CPA 2023
April 1st, 2023
BRANE Lab at CPA
ABCT 2022
December 1st, 2022
BRANE Lab at ABCT
Spring 2022 Updates
March 17th, 2022
As spring is coming into full swing, the BRANE Lab has a lot going on!
BRANE lab won an ice cream party!
December 18, 2018
The UNC Clinical Psychology department hosts “Clinical Psychology Lunch Series” every Friday where faculty, post doctoral fellows, graduate students, and research staff come together to eat and attend a lecture on the latest research in the field. This year the clinical department held a friendly competition to determine which lab made the best food for the clinical lunch series.
BRANE lab celebrates two newly accepted publications
December 17, 2018
Chen, Y., Anand, D., Thissen, D., Chen, L.H., Liang, H., & Daughters, S.B. (in press). Cultural differences in behavioral activation across samples from China, Taiwan, and the United States. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.
Welcome back from China, Yun!
September 19, 2018
Over the summer, Yun collaborated with a research team from the Wuhan Center for Disease Prevention and Control on a RCT examining the feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of a Chinese translated Behavioral Activation Treatment for Substance Use (C-BA) among 90 heroin users seeking Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Wuhan, China.
Congratulations Julie!
May 21, 2018
Congratulations to our BRANE lab manager, Julianna Maccarone who won the Psychology and Neuroscience Staff Excellence Award! It is such an honor and well deserved! We appreciate all of your work and dedication to the lab!
Welcome Baby Devyani!
May 14, 2018
The BRANE Lab is happy to announce that our very own, Deepika Anand, welcomed her beautiful baby girl, Devyani, on May 15, 2018. Congratulations to Deepika & her husband & Happy Birthday to Devyani!!! The BRANE Lab already loves you!
BRANE Lab Baby Shower
April 4, 2018
Happy Surprise Baby Shower to our favorite Post Doc, Deepika! We can’t meet to meet your new baby girl and for her to wear these very snazzy onesies we decorated for her! ?
BRANE Lab Holiday Party
December 14, 2017
The Annual BRANE Lab Holiday Party was a success! Dr. Daughters hosted the party at her home where we all contributed to a delicious potluck dinner, followed by a white elephant gift exchange, followed by handing out Lab Awards. It’s our favorite lab event of the year! We wish all of our members could have been there!
Welcome Baby Eden!
October 13, 2017
The BRANE Lab is happy to announce that our very own, Yun Chen, welcomed his beautiful baby girl, Eden, on October 13, 2017. Congratulations to Yun and his wife Yulu! & Happy Birthday to Eden!!! The BRANE Lab already loves you!
LETS ACT RCT in press at Addiction
September 14, 2017
Congratulations to our many BRANE Lab members and their colleagues for their recent publication in Addiction: The Effect of a Behavioral Activation Treatment for Substance Use on Post-treatment Abstinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Stacey B. Daughters, Ph.D., Jessica F. Magidson, Ph.D., Deepika Anand, Ph.D., C.J. Seitz-Brown, M.A., Yun Chen, B.A. & Sydney Baker, B.S.
Reducing Mental Health Stigma among International Students
August 25, 2017
Two of our very own BRANE Lab members, Deepika Anand, Ph.D. and Yun Chen, M.A. worked with Arun Nagendra, M.A. and Kimberly Pentel to reduce mental health stigma among International students at UNC.
This group of international graduate students and scholars working at the clinical psychology department at UNC invited other international students at UNC to attend an interactive one-hour discussion session. This session served as a safe place to explore some of the challenges of adjusting to life at UNC as an international student, discuss some effective, clinically-based tools for coping and adjusting, and review useful resources on campus.
Tribute to Avery Mitchell
August 22, 2017
On Wednesday August 16, 2017 the BRANE Lab came in to work to receive the devastating news of our cherished friend and colleague, Avery Devell Mitchell’s passing. We continue to struggle with this new reality, but we feel to not share what made him so special to us would be a disservice. Avery was passionate, supportive, vivacious, and overall a truly good human being. No matter the length of time you knew Avery, you spent every minute of it laughing or passionately discussing topics of the world today.
The BRANE Lab misses you, Avery. We’ll do our best to make you proud.
Congrats Stacey!
August 2, 2017
The BRANE Lab is EXTREMELY HAPPY to announce that our wonderful Director, Dr. Stacey Daughters, received a promotion to FULL Professor! Your BRANE Lab team is proud of you!
Jennifer Yi awarded an NRSA
May 16, 2017
Congrats to graduate student Jennifer Yi who was awarded a NIH/NIDA Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA predoctoral fellowship (F31) for her study, Working Memory Network Connectivity and Inhibitory Control in Cocaine Use. Hooray!!