@ClareShaffer

Graduate Student @affectivescilab and @EPICBrainLab; studying individual differences, brain connectivity and metabolism in psychopathology

clarelshaffer.faculty.bio/
Joined November 2019
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🎉My lab (WebbsLab.com) is hiring 2 full-time research assistants to work on NIMH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️ tinyurl.com/naexvxdc
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Hey everyone! I’m taking PhD students for fall 2025. Come join us in the Emotions in Context (EMIC) lab at the University of Kansas! More info here (lab website coming soon): katiehoemann.com/emic-lab/
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Ye Ella Tian@yetianmed27 Apr 2023
Mental illness is a brain disorder? Right? We thought so. Hang on though, our new study @JAMAPsych shows that poor body health is a more pronounced manifestation of mental illness than poor brain health. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… 🧵1/9
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NGN Research@ResearchAtNU4 Apr 2023
By targeting the #brain networks associated with clinical symptoms, gamified #meditation may help ease #anxiety and depression in teens, finds this @NortheasternCOS psychology professor. Read more: bit.ly/3zu3v9h
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli studies four brain scans on a computer.

ALT Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli studies four brain scans on a computer.

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Welcome to the official twitter of the EPIC Brain Lab at Northeastern University! Follow us to stay up to date on what’s happing in the lab!
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Very excited to see this out in the world! New paper in @TrendsCognSci where we take on a few questionable assumptions made by many brain imaging investigations of brain-behavior relationships.
Lisa Feldman Barrett@LFeldmanBarrett3 Feb 2023
Most brain-imaging studies make 3 questionable assumptions: mental events are localizable, map uniquely to dedicated #brain circuitry, & are independent of larger context. These 19th-century views need an update. New #OpenAccess paper in @TrendsCognSci. 1/ cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…

Improving the study of brain-behavior relationships by revisiting basic assumptions

Most brain imaging studies present stimuli and measure behavioral responses in temporal units (trials) that are ordered randomly. Participants’ brain signals are typically aggregated to model...

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⏰ Come be my faculty colleague!! Still time to apply! We're recruiting psychology/neuroscience/brain-body researchers for TT & tenured faculty positions to join our growing center with all the neuro tools you could want in a beautiful building! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjo…
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Check out this #thread ⬇️ for a list of key thought leaders that include women and people of color.
Mozilla
@mozilla22 Sep 2020
The producers of The Social Dilemma brought some serious and valid concerns about the impact of social media platforms to a broad Netflix audience. BUT… 🧵
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Are interested in the Big Questions and in learning to write about them for the public? Would you like to receive instruction from @nytopinion editor James Ryerson in an October workshop, along w/a $1,750 honorarium? Apply now for Beyond the Ivory Tower: cos.northeastern.edu/worksho…
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Kudos to @jayvanbavel & colleagues for this paper filled with pandemic-relevant behavioral science, much of it already being digested in the media. The @affectivescilab, which I co-direct, would like to offer a friendly amendment. /1 xitter.cf/jayvanbavel/status/124…
Jay Van Bavel, PhD
@jayvanbavel24 Mar 2020
We have a new paper on how policy makers, the media, and the public can use social & behavioural science to support #COVID19 #coronavirus pandemic response. The paper was written by 36 authors from around the world with relevant expertise. psyarxiv.com/y38m9
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