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Congratulations to LAND Clinical PhD Students Jen Meigs & Madie Schulte!
Congratulations to LAND Clinical PhD Students Jen Meigs & Madie Schulte!
Clinical PhD Students Jen Meigs & Madie Schulte were counselors in the 2025 Kids Out Loud Summer Camp, a 5 day therapeutic camp to provide intensive behavioral treatment for children between the ages of four to eight diagnosed with selective mutism.
📣 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
📣 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
New research now published in PLOS One!
Quantifying relevant behavioral mechanisms has relied on rigorous, time-consuming tools restricted to laboratory settings and inaccessible to the clinical community. Advances in technology provide an opportunity to develop more accessible platforms. Here, we developed CALM-IT, a novel mobile-application to experimentally assess inhibitory control in vivo. First, we provide evidence that our novel inhibitory control mobile application, CALM-IT, was accessible, feasible, and engaging. Second, we found performance was reliable over time. Third, we found CALM-IT performance was associated with established measures of inhibitory control and activation in the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus. Associations with brain but not behavior survived after controlling for age. Finally, we found evidence linking impaired CALM-IT performance to increased levels of co-occurring anxiety, irritability, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. Validation of this neuroscience-informed mobile application represents a critical first step in bridging precise, mechanism-driven research and community-based assessment of childhood psychopathology. The present work lays the groundwork for future research that could provide researchers and clinicians with a multifaceted tool to measure clinically-relevant behaviors in an engaging and accessible manner.
CONGRATULATIONS 2025 LAND GRADUATES! 🎓
Congratulations to our LAND 2025 seniors Ashleigh Meskill, Ena Sullivan, Lucy Knopf, & Kate Janczyk! The entire LAND Team and Psychology Department are proud of you and excited for these next steps in your careers!
(left to right): Dr. Kate Degnan, Dr. Elise Cardinale, Lucy Knopf, Dr. Marc Sebrechts, Ena Sullivan, Kate Janczyk, & Marcie Goeke-Morey
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR DEPARTMENT AWARD WINNERS
This year LAND team members Ashleigh Meskill (left) was awarded the CUA Psychology Department Outstanding Achievement in Psychological and Brain Sciences award and Ena Sullivan (right) was awarded the Excellence in Psychological Research award.
A huge congratulations to both Ashleigh & Ena for their exceptional contributions to LAND and the entire psychology department. We are so proud of you! 💫
2025 SENIOR THESIS DEFENSE
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to LAND's Ena Sullivan for successfully defending her senior thesis "Sleep and Inhibitory Control: Using Actigraphy Measures to Assess the Impacts of Sleep Practices on Behavior".
In her thesis, Ena presented preliminary data from our new ecological momentary assessment protocol in which we examine bidirectional effects of sleep and irritability using fitbit devices and smartphone technology to repeatedly probe sleep behaviors, mood, and inhibitory control.
LAND END OF THE YEAR CELEBRATION!
Congratulations to the 2024/2025 LAND Team for completing another successful year!
2024/2025 LAND Team members celebrating at Dr. Cardinale's house (front then back row, left to right): Chantelle Dias, Elise Cardinale Samantha Davis, Tysyn Minnis, Ashleigh Meskill, Julie Kennnedy, Madie Schulte, Chase Kovalcheck, Jen Meigs, David Arroyo, Cayden Antee, Charles Connolly, Lucy Knopf, Kate Janczyk, Ena Sullivan
CUA RESEARCH DAY 2025
The 2024/2025 LAND Team at the CUA 2025 University Research Day (left to right): Lucy Knopf, Chantelle Dias, Samantha Davis, Julia Kennedy, Elise Cardinale, Charles J Connolly, Madie Schulte, Cayden Antee, Chase Kovalcheck, David Arroyo, Ena Sullivan, Jen Meigs, Marina Salvador, Ashleigh Meskill
LAND Students and their research presentations!
