The lab is at ACSM in Atlanta, Georgia! Great to see our work in physical activity and brain health spanning pediatric, menopausal, and Parkinson’s populations represented with these presentations. #ACSM25

A great week for the lab! 12 of our students presented their projects at the College of Health Sciences Research Night, followed by a final spring lab meeting pizza party to celebrate our graduating seniors - and the sun (finally) came out just in time 🌞

Not sure when all my students became canva experts (probably because I walk into the lab asking for figures far too often)… but PhD student Janis Gaudreau’s poster is tomorrow at 2:30pm! Diving into individual differences among pediatric resting state EEG #CNS2025 @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Great first poster session of #CNS2025 @cogneuronews.bsky.social

How much sleep do we need? 😴How about physical activity? 🏃🏼‍♀️Doctoral student Michelle Lim presents the optimal 24-hour activity cycle for cognitive function among adolescents today at 5pm in CNS Poster Session A (A78) 🧠 #CNS2025 @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Always proud of my lab - but especially excited to see them representing our group at Rhode Island BrainWaves today! A great family event each year bridging science education and communication within our local communities. Thanks for coming by our table and learning about “Exercise for your Brain!”

New editorial in BJSM out today! We document how passive exercise can be used to benefit brain health 🧠🚲 a great international and collaborative effort!
Read 👉 bit.ly/41tCCRV

What a way to wrap up the fall semester! Our brand new DXA scanner arrived, my last dissertation paper was published, and our paper with my wonderful URI colleagues was published, submitted a grant, attended a fantastic mentoring workshop at Brown, and the final grades are in!

While childhood obesity and fitness metrics demonstrate incredibly important and differential neurocognitive outcomes; the assessment of developing mental health and demographic influences are so important to consider on these developmental trajectories.

This study transformed the way I viewed data collection in special populations, and helped me understand that none of our research questions act in isolation without diving deeper into the mechanistic, physiological, and psychosocial aspects of our participants lives.

My final dissertation project was published yesterday! Data collection in children for this project started in December 2017, went through the pandemic, and finished just before my defence in 2022. Now in December 2023, it’s fantastic to see it come to light. 1/n