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August 8th, 2025

Women in Neuroscience undergrads Medha Sai Vadlamudi and Brianna Garcia present their end of summer projects.

Sex Differences in Adult Total Intracranial Volumes Associated with PTSD and Interpersonal Violence by Brianna Garcia, Luna Malloy, Paige Broski, and Dr. Josh Cisler

Parity Moderated the Association Between PTSD Symptom Severity and Gray Matter Volume in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex by Medha Vadlamudi, Luna Malloy, Paige Broski, John Leri, and Dr. Josh Cisler

April 30th, 2025

Celebrating Hamza’s last day in the lab! He is headed off to medical school at UT Southwestern in the Fall.

April 9th and 11th, 2025

Four NeuroTaP Lab undergraduate research assistants present posters at the Longhorn Research Poster Session and the Tech & Science Undergraduate Research Forum!

Emotion Regulation Deficits in Women with PTSD: A Correlational Study Across Difficulties in Emotion Regulation (DERS) Subscales by Mehr Chaudhary, Luna Malloy, Paige Broski, Elizabeth Bauer, Josh Cisler

Latent Classes of Trauma Exposure and Associations with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptomology by Medha Vadlamudi, John Leri, Paige Broski, Luna Malloy, Hamza Suhail, Ali Arain, Josh Cisler

The Impact of Trauma History on Contextual Fear Learning by Thomas Le, John Leri, Josh Cisler

Psychophysiological Associations of Childhood Physical Abuse and Adulthood Physical Assault with Mood and Anxiety Symptoms by Shreya Sahu, Luna Malloy, Paige Broski, Elizabeth Bauer, Josh Cisler

March 29th-April 1st, 2025

Ali, Paige, Luna, and Hamza present their posters at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting in Boston!

Interaction Between Age of First Interpersonal Violence Exposure on Emotion Processing and Neural Network Activation by Paige Broski, Luna Malloy, Hamza Suhail, Ali Arain, Elizabeth A. Bauer, John Leri, Josh Cisler

Impact of Clinical Complexity on Fear Prediction and Face Recognition in Emotional Processing by Hamza Suhail, Ali Arain, Paige Broski, Luna Malloy, Elizabeth A. Bauer, John Leri, Josh Cisler

Linking Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation to Neural Engagement in Fear Predictions and Face Processing by Ali Arain, Elizabeth A. Bauer, Paige Broski, Hamza Suhail, John Leri, Luna Malloy, Kierra Morris, Josh Cisler

Hormonal Contraceptive Use is Associated with Increased Salience Network Activity During Face Detection by Luna Malloy, Paige Broski, Hamza Suhail, Ali Arain, Elizabeth Bauer, John Leri, Josh Cisler

December, 13th 2024

Psychiatry Holiday Party

November, 19th 2024

Congrats to Kierra for getting her first-author paper published in Neuropsychopharmacology!

Morris, K. R., Jaeb, M., Dunsmoor, J. E., Stowe, Z. N., & Cisler, J. M. (2024). Decoding threat neurocircuitry representations during traumatic memory recall in PTSD. Neuropsychopharmacology (New York, N.Y.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-02028-5

October 31st, 2024

Check out everyone who dressed up for the Department Halloween Party!

October 23rd, 2024

Our very own John Leri presented to a panel for the Alcohol Training Grant Fellowship. Topic: “Predictors of Substance Use in the Texas Childhood Trauma Research Network”

July 2025

Hamza joins the lab!

June 2024

Paige and Ali join the lab!