EPIC Brain Lab

📣 Excited to share that Anushka has earned both the Jacob Davis Memorial Scholarship (2026) and the Peak Experience Summit Award (Spring 2026) @Northeastern!!🏆

Join @the_CSRP webinar on how crisis hotlines work and how they can better support people in distress, December 19, 10–11 am ET (Zoom) Register here 🔗: mgb-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🎉 Huge congratulations to Anushka for winning the NeuroBoston 2025 Undergraduate Poster Award! 🧠✨ Her research stood out among amazing work @NeuroBoston an incredible debut for her first-ever conference!

🚀 Only a few weeks remain until the first-ever Precision Brain & Mental Health Hack 2025 (Oct 28–30 @ Northeastern) Exploring how machine learning & data science can drive future brain + mental health research 🔗: neuroprismlab.github.io/neurohack/#

📣 Thrilled to share recent work in @ImagingNeurosci with amazing collaborators @Auerbach_Lab_CU @EPICBrainLab. We harnessed between-dataset differences in two longitudinal samples to identify correlates of risk for internalizing psychopathology in youth. direct.mit.edu/imag/article/d…

Just a few weeks left until #CPP2025: the 5th Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry! 🌍 Join online Sept 25–26 to explore the latest innovations in precision medicine for psychiatry 🧠 🔗: mghcme.org/Precision2025

📢 New Research Alert with @tbd_foundation “Expanding interoceptive awareness & neuroplasticity in at-risk adolescents through real-time fMRI neurofeedback” 💡 Innovative brain science 📈 Advancing mental health & resilience 🌱 Empowering at youth risk 🔗: tinybluedotfoundation.org/research/proje…

🚨 Announcing the 2nd Annual CSRP Conference on Sept 9, 2025! 🎓 FREE & open to all—covering suicide prevention, youth, veterans, and AI ethics. 👇 See flyer below for all the details, please share! #CSRP2025 🗓️ Sept 9, 2025 | 9AM–2PM EDT 🔗 Register: bit.ly/csrp-2nd-conf-…

🚀 Our team's impact at #SOBP2025! 🎉 Huge congrats to @f_morfini for winning the Travel Fellowship Award! 📢 @jiahezhang_phd presentation on fMRI neurofeedback for schizophrenia 🧠 Poster session highlights: @ClareShaffer + @ChelseaAjunwa + more from our team!

A huge 🎉congratulations🎉 to @jiahezhang_phd on receiving a @BBRFoundation Young Investigator Grant! Her project will have a longitudinal design testing effects of personalized neurofeedback in depressed college students.

@f_morfini @SchizRes @cccbauer @jiahezhang_phd Awesome work @f_morfini and team!

New paper outf in @SchizRes! We investigated the effects of real-time fMRI neurofeedback on self-referential processes. With @EPICBrainLab @cccbauer @jiahezhang_phd. full text: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited for "The Intersection of Mindfulness and Neuroscience" by Dr. Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli and Dr. Clemens Bauer this Saturday at the #PsychologyAndTheOther conference in London! Don't miss this insightful talk! 🧠✨ @PatO_NU @psychandother #Mindfulness #Neuroscience

Neural mechanisms of mindful space, interventions promoting mental health and resilience @Guusje_Collin @jiahezhang_phd and Ivana Burić #iscr2024 #contemplativescience @ContemResearch

Meta-analysis of placebo response. Largest placebo effect in MDD followed by GAD (lowest schizophrenia) jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

How exactly does meditation change the brain? Neuroscientist Richard Davidson explains. gsas.harvard.edu/news/colloquy-…

Proud to have showcased our lab's groundbreaking research @mcgovernmit’s #2024springsymposium. Dr. Whitfield-Gabrieli presented a lightning talk alongside close collaborators like @ChrisWebbPhD and @EdenEvins. Watch the recording here: mcgovern.mit.edu/events/mcgover…

🧠Excited for @psychandother's conference in London July 13-14! A great lineup of speakers, including our very own Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli and @cccbauer! 🚨Early-bird rates end May 15th! Learn more at psychologyandtheother.com. Questions? Reach out to patolondon2024@gmail.com

Congrats to all the students who presented at Northeastern’s RISE this year, especially to Skyler Cohen for his poster “Sex Differences in Neural Biomarkers of Mood Symptoms in Children!” Skyler has done some amazing work with this fMRI data under the guidance of @ClareShaffer

Our lab had a great time @SIRSGlobal! @jiahezhang_phd won the SIRS Early Career Award and presented a poster on auditory hallucination improvement after neurofeedback. @cccbauer shared a great talk on mindfulness enhanced neurofeedback for auditory hallucinations #SIRS2024