Neurocognitive Lab

Congratulations to yesterday's poster session winners, Madeline Martinez, Kalynn Turner, Alexander Bartkowiak, Alexander Ebbinghaus, Bowen Tsai, Nithya Kunta, Jenna Lu, and Vivek Nandur! 🎉

THANK YOU to all that were in attendance at this year's CARE programming, as well as our keynote speakers, Dr. Hugh Garavan and Dr. Joe Cheer! See you next year! 🥳

We are excited to share that our very own Dr. Sara Jo Nixon was recently named a 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow!

We are happy to share that Dr. Ben Lewis' symposium was accepted for this year's RSA meeting! The symposium is titled "From Rodents to Communities: Emerging Data and Opportunity at the Intersection of Age, Alcohol, and Sex," and Dr. Sara Jo Nixon will serve as the chair.

Congratulations to lab undergraduate Jared Devine for accepting an offer to join UF's Neuroscience PhD program to begin this fall!

Stop by and check out our posters at the College of Medicine Celebration of Research poster session tonight, 4-7pm at the O'Connell Center!

Happy Holidays from UF CARE! Thank you for an incredible 2025, we couldn't do this work without you.

Huge congrats to Dr. Hugh Farrior for successfully defending his dissertation! We cannot wait to see all the amazing work you will do next!

We are proud to share that Dr. Sara Jo Nixon, Director of UF CARE, was interviewed in @NatGeo on how the news cycle impacts brain and body health. Read the full article here: nationalgeographic.com/health/article… #Neuroscience #UF #StressResearch

We’re excited to welcome Gianna De Gracia to the lab as our new PhD student in Psychology, Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience. She joins us with a BS in Psychology (BCN) and will be diving into cutting-edge research with our team. Welcome, Gianna! #PhD #UF #Neuroscience

We are elated to welcome our new Lab Admin Coordinator, Lucy Meehan to the team! In her new role, Lucy will provide essential administrative support for the CARE and Neurocognitive Laboratory. Stop by the CARE suite and introduce yourself!

CARE director Dr. Sara Jo Nixon was featured in a New York Times article discussing risks of drinking in older age. Read the article here: nytimes.com/2025/07/03/wel…

Our very own Samuel Torres, Hugh Farrior, and Dr. Andrew Moore (@ajmoore27) all recently presented at the 2025 Research Society on Alcohol meeting. Here's to many more! 🎉

Huge congratulations to Andrew Moore for successfully defending his dissertation last Thursday!! Congratulations Dr. Moore!!

🚨UF CARE Dissertation Award Link🚨 addictionresearch.health.ufl.edu/care-courses/d…

🚨UF CARE Travel Award Link🚨 addictionresearch.health.ufl.edu/care-courses/t…

Please join us for the UF CARE monthly seminar! This month, we are hosting Dr. Jacob Borodovsky from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth on March 26th, 2025 at 3pm

🚨CARE Symposium Networking Event Link🚨 addictionresearch.health.ufl.edu/events/annual-…

Congratulations to our amazing undergraduate research assistants Karina and Lex for a successful College of Medicine Research Day presentation!! Their project was on the relationship between pain, cannabis use, and social distress in older adult drinkers. We are so proud!!

🚨***POSTER AND TRAVEL AWARD SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO MARCH 14TH***🚨 Registration and Submission Portals for the 2025 UF CARE Annual Symposium are OPEN! General information, submission guidelines, & other details can be found at the UF CARE website: addictionresearch.health.ufl.edu/events/annual-…