Marilyn Horta, Ph.D.
@marilynhorta.bsky.social
Applied Research Scientist at Moffitt Cancer Center | Social Cognition | Health Behavior | Aging | Chronic Pain #NIDAT32 #NIAT32
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FOCUS: Drs. @marilynhorta.bsky.social, Fillingim, & coll. reviewed the effects of chronic pain on different decision-making outcomes.
— Chronic pain affects performance, delay discounting, outcome sensitivity, and learning.
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— Chronic pain affects performance, delay discounting, outcome sensitivity, and learning.
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Choosing well: A narrative review on chronic pain and decision-making
Chronic pain is one of the most prevalent and costly health conditions in the United States. Previous work has demonstrated that chronic pain impacts cognition and behavior. However, the impact of…
www.jpain.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This was an excellent workshop and I can't wait to apply these methods to future projects. Read @sdukehan.bsky.social's thread below to learn about the topics covered. Thanks, @srndna.bsky.social!
At the @srndna.bsky.social workshop on Daily Life Sampling and Dr. Jenny Crawford is talking about how cognitive variability is associated with worse cognitive decline and AD pathology.
October 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This was an excellent workshop and I can't wait to apply these methods to future projects. Read @sdukehan.bsky.social's thread below to learn about the topics covered. Thanks, @srndna.bsky.social!
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Our latest paper, in Angewandte Chemie, presents fluorescent peptide tracers for visualising the oxytocin receptor (OTR) in live cells/tissues, providing powerful tools to study OTR in health and disease. Press release: www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...
#Oxytocin #BreastCancer #Autism #DrugDiscovery
#Oxytocin #BreastCancer #Autism #DrugDiscovery
Breast Cancer and Autism: Visualisation of the oxytocin receptor enables new theranostic approaches
Patented technology from Vienna underpins advances in diagnostics and therapy
www.univie.ac.at
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Our latest paper, in Angewandte Chemie, presents fluorescent peptide tracers for visualising the oxytocin receptor (OTR) in live cells/tissues, providing powerful tools to study OTR in health and disease. Press release: www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...
#Oxytocin #BreastCancer #Autism #DrugDiscovery
#Oxytocin #BreastCancer #Autism #DrugDiscovery
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REMINDER: We are hosting a FREE online event on AGING + DECISION MAKING + TECHNOLOGY next week Tuesday!
We are super excited to invite you to our
FREE research & networking event
@ Sep 30 (11AM EDT, on ZOOM)
on the intersections of aging, technology, and decision research
with Dr. Wally Boot & Dr. Kaileigh Byrne :
geron.org/News-Events/...
(@geronsociety.bsky.social)
FREE research & networking event
@ Sep 30 (11AM EDT, on ZOOM)
on the intersections of aging, technology, and decision research
with Dr. Wally Boot & Dr. Kaileigh Byrne :
geron.org/News-Events/...
(@geronsociety.bsky.social)
September 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
REMINDER: We are hosting a FREE online event on AGING + DECISION MAKING + TECHNOLOGY next week Tuesday!
Reposted by Marilyn Horta, Ph.D.
🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨
Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging.
Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible).
Salary: NIH levels.
Details 👇
Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging.
Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible).
Salary: NIH levels.
Details 👇
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🚨The SCANN Lab @ UTA is hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🚨
Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging.
Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible).
Salary: NIH levels.
Details 👇
Topics: 🧭 spatial navigation, 🧠 fMRI, 🎮 VR, 👵 cognitive aging.
Start date: Nov 2025 (flexible).
Salary: NIH levels.
Details 👇
New publication out now featuring feasibility and acceptability findings on a modified mindfulness-based intervention called AutoFOCUS for autologous HCT caregivers
AutoFOCUS: A mindfulness-based intervention for caregivers of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients | Palliative & Supportive Care | Cambridge Core
AutoFOCUS: A mindfulness-based intervention for caregivers of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients - Volume 23
www.cambridge.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New publication out now featuring feasibility and acceptability findings on a modified mindfulness-based intervention called AutoFOCUS for autologous HCT caregivers
Reposted by Marilyn Horta, Ph.D.
