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See What We Have Been Up To!
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!


May 2024
Off to an Escape Room to celebrate Rushale’s Last Week and Luna’s First Week
SOBP 2024
The NeuroTaP Lab makes waves at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Conference 2024!
CNS2024
Kierra presented her poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Conference 2024 in Toronto Canada!
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ Winter Holiday Party
Celebrations at the 2023 Department Winter Holiday Party!
Lab Mascots
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Lab Photos
NeuroTaP, Dunsmoor and MAIN Lab at SOBP!
End of the Spring Semester!
End of the Fall Semester!