Training Programs

High School Bootcamp Program

The UCLA Summer Research Boot Camp in Adolescent Development is an annual boot camp for high school students at participating schools in the Los Angeles area. The boot camp is supported by the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent and led by UCLA professor of education Sandra Graham and CDA’s co-executive director Andrew Fuligni.

Inside the Adolescent Brain: The Impact of Friendships & Diversity

Using Science and Rejecting Stereotypes To Improve Adolescent Sleep

Exploring the Remarkable Adolescent Brain as an Adolescent

Pre-Doctoral Training Program in Brain and Behavioral Development During Adolescence

The UCLA Pre-Doctoral Training Program in Brain and Behavioral Development during Adolescence (UCLA BBDA) is hosted by the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescence and directed by co-executive directors Andrew J. Fuglini and Adriana Galván, as well as UCLA professor Mirella Dapretto. This program aims to provide scientific training, science communication training, and exposure to the use of science in policy and practice to PhD students at UCLA interested in adolescent development and neuroscience.

Program Information

This program is funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The study of adolescent brain development focuses on three substantive growth areas necessary for the field to have translational impact and improve the health and lives of the nation’s youth: (1) an integrative approach that incorporates both typical and atypical brain development; (2) the interaction between brain development and the social environment; and (3) sophisticated approaches to examining longitudinal change over time. We accomplish this by providing an intensive mentored research experience, dedicated coursework designed for the program, access to cutting-edge faculty and research centers, as well as comprehensive professional training that provides trainees with the toolkit necessary to become productive and impactful independent scientists.

This program is only open to current UCLA PhD students in participating departments.

Faculty

UCLA BBDA faculty have wide ranging expertise in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and behavioral science in topic areas including cognitive neuroscience, social contexts, longitudinal design, atypical development, typical development, and population diversity.

Andrew J. Fuglini, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Adriana Galván, Professor of Psychology
Mirella Dapretto, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Carrie E. Bearden, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Steven Cole, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Naomi I. Eisenberger, Professor of Psychology
Craig Enders, Professor of Psychology
Sandra Graham, Distinguished Professor Emerita
Shulamite A. Green, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Tiffany C. Ho, Associate Professor of Psychology
Katherine H. Karlsgodt, Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
David Miklowitz, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Psychology
Martin Monti, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Amanda Montoya, Associate Professor of Psychology
John C. Piacentini, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Lara A. Ray, Professor of Psychology
Jesse A. Rissman, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Jennifer A. Silvers, Associate Professor of Psychology
Catherine Sugar, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Lucina Q. Uddin, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Current Trainees

Jasmine Hernández, MA

Topic: A Longitudinal Investigation of Prosocial Behavior and Brain Development in Adolescence

Faculty Advisors: Andrew J. Fuligni & Adriana Galván

Shiyin Liu, MA

Topic: Stress, Inflammation, and Social Feedback Processing in Adolescents with Depression

Faculty Advisors: Tiffany Ho

Clare F. McCann, MA

Topic: The Role of Pubertal Timing and Tempo in Affective Facial Processing during Adolescence

Faculty Advisors: Jennifer A. Silvers & Andrew J. Fuligni

Arianna Mordy, MA

Topic: Psychosis Risk in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Network Analysis of
Symptoms and Functioning

Faculty Advisors: Katherine H. Karlsgodt & Carrie E. Bearden

Anurima Mummaneni

Topic: Delayed and Accelerated Functional Brain Maturation of Depressed Adolescents