At the 2025 CUA University Research Day LAND students presented their research in seven different presentations spanning all of the active lines of research going on in LAND! Two LAND presentations were also selected as university wide finalists for the best undergraduate poster presentation (led by Ashleigh Meskill & Lucy Knopf) and for for the best Master's student oral presentation (led by Julie Kennedy, Tysyn Minnis, & David Arroyo). I could not be more proud of the entire LAND team! CONGRATULATIONS to all of our amazing students presenters and to the whole lab for supporting all the reserach presented!
LAND Alumni Updates!
LAND Spring 2024 Almuna Rose Haley was selected to join Children's National Hospital as a Clinical Research Coordinator. She is conducting research as part of the TPAC (Treating Parents and Children) study which focuses on treating and supporting families with ADHD. LAND is so proud to have Rose (pictured right) representing the LAND family and for her continued success as she pursues a career in Clinical Psychology.
Jennifer Meigs was awarded the 2024 APF COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship! 🎉
A big congratulations to Clincal PhD student Jen Meigs for receiving the APF COGDOP Award to support her novel research assessing real-time dynamics between sleep behaviors and irritability. The entire LAND team is so proud of you Jen and we can't wait to see what this promising research finds!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM LAND 2024!
The Fall 2024 LAND Team wishes you a happy & healthy holiday season!
Elise Cardinale, David Arroyo, Cayden Antee, Chantelle Dias, Tysyn Minnis, Samantha Davis, Julie Kennedy, Ashleigh Meskill, Ena Sullivan, Lucy Knopf, Kate Janczyk, Jennifer Meigs, & Fabien Barnes
2024 Congress on Pediatric Irritability and Dysregulation
This Semptember LAND presented our work at the 6th Congress on Pediatric Irritability and Dysregulation Burlington, VT! So proud of our fantastic students and their contributions to our understanding of mechanisms underlying the development of irritability and associated disruptive behaviors!
LAND 2nd year PhD student Jennifer Meigs presented her line of research leveraging technology to probe mechanisms underlying the association between poor sleep and irritability.
Shannon Shaughnessy presented LAND's collaborative work with University of Miami's CAB Lab developing a novel paradigm to probe the impact of frustration on inhibitory control.
LAND 1st year PhD student Madison Schulte presenting her work examining associations between predicted emotional consequences of anger-eliciting statements and irritability
Congratulations to LAND PhD Student Jen Meigs!
Congratulations to LAND PhD Student Jen Meigs!
The whole LAND team sends a big congratulations to our amazing PhD student Jen Meigs for completing the prestigious Summer Intership Prograph (SIP) at the National Institute of Health where she worked with Dr. Melissa Brotman and Dr. Lauren Henry on leveraging large language models for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of EMA literature. We are so proud of you Jen!
Welcome to LAND Madison!
Welcome to LAND Madison!
We are so excited to announce that Madison Schulte will be joining LAND in Fall of 2024 as our newest clinical PhD student! Madison joins us from William & Mary where she completed her MS in Experimental Psychology working with Dr. Madelyn Labella in the RISE lab. Madison research uses psychophysiological methods to probe self-regulation skills particularly across development.
We are THRILLED to have Madison join the LAND team! Keep an eye out for Madison's contributions to our new psychophysiology research program!
CONGRATULATIONS 2024 LAND GRADUATES! 🎓
Justin Popoola
BS Psychological & Brain Science
Rose Haley
BS Psychological & Brain Science
Justine Trudeau
BS Psychological & Brain Science
Kelly Schoener
BS Psychological & Brain Science
SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY 2024 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
This year LAND presented our work at the Society of Biological Psychiatry 2024 Annual Conference in Austin, TX.
LAND PhD student Jennifer Meigs presented her research examining mechanisms underlying the association between poor sleep and irritability.
Shannon Shaughnessy presented LAND's collaborative work with University of Miami's CAB Lab and the National Institute of Mental Health investigating differential associations between tonic irritability, phasic irritability, and ADHD symptoms with inhibitory control.
Jamie Kleiner of CUA's CAB Lab presented a mechanistic analysis of reaction time differences during moral judgments of fear-evoking statements.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR DEPARTMENT AWARD WINNERS
This year LAND team members Kelly Schoener (left) and Justine Trudeau (right) were awarded the CUA Psychology Department Outstanding Achievement in Psychological and Brain Sciences award!
