To provide an opportunity for Nebraska high school psychology teachers to participate in psychology-specific professional development as well as share resources and network with other local psychology teachers.

Date: June 2, 2022
Time: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (breakfast and lunch provided)
Location: UNO's Community Engagement Center
Registration due date: May 25th, 2022 (registration after this date will result in a $10 late fee)
Contact: Lindsey Herting at lhertin@lps.org

​Biography
Stuart White, Ph.D. is the Director of the Decision-Making Research Program in the Center for Neurobehavioral Research. He is an expert in the neurobiology of antisocial behavior youth and has published more than 30 scientific manuscripts on this and related topics. His academic service includes sitting on the editorial boards of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and teaching at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Creighton University Residency Programs, the University of Nebraska Medical Center Graduate Neuroscience Program and the University of Nebraska-Omaha undergraduate psychology program. Dr. White also serves as a scientific advisor to the National Courts and Sciences Institute, which involves educating judges on scientific topics. Dr. White was awarded a K01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health in 2017. He received his Ph.D. at the University of New Orleans and trained in neuroimaging at the National Institute of Mental Health, NIH. Dr. White joined the Center for Neurobehavioral Research in October of 2015.

Research Interests
Dr. White's primary research interests focus on behavioral problems and aggressive behavior, particularly in the context of Conduct Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. White's program of research examines the neurobiology of various kinds of decision-making and how dysfunction in brain regions involved in decision-making processes is related to behavioral problems and aggression. Dr. White uses functional MRI in conjunction with behavioral and clinical research techniques.

Biography
Brittany Taylor, Ph.D., is the Director of the Neurodiversity Laboratory in the Institute for Human Neuroscience. Dr. Taylor began her training at Colorado State University where, under the supervision of Drs. William Gavin and Patricia Davies, she used electroencephalography (EEG) to explore sensory and cognitive functioning in a variety of populations, and received in-depth training in advanced statistical modeling techniques. Her work primarily focused on developing and testing comprehensive models of neurophysiological processing serving higher-order cognition in late childhood and early adolescence.

After graduating in 2017, Dr. Taylor pursued two postdoctoral fellowships. The first (2017-2018) was in the Center for Neurobehavioral Research at Boys Town National Research Hospital with Dr. James Blair. During this tenure, Dr. Taylor used structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (s/fMRI) to explore the neuropathological underpinnings of clinically-diagnosed anxiety disorders in adolescence.

Dr. Taylor then took on a new training position at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Dr. Tony Wilson's lab. There, Dr. Taylor learned a new neuroimaging technique, magnetoencephalography (MEG), and expanded her work exploring individual variability in neurocognitive development among children and adolescents.

As the Director of the Neurodiversity Laboratory, Dr. Taylor leverages the strengths of each of the neuroimaging and statistical techniques that she learned in her diverse training to map the complex interplay of environment, brain, and behavior. She is currently studying how common environmental toxins impact brain structure and function, and ultimately shape cognition and behavior in youth.

Research Interests
Dr. Taylor's research interests span a wide range of individual differences that contribute to brain structure and function, and ultimately shape cognition and behavior in development. Her portfolio of research includes age- and sex-related changes in neurophysiological functioning, the impact of pubertal hormones on developmental trajectories, exploration of the unique and combined effects of diverse psychological symptoms on brain structure ranging from subclinical-to-clinical levels, and more recently, the effects of environmental toxins and biological mechanisms of inflammation on neurophysiology. Ultimately, Dr. Taylor's work seeks to understand the intricate web of individual differences that contribute to unique patterns of neurodevelopment.