SIGNATURE EVENTS
COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Each semester, the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences sponsors and organizes a series of several presentations by psychological and brain scientists. These speakers present their research and scholarship in a wide range of areas within the behavioral sciences and neuroscience. Presentations are open to all members of the 棉花糖直播 Campus Community and the public.
Email the department, with subject header 鈥淐olloquium Information," if you are interested in receiving more information about the colloquium series or about a scheduled presentation.
UPCOMING SPEAKER(S)
Title -听Intimate Partner Violence and Women鈥檚 Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Multimethod and Community-Based Research Approaches
Date and Time - Friday, March 14th at 3PM.
Location - Tolentine 305
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Dr. Karen Jakubowski is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Her NIH-funded program of research is focused on identifying modifiable risk factors linking interpersonal violence and cardiovascular disease across the lifespan, with an emphasis on reducing disparities in women鈥檚 cardiovascular health and sleep. Dr. Jakubowski's research incorporates subclinical measures of cardiovascular disease risk, ambulatory and longitudinal measures of sleep, qualitative interviewing methods, and community-based research partnerships. Dr.听Jakubowski听is also a licensed psychologist at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital-Western Wellness Clinic and a clinical supervisor in the UPMC Birmingham Free Clinic. You can read more about their work .
Title -听Using Multimodal Assessment to Identify Risk Processes and Problematic Patterns of Cannabis use
Date and Time - Friday, March 21st at 4PM.
Location - Tolentine 215
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Dr. Ansell is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Biobehavioral Health Department at Penn State University. She conducts research on the mechanisms underlying risk for substance use and addiction using intensive repeated measurement methodologies on smartphones and sensors, neural and biological mechanisms, and advanced statistical analyses. Her recent work primarily focuses on substance use (cannabis, tobacco, alcohol), 听stress, and mental health using lab and longitudinal methods with particular emphasis on ecological momentary assessment (EMA). 听She has been continuously funded by the NIH for 14 years and is currently PI on a R01 from NIH/NIDA to examine stress dysregulation in individuals who co-use alcohol and cannabis. Other ongoing NIH funded collaborations include identifying patterns and markers of controlled cannabis use, a brief intervention to reduce college alcohol and cannabis use, and a pharmacological intervention to reduce problematic drinking in women. Additional research focuses on the intersectionality of stigmatized identities in understanding nomothetic and idiographic risks for suicide related outcomes and substance use. You can read more about their work听.