The Role of Adolescent Cannabis Usage on Gyrification in Schizophrenia Nicole Rychagov, BA Candidate Research Assistant – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Scientific Abstract Background: Cannabis acts on the brain’s endocannabinoid system, which is involved...
Fusiform Gyrus Morphological Alterations in Psychosis Probands Neha Iska, BS Research Assistant – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Scientific Abstract Background: The Fusiform Gyrus (FG) has many distinct functions and could be implicated in psychosis...
Identifying and Evaluating Exposotypes with Varying Genetic Risk in the Psychosis Spectrum using Machine Learning James Green, BA Research Assistant – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Scientific Abstract Background: Exposome factors including childhood...
Memory and motivation in the early course of psychosis Rachel Hechinger, BA Research Asisstant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Individuals with psychotic disorders experience cognitive impairments linked to negative symptoms and poor community...
Relationship between emotional intensity and the onset of episodic migraine in adult women Catherine Hurley, BS, MS Candidate Research Asssistant and Clinical Research Intern – Brigham and Women’s Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Identifying...
Childhood sexual abuse and emotional maltreatment in women with lifetime depression Lauren Hutson, BA, BS Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a prominent risk factor for the development of major...
Association Between a Cortico-Cerebellar Circuit and Cognitive Functioning in Psychosis Josephine Kolstad, BS Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: We previously identified a cortico-cerebellar circuit corelate of information...
Cardiometabolic Medication Prescribing in a First-Episode Psychosis Clinic Vivian Nye, BA Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Antipsychotic medications are the first-line treatment for psychosis, but they confer significant...
Relationship between sleep and history of suicide attempt among adults with bipolar disorder Chelsea Pike, BA Research Assistant – Brigham and Women’s Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) are among those at the...
An Exploratory Study of the Demographic and Clinical Correlates of Optimism among Patients in Substance Use Disorder Inpatient Treatment Scott Provost, MSW Research Associate and Program Manager – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Early recovery...
Walking the Labyrinth: Innovative Meditation Practice for Individuals with Co-Occurring Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders Sarah Shea, BA Community Residential Counselor – McLean Naukeag Scientific Abstract Background: At McLean’s Addiction Treatment Center...
All In: A Scoping Review of the Association between Gambling and Athletic Participation John Slabczynski, BA Research Assistant – Cambridge Health Alliance Scientific Abstract Background: Though gambling and sport have been intertwined throughout history, the...
Course of Negative Symptoms and Cognition in Early Psychosis over 1 Year Julia Blotner, BA Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Negative symptoms and cognition are associated with poorer functioning in people with psychosis. Few...
Emotion conflict and stress in healthy female adults Aliza Brown, BA Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Effective cognitive functioning requires directing attention away from emotionally-salient stimuli to sustain attention...
Optimizing Retention, Duration and Discontinuation Strategies for Opioid Use Disorder Pharmacotherapy (RDD) – An ongoing NIDA Clinical Trials Network research study Eleanor Sultana, BS Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background:...
Validation of Wearable Electroencephalography Devices against Polysomnography Anabella Tolosa, BS Research Assistant – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Traditional laboratory sleep studies are expensive and limited in sample size....
The Feasibility and Efficacy of Warrior Health and Fitness: A 3-month Fitness and Nutrition Program for Veterans Sarah Horwitz, BA Research Assistant – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Veterans are at-risk for mental and physical...
NBD? Non-Binary Youth are Depressed Amalia Feld, MPhil Research Assistant Scientific Abstract Background: The literature has well established that the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) population, which includes non-binary (NB) individuals, experiences...
Framework-Guided Cultural Adaptation of a Nurse-Examining Family Environmental Factors for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth During Hormone Readiness Evaluation Vinisha Rana, MA, MS Clinical Psychology Intern Scientific Abstract Background: It is well supported in...
Framework-Guided Cultural Adaptation of a Nurse-Led Intervention (INITIATE) to Increase Initiation of Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Patients With Breast Cancer Nichole Gutierrez, BA Candidate Clinical Research Intern Scientific Abstract Background: Adjuvant endocrine...
HRV Guided Diagnostics, Interventions and Outcome Analytics in Private Mental Healthcare Practices: Recent Pilot Data from the Universal Clinical Trial Roland Carlstedt, PhD Research Associate, Research Project Director, and Licensed Clinical Psychologist –...
Brain reactivity to individualized alcohol cues is not related to subjective craving in treatment-seeking adults with alcohol use disorder Julia Welsh, BA Candidate Clinical Research Intern – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Individuals with...
Sex differences in motivational impairment following a first episode of psychosis Jennelle Yarwood, BS Candidate Clinical Research Intern – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Negative symptoms, including motivational impairments, are often...
Agreement Between Self-Reported and Clinician-Reported Symptom Severity in First Episode Psychosis Outpatient Setting Jacqueline Dow, MPH Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: The symptoms associated with psychotic disorders often...
Growth Trajectories in Stimulant-Treated Children Ages 6 to 12: An Electronic Medical Record Analysis. Chloe Hutt Vater, BA Research Assistant – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: While treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity...
Uptake of Measurement-Based Care (MBC) in the First 6 Months of Implementation at Three Pilot Sites in a Safety Net Psychiatry Outpatient Department Margaret Lanca, PhD Faculty – Cambridge Health Alliance Scientific Abstract Background: Little is known about...
Brief mentalizing imagery therapy benefits family dementia caregivers with suicidal ideation Saira Madarasmi, BS Research Assistant – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Family caregivers of persons living with dementia often...
