Alainna Wen, PhD
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Alainna Wen, PhD
@dralainnawen.bsky.social
Researcher ➡️ emotional processes & treatment personalization for internalizing disorders in diverse populations.

UCLA postdoc 🐻 Anxiety and Depression Research Center. Depression Grand Challenge.

Clinical Psychology PhD, Advanced Quantitative minor. 👩🏻‍🏫
📣TODAY at 1:30! Join our #2025SPR symposium on using brain-based methods to understand and treat depression. Featuring talks by me, Leanne Quigley, Helmet Karim, @benrosenberg.bsky.social, with discussion by @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social 🧠✨
#academicsky #psychsky #neurosky
@therealspr.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🍁Off to the beautiful Montréal for #2025SPR! Honored to co-chair a symposium this Thursday highlighting recent advancements in brain-based methods to understanding and treating depression, alongside an outstanding panel of speakers. ✨🎤

@therealspr.bsky.social
#psychsky #academicsky #SPR2025
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Had an amazing time connecting with fellow researchers at #SRP2025! It was my pleasure to chair and present my work on emotion regulation flexibility in internalizing disorders as part of this fantastic symposium ✨

See you all next year!
September 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
‼️Can’t believe the SRP 2025 conference is in just a few days! Very excited to be co-chairing a symposium on emotional processing and regulation as transdiagnostic mechanisms for internalizing psychopathology. Come check out this fantastic panel of speakers at #SRP2025 this Sunday! 🌟
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The paper is titled Tri-level #anxiety and #depression symptom trajectory in adolescents: The role of #emotionregulation diversity. See link in comments.

Many thanks to my mentor Dr. Michelle Craske and my collaborators on the paper, Drs. Allison Metts, Richard Zinbarg, and Susan Mineka. 🫶
June 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Still feeling incredibly honored to have received the 🏆Best Paper by a Postdoctoral Scholar Award🏆from the UCLA Psychology department a few weeks ago! I am grateful to the Psychology Postdoctoral Scholar Committee for this recognition.

#psychology
#academia
#research
#ucla
June 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🚨New Paper Alert🚨

Kicking off 2025 with some exciting research we published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders! 📙

How is emotion regulation diversity linked to anxiety and depressive symptom trajectory? We test this in a longitudinal study with an adolescent sample.
January 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Had a wonderful time presenting my work as part of the Innovations to Evidence-Based Practice symposium and connecting with everyone at #ABCT2024!

Looking forward to next year’s ABCT in New Orleans 😎

@abctnow.bsky.social
#abct2024
#abct
November 17, 2024 at 7:19 PM
📣Interested in the latest innovations in EBPs? Join us at our #ABCT symposium tomorrow at 12:30!

I will be presenting on data from the Screening and Treatment for Anxiety and Depression (STAND) Program at UCLA.

Chair: Laurel Sarfan
Discussant: @allisonharvey.bsky.social

@abctnow.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Very excited to be apart of this #ABCT2024 symposium on Saturday at 12:30!

The symposium is titled: Innovations to evidence-based practices: Enhancing engagement, outcomes, and access ⭐️

@abctnow.bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 11:47 PM
🚨Cool research alert! What does emotion regulation diversity look like in individuals exposed to trauma? How does it confer resilience to PTSD?

We discuss this in our new paper, published in Behaviour Research and Therapy. 📕
February 2, 2024 at 5:54 PM
🚨 It’s been such a busy year, I haven’t yet shared the news that my dissertation was published in JoPaCS‼️

The paper is titled: Biased cognitive control of emotional information in remitted depression: A meta-analytic review. It can be accessed here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-...
December 22, 2023 at 6:50 PM
Today I clicked on Twitter/X and:
December 21, 2023 at 6:23 AM
After one year of living in California:
December 2, 2023 at 4:30 AM
Somehow I’ve lived in 3 states despite only moving to the U.S. in 2016! Would love to visit more states, including Massachusetts and Oregon. Hoping more psych conferences will be held at these locations 👀
November 25, 2023 at 8:39 PM
Had an amazing time chairing + presenting at this symposium! Thanks to our wonderful speakers for sharing their wisdom on emotion regulation and resilience. 🫶🏼 Also very grateful for our attendees, we were thrilled by the turnout!
November 19, 2023 at 10:19 PM
Very excited to be chairing and presenting at our ABCT symposium tomorrow/Saturday at 10:30‼️

Come listen to this amazing group of researchers on emotion regulation and resilience! 🤩
November 18, 2023 at 3:34 AM