ACTIVE STUDIES

Dr. Luking is accepting graduate students for the 2024-2025 school year. 

Applications are free and due by Dec 31, 2023.

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

Prospective students interested in EEG, hormonal fluctuations, pubertal development, and risk for mood and personality disorders are especially encouraged to apply.

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.