Lab Member Spotlights

Funding

PEARL lab is grateful to have received funding from university and national agencies. Below is a description of active funding for lab projects:

June, 2022 Drs. Foster and Piccirillo were awarded a Small Grants Award from the Addictions, Drug, and Alcohol Institute. This award provides research funding for PEARL project efforts.

June 2022 Katie Spink was awarded the Scholarship for Developmental, Child, and Family Psychology to attend the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods for Social Research hosted by the University of Michigan.

May, 2022  Dr. Piccirillo was awarded a K99 Pathway to Independence Award from NIAAA. This award provides 2 years of continued training in alcohol research and new opportunities for training in passive sensing data collection methods and clinical trials.

April, 2022 Laila Volpe was awarded the UW Department of Psychology Travel Award to go to the 45th annual meeting for the Research Society on Alcoholism.

Pre-Prints

Check out upcoming work from PEARL members and collaborators!

Dora, J., Piccirillo, M.L., Foster, K.T., Arbeau, K., Armeli, S., Auriacombe, M., Bartholow. B., Beltz, A.M., Blumenstock, S., Bold, K., Bonar, E., Braitman, A., Carpenter, R., Creswell, K., DeHart, T., Dvorak, R., Emery, N., Enkema, M.E., Fairbairn, C., …, King, K. M. (2021). The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xevct 

This preprint is an individual participant meta-analysis examining the daily associations between affect and alcohol use using data collected from nearly 70 research teams. On the daily level, evidence suggests that positive affect and alcohol were positively associated; however, contrary to pre-registered hypotheses, there was no significant association between negative affect and alcohol use.

Foster, K.T., Piccirillo, M.L., Hicks, B.M., Iacono, W.G., & McGue, M. (2021). The trajectory of psychiatric problems following an adolescent vs. young adult onset of alcohol use disorder. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/eq2vd

This preprint presents results from prospective analysis testing how psychiatric problems unfold for men and women with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and examining the role of gender and age of AUD onset on psychiatric problems. Results demonstrate that an AUD onset during adolescence predicted more severe psychiatric problems, particularly for men; however, women reported  more pervasive psychiatric problems overall, regardless of age of AUD onset.

Piccirillo, M.L., Frumkin, M.R., Tonge, N.A., & Foster, K.T. (2021). Examining the clinical utility of using affective dynamics to characterize and predict depression within a comorbid sample. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uj5xd

This preprint examines the within-day changes between depressed mood and anxiety. We demonstrate how daily fluctuations in depressed mood and anxiety are linked to concurrent and future markers of clinical severity.

Piccirillo, M.L., Enkema, M.C., Foster, K.T. (2022). Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use. https://psyarxiv.com/jxmk7

In this preprint, we illustrate how factors associated with cannabis use differ on the daily level for each individual. We examine how results from experience sampling data can be used to generate clinical inferences and inform actionable clinical strategies 

Conference Presentations

PEARL members will present their work at the following conferences:

November, 2022 International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Annual Conference

Malloy Spink, K., Seaver, S., Foster, K.T. (2022, November) Parental Support and Trajectories of Adolescent Acceptance Coping. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. 

PEARL members presented their work at the following conferences:

July, 2022   CPC++ Computational Psychiatry Course

Piccirillo, M.L., Enkema, M.E., & Foster, K.T. Using ecological momentary assessment to support clinical practice: Modeling dynamic factors associated with cannabis use [Poster presentation]

June 2022 Research Society on Alcoholism  45th Annual Meeting

Volpe L., & Foster K.T. (2022). Moderating effects of social support on the bidirectional rates of transition between depressive symptoms and alcohol use problems. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.14832  

Dora, J., Howard, A., Hussong, A., Piccirillo, M.L., King , K.M., Simpson, T. The past, present, and future of studying the affect-alcohol use association in intensive longitudinal data: A friendly debate among collaborators. [Round table discussion, Chair: Jonas Dora]

June 2022   Society for Ambulatory Assessment 8th Annual Meeting

Piccirillo, M.L., Enkema, M.E., Foster, K.T. Using ecological momentary assessment to guide clinical intervention: An illustrative example of dynamic factors associated with cannabis use. [Symposium presentation, Chair: Fionneke Bos]

May 2022   Association for Psychological Science 34th Annual Meeting

Piccirillo, M.L., Enkema, M.E., Foster, K.T. Using ecological momentary assessment to generate clinician-oriented feedback: An illustration with cannabis use. In Developing and Delivering Personalized Feedback from Ecological Momentary Assessment: Extending Our Impact in Real-Time [Symposium presentation, Chair: Marilyn Piccirillo]

Sept 2021    Treatment Selection Ideas Lab 3rd Annual Convention

Piccirillo, M.L. Working towards personalization: A series of efforts using EMA. [Conference presentation]

Awards and Honors

2022 American Psychological Association of Graduate Studies (PAGS) Science Research Grant (PSRG)

Laila Volpe was named honorable mention for the PSRG by APAGS in 2022. Graduate students who win the PSRG are awarded funding ($1000) for proposed research projects.