King Lab at Emory and GSU

Another congratulations to our undergraduate RAs who gave outstanding presentations at GSU's Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference. Nandhini won the Second Place Award, and Lindsey won the Diversity Award! @GSUPsychology @GSU_Research

Our research coordinator @RileyDamiano presented some of her awesome work on survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma at the Winship Scientific Symposium last week! Congratulations Riley! @WinshipAtEmory @EmoryNursing

Our graduate students had a great time sharing their work at the @GSUBnB retreat! Congratulations on your fabulous poster presentations

Congratulations to Lindsay Smegal for her work on her recent publication in Neurobiology of Aging, entitled “Lower locus coeruleus integrity is associated with diminished practice effects in clinically unimpaired older individuals”. See the paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to @SN_Steinberg on her graduation from the GSU Clinical Psychology Program. Stephanie will begin her post-doctoral fellowship at @MSKCancerCenter this summer. We are so proud of you Stephanie!

Check out the links below to see some of our lab's recently published work, looking at social determinants of health in pediatric medulloblastoma patients and in healthy young adults! @EmoryNursing link.springer.com/article/10.100… link.springer.com/article/10.100…

And last but not least, a huge congratulations to Dr. Rella Kautiainen who accepted a position at Children’s Hospital of Orange County! She will be building out the Oncology program there. We can wait to see all you accomplish in this role!

Congratulations to @SN_Steinberg for accepting a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology @MSKCancerCenter in New York. We are so proud of you!

Lots of exciting updates to share about our past/current grad students! Congrats to Olivia Haller for her successful internship match at VA San Diego/University of California, San Diego in the VA Neuropsychology/VA Primary Care (Primary Care Mental Health Integration) position.

Continuation of our presentation pictures. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our posters and paper presentations!

How has it already been over a week since INS 2025?! We had so much fun exploring New Orleans, connecting with colleagues, and sharing our research with everyone. Looking forward to Philadelphia in 2026!

It was great having everyone together to celebrate the end of the semester and kick off the holiday season. Thanks to everyone for their hard work this year, and we hope you enjoy well-deserved time off. Happy Holidays!

Lab alum, Dr. Eric Semmel, accepted an offer as a Pediatric Neuropsychologist/Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic! He plans to build out an integrated clinic with pediatric neuro-oncology & develop the inpatient consult service on the epilepsy monitoring unit. Congrats Dr. Semmel!

Another amazing presentation and master's thesis proposal to celebrate! Congratulations Lindsay Smegal. We're so proud of your hard work. We are excited to see what you find out about brain age gap estimation and neurocognitive outcomes in survivors of pediatric brain tumor!

Congratulations to Cassie Rosenberg on successfully proposing her master's thesis titled “Associations between ADHD Polygenic Risk Scores and Cognitive-Developmental Trajectories: Findings from the ABCD Study”. Incredible job! We can’t wait to see the results!

Congratulations to graduate student @JordanPincus on successfully defending her master's thesis, examining fMRI and executive function outcomes in congenital heart disease! You did a fabulous job. We're so proud of you!

Congratulations to Olivia Haller on successfully proposing her dissertation titled: The Fast and the Curious: Dissecting the Relationship between Dynamic Functional Connectivity and Information Processing Speed! You did an outstanding job, and we can’t wait to hear what you find!

Congratulations to Dr. Peterson and Dr. Choi on their recent publication in The Clinical Neuropsychologist, entitled “Neighborhood Resources are Associated with Neuropsychological Outcomes Among Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors”. Check out the paper here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to former undergrad and post-bacc RA, Kylie Szymanski, on her recently published first-author paper! Kylie and her grad student mentor, @jordanpincus, explored cognitive flexibility and adaptive behavior in survivors of pediatric brain tumor. Check out the results below!