We are super excited to invite you to our
FREE research & networking event
@ Sep 30 (11AM EDT, on ZOOM)
on the intersections of aging, technology, and decision research
with Dr. Wally Boot & Dr. Kaileigh Byrne :
geron.org/News-Events/...
(@geronsociety.bsky.social)
FREE research & networking event
@ Sep 30 (11AM EDT, on ZOOM)
on the intersections of aging, technology, and decision research
with Dr. Wally Boot & Dr. Kaileigh Byrne :
geron.org/News-Events/...
(@geronsociety.bsky.social)
August 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We are super excited to invite you to our
FREE research & networking event
@ Sep 30 (11AM EDT, on ZOOM)
on the intersections of aging, technology, and decision research
with Dr. Wally Boot & Dr. Kaileigh Byrne :
geron.org/News-Events/...
(@geronsociety.bsky.social)
FREE research & networking event
@ Sep 30 (11AM EDT, on ZOOM)
on the intersections of aging, technology, and decision research
with Dr. Wally Boot & Dr. Kaileigh Byrne :
geron.org/News-Events/...
(@geronsociety.bsky.social)
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The dearth of reviewers for papers often overlooks the expertise of lesser-known ECRs.
If you know an ECR with expertise in neuroimaging, individual differences, and/or social cognition who is interested in reviewer experience for Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, please reach out to me!
If you know an ECR with expertise in neuroimaging, individual differences, and/or social cognition who is interested in reviewer experience for Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, please reach out to me!
August 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The dearth of reviewers for papers often overlooks the expertise of lesser-known ECRs.
If you know an ECR with expertise in neuroimaging, individual differences, and/or social cognition who is interested in reviewer experience for Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, please reach out to me!
If you know an ECR with expertise in neuroimaging, individual differences, and/or social cognition who is interested in reviewer experience for Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, please reach out to me!
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Calling all soon-to-graduate PhD students interested in a career in cancer research! Apply for the #MIOT Symposium today! Visit Moffitt Cancer Center to present your research, meet our faculty, and learn about training opportunities and support. Moffitt.org/MIOT @moffittnews.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Calling all soon-to-graduate PhD students interested in a career in cancer research! Apply for the #MIOT Symposium today! Visit Moffitt Cancer Center to present your research, meet our faculty, and learn about training opportunities and support. Moffitt.org/MIOT @moffittnews.bsky.social
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73% of U.S. adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack, like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. While Americans see older adults as more vulnerable, these crimes are common across age groups.
August 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
73% of U.S. adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack, like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. While Americans see older adults as more vulnerable, these crimes are common across age groups.
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The UNM @casaa.bsky.social NIAAA T32 training grant has been renewed, finally! We will be sharing info about a postdoc opening soon. Until then, thanks to all of the comments of solidarity and hope for our training program. We are thrilled to keep training brilliant alcohol researchers.
Today our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 training grant is no longer funded. We are waiting for our renewal that is pending. I spent most of yesterday crying with worry about how I will support our amazing trainees. Today I celebrate them and the joy of seeing them present at CPDD and RSA. 🧵
July 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The UNM @casaa.bsky.social NIAAA T32 training grant has been renewed, finally! We will be sharing info about a postdoc opening soon. Until then, thanks to all of the comments of solidarity and hope for our training program. We are thrilled to keep training brilliant alcohol researchers.
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📱 Designing tech for mobile devices? Need to assess tech experience of older adults?
The Mobile Device Proficiency Questionnaire is your go-to tool!
✅ Full & short forms
✅ Validated in diverse age groups
✅ Ideal for research & training purposes
Explore it here: create-center.org/resources/in...
The Mobile Device Proficiency Questionnaire is your go-to tool!
✅ Full & short forms
✅ Validated in diverse age groups
✅ Ideal for research & training purposes
Explore it here: create-center.org/resources/in...
CREATE: Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement
Funded by the National Institute on Aging through the National Institutes of Health, CREATE is a multidisciplinary and collaborative center founded in 1999.
create-center.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
📱 Designing tech for mobile devices? Need to assess tech experience of older adults?
The Mobile Device Proficiency Questionnaire is your go-to tool!
