Decision & Aging Insights Podcast

We spoke with Dr. Todd Braver, a professor of psychological and brain sciences, radiology, and neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Braver is also the William R. Stuckenberg Professor in Human Values and Moral Development. He shares his mentoring experiences and what it’s like co-leading a lab. Dr. Braver also discusses the many aspects of his cognitive control research and his new collaboration examining the impacts of mindfulness training.

We spoke with Dr. Marilyn Horta, an active member of the SRNDNA network since 2015. She’s received SRNDNA’s Collaboration and Open Data awards. We discuss Dr. Horta’s research associated with the Open Data Award and her study on age differences in trust-related decision making and learning. Dr. Horta is now an applied research scientist at the Moffitt Cancer Center’s Tobacco Research and Intervention Program (TRIP) where she uses mobile health interventions for mindfulness-based stress reduction and to help people stop smoking.

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Please note:
OpenfMRI should be OpenNeuro: ⁠openneuro.org⁠

In 2023 NIH created the Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy for all new applications. Dr. Luke Stoeckel, SRNDNA’s NIA Program Officer, and Dr. David V. Smith, an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University, discuss the policy, the importance of sharing data, and the difficulties getting data into a sharable format.

Luke’s top 10 tips for those new to data sharing

David’s helpful resources/websites for psychology/neuroscience data sharing:

• ⁠https://bids.neuroimaging.io⁠
• ⁠https://neurostars.org⁠
• ⁠https://open-brain-consent.readthedocs.io/en/stable/⁠

We spoke with Dr. Jennifer Crawford, a postdoctoral fellow in the Neurochemistry and Cognition Lab at Brandeis University. We discuss Dr. Crawford’s 2019 SRNDNA Pilot Grant Award and how it set the course for her research career. She also explains Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and how she uses daily life monitoring in her studies to get a more accurate glimpse into participants’ lives and activities.

We spoke with Dr. Joe Kable, a member of the SRNDNA advisory board. Dr. Kable is the Jean-Marie Kneeley President’s Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of MindCORE, U Penn’s hub for the integrative study of the mind. He shares with us the different methods of decision making and how those methods relate to life outside the lab. To learn more about the MindCORE Fellowship Program, visit ⁠https://mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/post-doctoral-research-fellowship/

We spoke with Dr. Lisa Barnes, a member of the SRNDNA advisory board. Dr. Barnes is the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Rush University Medical Center and a cognitive neuropsychologist at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center. She shares with us what it takes to be a good mentor, how she’s kept her MARS project going for 20+ years, and tips to connect with communities to diversify research participation.

We spoke with Dr. Tanisha Hill-Jarrett, a neuropsychologist and assistant professor at Global Brain Health Institute, UC San Francisco. Dr. Hill-Jarrett’s research focuses on the cognitive impacts of racism and gendered racism on the Black community. We also discuss her creative aging program for Black women, Radical Imagination, and the use of Afrofuturism in her photo and interview project The Other Side of Time. Discover more about Dr. Hill-Jarrett and her research at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tanishahilljarrett.com⁠