Arianna Cascone successfully defends her dissertation!
January 23, 2024
Arianna successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “Categorical and dimensional investigations of dynamic functional connectivity and behavior in children with and without ADHD.”
Congratulations, Dr. Cascone!
Dr. Nicholas Fogleman talks with UNC Health about ADHD in adults
August 4, 2023
Dr. Nicholas Fogleman was interviewed for a recent article in UNC Health Talk. Check out the link above to learn about ADHD in adults!
Congratulations to Mac Woodburn!
May 15, 2023
Mac Woodburn recently defended his PhD dissertation and graduated this weekend! Congrats, Dr. Woodburn!
Dr. Nicholas Fogleman Presents at Heels Care Network Mental Health Seminar
April 27, 2023
Dr. Nicholas Fogleman gave a great talk entitled “How to Center Your Focus When Focusing is Difficult”! Check out his presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7A9SeMB1Lo&t=1040s
Sikoya Ashburn Named L’Oréal 2022 For Women in Science Fellow
November 15, 2022
Congrats to Dr. Sikoya Ashburn on being awarded the L’Oréal 2022 For Women in Science Fellowship! Check out the video below to learn more about Sikoya and the work she does in the Cohen Lab.
STEAM Career Showcase for Students with Disabilities
November 3, 2022
Members of the Cohen Lab recently participated in the 10th annual STEAM Career Showcase for Students with Disabilities at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. Students had the opportunity to learn about the brain, play brain trivia, and make brain hats and pipe-cleaner neurons!
Flux 2022 Conference
September 28, 2022
Earlier this month, members of the Cohen Lab attended the Flux 2022 conference in Paris, France! This was the first in-person Flux conference in two years. Congrats to Sikoya Ashburn, Arianna Cascone, Mackenzie Mitchell, Tehila Nugiel, and Mac Woodburn on your impressive talks and poster presentations!
Erika Successfully Defends Honors Thesis!
April 13, 2022
Our undergraduate research assistant Erika successfully defended her honors thesis over Zoom at the beginning of this month! The title of her thesis was “Connectivity between emotion regulation brain regions in children with ADHD.” We are proud of her and excited to see what she does after graduating!
Arianna Cascone Receives SFN Award
April 23, 2021
Arianna Cascone wins Best Graduate Student Poster at the annual Triangle Society for Neuroscience meeting for her work assessing functional network organization in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD). PD is characterized by a range of motor and non-motor symptoms, including cognitive decline.Using resting-state fMRI data collected from individuals with PD with and without cognitive decline, we examined whether topological brain-network resilience contributes to protection against cognitive decline in PD. Relative to individuals with PD experiencing cognitive decline, the frontoparietal network in cognitively stable individuals with PD is significantly more resilient to network perturbation. The topological robustness of the frontoparietal network may contribute to protection against cognitive decline in individuals with PD.
Congratulations Arianna!
Dr. Sikoya Ashburn Honored as Rising Star
February 11, 2021
Dr. Sikoya Ashburn, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, was named as a Rising Star on Cell Mentor’s list of 1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in the U.S.! You can see the complete list here: https://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/1000-inspiring-black-scientists-in-america. Congratulations, Sikoya!