News Archive
7/18 Dr. Meuret has been promoted to rank of Full Professor.
6/18 Congratulations Chelsey Werchan to your first authored paper published in Respirology "Towards an Assessment of Perceived COPD Exacerbation Triggers: Initial development and Validation of a Questionnaire Measure"
5/18 Congratulations Dr. Meuret for being selected the 2018 SMU Rotunda Outstanding Professor Award [pdf]
4/18 Doctoral students Natalie Tunnell, Andres Roque, Anni Hasratian and Divya Kumar present findings at the annual Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) conference in Washington, D.C.
4/18 Congratulations Juliet Kroll on your first authored thesis paper "Hippocampal metabolites in asthma and their implications for cognitive function" in NeuroImage: Clinical
3/18 Doctoral students Juliet Kroll, Chelsey Werchan and Hannah Nordberg present findings at the annual American Psychosomatic Society conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
1/18 The American Psychosomatic Society awarded Juliet Kroll the prestigious Paul D. MacLean Award for Outstanding Contributions to Neuroscience in Psychosomatic Medicine. We are proud of you!
12/17 Natalie Tunnell has been awarded the Sam Taylor fellowship for her work on Brief, acceptance-based therapy for pregnant women with premature rapture of membranes.
11/17 Doctoral student Anni Hasratian presented “Because I’m Happy: Positive Feedback Increases Valence Ratings of Neutral Faces” at the 2017 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention.
9/18 Natalie Tunnell has been awarded $10,208 from the Jerry M. Lewis Mental Health Research Foundation for her work on "Brief, acceptance-based therapy for pregnant women with premature rapture of membranes."
9/17 Juliet Kroll presented findings from her master's thesis at the ISARP meeting in Lille, France. The talk was Hippocampal Metabolites in Asthma: A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study.
8/17 Doctoral students Anni Hasratian, Divya Kumar and Hannah Nordberg join the Anxiety and Depression Research Center and the Center for Biobehavioral Research at SMU.
6/17 Doctoral student Natalie Tunnell presents "Physiological and Experiential Responding During Exposure for Panic Disorder" at the 2017 Association of Contextual Behavioral Sciences World Conference in Seville, Spain.
3/17 Doctoral student, Andres Roque presents "Does D-Cycloserine Facilitate the Effects of CBT in Homework-Compliant Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder?" at 2017 Anxiety and Depression Association of America Conference.
11/16 Dr. Meuret's research on cortisol and fear augmentation featured in the Wall Street Journal [pdf].
10/16 Study on "High cortisol awakening response and cortisol levels moderate exposure-based psychotherapy success" covered in TIME Magazine and The Huffington Post.
10/16 Doctoral student, Natalie Tunnell presents "Pathways of Multidimensional Change during In-Vivo Exposure in Panic Disorder" at ABCT in New York.
10/16 Congratulations to our doctoral student Juliet Kroll for being selected as a Travel Awardee for the 2016 Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) Interoception Summit. (http://www.isummit2016.org/)
9/16 Undergraduate research assistants Candace Johnson and Rebecca Kim are awarded the Hamilton Undergraduate Research Award.
9/16 The ARC lab participated in the ABCT 2016 Gold Challenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dFVaTkmP8I.
7/16 Doctoral students Natalie Tunnell and Andres Roque join Anxiety and Depression Research Center at SMU.
8/16 Congratulations to our graduate student Juliet Kroll for being selected recipient of the University of California San Francisco Stress Measurement Network's Pilot Grant, funded by the National Institute of Aging, for a project entitled Stress Activation of Neurocircuits, Hippocampal Metabolites, and Cognitive Function: A Combined fMRI, MRS, and HPA-Axis Function Study. (https://stresscenter.ucsf.edu/)
10/15 - Dr. Meuret and Dr. Ritz receive 4-year $2 million NIH U grant to develop pediatric asthma monitor in collaboration with investigators at U-Maryland [news release].
10/15 - Congratulations to Juliet Kroll on her Award for Excellence in Student Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology in Seville, Spain.
6/15 - Congratulations to our freshman research assistant Stephen Chamberlain for his, first-authored publication on the Flight-Flight Response. Way to go, Stephen!
3/15 - Publication on "High cortisol awakening response and cortisol levels moderate exposure-based psychotherapy success" is now In Press in Psychoneuroendocrinology. Congrats Ana, Thomas, and Alicia!
5/15 - Congratulations Noelle on your first-author publication on "Investigating the role of self-disgust in non-suicidal self-injury" in Archives of Suicide Research.
1/15 - Dr. Meuret has started her term as president of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology (ISARP).
11/14 - Read about our CART asthma trial on the SMU research blog.
10/14 - Listen to Dr. Meuret's discussion about anxiety in connection to the Ebola outbreak with Krys Boyd at KERA NPR.
8/14 - Congratulations to our recent graduate student Ana Trueba! She has accepted a professor position in Clinical Psychology at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
4/14 - congratulations to Noelle Bassi Smith, M.A., for being selected from more than 850 applicants to receive a full tuition scholarship to attend the Beck Institute Annual Student Workshop: CBT for Depression & Suicidality.
2/14 - Congratulations to Noelle Bassi Smith, M.A., for being selected for a prestigious two-year VA Advanced Fellowship in Mental Illness Research and Treatment at the VA CT National Center for PTSD and Yale Department of Psychiatry. Way to go, Noelle!
11/13 - Dr. Ritz & Meuret asthma research is featured in the November 2013 edition of the American Psychological Monitor
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8/13 - Congratulations to our former graduate student, Erica Simon, Ph.D for receiving a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship position at the University of California at San Diego/San Diego VA!
6/13 - Congratulations to our graduate students Ana Trueba, M.A. and Noelle Bassi Smith, M.A. for their excellent internship placements. Ana will start her internship at Harvard McLean and Noelle at the West Haven VA.
