Dr. Jillian Lee Wiggins and TEND Lab competed for, and received, the University Grants Program Award from San Diego State University in order to investigate the neural markers of treatment response in children with depression and anxiety.

Dr. Wiggins and the TEND Lab have received a competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the Altman Clinical Translational Research Institute, as well as a grant from the SDSU Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Center to do brain imaging with teenagers with irritability.

TEND Lab member, Maria Kryza-Lacombe, is one of the first-ever recipients of the Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.

TEND Lab member, Maria Kryza-Lacombe, received a scholarship to attend the International Symposium of Contemplative Studies in San Diego. The scholarship reduces the cost of registration from $300 to just $50.

TEND Lab member, Karen Schwartz, won the 2016 Child and Adolescent Depression Special Interest Group (SIG) Poster Award for her poster entitled “An Exploratory Factor Analysis of Irritability in a Sample of Anxious and/or Depressed Youth.”

TEND Lab members received Student Travel Awards from the SDSU Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience to attend several scientific conferences later this year.