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Aysenil Belger Named the Next Director of Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
Terry Magnuson, UNC Vice Chancellor for Research, has appointed Aysenil (“Ayse”) Belger to serve as the next director of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG). For over 50 years, FPG has been a leader in generating knowledge, informing … Read more
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CogNiT Research E-Poster Presented at SSWR 22nd Annual Conference in Washington DC
Candace Killian-Farrell presented UNC NIRL’s CogNiT project research titled “Stress and Anxiety Impact Maturation of Adolescent Neural Circuitry Involved in Emotion and Reward Processing” at the Society of Social Work and Research’s 22nd Annual Conference in Washington DC. Click here … Read more
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NIRL Enjoys UNC Employee Appreciation Day
UNC Employee Appreciation Day 2017
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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.
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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
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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
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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!!
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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.
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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
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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