This award is given to a senior Psychological and Brain Sciences Major who exhibits outstanding contributions both in the classroom and in the laboratory. It was my absolute honor to present the award to Kelly & Justine as both their professor and research mentor. The entire LAND team is beyond proud of Kelly & Justine! 💫
2024 SENIOR THESIS DEFENSE
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to LAND's Justine Trudeau for successfully defending her senior thesis "Distinguishing Mechanisms Underlying Reactive and Proactive Aggression".
In her thesis, Justine presents novel data employing experimental tasks to examine inhibitory control and empathy for distress as distinct mechanisms underlying the association between irritability with reactive aggression and psychopathy with proactive aggression, respectively.
CUA RESEARCH DAY 2024
The 2023/2024 LAND Team at the CUA 2024 University Research Day (left to right): Louis Lyles, Francesca Orr-Yepes, Rose Haley, Ena Sulivan, Elise Cardinale, Kelly Schoener, Jen Meigs, Justin Popoola, Justine Truedeau, Anna Chiappetta
LAND members were selected for six different scientific presentations for the 2024 CUA University Research Day! So proud of the fantastic work on behalf of the entire LAND team. This year, all of the data presented was on all new projects for which the LAND team collected all of the data themselves! What an amazing way to cap off a truly special year for LAND. CONGRATULATIONS to all of our fabulous students!
RAs Kelly Schoener & Ena Sullivan were selected as university wide finalists for their poster presentations!
END OF SCHOOL YEAR CELEBRATIONS!
Members of the Spring 2024 LAND Team celebrating the end of the year at Dr. Cardinale's house!
Kelly Schoener, Rose Haley, Justine Truedeau, Elise Cardinale, Jen Meigs, Anna Chiappetta & Justin Popoola
EEG HERE WE COME!
The CUA EEG & Psychophysiology team, led by LAND and Dr. Kathryn Degnan's Positive Development Lab, successfully piloted our EEG set-up!
Keep an eye out for exciting new EEG projects and data coming your way!
The CUA EEG & Psychophysiology team! Jennifer Meigs, Jamie Kleiner, Judy McDonald, Dr. Kathryn Degnan, and Dr. Elise Cardinale (left to right)
NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
New research now published in Psychological Science!
Many youth experience clinically significant psychiatric symptoms or disorders, and reported rates are on the rise. A growing body of research highlights the co-occurrence of clinical problems in youth, suggesting that different symptoms or disorders may have common pathways. Here we investigated inhibitory control, the ability to inhibit a reactive response to engage in goal-directed behavior, as one putative pathway. We used a statistical technique, structural equation modeling, to combine data from multiple laboratory tasks assessing inhibitory control and three common symptom types in youth: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and irritability. We found that poorer inhibitory control was associated with greater symptoms across all three types, rather than any one type. Inhibitory control was also linked to young people’s increased efficiency of information processing in a specific brain network, a frontoparietal control network. Thus, inhibitory control linked to brain function may be an important predictor of symptom co-occurrence in youth.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM LAND!
The Fall 2023 LAND Team celebrating another great semester :)
Elise Cardinale, Justin Popoola, Taylor Tristine, Justine Truedeau, Lucy Knopf, Kelly Schoener, Rose Haley, Jen Meigs, & Ena Sullivan
CONGRATULATIONS 2023 LAND GRADUATES!
A huge congratulations to LAND lab members David Gantz (left) & Emily Whalen (right) for graduating Spring 2023 with their Master of Arts in Psychological Science!
CUA RESEARCH DAY 2023
LAND was thrilled to attend our first CUA Research Day and share our work alongside the fantastic research being conducted across the university!
Jillian Zonts, David Gantz, Kelly Schoener, Jen Meigs, Justine Truedeau, Rose Haley, Elise Cardinale, Lucy Knopf, Louis Lyles, Natalie Volpicelli
LAND LAB ART PARTY
The LAND team put their creative heads together to make our very first peice of lab art! Each piece was hand painted by a different lab member and together they make a brain! LAND will forever have this beautiful peice of wall art to commemorate our first amazing group of RAs!
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