The first chapter of my dissertation is officially published! 🎆🌺💤 We found that folks with depression show similar impairments in cognitive functioning after total sleep deprivation as non-depressed folks (and bounce back similarly after recovery sleep):
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Members of the Penn community: please sign this actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...
I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.
pedestrianize the Italian Market! it's one of the biggest no-brainers out there—who wants to drive up 9th Street anyway?!
www.inquirer.com/food/angelos...
Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories
I defended my dissertation! 🥹 I am incredibly grateful to Phil Gehrman, @annaschapiro.bsky.social, and Martha Farah for their mentorship over these six wonderful, whirlwind years! There are not enough !!!s in the world to convey my gratitude for all of the many others who supported me along the way!
Me editing a draft of a "methods" section that I myself wrote
Incredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!
I'm in Seattle at #SLEEP2025! Come see me at poster 52 on Tuesday 6/10 at 11am! It's called "No Added Benefit of Targeted Memory Reactivation During Naps on Negative Memory Rescripting" because that is what we found!
New preprint! How do we integrate new information into prior knowledge? We find that existing knowledge enables rapid new learning but that interleaved replay during sleep promotes integration of new and old information. Modeling suggests a sleep context suppression mechanism.
osf.io/preprints/ps...