopharmacology Editor's Award for a Transformative Original Report. This award was given to lab research examining how exposure to maltreatment in childhood influences how children learn about...

Stress and Development Lab research is featured in the Wall Street Journal

January 18, 2018

The article describes research conducted by Dr. Maya Rosen, a postdoc in the Stress and Development lab, and Dr. Katie A. McLaughlin, the lab’s director. The study found that adolescents have heightened neural activity in the salience network of the brain...

Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, is featured on the Today Show

April 13, 2018

Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, speaks with the Today Show about how stress influences the brain and how to help teenagers manage stress. Watch this clip for important tips from the Stress and Development Lab about helping children and adolescents...

Maya Rosen, post-doc in the Stress and Development Lab, has paper featured on cover of this month's issue of Developmental Science

May 01, 2018

Maya Rosen's paper on developmental changes in the salience network was selected for the Cover Image of this month's issue of Developmental Science. Congratulations Maya!! Read the paper here.

Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, is interviewed about how neuroscience can help youth who have been victims of sex trafficking

May 01, 2018

Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, is interviewed in a story about how neuroscience research can help us develop better interventions for youth who have been the victims of sex trafficking. Read more about how Stress and Development Lab research is being...

McKenzie Hagen, honors student in the Stress and Development Lab, wins the 2018 Guthrie Prize from the University of Washington Psychology Department

May 31, 2018

McKenzie Hagen, a senior honors student, has won the Guthrie Prize for the best honors thesis in Psychology at the University of Washington! This prize was established to encourage excellence in psychology research and writing complex concepts for a broad...