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  • NIRL Enjoys UNC Employee Appreciation Day

    UNC Employee Appreciation Day 2017

  • Paper Published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research

    Paper by Erin King BS, Alana Campbell PhD, Aysenil Belger PhD, Karen Grewen PhD, Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Disrupts Infant Neural Markers of Orienting published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal.

  • Dr. Belger Discusses the Summer for Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

    Aysenil Belger, the director of psychiatry neuroimaging research at UNC Hospitals, is advising a SURF project for psychology major Adelaide Zhao, whose project centers around using EEG recordings to understand the effects of stress on brain functions in adolescents…. Read … Read more

  • CogNiT Research Poster Presented at SOBP 72nd Annual Meeting

    Ashley Williams presented UNC NIRL’s CogNiT Project research at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry in San Diego, CA. PDF Link  

  • Congrats Elizabeth!

    Congratulations to Elizabeth Andersen, who has been awarded a dissertation completion fellowship grant, allowing her to focus on her thesis completion in the fall and spring semester! Great job Elizabeth!!

  • Paper Accepted in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

    Paper by Maura Sabatos-DeVito, Sarah E. Schipul, John C. Bulluck, Aysenil Belger and Grace T. Baranek, Eye Tracking Reveals Impaired Attentional Disengagement Associated with Sensory Response Patterns in Children with Autism, published online in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

  • Paper Published in Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

    Paper by Elizabeth H. Andersen, Alana M. Campbell, Sarah E. Schipul, Carolyn M. Bellion, Franc C. L. Donkers, Anna M. Evans, and Aysenil Belger, Electrophysiological Correlates of Aberrant Motivated Attention and Salience Processing in Unaffected Relatives of Schizophrenia Patients, published … Read more

  • Paper Published in Molecular Neuropsychiatry

    Paper by Shaffer J.J., Peterson M.J., McMahon M.A., Bizzell J., Calhoun V., van Erp T.G.M., Ford J.M., Lauriello J., Lim K.O., Manoach D.S., McEwen S.C., Mathalon D.H., O”Leary D., Potkin S.G., Preda A., Turner J., Voyvodic J., Wible C.G., and … Read more

  • Video Published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments

    Video by Sarah J. Hart, Joseph J. Shaffer, Joshua Bizzell, Mariko Weber, Mary A. McMahon, Hongbin Gu, Diana O. Perkins, and Aysenil Belger, Measurement of Fronto-limbic Activity Using an Emotional Oddball Task in Children with Familial High Risk for Schizophrenia, … Read more

  • UNC NIRL Research featured in UNC Health Care News Release

    Neurological underpinnings of schizophrenia just as complex as the disorder itself New analysis links cognitive, emotional, and intellectual symptoms to neurological “disruption” in multiple brain regions – a finding with important implications for diagnosis and treatment.