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Announcements and news from the CDN Lab!
2025
The lab is happy to share that Dr. Guassi Moreira’s proposal entitled Neural Signature of Emotion Regulation in Adolescent Risk-Taking has been selected for a Young Investigator Grant by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF). This award helps fund a multi-phase study that aims to precisely clarify how emotion regulatory mechanisms are implicated in adolescent risk-taking behavior. The BBRF’s Young Investigator program is intended to help launch independent research careers by helping junior investigators gather pilot data to apply to larger grants. Dr. Guassi Moreira and CDNLab are grateful for the efforts of the BBRF’s Scientific Council, Program Administrators, and Board of Directors.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Guassi Moreira’s research proposal, “How Do Our Brains Regulate Emotions?”, was awarded a Secondary Data Analysis Grant by Plasticity of Well-Being (PWB) Network. The PWB Network is an NIH-funded research network comprised of scholars from the Center for Health Minds @ UW Madison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University. The goal of the network is to identify ways to measure people’s emotional health and well-being in everyday life. This award helps fund an ongoing project in the lab aimed at understand the inner workings of the developmental brain as it regulate emotions. The lab is grateful for the support of the PWB Network and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Guassi Moreira’s research proposal, “Understanding the Impact of Emotion Regulation on Adolescent Risk-Taking and Substance Use”, was awarded The Trust Grant (in Honor of Eric A. Harris, EdD, JD) by the American Psychological Foundation. This award helps fund an ongoing study in lab aimed at understanding the interplay between emotion regulation and adolescent risk-taking in the context of substance use.
2024
We are excited to share that recent research from our lab was featured in Medical Xpress! The paper, “A behavioral signature to quantify how people attribute mental states to others,” was published in Communications Psychology. We developed a method to quantify the social value of a relationship based on a behavioral signature. Social value scores tracked with self-reported relationship quality and also predicted decision preferences on a range of tasks. For the medical xpress article click here. For the original article click here.
We are excited to announce the launch of the Computational Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Our lab is dedicated to understanding the neural mechanisms that shape socioemotional development during adolescence, with a particular focus on risky decision-making, emotion regulation, and social relationships. By combining cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques and computational modeling, we aim to shed light on how brain activity supports the complex behaviors that emerge during this pivotal stage of life. Stay tuned for updates on our research projects, publications, and opportunities to get involved! You can also follow us on twitter @cdnlab_uwisc