Monthly Features
Our monthly features work to highlight important work being done in the lab including publications, posters, conferences, etc. Please check back every month to see what we are featuring!
January 2025:
This piece dives deeper into the various treatments and factors of depression that are being researched every day by some of Ohio State’s best researchers, including our own Dr. Scott Langenecker. Take a look at this piece to learn more about the new and innovative treatments being researched at Ohio State, and factors of depression that work together to influence of depressive symptoms.
December 2025:
In a sample of 108 nonclinical control participant and 154 individuals with any mood disorder, resting state functional connectivity was measured in connection to primary and secondary resilience, salience and emotion network (SEN), and cognitive control network (CCN). Results revealed that controlled participants with higher levels of childhood maltreatment showed greater within-SEN and within-CCN connectivity then participants with any mood disorder.
November 2025:
Originally from the University of Utah, the RuMeChange Study continues to address the concern of rumination in teens and educates them in the important of mental health and problem-solving. We have since moved this study to the Ohio State University where we are still enrolling teens and parents into the RuMeChange Study. Check out our Current Studies to learn more about enrollment and the RuMeChange Study!
October 2025:
In a sample of adolescents ages 10-14 (n=11,851; 4% transgender or gender diverse (TGD)), self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) were compared during a 4-year period between different groups. Results show that TGD adolescents experiencing high social stress experienced more SITBs than TGD adolescents experiencing low stress and non-TGD adolescents, TGD adolescents, regardless of social stress, experienced higher SITBs compared to non-TGD adolescents, and higher psychopathology symptoms and family conflict were associated with higher suicidal ideation risk.
August 2025:
In a sample of older adults classified as having Mild Cognitive Impairment, six symptom classes for depression were revealed to understand how different symptoms of depression effects cognition in older adults. It was revealed that different symptoms of depression have varying results on cognition in older adults, and anhedonia should the most substantial decline in comparison to the other symptom classes.