Members
Founder
Psychology Department, University of Arizona
Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab
Trainees: Sydney Friedman (Ph.D. Student)
Research Interests: human grief research, fMRI, PNI, IL-6, yearning, prolonged grief disorder
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
Trainees: Dr. Meghan Sosnowski (Post-doc)
Research Interests: animal models, oxytocin, vasopressin, kappa opioids, endocannabinoids
Department of Behavioural and Molecular Neurobiology, University of Regensburg
Maternal Group Regensburg
Trainees: Sara Sheibani Tezerji (Ph.D. Student)
Research Interests: animal model of offspring loss, lactating rat, CRF, oxytocin, NAcc, PFC
Department of Psychology, University of Miami
Behavioral Epidemiology and Applied Treatment for Cardiovascular Health (BEAT) Lab
Trainees: Morgann West (M.A. Student)
Research Interests: cardiovascular behavioral medicine, sleep, stress, human loss
Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
Donaldson Lab
Trainees: Julie Sadino (Post-doc), Anne Pierce (Ph.D. Student)
Research Interests: animal model of loss
Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University
Trainees: Janet Chen (Research Scientist, Email), Shakeera Walker (Senior Research Associate, Email), Zachary Weisenseel (Ph.D. Student, Email), Kayla Young (M.D./Ph.D. Trainee, Email)
Research Interests: mouse model of parental loss, behavioral neuroendocrinology, behavioral genetics
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin
Research Interests: brain-behavior relationships in normal aging, prolonged grief disorder, late-life depression
Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University
Research Interests: social isolation, social loss, depression, cardiovascular function, animal models
Department of Psychology, University of North Florida
Trainees: Valentina Maza (M.A. Student), Sammie Weiss (M.A. Student), Sierra Wickline (M.A. Student)
Research Interests: human bereavement, attachment theory, interpersonal relationships, caregiving, pain, stress, immunity, health
Psychiatry Department, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
Research Interests: affective neuroscience, human fMRI, computational models, clinical psychology, grief-related disorders
Guangyuan Shi
Tsinghua University
Research Interests: grief, human MRI, parents who lost their children, teenagers, grief counseling
Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University
GRILL Lab
Trainees: Lauren Elliott
Research Interests: prolonged grief interventions, pre-loss grief in dementia caregivers
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Kansas
Social Bond, Conflict, and Loss Lab
Research Interests: animal model of loss, prairie vole, oxytocin, CRH, dopamine, social decision-making network, social motivation
Takuya Yoshiike
Department of Sleep-Wake Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Research Interests: grief regulation, affective disorders, sleep and circadian physiology