✅ Full & short forms
✅ Validated in diverse age groups
✅ Ideal for research & training purposes
Explore it here: create-center.org/resources/in...
The Mobile Device Proficiency Questionnaire is your go-to tool!
✅ Full & short forms
✅ Validated in diverse age groups
✅ Ideal for research & training purposes
Explore it here: create-center.org/resources/in...
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Really excited for this special issue on decision neuroscience and aging, supported by @srndna.bsky.social. Call for Papers below 👇
Feel free to reach with with any questions, and we look forward to your submissions this summer!
MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025
Expected pub date: 7/2026
Feel free to reach with with any questions, and we look forward to your submissions this summer!
MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025
Expected pub date: 7/2026
Excited to share that The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences now has a call for a special issue on 🌟DECISION NEUROSCIENCE IN AGING🌟, led by @debyee.bsky.social, Nathan Spreng, and @klempert.bsky.social as Special Issue Editors! @srndna.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Decision Neuroscience and Aging
Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B
Guest Co-Editors: Karolina Lempert, PhD
academic.oup.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Really excited for this special issue on decision neuroscience and aging, supported by @srndna.bsky.social. Call for Papers below 👇
Feel free to reach with with any questions, and we look forward to your submissions this summer!
MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025
Expected pub date: 7/2026
Feel free to reach with with any questions, and we look forward to your submissions this summer!
MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025
Expected pub date: 7/2026
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🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry
💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling
📅 Review begins April 18, 2025
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809
💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling
📅 Review begins April 18, 2025
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809
April 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry
💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling
📅 Review begins April 18, 2025
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809
💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling
📅 Review begins April 18, 2025
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809
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📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors?
Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1!
tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...
Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1!
tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...
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April 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📣Do you conduct research using technology and other novel approaches to address substance use related behaviors?
Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1!
tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...
Submit your work to our upcoming special issue on novel approaches to Facilitate Health Behavior Change over at ECP, papers due June 1!
tinyurl.com/ECP-Special-...
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Exercise cognitive control and listen to the new episode of
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ featuring Dr. Todd Braver.
He describes what it's like co-leading a lab and discusses his new collaboration examining the impacts of mindfulness training.
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ featuring Dr. Todd Braver.
He describes what it's like co-leading a lab and discusses his new collaboration examining the impacts of mindfulness training.
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
April 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exercise cognitive control and listen to the new episode of
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ featuring Dr. Todd Braver.
He describes what it's like co-leading a lab and discusses his new collaboration examining the impacts of mindfulness training.
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ featuring Dr. Todd Braver.
He describes what it's like co-leading a lab and discusses his new collaboration examining the impacts of mindfulness training.
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
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Two Weeks from Today: Dr. Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social tells us about Computational Approaches to Prosocial Behavior–How and When Do We Help Other People?
March 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Two Weeks from Today: Dr. Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social tells us about Computational Approaches to Prosocial Behavior–How and When Do We Help Other People?
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Excited to be guest editing a special issue of Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings on recent advances in psychological pain care! If you're doing research in this space, check out our Call for Manuscripts. Feel free to DM with any questions! #PainResearch #PainPsychology #Pain #NIH
March 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Excited to be guest editing a special issue of Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings on recent advances in psychological pain care! If you're doing research in this space, check out our Call for Manuscripts. Feel free to DM with any questions! #PainResearch #PainPsychology #Pain #NIH
I'll be at SRNT for the first time this week. Stop by my poster and let's talk accessibility for smoking cessation mhealth interventions!
March 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'll be at SRNT for the first time this week. Stop by my poster and let's talk accessibility for smoking cessation mhealth interventions!
Reposted by Marilyn Horta, Ph.D.
