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Psychology is the science of mind, brain, and behavior. The Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania is the oldest continuously functioning psychology department in North America.

Harvey Grill and lab members have shown that leptin, a hormone made in fat, acts on the same neurons in the brain that respond to signals arising from food in the stomach. Immunohistochemical images of **green** pSTAT leptin responsive cells, **red** c-Fos stomach distention responsive cells and yellow neurons responsive to both signals

With Ilana Ritov, Jon Baron found that outcomes that are absolutely prohibited (PVs) tend to show a greater discrepancy between acts and omissions that cause them (omission bias).

Work done in the Thompson-Schill Lab shows increased activity in the left frontal operculum when healthy volunteers were asked to selectively retrieve an object's name among competing alternatives

Members of the Kahana Lab have found that brain oscillations associated with successful encoding are reinstated during retrieval.

News

  • Anna Schapiro named Scialog Fellow for Molecular Basis of Cognition

    June 10, 2022

    The Research Corporation For Science Advancement has named Anna Schapiro a 2022 Scialog Fellow for Molecular Basis of Cognition! Scialog Fellows...

  • Allyson Mackey is a recipient of International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES) Early Career Award

    April 28, 2022

    Allyson Mackey has been selected as an awardee for the IMBES Early Career Award! This award is designed to recognize early career scholars who...

  • Becky Waller receives 2022 SSSP Jevon S. Newman Early Career Contribution Award

    April 18, 2022

    The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy has named Becky Waller a recipiant of the 2022 Jevon S. Newman Early Career Contribution Award...

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Grad Students

  • Caitlin Clements has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship

    Caitlin Clements has been awarded a US Fulbright student grant to conduct research in Sweden. She will work with Dr. Mikael Landen at the Karolinska Institute to study genetic predictors of treatment response in individuals with depression. 

     

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