SAND Lab

The SAND Lab is hiring a new lab manager! Interested applicants can learn about the position and apply here: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/6451 🧠🌟

The SAND Lab is thrilled to share our third annual Newsletter! Read to see what we've been up to 🧠👩‍🔬🌟ucla.box.com/s/ptj1vg1g01mq…

I'll be reviewing PhD apps for admission for Fall 2025 (apply through Developmental)! The fun, hardworking and diverse crew in @sandlabucla is doing all kinds of fMRI and behav work on early adversity, inflammation, emotion, adolescence and emerging adulthood. Join us!

These findings provide support for the idea that ELA leads to hypersensitivity to potential threat and suggest that interventions that target responses to ambiguity may be particularly powerful in mitigating the effects of adverse early experiences. (7/7)

Notably, rather than a general effect in which individuals with a history of ELA exhibited general impairments in differentiating among affective cues, we found that ELA specifically related to attenuated differentiation between ambiguity and threat. (5/7)

A new study from our lab led by Natalie Saragosa-Harris is available (open access) this week! 📷 (1/7)cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We also found that individual differences in behavioral responses to ambiguity related to mental health, and that this association varied as a function of ELA history. (6/7)

@JASilvers @sandlabucla @BABLab_UCLA are hiring a study coordinator for NIH funded study on the effects of education on health. Please RT & apply here: hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/jsp… and search req #41002.

I’m hiring a full time lab manager to start this summer! Come help found my lab at UW Madison and do some fun science! There will be beer and brats!! Info & application here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/research-…

SAND Lab Newsletter: Volume 2! See what we've been up to here: drive.google.com/file/d/1KZmCxY… 📰🧐🤩

Getting another person’s perspective can help when we’re trying to reframe negative events. But does the perspective they offer “stick” to help us confront the same situations again on our own? New work out now with @sandlabucla suggests yes! 1/n psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-06…

BAB Lab SAND Lab 🤝 seriously yummy food

So lucky to have this group of amazing researchers to share seriously yummy food with last night @BABLab_UCLA @sandlabucla at Spinster Sisters Sonoma. #Flux2023

even though i meet with her weekly, i’ll never get tired of hearing her talk!!! congrats on young investigator, @JASilvers @FluxSociety #Flux2023

@C_Shamballa @JASilvers you dropped this 👑

I'm so thrilled to share my latest work out of @sandlabucla with @JASilvers! This paper was such fun to work on, and I'm immensely proud of the effort we put into it. Here's a thread to recap the main points (it's long, but (hopefully) worth it!) psyarxiv.com/9stvx

It's a great day because it's @benrosenberg 's first day at the SAND Lab! Welcome Ben!

We had a great time last week in our journal club meeting discussing the paper, "Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behaviour"! It was some of our RA's first exposure to rodent models and fascinating to see! 🐀 nature.com/articles/s4158…