BBS Insider Weekly Email Digest - November 26-December 7, 2025 - School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences - The University of Texas at Dallas
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| November 26-December 7, 2025 |
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Thursday-Friday, Nov 27-28
Thanksgiving Holiday — The UT Dallas campus is closed.
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Monday, Dec 1
12:00 - 1:00pm CT
Decision Making in Aging Across In-Person and Digital Contexts — CVL Science Luncheon
Nichole Lighthall, PhD — University of Central Florida
Hybrid Event | In-Person and MS Teams
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Tuesday, Dec 2
4:00 - 4:30pm CT
Molecular Changes in the Basolateral Amygdala Following Vagus Nerve Stimulation-Enhanced Extinction of Conditioned Fear — Neuroscience Seminar Series — Neuroscience Seminar First Year Presentation
Yara El Zoghby — Student, UT Dallas
Hybrid Event | In-Person and MS Teams
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Tuesday, Dec 2
4:30 - 5:00pm CT
Using Microelectrode Arrays to Detect in Vivo 5-HT Release in the Basolateral Amygdala — Neuroscience Seminar First Year Presentation
Bethany Boston — Student, UT Dallas
Hybrid Event | In-Person and MS Teams
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Thursday, Dec 4
4:00 - 4:30pm CT
The Impact of Short-Term Alcohol Self-Administration on Cognitive Flexibility and the Effect of Medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC) Inhibition in Rescuing Cognitive Inflexibility — Neuroscience Seminar First Year Presentation
Maedeh Vahid — Student, UT Dallas
Hybrid Event | In-Person and MS Teams
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Thursday, Dec 4
11:30am - 12:30pm CT
The Impact of Cultural Differences in Causal Attributions on Discretionary Parole Decisions — Psychology Lecture
Amrita Telidevara — Doctoral Student, UT Dallas
In-Person Event
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Friday, Dec 5
11:00am - 12:00pm CT
Social Media and Marketing Your Research — Center for Children and Families — Works in Development Series
In-Person Event | CRA 12.125
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Friday, Dec 5
12:00 - 1:00pm CT
Rethinking Mental Health Across the Lifespan — Frontiers of BrainHealth Lecture
Stacie Warren, PhD — UT Dallas
Hybrid Event | In-Person and Zoom
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| In the News |
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Two-Time Comet Spearheads Child Development Outreach to D-FW’s Mandarin-Speaking Families
Since joining the Center for Children and Families in 2019, Hulda Sun BS’23, MS’25 has helped strengthen the Play With Me initiative and expand it to support Mandarin-Speaking families. Read about Hulda’s educational path at BBS and her role in advancing this work.
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Pain Research Reveals New Detail of How Synapses Strengthen
UT Dallas researchers at the Center for Advanced Pain Studies made an important discovery about a key mechanism behind how the nervous system strengthens its connections - findings that offer new insight on learning, memory, and pain.
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Researchers Receive Trauma Care Grants from UT System
Dr. Jane Wigginton and Dr. Diana Tavares Ferreira are among four UT Dallas researchers receiving grants from the Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Care Collaborative, a UT System initiative that funds groundbreaking trauma research and product development across its institutions.
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