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The EPIC Brain Lab is looking to hire a full-time Clinical Research Associate! If you are clinically licensed in MA and have an interest in mindfulness, depression, and a passion for working with adolescents, apply here!...
Q&A: Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli on Managing Anxiety and Depression with Mindfulness-Based fMRI Neurofeedback
Check out this great Q&A article from Gary Boas over at Martinos Imaging Center. The article is an interview of our very own PI Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, and touches on some of our work helping adolescents with anxiety and depression using mindfulness-based fMRI...
Behind the Paper: Helping depressed adolescents acquire mindfulness via personalized real-time neurofeedback
Check out this “behind the paper” post for our real-time fMRI neurofeedback paper in the Nature Portfolio Health Community! https://healthcommunity.nature.com/posts/helping-depressed-adolescents-acquire-mindfulness-via-personalized-real-time-neurofeedback ...
Could mind games help cure teen depression? Brain imaging study by a Northeastern researcher shows promise
Source: News@Northeastern (published on March 30, 2023; by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert) In the midst of a devastating mental health crisis affecting thousands of American teens, Northeastern University psychology professor Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli says a non-invasive...
Exciting Upcoming Talk on Mindfulness by EPIC Brain Lab’s Clemens Bauer!
Are you interested in learning more about mindfulness research? Join the Mindfulness Mechanisms and Methods Meeting (M4) October 5-6th. 2023! This year EPIC Brain Lab's very own Clemens Bauer will be a speaker! The full schedule is pending, but some other listed...
Take a look: Poitras Center Impact Report of 2019-2021
Patricia and James Poitras founded the Poitras Center for Psychiatric Disorders Research because of their passion for philanthropy and psychiatric research. Through the Center, they support research on depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. James is...
What’s Happening in Your Brain When You’re Spacing Out?
Source: News@Northeastern (published on March 23, 2021; by Eva Botkin-Kowacki) We all do it. One second you’re fully focused on the task in front of you, a conversation with a friend, or a professor’s lecture, and the next second your mind is wandering to your dinner...
School-based mindfulness training is linked to neural plasticity and improved cognitive control among sixth graders
Source: Psypost (published on March 23, 2021; by Beth Ellwood) New research offers evidence that school-based mindfulness training can improve cognitive control among children. The study, published in Human Brain Mapping, found that an 8-week mindfulness training...
What Do The Brains Of Children Tell Us About Their Mental Health As Teens?
Source: News@Northeastern (published on January 2, 2020; by Roberto Molar Candanosa) Our brains consist of different regions that support the cognitive functions we need to survive. But none of these regions work alone. They receive and send input at all times,...