Sarah Tashjian
@TashjianSM
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Senior Lecturer/Assistant Prof @Psychunimelb | @NHMRC Investigator | Head of Affective Neuroscience & Development Lab
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Joined December 2008
Wow wow it’s all happening!!! Beyond grateful to receive an @nhmrc Investigator Grant to study neural systems underpinning anxiety development. My 7Tesla longitudinal fMRI study @UniMelb is funded for 5 years✨🚀🧠 Moving to AUS was a bet on myself and it is PAYING OFF! 🦘
Congratulations to the 229 high-performing Australian health and medical researchers who will receive over $411 million from the 2024 Investigator Grant round! Read more on these funding outcomes in our media release: https://t.co/J04kJMhMCs
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Was very fun to talk about why people like horror experiences with NPR. Check out the episode:
npr.org
Like haunted houses? Scientists do! That’s because they’re an excellent place to study how humans respond to – and even actively seek out – fear. In an immersive threat setting, as opposed to a...
Issue no. 18 of The Signal looked through the haunted house as a lens for understanding fear. Featuring papers by Sarah M Tashjian et al, Neil Dagnall et al, Mathias Clasen et al, Utpal Bhattacharya et al, Jaleesa Rena Harris, Monica Michlin, Katelyn G Cliver et al, Peter J
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Issue no. 18 of The Signal looked through the haunted house as a lens for understanding fear. Featuring papers by Sarah M Tashjian et al, Neil Dagnall et al, Mathias Clasen et al, Utpal Bhattacharya et al, Jaleesa Rena Harris, Monica Michlin, Katelyn G Cliver et al, Peter J
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Thrilled to have a second round of BBRF support my work on the neural substrates of avoidance and exploration in adolescence! https://t.co/au5o78YEiR
bbrfoundation.org
$11.4 million in two-year awards—selected from 895 applications—will fuel early-career breakthroughs in depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, and more.
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Congrats to Yubing on her absolutely stellar PhD confirmation presentation today! 🥳✨stay tuned for her paper on hippocampal supported safety learning in adolescents 🧠
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Yesterday we launched ‘Neuropaths’ - the AND Lab’s longitudinal 7T fmri study on adolescent anxiety @MBCIU_UoM. Today we say thank you to Dr. Jane Yook who worked tirelessly to make it happen! We are so proud of Jane and wish her the best in her next adventure with @hakwanlau
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📣The first first-author paper from my first PhD student @yubingz614 is out in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (proud day of firsts!) Thank you to Character Lab for making it possible to collect teen data during covid & to Yubing for turning this into such a great paper!
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And thank you to my friends and colleagues who listened to me talk about this work for so long. This was one of my postdoc babies and it took forever. Moving countries, starting a lab, and generally being a human is hard and time consuming. I love this paper and hope you do to!
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Thank you to the incredible reviewers - Especially @thepsychologist who helped us better ground in the self identity literature. The paper is so much better from your input!
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Elated to share our work on vmpfc subregion contributions to safety perception now in PLOS Biology! @JoecussNeuro @GraceDeng18
https://t.co/Ea9GsNH5DW
journals.plos.org
Our brain estimates our safety based on external threats, but how does it integrate this with other information, including estimates about our ability to protect ourselves? This study reveals the...
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How does social behavior shift in uncertain times? I offer some insights from our MASS framework during my latest guest spot on the Psych for Life podcast: https://t.co/ttjWaYNZBw MASS paper:
psycnet.apa.org
Primates have developed a unique set of complex drives for successful group living, yet theorists rarely contemplate their taxonomy and how such drives relate to affective dynamics fundamental for...
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Check out our latest work proposing the Dynamic Survival Coding model -> generalization strategies (high dimension, flexible, 'exploration') and specialization strategies (low dimension, habitual, 'exploitation') synergistically and dynamically influence survival behaviors.
Article: "Survival in a World of Complex Dangers" Coauthors: Dean Mobbs, Toby Wise @TashjianSM @zhang_molina @DrewBHeadley
https://t.co/ojMKuz16jO
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Was great fun talking about harnessing the power of teen risk taking with one of my favorite people! Check out the segment on ABC Radio National:
abc.net.au
Neuroimaging of teenage brains is increasingly making sense of why risk-taking behaviour is a feature of this stage of life. We take a closer look at the science behind a teen's changing brain, and...
Absolute joy and privilege to join teen brain expert @tashjianSM to talk about healthy risk taking in #adolescence on Life Matters this morning https://t.co/lp3gqlUwTT via @ABCaustralia
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Work by @Bastien__Blain on intrinsic rewards should be making more waves. Monetary reward sensitivity ≠ intrinsic reward sensitivity! We need tasks that allow individuals to choose and construe tasks according to their intrinsic reward functions! https://t.co/qXn8XfXbpt
nature.com
Nature Mental Health - In this cross-sectional study, Blain and colleagues show that sensitivity to diverse visual, cognitive and social, putatively intrinsic rewarding stimuli is partly domain...
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You know you’ve done something right when work includes an afternoon in the sun with your closest friends 🧠👩🏼🔬
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Come by tonight! #Flux2024
I will moderate the Grant Writing Panel at @FluxSociety 2024 pre-conference on Sept. 27th from 6:30 to 7:20 pm. Let's form some supporting groups here and learn from experienced professors @JamieLarsH @TashjianSM, @NatalieHBrito, and NIH officer Ashley Smith at Baltimore!
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📢NEW PhD Opportunity📢 Super excited to offer this opportunity for an international joint-PhD between @UofT & @UniMelb. The project will be supervised by @KA_Tamminen & myself. Read more & submit an expression of interest through the link below! https://t.co/mGBMG583Am
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And the accompanying piece in Pursuit: “Although challenging, the teenage years are very special. Understanding and embracing the opportunity will help teens reach adulthood in a safer, more competent way.” https://t.co/03dMjEQ0HV
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
Brain imaging helps us understand why some teenage risk-taking behaviours may be beneficial for achieving key goals during this important stage of human development, explains a University of Melbou...
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Check out my latest podcast episode “How do teenage brains work?” We talk about why risk taking during adolescence is actually a positive thing - with tips for parents to help their teens make better decisions. Just in time for @FluxSociety next week!
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