Original Psych Med Reference for the Tele-Health Era Matthew Lally, MD Psychiatrist – Private Practice Scientific Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of tele-health mental health care and further established the centrality of the...
Maternal Disrupted Interaction and Infant Limbic Volumes: The Central Role of Cortisol Output Emma Jenkins, BA Research Assistant – Boston Children’s Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Despite a large translational literature documenting the role of...
Agreement between Clinical Diagnoses, Informant-, and Self-rated Social Responsiveness Scale Measures in an Autism Specialty Clinic Priyanka Mistry, BS Candidate Research Assistant – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Autism spectrum...
Temporal stability of posterior alpha power in healthy & depressed adults Abigail Moline, BA Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Electroencephalography (EEG) studies indicate that, relative to healthy controls, adults with...
Findings from a pilot open-label trial of N-acetylcysteine for the treatment of pediatric mania and hypomania Hannah O’Connor, BS Research Assistant – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Pediatric bipolar disorder is a highly...
Biomarkers/Biotypes, Course of Early Psychosis and Specialty Services Efim Oykhman, MS Lab Manager and Research Assistant – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Scientific Abstract Background: Psychotic disorders are highly heterogeneous in the early stages,...
Deficient Associative and Recollection Memory Contribute to Developmental Prosopagnosia Tanvi Palsamudram, BS Candidate Research Assistant – Boston Veteran’s Administration Healthcare System Scientific Abstract Background: Though face perception deficits...
Psychological processes that contribute to intrusive thoughts in postpartum women Emily Woodworth, BA Research Assistant – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Over 50% of postpartum women experience unwanted intrusive thoughts about...
Whole-brain Effective Connectivity during Social Reward and Punishment Reinforcement Learning in healthy controls Hamei Yu, BS Clinical Research Intern – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Reinforcement learning is the ability to learn about rewards...
Brain Functional Segregation, Psychotic Symptoms, and Treatment Response Chenyanwen Zhu, BS Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Functional integration and segregation are the two guiding principles in human brain functional...
Implementing “Whole Health” with Returning Veterans seeking mental health care at VA Sarah Williston, DrPH Psychologist – Boston Veteran’s Administration Healthcare System Scientific Abstract Background: Whole Health Systems (WHS) represents a paradigm...
Clathrin-nanoparticles Efficiently Deliver Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor to the Hippocampus, Reverse Depression and Neuroinflammation and Increase Neurogenesis, Dendritic Length and Spine Density in HIVneuroAIDS mouse model Gordana Vitaliano, MD, PhD Faculty...
Dialectical Behavior Therapy- Exposure: A combined treatment approach for suicidality and obsessive-compulsive disorder Abigail Stark, PhD Faculty – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Suicidality (SI) and self-harm is increasing in teens and...
Predicting Long-Term Morbidity in Major Affective, Schizoaffective and Nonaffective Disorders following Hospitalization in First Psychotic Episodes Paola Salvatore, MD Research Associate – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Studies following...
Ideals of Practice: Therapeutic Insights from a First Nations-Controlled Treatment Program Tony Pham, MD Faculty – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Indigenous Canadians suffer disproportionately from mental health concerns tied to...
Supporting Treatment Access and Recovery for Co-occurring Opioid Use and Mental Health Disorders (STAR-COD) Gerardo Gonzalez-Haddad, MD Faculty – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Results are mixed for adding single component psychosocial...
Ableism, Implicit bias, and self-stigma for people with physical disabilities Maggi Budd, PhD, MPH, ABPP, HEC-C Faculty – Boston Veteran’s Administration Healthcare System Scientific Abstract BACKGROUND: Although the definition of disability by the...
Taking it to the TOP: Preliminary program redevelopment plan for the Massachusetts General Hospital Team-based Outpatient Psychiatry (TOP) Program Olivia Bogucki, PhD Faculty and Program Manager – Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Abstract Background:...
Decoding Complexities of the Psychosis Spectrum: A Machine Learning Approach to Disentangle the Contributions of Exposome, Genetics, Neurobiology, Cognition, and Personality Walid Yassine, PhD Faculty – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and McLean Hospital...
The Impact of PTSD and Mild Cognitive Impairment on Resting State Brain Functional Connectivity in World Trade Center Responders Sara Weisenbach, PhD Faculty – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Functional connectivity of the default mode network...
Childhood Maltreatment versus other Serious Childhood Life Events (SCLEs), as risk factors for substance use disorders and other psychopathologies: A Comparative Analysis Aliyeh Mahdavi Adeli, MD Person of Interest – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract...
Sleep macro and micro-architecture predicts typical and altered neurodevelopment Nataliia Kozhemiako, PhD Faculty – Brigham and Women’s Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Numerous studies have adopted the paradigm of predicting chronological age...
Patient Experience and Treatment Outcomes in Borderline Personality Disorder Thomaskutty Idiculla, PhD Faculty – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is one of the most misdiagnosed disorders, and existing...
Annotation of Trauma-related Linguistic Features in Psychiatric Electronic Health Records for Machine Learning Applications Eben Holderness, MS Doctoral Student and Research Scientist – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: This study aims to identify...
Remote Neurotherapy(NT): NT is not experimental anymore Robert DuWors, PhD Faculty – Brockton VA Search posters SearchMarch 1st Zoom Sessions All Poster Sessions 10:10-10:50 am 10:50-11:30 am 9:30-10:10 am Categories All Categories Faculty/Staff Finalists...
Examining emotion dysregulation across the dissociative spectrum Zoe Bair, BS Research Assistant – McLean Hospital Scientific Abstract Background: Emotion dysregulation (ED) and dissociation are both symptoms often found in people with post-traumatic stress...
