CogNiT Research on Biological Stress Response Presented at CUR
Adelaide Zhao presented a NIRL/CogNiT research poster titled “Changes in the Biological Stress Response Through Adolescence” at the 2018 UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research. Abstract: A heightened physiological stress response can cause cell damage and an aberrant alteration of the … Read more
NIRL Research on Nutrition with EEG Presented at the CUR
Rawan Ajeen presented a NIRL research poster titled “Electrophysiological and Behavioral Response of Restrained and Unrestrained Eating Behaviors in Response to Emotional Images” at the 2018 UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research. Abstract: The boundary model (Herman & Polivy, 1984) characterize … Read more
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
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 Accepted in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Paper by Franc C. L. Donkers, Sarah E. Schipul, Grace T. Baranek, Katherine M. Cleary, Michael T. Willoughby, Anna M. Evans, John C. Bulluck, Jeanne E. Lovmo, and Aysenil Belger, Attenuated Auditory Event-Related Potentials and Associations with Atypical Sensory Response Patterns in Children with Autism published online in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Paper Published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Paper by Hart SJ, Lucena N, Cleary KM, Donkers FC, Belger A. “Modulation of early and late event-related potentials by emotion.” published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience (link).
Franc Donkers Receives Foundation of Hope Grant
Franc Donkers receives Foundation of Hope Grant. Assessing the Integrity of the Brain’s Rhythm-Generating Networks in Infants at Familial High-Risk for Schizophrenia
Paper Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Paper by Donkers Franc C.L., Schwikert Shane R., Evans Anna M., Cleary Katherine M., Perkins Diana O., Belger Aysenil, “Impaired neural synchrony in the theta frequency range in adolescents at familial risk for schizophrenia”, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Dr Belger Receives Department of Defense Grant!
Aysenil Belger receives Department of Defense Grant. Elbogen, Belger awarded Department of Defense Grant Department of Psychiatry faculty members Eric B. Elbogen, PhD, and Aysenil Belger, PhD, been awarded a multi-year multimillion dollar grant from the Department of Defense and … Read more