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Post-Doc David Weissman awarded a Young Scientist Transition Award from the Harvard Brain Science Initiative

February 24, 2021

David Weissman, a post-doc in the Stress and Development Lab has been awarded a Young Scientist Transition Award from the Harvard Brain Science Initiative. The Young Scientist Transition Awards, made possible with funding from the Office of the Provost...

Post-Doc Rachel Romeo awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NICHD

February 24, 2021

Rachel Romeo, post-doctoral fellow in the Stress and Development Lab, has received the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. Her project is entitled “Language Input as a Mechanism...

Stress and Development Research Shows that Childhood Trauma Might Accelerate Biological Aging

August 04, 2020

In a meta-analysis with over 100,000 participants published in Psychological Bulletin, Stress and Development Lab research demonstrates that experiencing adversity in childhood is associated with accelerated biological aging across three separate metrics...

Dr. Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, talks with the Washington Post about how parents can help children cope with the coronavirus pandemic

April 15, 2020

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/03/24/talking-kids-corona…

Research Associate Maya Rosen awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NICHD

April 15, 2020

Maya Rosen, research associate in the Stress and Development Lab, has received the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. Her project is entitled “Neurodevelopmental mechanisms linking...

Director of NIMH highlights work from the Stress and Development Lab

March 11, 2020

At the February 2020 NIMH Advisory Council Meeting, NIMH Director Josh Gordon features work recently published in Biological Psychiatry. Director Gordon applauds the study of neurobiological mechanisms of resilience to psychopathology in a particularly...

Katie A. McLaughlin, lab director, wins a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health

February 14, 2020

Katie A. McLaughlin, Director of the Stress and Development Lab, received a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for her grant entitled: Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms Underlying Stress Vulnerability during Adolescence. According...

Postdoc Maya Rosen wins Cognitive Neuroscience Society Postdoctoral Fellow Award!

January 17, 2020

Maya Rosen, a postdoc in the Stress and Development Lab, has received the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Postdoctoral Fellow Award for her work on neural mechanisms underlying the income-achievement gap. This work used functional MRI to...

Lab Director Katie A. McLaughlin meets with Congresswoman Katherine Clark

August 28, 2019

Representative Katherine Clark of the 5th District of Massachusetts has been a staunch advocate of funding for the National Institutes of Health and for behavioral and brain science. She is a leading advocate for trauma-informed care in schools and the...

Katie A. McLaughlin, lab director, and Jen Silvers discuss the potential long term consequences of the treatment of migrant children at the border in the Washington Post

June 28, 2019

Steven Kasparek, lab manager and incoming first-year doctoral student in the SD Lab, receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

April 09, 2019

Both Azure Reid-Russell and Steven Kasparek, current lab managers in the Stress and Development Lab and rising first-year graduate students in clinical psychology at Harvard, have been recognized by the National Science Foundation for their applications...

SD Lab coordinators accept offers for doctoral training in psychology!

April 09, 2019

Several Stress and Development Lab coordinators have accepted offers to begin doctoral training in psychology starting in the fall of 2019! Debbie Bitran: SD Lab coordinator for 4.5 years Has accepted an offer from Jamie Hanson at University of Pittsburgh...