Cognitive Affective Neurodevelopment in Youth (CANDY) Lab
@candylab-ihn.bsky.social
👩🔬PI: @giorgia-picci.bsky.social
🔬Adversity, Puberty, Brain Development
📍Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town
🔬Adversity, Puberty, Brain Development
📍Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town
We were honored to host @drkoraly.bsky.social at the Boys Town Institute for Human Neuroscience last week!
Her work on behavioral inhibition and early anxiety offers insight into how children navigate real-world social settings.
CANDY Lab is deeply grateful for her time, wisdom, and mentorship 💙🧠
Her work on behavioral inhibition and early anxiety offers insight into how children navigate real-world social settings.
CANDY Lab is deeply grateful for her time, wisdom, and mentorship 💙🧠
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We were honored to host @drkoraly.bsky.social at the Boys Town Institute for Human Neuroscience last week!
Her work on behavioral inhibition and early anxiety offers insight into how children navigate real-world social settings.
CANDY Lab is deeply grateful for her time, wisdom, and mentorship 💙🧠
Her work on behavioral inhibition and early anxiety offers insight into how children navigate real-world social settings.
CANDY Lab is deeply grateful for her time, wisdom, and mentorship 💙🧠
🎃 In October, CANDY Lab launched the SMORES Study — Sampling of Menstrual Oscillatory Rhythms & Endocrine Systems!
🩸 A precision neuroscience project tracking daily MEG/MRI, hormone, & mitochondrial changes across the menstrual cycle.
🩸 A precision neuroscience project tracking daily MEG/MRI, hormone, & mitochondrial changes across the menstrual cycle.
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
🎃 In October, CANDY Lab launched the SMORES Study — Sampling of Menstrual Oscillatory Rhythms & Endocrine Systems!
🩸 A precision neuroscience project tracking daily MEG/MRI, hormone, & mitochondrial changes across the menstrual cycle.
🩸 A precision neuroscience project tracking daily MEG/MRI, hormone, & mitochondrial changes across the menstrual cycle.
🌟 Lab Member Spotlight: Say hello to Amelia!
🎉Amelia joined the CANDY Lab as a Research Assistant in October 2023 and now serves as the lab’s Research Study Coordinator.
🔬She is interested in how childhood unpredictability influences brain development and mental health.
🎉Amelia joined the CANDY Lab as a Research Assistant in October 2023 and now serves as the lab’s Research Study Coordinator.
🔬She is interested in how childhood unpredictability influences brain development and mental health.
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🌟 Lab Member Spotlight: Say hello to Amelia!
🎉Amelia joined the CANDY Lab as a Research Assistant in October 2023 and now serves as the lab’s Research Study Coordinator.
🔬She is interested in how childhood unpredictability influences brain development and mental health.
🎉Amelia joined the CANDY Lab as a Research Assistant in October 2023 and now serves as the lab’s Research Study Coordinator.
🔬She is interested in how childhood unpredictability influences brain development and mental health.
We are THRILLED to share that @giorgia-picci.bsky.social, Director of the CANDY Lab at Boys Town Institute for Human Neuroscience, has been awarded a @bbrfoundation.bsky.social Young Investigator Grant.
Read more: boystownresearch.org/news/giorgia-picci-phd-awarded-grant-for-autism-research
Read more: boystownresearch.org/news/giorgia-picci-phd-awarded-grant-for-autism-research
October 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We are THRILLED to share that @giorgia-picci.bsky.social, Director of the CANDY Lab at Boys Town Institute for Human Neuroscience, has been awarded a @bbrfoundation.bsky.social Young Investigator Grant.
Read more: boystownresearch.org/news/giorgia-picci-phd-awarded-grant-for-autism-research
Read more: boystownresearch.org/news/giorgia-picci-phd-awarded-grant-for-autism-research
🌟 Lab Member Spotlight: Say hello to Sumedha!
🎉 Sumedha joined the CANDY Lab as a research assistant in September 2025.
🔬 Her research interests focus on understanding how early-life adversity shapes brain development and mental health outcomes in youth.
🎉 Sumedha joined the CANDY Lab as a research assistant in September 2025.
🔬 Her research interests focus on understanding how early-life adversity shapes brain development and mental health outcomes in youth.
October 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🌟 Lab Member Spotlight: Say hello to Sumedha!
🎉 Sumedha joined the CANDY Lab as a research assistant in September 2025.
🔬 Her research interests focus on understanding how early-life adversity shapes brain development and mental health outcomes in youth.
🎉 Sumedha joined the CANDY Lab as a research assistant in September 2025.
🔬 Her research interests focus on understanding how early-life adversity shapes brain development and mental health outcomes in youth.
🌟Lab member spotlight: Say hello to Zach!
🎉Zach joined the CANDY Lab as a research assistant in October of 2023.
🔬His research interests are broadly focused on brain development in youth who have experienced stressful events and autistic youth.
🎉Zach joined the CANDY Lab as a research assistant in October of 2023.
🔬His research interests are broadly focused on brain development in youth who have experienced stressful events and autistic youth.
October 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🌟Lab member spotlight: Say hello to Zach!
🎉Zach joined the CANDY Lab as a research assistant in October of 2023.
🔬His research interests are broadly focused on brain development in youth who have experienced stressful events and autistic youth.
🎉Zach joined the CANDY Lab as a research assistant in October of 2023.
🔬His research interests are broadly focused on brain development in youth who have experienced stressful events and autistic youth.
✨Today, CANDY Lab members @giorgia-picci.bsky.social and @sumedhamishra.bsky.social partnered with 100 Black Men of Omaha to lead a youth session on stress, brain development, and mental health! 🧠🤓🍭
October 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
✨Today, CANDY Lab members @giorgia-picci.bsky.social and @sumedhamishra.bsky.social partnered with 100 Black Men of Omaha to lead a youth session on stress, brain development, and mental health! 🧠🤓🍭
The Cognitive Affective NeuroDevelopment in Youth (CANDY) Lab is now on Bluesky! 🎉🍬
Dr. @giorgia-picci.bsky.social directs the CANDY Lab in IHN at Boys Town. Her work broadly focuses on uncovering neurobiological mechanisms linking early life adversity and mental health outcomes during adolescence.
Dr. @giorgia-picci.bsky.social directs the CANDY Lab in IHN at Boys Town. Her work broadly focuses on uncovering neurobiological mechanisms linking early life adversity and mental health outcomes during adolescence.
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Cognitive Affective NeuroDevelopment in Youth (CANDY) Lab is now on Bluesky! 🎉🍬
Dr. @giorgia-picci.bsky.social directs the CANDY Lab in IHN at Boys Town. Her work broadly focuses on uncovering neurobiological mechanisms linking early life adversity and mental health outcomes during adolescence.
Dr. @giorgia-picci.bsky.social directs the CANDY Lab in IHN at Boys Town. Her work broadly focuses on uncovering neurobiological mechanisms linking early life adversity and mental health outcomes during adolescence.