Current Projects
The Influence of Food Insecurity on Reward Neurobiology in Children
This study aims to characterize the neurobiological impacts of food deprivation within the context of food insecurity (FI) in an attempt to delineate the mechanism(s) by which childhood FI may increase the risk for substance use in adolescence (Grant ID: NIH/NIDA 1R21DA050164-01 (PI: Rose))
​
Contact the study team: hungrybrainstudy@gmail.com
For more info: https://hungrybrainstudy.wixsite.com/home
The Student Life Survey
This pilot project will consider how the different types of experiences that undergraduate students have on campus influence personal and academic outcomes. Study measures include indices of racism and discrimination, food insecurity, and mental health. (Funded by the Child Study Center at Penn State; PIs: Rose and Bruening)
​
Contact the study team: psu.student.life.survey@gmail.com
Optimizing a Mindful Intervention for Urban Minority Youth via Stress Physiology
The aims of this school-based study are to (a) identify the physiological stress mechanisms by which a mindful intervention for at-risk, inner-city youth achieves its beneficial effects and (b) optimize the intervention for the target population that achieves the greatest improvements in stress physiology and, in turn, reductions in externalizing behaviors and symptoms of affective and traumatic stress disorders. (Grant ID: NIH/NICCH R61/R33 1R61AT009856 (PIs: Fishbein & Mendelson))
The Role of Executive Cognition and Stress Physiology in School-Based Intervention Outcomes in Low Income Urban Youth
The project is an extension of an ongoing research project in Baltimore City (PI: Dr. T. Mendelson, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), which is evaluating a school-based trauma-focused intervention (i.e., RAP Club). In this pilot project, we are collecting supplementary data regarding the physiological and neurocognitive mechanisms that underlie intervention effects and which may be relevant for risk for or resilience to high-risk behaviors such as substance use in trauma-exposed children (Sponsor: SSRI @ PSU (PI: Rose)).
Translational Neuroscience Perspectives on Substance Abuse Prevention
This conference grant is being used to support two conferences focused on the integration of the biomedical and prevention sciences in substance use interventions. Through education, research dissemination, and networking opportunities, these meetings aim to support cross-disciplinary training in these domains and help to create and sustain novel transdisciplinary collaborations that will advance our knowledge and practice in the area of "neuroprevention" (Grant ID: NIH/NIDA R13 1R13DA047833 (PIs: Rose & Fishbein)).
Neural mediators and moderators of mindful yoga practice in opiate-dependent individuals
This project is exploring the neurocognitive mediators and moderators of the impact of a yoga practice incorporating mindfulness in opioid-dependent individuals who are receiving medication-assisted therapy (i.e., buprenorphine). The study considers whether the addition of mindful yoga results in changes in neurocognitive measures of critical processes (i.e., cognitive flexibility, response inhibition, and craving), how pre-treatment functioning in these processes predicts outcomes, and whether the extent of change predicts longer-term treatment success (Sponsor: SSRI @ PSU (PI: Rose)).
​
For more info: https://psuhealthstudy.wordpress.com/
