Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Date
March 31, 2023
Mind Brain Research Day Returns In-Person for its 25th Year
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Mind Brain Research Day returned in-person for its 25th year on Thursday, March 30.
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The poster session in Sayles Hall included 108 submissions from Brown faculty, trainees, students, and staff.
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Maria Accavitti, Ph.D., Bianka Charity-Parker, Ph.D., and Sarah McHugh, Ph.D., stopped by the poster of Jessica Janze, Ph.D. All four are postdoctoral fellows in the Clinical Child Psychology Specialty Program.
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Associate Professor Mascha van ‘t Wout-Frank, Ph.D., points to data in a poster.
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Research assistant Elizabeth Li shows their poster, “Relationship between Functional Connectivity and Depressive Symptoms in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.”
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The afternoon included bag lunches and refreshments.
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General psychiatry residents eat lunch together in Sayles Hall.
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Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard University and McLean Hospital, presented the keynote address, "Translating Brain Mechanisms of Fear to Understanding PTSD," in the Salomon Center.
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Triple Board Resident Yvorn “Doc” Aswad, M.D., asks a question following Dr. Ressler’s address.
After two years in a virtual format, Brown University’s annual Mind Brain Research Day returned in-person on Thursday, March 30, as faculty, trainees, research assistants, and other brain enthusiasts met and mingled among more than 100 research posters in Sayles Hall. Attendees later adjourned to the Salomon Center to hear a keynote address, "Translating Brain Mechanisms of Fear to Understanding PTSD," by Dr. Kerry Ressler, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chief psychiatric officer at McLean Hospital.
The event, organized by the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior (DPHB) and the Carney Institute for Brain Science, marked the 25th incarnation of the beloved tradition, which was first held in 1996. (For those doing the math: The event was canceled twice in its history.)
The continuation of Mind Brain Research Day speaks to the longevity of research programs at Brown. Several current DPHB faculty presented at the inaugural event in 1996, among them Dr. Mary Carskadon, Ph.D., Dr. Anthony Spirito, Ph.D., and Dr. Lawrence Price, M.D. Dr. Matthew Vrees, M.D., currently a clinical associate professor of surgery at Brown and the director of general surgery at The Miriam Hospital, won a poster award as a then-medical student.
This year, Brown faculty, trainees, students, and staff were invited to submit research posters. The honorees are listed below.
2023 Mind Brain Research Day Award Winners
Diversity Research Award
1st place:
Zhengduo Lu, B.A., “Ideal Affect and The Role of Cultural Intelligence in European Americans’ Hiring Judgment”
2nd place:
Shari Brightly-Brown, M.A., “Resilience to Stressful Life Events in Middle Aged and Older African Americans”
Undergraduate Student Award
Winner:
Brynn Kroke, “Syn3 Attenuates Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury in Neonatal Rats”
Graduate/Medical Student Award
Winner:
Hasib Aamir Riaz, M.S., “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neuroinflammatory Glial activation in Christianson Syndrome”
Research Assistant Award
1st place:
Kenneth Bradley, B.S., “Metabolite supplementation to ameliorate developmental impairments in the GPT2 Deficiency mouse model”
2nd place:
Tyra Bergstrom, B.S., “Antenatal attachment quality and preoccupation in pregnant women reporting prior justice-system exposure”
Clinical Psychology Resident Award
1st place:
Jessica Powers, M.S., “Use and Co-Use of Cannabis and Nicotine Before, During, and After Pregnancy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Waves 1-5 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study”
2nd place:
Katlyn Garr, M.A., “Family and Child Response to Asthma Symptoms and Associations with Weight and Sleep Outcomes in Urban Children with Persistent Asthma”
Campus-based Postdoc Award
Winner:
Emily Warren, Ph.D., “Autism-associated 17q12 deletion syndrome in a novel mouse model shows abnormalities in head and brain development”
DPHB Postdoc Award
1st place:
Madeline Benz, Ph.D., “Intentionality and characteristics of emergency department patients with a history of suicide attempt via medication overdose”
2nd place:
Kelli Sullivan, Ph.D., “The Effects of Medication Adherence Feedback on Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Mixed Methods Study”
MD Resident & Fellows Award
Winner:
Elizabeth Olsen, M.D., “Family Factors Associated with Delinquency Outcomes in Court-Involved Youth in Mental Health Treatment”
2023 Mind Brain Research Day sponsors include the Carney Institute for Brain Science; the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences; the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry; the Department of Neurology; the Department of Neuroscience; the Department of Neurosurgery; the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior; the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute; the School of Engineering;