Trauma and the Brain by Arezoo Hajighorbani and Jim Stellar The field of neuroscience has provided profound insights into the human brain and its capacity for change. An example is the work of Dan Reisel from University College London on … Continued
Becoming a Professional in Public Health By Christina Testa and Jim Stellar In the fall of 2023, Christina started graduate school at UAlbany in Master’s degree program at the School of Public Health. She went right on from being an … Continued
Developing the Imposter Syndrome, the change from undergrad to being therapists in training, and stress Kathleen Laursen UA’21, Mecca Brooks UA’22, Rachel Dolowich UA’22 , and Jim Stellar This blog is from three co-blog posters who recently wrote blogs on … Continued
Anterior cingulate cortex and cortical re-representation of limbic processes of emotional conflict Vanessa NyBlom UA ’25 and Jim Stellar This blog post is part of a series of posts that look at the way limbic-emotional processes might be represented as … Continued
Wielding experiential education as a tool for professional wisdom By Rachel Orenstein UA’24 and Jim Stellar In our last blog post about applying new knowledge to old routines, as well as in our prior blog post about an internship reshaping … Continued
The Power of Restorative Justice Zuri Steadman, Brandy Eggan, James Stellar During the summer of 2022, I (Zuri) worked at Harlem Children’s Zone as a teaching assistant and summer aid. I mostly worked with kindergarteners from underprivileged backgrounds. The children … Continued
Defining Leadership through the lens of Sympathetic Intelligence: Emotion, intention, transparency, empathy Lindsay Jacobs, Lauren Dilorenzo, and Jim Stellar Many coaching podcasts and articles on leadership are currently circulating and we find ourselves fascinated by them, the topic of leadership, … Continued
Early Childhood Development of Autism: The Brain, connections to Anxiety and Gender Differences, and the Application to Learning from Experience Natalia Baron UA’26 and Jim Stellar Early childhood is a vital time for psychological development. From the time of birth … Continued
Going to Graduate School in my own University Christina Testa UA’23 and Jim Stellar Christina and I met while she was an undergraduate and I had the chance to write her a successful graduate admission letter (she got in) to … Continued
Using mentoring to increase academic performance Helena Horvat UA’23 and Jim Stellar We recently wrote a blog post about how mentoring might develop between a student and a faculty member and how that could be productive in terms of a … Continued