May 2012
Dr. Fresco and the PERL Lab received a College of Arts and Science Research Incentive Award to conduct a neuroimaging project entitled "Dissociative neural markers of anxious depression." This project is collaboration with Anthony Jack, Joseph Calabrese, and the Case Center for Imaging Research.
April 2012
Dr. Fresco and his fellow panelists following their presentation at the International Symposia Contemplative Studies, Denver, CO. Pictured are DMF, Elizabeth Hoge, Sharon Salzberg, and MacAndrew Jack (missing: David Vago). Also, got in a day of skiing at Arapahoe Basin.
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March 2012
Apparently, President Obama stopped by the PERL website.Thought he used Macs and iPads.
Dr. Fresco meets with Donna Karan and the Urban Zen team in Kent, OH.
February 2012
PERL Lab takes a "field trip" to University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center for training on their Philips 3.0T fMRI scanner as we prepare for an upcoming neuroimaging study.
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January 2012
The PERL Lab is proud of Michael Moore, who will begin as a tenure track, Assistant Professor, in the Department of Psychology, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS.
December 2011
Dr. Fresco becomes an Associate Editor the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Congrats to Shauna Clen, the latest doctoral candidate in the PERL Lab, who successfully defended her dissertation prospectus entitled, "Association of Meta-Cognitive Reactions to Negative Emotions to Anxiety and Depressive Pathology."
November 2011
Dr. Fresco and his colleage Dr. Douglas Mennin, were honored to deliver one of the inaugural spotlight presentations at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in Toronto. Here is a video recording of the talk. Slides available to download at the ERT site.
Congrats to Effie Linardatos, the latest minted PhD from the PERL Lab, who successfully defended the final oral examination for her dissertation entitled, "Facial Emotion Recognition in Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression: Assessing for Unique and Common Responses to Emotions and Neutrality."
October 2011
EmotionRegulationTherapy .com goes live!
June 2011
PERL Lab attends the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute in Garrison, NY, USA.
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With Matthieu Ricard |
The view from the Garrison Institute |
Jessica Flynn and I with our teacher and collaborator, Sharon Salzberg. |
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Day of Noble Silence. Can you spot the PERL Labbies? Photo courtesy of Dave Vago. |
Too Many Dave's? With friend and colleague, Dave Vago. |
Spot the labbies? Photo courtesy of Dave Vago. |
More photos from the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute in Garrison, NY, USA.
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With Jessica Flynn on the banks of the Hudson River. Photo courtesy of Dev Ashish. |
With Jessica Flynn on the banks of the Hudson River. Photo courtesy of Dev Ashish. |
June 2011
Dr. Fresco was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor In the Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
March 2011
This Fall, Effie Linardatos will begin a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA.
This Fall, Britt Lamoureux will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, Cleveland, OH, USA.
January 2011
Dr. Fresco was interviewed for a story that appeared in the LA Times on the benefits of mindfulness meditation.
December 2010
Congrats to Jessica Flynn, who was selected for a Francisco J. Varela Research Award from the Mind and Life Institute, which provides funding to help her conduct a project entitled "Effects of Training in Loving‐Kindness Meditation on Underlying Approach and Avoidance Motivations." This project is being conducted in collaboration with Wil Cunningham and Sharon Salzberg.
November 2010
Congrats to Britt Lamoureux for successfully defending her dissertation, entitled "Predictors of Psychological Well-Being in Inner-City Women: Examining Trajectories of Resistance, Resilience, and Distress."
Dr. Fresco and the PERL Lab received pilot funding from the Initiative for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) entitled "Neural correlates of approach and avoidance motivations in generalized anxiety disorder." This project is being conducted in collaboration with Wil Cunningham and Doug Mennin.
October 2010
At the Mindfulness Working Group Meeting, at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, Madison, WI, US
September 2010
Newest publication from PERL labbies, alumni, and extended family.
*Haigh, E.A.P, *Moore, M. T., Kashdan, T. B., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Examination of the Factor Structure and Concurrent Validity of the Langer Mindfulness/Mindlessness Scale, Assessment.
