The SCN Lab welcomes Madeleine Snider (SCN Lab undergraduate research assistant) as a summer research intern focusing on studying gender and ethnic biases in the perception of pain in others and its relationship to biases in opioid and non-opioid analgesic prescribing.

Congratulations to Natalia Medina (SCN Lab research coordinator) on beginning her new position in neuromarketing at Demir Group International. We will miss you!

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab (PI, Tor Wager) research assistant, Morgan Gianola, accepts our offer to join the SCN Lab as a graduate student in Fall 2017.

Liz Losin presents the talk “A sociocultural neuroscience approach to understanding ethnic differences in pain report” at the University of Florida Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health.

A new paper on forgiveness research in evolutionary psychology and social neuroscience by Joseph Billingsley (UM Psychology graduate student) and Liz Losin is published in Frontiers in Psychology. Find it here.

Congratulations to SCN Lab graduate student, Steven Anderson, for receiving the inaugural University of Miami Brain Imaging Group Antonio Orlando Neuroscience Award to fund his research on the influence of stoicism on the perception of pain in others.

A new paper on the influence of the clinician-patient relationship on pain perception by Liz Losin, Steven Anderson (SCN Lab graduate student), and Tor Wager (collaborator) is featured in New York Magazine, Science Daily, The Daily Mail, American Pain Society news and SmartBrief, National Pain Report, and other outlets.

A special issue of Culture and Brain on "Culture and Health," edited by Liz Losin, is published. Read the special issue here.

Liz Losin presents a poster titled “A sociocultural neuroscience approach to pain” at the 2017 meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society in Los Angeles, CA.

Liz Losin gives a guest lecture on the social neuroscience of racial perception in the new University of Miami School of Law interdisciplinary course: Race, Class, and Power: University Course on Ferguson and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement.

Congratulations to SCN Lab graduate student, Steven Anderson, for receiving a National Science Foundation East Asia Pacific Summer Institute (NSF EAPSI) fellowship to conduct a study in the Culture and Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Peking University (PI, Dr. Shihui Han) in Beijing, China during Summer 2017.

Congratulations to Liz Losin for receiving a University of Miami Provost’s Research Award.