ACTIVE STUDIES

Dr. Luking is accepting applications for Clinical Psychology graduate students for the 2025-2026 school year. 

Students will be co-mentored by Dr. Annie Garner for their clinical training and should have an interest in clinical child psychology. 

Applicants with strong research interests in puberty, rejection sensitivity, and adolescent mental health are especially encouraged to apply. Research opportunities for engaging in clinically relevant data collection (e.g., semi-structured clinical interviews) and EEG data collection will be facilitated by Dr. Luking's new R01 focusing on social media and mental health in preteen girls.

Applications are free and due by Dec 1, 2024.

Apply at https://gradapply.slu.edu/apply/

Undergraduates interested in joining the Luking Lab for the 2025-2026 academic year should contact Dr. Luking in early March 2025.

Our research focuses on relationships between neurodevelopment and the emergence of psychopathology in middle childhood and early adolescence. Using a variety of methods (EEG, fMRI, behavior, hormones), we ask how core affective and cognitive processes, including emotion reactivity/regulation, response to social feedback, and reward processing, change in early puberty and mechanistically contribute to the emergence of depression and borderline personality disorder.