See work on the young adult brain by FAB Lab members, first author Ali Cohen and senior author BJ Casey, covered in the New York Times: "A California Court for Young Adults Calls on Science"
Congratulations to Estée Rubien-Thomas who received a 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Dr. Casey quoted in NPR article, "Teens Penchant for Risk Taking May Help Them Learn Faster," on importance of recent study published in Neuron by former fellows Drs. Adriana Galvan (now on faculty at UCLA) and Juliette Davidow (now postdoc at Harvard) together with Dr. Daphna Shohamy (Columbia) on enhanced learning by adolescents over adults.
See coverage of the ABCD Study to follow at Yale, led by Dr. Casey, in Yale News article, "Yale Chosen as Research Site for 'the Manhattan Project' of Brain Imaging."
A study by Ali Cohen and BJ Casey published in Psychological Science, was highlighed in New York Times Article, "Don't Treat Young Adults as Teenagers"
Cohen, A.O., Breiner, K., Steinberg, L., Bonnie, R.J., Scott, E.S., Taylor-Thompson, K.A., Rudolph, M.D., Chein, J., Richeson, J.A, Heller, A.S., Silverman, M.R., Dellarco, D.V., Fair, D.A., Galván, A., Casey, B.J. (2016). When is an adolescent an adult? Assessing cognitive control in emotional and nonemotional contexts. Psychological Science, 27, 549-562.
Ali Cohen's study published in Psychological Science, was highlighted in Newsweek article, "Neuroscience is Changing the Debate Over What Role Age Should Play in the Courts."
Cohen, A.O., Breiner, K., Steinberg, L., Bonnie, R.J., Scott, E.S., Taylor-Thompson, K.A., Rudolph, M.D., Chein, J., Richeson, J.A, Heller, A.S., Silverman, M.R., Dellarco, D.V., Fair, D.A., Galván, A., Casey, B.J. (2016). When is an adolescent an adult? Assessing cognitive control in emotional and nonemotional contexts. Psychological Science, 27, 549-562.
Congratulations to Ali Cohen who recieved a 2015 APA Dissertation Research Award
Congratulations to BJ Casey whose work was highlighted by the Brain and Behavior and Research Foundation with the 2015 Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research
