We are always excited to get our research out there! Click here to learn more about the exciting work done by Milu Parrilla and Rella Kautiainen during their time in the DNP-ATL Lab.

Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Peterson who was awarded an early career grant from the American Cancer Society!

Starting this July, she will begin examining changes in cognition, neuroimaging (MRI, DTI, fMRI) along the cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway, and brain injury biomarkers of neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in pediatric posterior fossa tumors treated with radiation during the first year from diagnosis.

Our lab loved being part of this multidisciplinary and collaborative Research Project! Click here to learn more about the awesome “Healthy Student Brain” study at GSU!

Congratulations to Stephanie Steinberg and Holly Dustin for their successful internship and postdoctoral fellowship matches! Stephanie will be completing her internship at Emory University and Childrens Hospital of Atlanta through their adult/pediatric neuropsychology track. Holly will be completeing her postdoctoral fellowship at Kennedy Krieger Institute. We are proud of you both and can’t wait to see you take on these next stages!

We had so much fun exploring NYC and sharing our work with current lab members and alumni!

Congratulations to Olivia Haller for her recent offical publication in The Clinical Neuropsychologist. Olivia’s paper, entitled “Concordance of informant and self-reported ratings on the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale in adult survivors of pediatric brain tumor” explores discrepencies in ratings of exectutive functions between adult survivors of pediatric brain tumor and their family members.

We are proud to share that Stephanie Steinberg has won the Bailey M. Wade Memorial Scholarship Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. This award recognizes one student across the GSU Psychology Department for their exceptional research contributions. Congrats Stephanie!

Congratulations to Milu Parrilla and Rella Kautiainen for their recent publication in Applied Neuropsychology: Adult entitled “Sleep quality and executive function in a diverse sample of healthy young adults.” This paper identifies several relationships between sleep and informant-identified cognitive functioning in college students. You can find the paper here. Way to go Milu and Rella!

Shirley Ortega has accepted an offer to join Georgia State University’s Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program! We are so proud of Shirley and we look forward to seeing her shine at this next stage in her career.

Congratulations to our talented and hard-working undergraduate students who presented at the year’s GSU Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference! All of our students received many compliments for their advanced research projects and we are so happy to see them thrive. A special congratulations to Allison Lipstein as she won Best Overall and the Neuroscience award for her poster.