The Living Focused on Reducing Excessive Eating (F.R.E.E.) Lab is seeking undergraduate and graduate research assistants to support various research projects focused on developing and evaluating interventions to treat disordered eating behaviors in African Americans and those impacted by poverty. … Read more
Do You Want to Gain Your First Research Experience in a Psychology Lab? Six labs in the Social Psychology program at UNC are recruiting volunteer undergraduate research assistants! We encourage students with all identities and backgrounds to apply! And no … Read more
Are you interested in studying brain function, brain development and neurodevelopment changes associated with psychiatric or neurodevelopment disabilities? The Neurocognition and Imaging Research Lab (NIRL), an interdisciplinary research group affiliated with the Psychiatry Department and the Frank Porter Graham Child … Read more
The Brain and Early Experience (BEE) Lab is an interdisciplinary team affiliated with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. We are currently collecting data for the BEE Study, a longitudinal project investigating how prenatal factors (e.g., prenatal nutrition, sleep, … Read more
Research opportunities for motivated undergraduate students are available in the Baby Brain Mapping lab in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC). Our research mainly focuses on the development of machine learning-based computational techniques and tools for … Read more
The Bai Lab ( https://baigroup.org/ ) in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences (https://aps.unc.edu/ ) invites undergraduate students to join our team and carry on research in the field of bioelectronics and biophotonics. Our research focuses on both fundamental and … Read more
Project NeuroTeen is a longitudinal study examining the important role of peers and parents on neurobiological development during adolescence. We will be following 150 middle/high school students across 5 years. This study is currently beginning it’s fifth year now and … Read more
The RISE (RCT for Innovating Stress-related eHealth) Study is a first-in-kind research endeavor exploring the efficacy of a smart phone-based intervention designed to prevent the onset of posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, anxiety, and pain after sexual assault. We highly value … Read more
Introduction: Opioid analgesics are commonly used to treat pain but have serious side effects, including addiction, dependence, and death from overdose. The Mouse Grimace Scale (MGS) was developed to quantify characteristic facial expressions associated with spontaneous pain. The MGS is … Read more
Our lab studies learning, decision-making, and emotion in those with and without personality pathology (i.e., symptoms of personality disorders). In particular, our research investigates abnormalities underlying Borderline Personality Disorder and its development during adolescence and early adulthood. To study these … Read more