October 2014:

Christina Karns is teaching Psychoactive Drugs this term. What’s that got to do with emotions, neuroplasticity, and positive emotions? Psychoactive exogenous compounds affect mood, emotions, and perceptions. Scientific research in this area has told us a lot about the systems that support rewarding emotions and the role they play in addiction. What sort of endogenously generated experiences might act on these same brain systems?

July 2014:

It was a great two weeks at the Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience .

The topics were Attention & Brain Function: Course Director, Tirin Moore and Emotional Learning & Memory: Course Director, Kevin LaBar with Ron Mangun as overall course director. Thanks are due to all the fantastic faculty who presented!

June 2014:

Congratulations Jessie Daher, newly minted B.S. in Psychology here at UO! Jessie’s leadership skills, creativity, and critical thinking skills have been such an asset to the project. Thank you Jessie!

June 2014:

Christina Karns just returned from presenting at the Greater Good Science Center’s Gratitude Summit in Berkeley, CA. There was a roster of fantastic speakers on gratitude — and was an inspiring day.

April 2014:

Congratulations Macey Davis on her acceptance to the Honor’s program in Psychology here at UO! Macey will be focusing on how certain positive emotions interact with attention and impulsivity.

March 2014:

Congratulations Brianna Cline on her acceptance to the Masters program in Family Therapy here at UO! She will be a superb therapist and we’ve been very lucky to have her work with us this year.

February 2014:

Christina Karns will be presenting at an APS symposium on gratitude in May 2014.

Christina Karns will be presenting at the Society for Affective Neuroscience conference in Denver in April 2014.

May 2013:

Congratulations graduating senior Anthony Marincovich!

April 2013:

Doctoral student in Elliot Berkman’s lab, Lisa May, earned a Dissertation Research Award from the Greater Good Science Center!