New Funding 2024/2025

New Funding

Deanna Barch
Professor
Vice Dean of Research

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "21/21 ABCD-USA CONSORTIUM: RESEARCH PROJECT SITE AT WUSTL" 

Todd Braver
William R. Stuckenberg Professor

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "Mindfulness to enhance cognitive health in Latinx older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease" 

Rebecca Cox
Assistant Professor

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "Light therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A circadian medicine approach" 
  • International OCD Foundation - "Examining circadian and non-circadian phenotypes in obsessive-compulsive disorder with delayed bedtimes" 

Denise Head
Associate Chair of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Professor

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "Aging and Development" 

Joshua Jackson
Saul and Louise Rosenzweig Associate Professor

  • National Science Foundation/NSF - "Lewin Revisited: Testing three competing models for conceptualizing the dynamics of the life space"

Robert Jirsaraie
Graduate Student

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "Predicting trajectories of psychopathology using multimodal neuroimaging and multi-task learning" 

Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft
Associate Professor

  • Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation/KTGF - "Improving Access to Services, Preventing Eating Disorders, and Addressing Comorbid Depression and Anxiety in Diverse Adolescents" 
  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "Optimizing an automated chatbot to achieve efficient, scalable treatment for eating disorders" 

Jaisal T Merchant
Graduate Student

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "The Effect of Social Influence on Effort-Cost Decision-Making in Schizophrenia: From Mechanisms to Real-World Associations" 

Joshua Oltmanns
Assistant Professor

  • Brain and Behavior Research Foundation - "Detecting PTSD in Natural Language"

Jacob Pine
Graduate Student

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "Generative Modeling of Excitation:Inhibition Balance Abnormalities in Schizophrenia" 

Zachariah Reagh
Assistant Professor

  • Sloan (Alfred P.) Foundation - "2024 Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience" 

Henry Roediger
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor

  • National Science Foundation/NSF - "Mid-scale RI-2: A National Research Infrastructure for Large-Scale Learning Science and Engineering" 

Payton Rule
Graduate Student

  • American Psychological Foundation - "Physical Disability Discrimination and Wellbeing: Investigating Societal-Level Protective Factors" 

Alison Tuck
Graduate Student

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "Associations Between Social Media Use and Healthy Adolescent Development: A Multi-Method Investigation" 

Jeffrey Zacks
Chair 
Edgar James Swift Professor

  • National Institutes of Health/DHHS/NIH - "Aging and Development"