News and Awards
Awards
- Congratulations to Dr. Amy Jimenez for receiving a highly competitive Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry for their upcoming meeting in 2020!
- Congratulations to Dr. Michael Green for being recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science in Psychiatry and Psychology! This honor is in recognition of scholars ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.
- Congratulations to Dr. Lauren Catalano on receiving funding for her VA Career Development Award, "Approaches to Studying Social Motivation in Schizophrenia"!
- Congratulations to Derek Novacek, PhD and Yvonne Yang, MD, PhD on receiving a UCLA Normal Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology seed grant for their study, "An examination of the psychological and immunological correlates of discrimination in a community-based sample of Black Americans"!
- Congratulations to Eric Reavis, PhD and Carolyn Parkinson, PhD who are co-PIs on their new NIMH R01, "Disrupted Neural Synchrony during Naturalistic Perception in Schizophrenia: Toward a New Biomarker of Social Dysfunction"!!!
- Congratulations to Derek Novacek, PhD for receiving funding for his VA Rehabilitation R&D Career Development Award, "Chronic Stress, Inflammation, and Resilience: Predictors of Social Integration in Recently Housed Black and White Veterans"!
- Congratulations to Jonathan Wynn, PhD for receiving for his VA Rehabilitation R&D Merit Award, "The Enduring Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Psychological Factors, Cognition, and Social Integration in Recently Homeless Veterans"!
Lab in the News
- "Four UCLA scientists honored for outstanding achievement in schizophrenia research"
- "Leading homeless Veterans back into mainstream life"
- A recent analysis has shown that our lab chief, Michael Green, is one of the most productive and collaborative researchers in schizophrenia research in the world. Access to this interesting article.
- Congratulations to Michael Green for being one of the top 1% highest cited researchers in psychiatry in 2020.
- Dr. Derek Novacek was a speaker for the UCLA Black Minds Matter panel “Black Minds Matter: Exploring Trauma, Dispelling Stigmas and Promoting Wellness.”
- Watch Dr. Derek Novacek discuss his research on race and psychosis with the Schizophrenia International Society's Education Committee Deputy Chair, Elisabetta del Re.
- Work by Dr. Sam Abplanalp was recently featured in a news article from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Dr. Abplanalp's work, which was recently published in JAMA Psychiatry, used network analyses to identify symptom patterns in people with schizophrenia that are associated with functional outcomes: anhedonia is related to global functioning while avolition is related to work outcomes.
- An article published by Dr. Amy Jimenez was highlighted in the NIMH Newsletter. This work was supported by a grant to Dr. William Horan.
Congratulations
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Congratulations to Bill Horan for being elected as a Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology!
- Congratulations to Yvonne Yang for receiving the 2019-2020 UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award (Outstanding Faculty House Staff Teaching Adult/Geriatric Division)!