CAND Lab
The Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience & Development Lab is based in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Our research program focuses upon the changes in brain function that subserve cognitive control processes in the context of emotionally or motivationally salient information during childhood and adolescence in typically developing youth and those with or at risk for psyc
03/16/2021
It's Brain Awareness Week!
Brain Awareness Week Q&A with Caroline Montojo, Ph.D. Meet our new Dana Foundation president! Caroline Montojo, Ph.D., talks about her first experience with Brain Awareness Week and more.Find events and ways to ...
03/16/2020
Another great resource about talking to children about coronavirus:
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE - Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning & Children's Media To those of you holding many feelings for children in these weeks, thank you. Reorganizing daily life is not easy, but we are grateful to watch the world make efforts large and small to protect vulnerable people. In the coming days, we will be sharing resources from partner organizations for those o...
10/06/2019
Scientists have discovered that cortisol can be detected in hair. The results could lead to hair samples being used in making mental health diagnoses.
Hair could be the key to better mental-illness diagnosis in teens: Study also finds lower depression risk in kids with good family support It's possible that a lock of hair could one day aid in the diagnosis of depression and in efforts to monitor the effects of treatment, said the author of a new study examining cortisol levels in the hair of teens.
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