🌟 NEW STUDY ALERT 🌟
Financial exploitation vulnerability and social connectedness in middle-aged and older adults without dementia
Here we show the DEPTH of relationships is better than the BREADTH of relationships for financial vulnerability in older age.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financial exploitation vulnerability and social connectedness in middle-aged and older adults without dementia
Here we show the DEPTH of relationships is better than the BREADTH of relationships for financial vulnerability in older age.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financial exploitation vulnerability and social connectedness in middle-aged and older adults without dementia
Financial exploitation of older adults is an understudied but widespread phenomenon in the United States. Previous research examining the association between social functioning and financial exploi...
www.tandfonline.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🌟 NEW STUDY ALERT 🌟
Financial exploitation vulnerability and social connectedness in middle-aged and older adults without dementia
Here we show the DEPTH of relationships is better than the BREADTH of relationships for financial vulnerability in older age.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financial exploitation vulnerability and social connectedness in middle-aged and older adults without dementia
Here we show the DEPTH of relationships is better than the BREADTH of relationships for financial vulnerability in older age.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Marilyn Horta, Ph.D.
In our new paper, @loeckenhoff.bsky.social and I examine why older adults are more likely to avoid making decisions.
We find that a writing intervention makes choosing less taxing and stressful (yay us!), but does not decrease avoidance tendencies (boo!).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We find that a writing intervention makes choosing less taxing and stressful (yay us!), but does not decrease avoidance tendencies (boo!).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What Factors are Associated with Age Differences In Intentional Decision Avoidance?
To examine why older adults avoid choices more, two pre-registered, U.S.-based studies (N1 = 164, Mage_1 = 50.71, N2 = 485, Mage_2 = 51.08) evaluated the roles of cognitive load and affect. In Stud...
www.tandfonline.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In our new paper, @loeckenhoff.bsky.social and I examine why older adults are more likely to avoid making decisions.
We find that a writing intervention makes choosing less taxing and stressful (yay us!), but does not decrease avoidance tendencies (boo!).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We find that a writing intervention makes choosing less taxing and stressful (yay us!), but does not decrease avoidance tendencies (boo!).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Marilyn Horta, Ph.D.
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior and Socioeconomics of Aging (#BSEA) launches its inaugural issue March 2025!
A&D's newest journal has published 6 peer-reviewed articles!
Check out the most recently published articles: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
#AlzResearch
A&D's newest journal has published 6 peer-reviewed articles!
Check out the most recently published articles: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
#AlzResearch
February 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior and Socioeconomics of Aging (#BSEA) launches its inaugural issue March 2025!
A&D's newest journal has published 6 peer-reviewed articles!
Check out the most recently published articles: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
#AlzResearch
A&D's newest journal has published 6 peer-reviewed articles!
Check out the most recently published articles: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
#AlzResearch
Reposted by Marilyn Horta, Ph.D.
Apply for the Butler-Williams Scholars Program now! Learn more about this annual summer opportunity for junior faculty, researchers who are new to the field of aging, and postdoctoral fellows to gain insight about #AgingResearch: bit.ly/4h9NQiX
Application for Butler-Williams Scholars Program, 2025
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March 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Apply for the Butler-Williams Scholars Program now! Learn more about this annual summer opportunity for junior faculty, researchers who are new to the field of aging, and postdoctoral fellows to gain insight about #AgingResearch: bit.ly/4h9NQiX
Reposted by Marilyn Horta, Ph.D.
What are you doing on your lunch break? Listen to the new
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode featuring @marilynhorta.bsky.social where she discusses her participation with SRNDNA and her research for TRIP at the Moffitt Cancer Center
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode featuring @marilynhorta.bsky.social where she discusses her participation with SRNDNA and her research for TRIP at the Moffitt Cancer Center
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
March 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
What are you doing on your lunch break? Listen to the new
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode featuring @marilynhorta.bsky.social where she discusses her participation with SRNDNA and her research for TRIP at the Moffitt Cancer Center
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
🎙️Decision & Aging Insights🎙️ episode featuring @marilynhorta.bsky.social where she discusses her participation with SRNDNA and her research for TRIP at the Moffitt Cancer Center
srndna.utdallas.edu/podcast/
New protocol paper is out describing the use of augmented reality for smoking cessation treatment along with app usability findings. Paper was led by our talented T32 postdoc, Dr. Ranjita Poudel. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kXDg5WqQh...
February 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
New protocol paper is out describing the use of augmented reality for smoking cessation treatment along with app usability findings. Paper was led by our talented T32 postdoc, Dr. Ranjita Poudel. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kXDg5WqQh...