Talha Soluoku (Neuroscience) and James M. Hyman (Psychology) recently published an article in Neuron titled, "Complexity demands more flexibility and the prefrontal cortex has an answer." This article provides context about a recent finding showing that in tasks with greater complexity, the medial prefrontal cortex helps to switch between…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and Kelsie Forbush at University of Kansas have been awarded a National Institute of Mental Health R34 grant ($715,516) to test BEST-U, their new digital health treatment program for university students with eating disorders. The grant will fund a clinical trial of the efficacy of the BEST-U program in a…

  The First-Gen Essay Competition is part of the annual campus-wide First-Generation Celebration held each year in November. The contest allows first-generation undergraduate and graduate students to share personal stories about their first-generation journeys at UNLV. Nearly 40 students participated in this year's…

Teresa (Tess) Walker, Rakshitha Mohankumar, Shane Kraus, Brenna Renn (all Psychology) recently published a manuscript "Mental and physical health characteristics of older and younger adults receiving medication for opioid use disorder" in Frontiers in Public Health. Secondary analysis of this multisite survey data found older participants reported…

Richard "Rich" Chang, Aldo M. Barrita, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) published a study "Predictors of the fear of monkeypox in sexual minorities" in Translational Issues in Psychological Science. They examined everyday discrimination, sexual orientation microaggressions, and victimization distress as potential predictors for…

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published several scholarly works: The first paper (Spanish Validation of the Brief Pornography Screen Within a Clinical Sample of Individuals with Gambling Disorder) was published in Archives of Sexual Behavior.  The second was a letter to the editor (A Response to “A Meta-Review to Guide…

Bobbie Barnes (Hospitality), Joanne Ullman (Psychology), Jenna Heath (Liberal Arts) and Melikabella Shenouda (Liberal Arts) have published an article titled "Educating the Educators: Preparing Faculty to Teach Career Readiness; a literature review" in Research Square. The article focuses on the demands for universities to equip students with…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and Kelsey Hagan of Virginia Commonwealth University recently published a commentary on future directions for eating disorders assessment in the International Journal of Eating Disorders: "Balancing Objective Markers and Subjective Experience in Eating Disorder Diagnoses: Commentary on Dang et al. (2024…

Aldo Barrita, Shane Kraus, Rachael Robnett, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) and Cassaundra Rodriguez (Sociology) recently published a paper titled, "The Illegal Threat": The Presumed Illigality Microaggressive Experience Scale in the journal of Translational Issues in Psychological Science. This research project aimed…

Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate student Maegan Nation (both Psychology) published a new paper in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, "Negative Affect as a Mediator Between Exposure to Fitspiration and Thinspiration and Disordered Eating Behaviors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study." They found that, among young women with…

Brenna Renn and Tess Walker (both Psychology) published the results for their fully remote randomized controlled trial of Sanvello, a commercially-available digital mental health app in an article titled, "Naturalistic use of a digital mental health intervention for depression and anxiety: A randomized clinical trial." The main trial outcome…

Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (Psychology) was awarded the 2023 Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research and the 2024 Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Service from the Asian American Psychological Association. The two awards recognize Wong-Padoongpatt's distinguished research and service contributions to the…