Kelsey Collins, our undergraduate research assistant,  will be completing her bachelor’s degree and joining Dr. Gregory Hanna’s lab as a study coordinator starting this winter.  Congratulations, Kelsey! !

Dr. Tso was selected as a recipient of the One Mind Bipolar Research Award, a research prize intended to advance knowledge and grow the community of bipolar disorder researchers.

Dr. Takakuni Suzuki was selected as a recipient of the 2020 Oscar Stern STAR Award for his project entitled “The Effect of Social Stress on Error-Related Cognitive Control.” This project aims to identify a specific brain wave (theta-band activity) as a neurophysiological marker of cognitive control engaged during stressful situations. The results are expected to inform our understanding of the biological mechanisms of affect management and lay the foundation for development of novel interventions applicable to a wide range of psychiatric conditions.

Dr. Tso was named the 2020 Frances & Kenneth Eisenberg Scholar for a project aiming to identify a diagnostic biomarker of bipolar disorder based on complex features of electrical brain signals recorded with electroencephalography (EEG).

Dr. Tso was awarded an R01 grant from NIMH. This five-year study will be a transdiagnostic investigation focusing on disrupted eye gaze perception as a biobehavioral marker of social dysfunction.

We are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for this project. See here for more information.

In response to the escalation of COVID-19, the MiSCAN Lab has temporarily paused on study recruitment operations. Our lab members are expected to continue their work from home through May 1st, as recommended by our oversight at the University of Michigan.

Carly Lasagna and Merranda McLaughlin’s paper “Deconstructing eye contact perception: Measuring perceptual precision and self-referential tendency using an online psychophysical eye contact detection task” has been published in PLOS One.

Monse Aguado, a research assistant working with the MiSCAN lab through the UM Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), recently presented her poster titled “Risk-Taking in Euthymic Bipolar Disorder: Examining Prior Substance Use and Related Psychological Constructs” at the annual SROP Research Symposium.

Taka Suzuki will be joining Dr. Tso and the MiSCAN Lab this September as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Taka completed his BA at Michigan State University before earning a Master’s Degree at Villanova University. He is currently completing his PhD at Purdue University and his clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Welcome, Taka!

Dr. Tyler Grove will be completing this postdoctoral fellowship and joining the Psychiatry faculty as Clinical Assistant Professor this coming Fall (2020). His clinical effort will be divided among three clinical programs (PREP, Anxiety Disorders Treatment Program, and Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program). Congratulations, Tyler!