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Healthy brain development is a human right, argues Dr. Casey

05/2019

See Dr. Casey’s article in Neuron highlighted in https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/cp-hbd051619.php

Work by Dr. Casey and former students, Dr. Ali Cohen and Michael Dreyfuss, showing reactive action of young people under threat is highlighted by NBC News

05/2019

See coverage of recent work highlighted by NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/students-who-tackle-shooters-die-heroes-some-experts-worry-we-n1003951

Dr. Casey’s article in Neuron on Healthy Development as a Human Right: Lessons from Developmental Science

05/2019

See Dr. Casey highlighted in Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cognitive-neuroscientist-warns-us-ju...

Graduate Student Estée Rubien-Thomas receives SPSP Diversity Travel Award

02/2019
Award name: SPSP Diversity Travel Award
Recipient: Estée Rubien-Thomas

PhD student Estée Rubien-Thomas was recently awarded a travel award to attend and present her research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, which will take place in Portland, OR this winter. 

ABCD Study Highlighted in 60 Minutes & New York Times

12/2018

See NY Times coverage of recent work by the ABCD study on screen time: Is Screen Time Bad for Kid’s Brains?

Ph.D. Student Estée Rubien-Thomas receives Yale Dean's Emerging Scholars Award

11/2018
Award name: Yale University Dean's Emerging Scholars Award
Recipient: Estée Rubien-Thomas

Dr. Casey’s Adolescent Brain Research is Highlighted in NEUWRITE

08/2018

Research by Dr. Casey and colleagues covered: When is an adolescent an adult and implications for juvenile justice

Dr. Casey Quoted in Time

09/2017

Dr. Casey is quoted in Time article "Why Teenage Brains are so Hard to Understand" on the complexities of the teen brain and opportunities.

ABCD Study Staff Member of the Month

09/2017
Award name: ABCD Study Staff Member of the Month
Recipient: May Isabella Conley

Congratulations to May Conley, who "for her 24 hour help to all 21 sites with the imaging tasks, their optimization for each site and her help developing and validating 1700 diverse face stimuli for the ABCD emotional n-back task" recieved the ABCD Study Staff Member of the Month Recognition! 

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May Isabella Conley

PhD Candidate, Psychology-Clinical Track

Fundamentals of the Adolescent Brain (FAB) Lab

Yale University
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 414
1 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Phone: 
(203) 432 - 5815
Email: 
may.conley@yale.edu
Biography: 

May is a third-year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Yale. She completed her B.A. in Environmental Studies and Psychology at the University of Montana. May’s research examines environmental influences on neurocognitive development and mental health. She is particularly interested in utilizing multicontextual, multilevel, and multioutcome approaches to identify risk and protective factors that can inform clinical practice and policy.

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Drs. Cohen & Casey Research Covered in New York Times

04/2017

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"