May 2010
Dr. Fresco was selected to join the Mind and Life Fellows Program as a scientific advisor to the Mind and Life Institute.
Congrats to Jessica Flynn, who received a prestigious merit-based dissertation fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
April 2010
Dr. Fresco and the PERL Lab received a research incentive grant from the Ohio Board of Regents entitled "Biological correlates of emotional processing in generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder."
This Fall, Nina Rytwinski will start a post doctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA (with Norah C. Feeny, Ph.D.)
February 2010
This summer, Effie Linardatos will begin her clinical internship at the Minneapolis VAMC, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
This summer, Britt Lamoureux will begin her clinical internship at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, Cleveland, OH, USA.
December 2009
Recent publications from PERL labbies, alumni, and extended family.
*Armey, M.F., *Moore, M. T., Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G., Spasojevic, J, & Alloy, L. B. (2009). Brooding and Pondering: Isolating the active ingredients of depressive rumination with confirmatory factor analysis. Assessment, 16, 315-327.
Aldao, A., Mennin, D. S., *Linardatos, E., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Differential patterns of physical symptoms and subjective processes in generalized anxiety disorder and unipolar depression. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
*Clen, S.L., Mennin, D. S., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Emotional Distress Tolerance and Major Depressive Disorder. In M. J. Zvolensky, A. Bernstein, & A.A. Vujanovic (Eds.), Distress tolerance: Theory, research and clinical applications.
*Lamoureux, B. E.,* Linardatos, E., Fresco, D. M., Bartko, D., Logue, E., & Milo, L. (in press). Using the QIDS-SR16 to identify Major Depressive Disorder in primary care medical patients. Behavior Therapy.Fresco, D. M., *Flynn, J. J., Mennin, D. S., & *Haigh, E. A. P. (in press). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. In J. D. Herbert & E. Forman. Acceptance and Mindfulness in Cognitive Behavior Therapy. New York: Wiley.
November 2009
Dr. Fresco will join the editorial boards of Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology beginning in January 2010.
May 2009
Effie Linardatos has been chosen to receive the Judith Lasser Research Award to help support her dissertation research. Congrats, Effie!
March 2009
This Fall, Michael Moore will start a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA (with Tim Brown and Michael Otto).
This Fall, Emily Haigh will start a postdoctoral fellowship at the Psychopathology Research Unit and the Center for the Prevention of Suicide , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (with Aaron T. Beck).
February 2009
This Summer, Nina Rytwinski will begin her clinical internship at Eastern Virgina Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA.
January 2009
Dr. Fresco participated in a panel discussion entitled, “Happiness and the Brain” on the Toronto-based television program, “The Agenda with Steve Paikin.” The discussion included coverage of affective neuroscience, the neural correlates of happiness and the benefits of Buddhist mental training exercises such as mindfulness meditation.
A paper, first authored by Nina Rytwinski, enititled, "Screening for social anxiety disorder with the self-report Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale," was just published in the journal, Depression and Anxiety. A pdf the paper can be downloaded from the lab link of this website. The citation for this paper is:
Rytwinski, N.K., Fresco, D.M., Heimberg, R.G., Coles, M.E., Liebowitz, M.R., Cissell, S., Stein, M.B., & Hofmann, S.G. (2009). Screening for social anxiety disorder with the self-report Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale. Depression and Anxiety, 26, 34-38.
Dr. Fresco becomes an Associate Editor for the journal, Behavior Therapy, which is the flagship journal of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. His term will continue for four years.
January 2008
Congratulations Effie! An article, entitled, "Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy," was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It's a study to which Effie contributed during her time at the Portland VAMC prior to starting graduate school at Kent State and joining the PERL lab.
November 2007
My Website has undergone a total facelift! Most of it is in good working order.
There will soon be some new pages that better reflect the research we are undertaking. For now, those pages have place holders, but will soon have new content.
All the old content is still here too! It can be found in the drop-down menus at the top of the page
Many thanks to Liz Wyglendowski for developing the website design and providing my site some curb appeal.
Please let me know what you think and how it works on your computer. Thanks.