6/13 - Dr. Meuret has been elected 2014 Beck Institute Scholar at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy for her contributions to the field of cognitive therapy.
6/13 - Dr. Meuret has been appointed to the Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Centre for Excellence, University of Leuven, Belgium
1/13 - Dr. Ritz has been appointed as incoming Associate Editor for Behavior Therapy, the journal of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, publishing research in behavioral science and therapy.
1/13 - Dr. Ritz has been appointed as incoming Associate Editor for Biological Psychology.
6/12 - The Schwab Charitable Funds awarded Dr. Meuret $20,000 from her ongoing investigations in anxiety disorder research.
5/12- Drs. Meuret and Ritz research
is featured in the new edition of the Baylor Innovation magazine. The four page article (p.22-25) describes the program's new
research findings on panic attacks and novel ways of treating panic disorder. View Article
1/12 - Dr. Meuret has been appointed to the Member of the Scientific Council Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)Congratulations to Vanessa Stevens for receiving the Hamilton Undergraduate Research Award
Panic and anxiety research of Dr. Meuret featured in the June 2012 issue of Prevention magazine.
Congratulations to Ana Trueba for being awarded a Minority Initiative Travel Scholarship for Psychosomatic Medicine of the American Psychosomatic Society
Congratulations to Ana Trueba for her Poster Award in Psychology at the Annual Research Day, Southern Methodist University
Congratulations to Ashton Jeter, M.A. for winning the 2011 Best Student Poster award from the ABCT Suicide and Self Injury Special Interest Group on “Investigating the Role of Experiential Avoidance in Deliberate Self-Harm”
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services launched a pod cast on Dr. Meuret’s work on panic attacks and treatment.
The Wall Street Journal reports on Dr. Meuret’s recent publication in Biological Psychiatry on the physiological precursors of spontaneously occurring panic attacks.
Panic Attack Research featured in The Atlantic. The September issue of the Atlantic magazine contains an article that focuses on Drs. Meuret, Rosenfield, and Ritz‘s recent publication in Biological Psychiatry on the physiological precursors of spontaneously occurring panic attacks.
The research of Dr. Meuret concerning the physiological profile of naturally occurring panic attacks is featured on the SMU Research blog.
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02/2011: Dr. Meuret’s research on the CART treatment for panic attacks appeared in The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 8th.
The CART treatment is a new intervention developed by Dr. Meuret targeting the tendency of some anxious individuals to hyperventilate.
Dr. Meuret has been tapped to serve on a federal panel evaluating the effectiveness of different breathing exercises for treating asthma.
Thomas Ritz was awarded a 4-year NIH R01 subcontract for a collaborative study with Harvard Medical School (PI: Dr. Rosalind Wright) on “Perinatal stress and programming of childhood lung function”
Thomas Ritz was appointed as Permanent Member of the Behavioral Medicine Interventions and Outcome (BMIO) Study Section of the National Institutes of Health
Thomas Ritz was awarded a 4-year NIH R01 subcontract for a collaborative study with Harvard Medical School (PIs: Dr. Rosalind Wright and Michelle Bosquet) on "Perinatal programming of infant stress reactivity and the atopic phenotype"
The NIH funded breathing training for asthma study was featured on the SMU Research blog and picked up by several newspapers and other blogs.
The research of Dr. Meuret concerning deep breathing during panic attacks, was recently featured on theSMU Research blog. She found that those individuals who follow the convention wisdom about deep breathing during attacks only worsen their symptoms.
The Russell & and Beth Siegelman Charitable Fund awarded Dr. Meuret $60,000 from her ongoing investigations in anxiety disorder treatment.
Sibylle Petersen has been awarded the German Research Society grant PE 7816/1 “Accuracy of symptom perception in asthma: the role of social identification and the social context”.
Dr. Meuret, has been appointed to be an Associate Editor for Behavior Therapy, a leading journal concerning behavioral and cognitive therapy.
Congratulations to Anke Seidel for winning the Obesity & Eating Disorders Special Interest Group Student Research Award of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
Congratulations to Erica Ayala for winning the Best Student Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology (ISARP).
We welcome Anke Seidel, M.A., as graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program and latest addition to our research program.
The Research Program has just been awarded the NIH R01 grant “Targeting CO2 levels in breathing training for asthma”, Co-Principle Investigators are Thomas Ritz and Alicia Meuret, Co-Investigators are David Rosenfield, PhD, at the Department of Psychology, SMU and Mark Millard, M.D., at Baylor University Medical Center.
The Siegelman Charitable Fund awarded Dr. Meuret $60,000 from her ongoing investigations in anxiety disorder treatment.
Sibylle Petersen has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
The Siegelman Charitable Fund awarded Dr. Meuret $60,000 from her ongoing investigations in anxiety disorder treatment.
Congratulations to Erica Ayala for winning a Poster Award in Psychology at this year's Graduate Student Research Day of SMU.
We are proud of Antje Kullowatz, Ph.D., who has accepted a post-doc position at Harvard School of Public Health.
Sibylle Petersen has won a Student Travel Award by the Society for Psychophysiological Research for her poster presentation at this year's Annual Meeting in Savannah, Georgia.
Antje Kullowatz has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations!
Christopher Burrows, undergraduate research assistant in our laboratory, received the yearly SMU Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Psychology. Congratulations from the whole team!
Antje Kullowatz and Sibylle Petersen share this year’s Poster Award in Psychology at the Graduate Student Research Day of SMU.
Our team congratulates Antje Kullowatz and Sibylle Petersen for winning the annual Student Awards of theInternational Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology for their presentations at this year's meeting of the Society in Newport, RI. Sibylle Petersen has won this award for the second consecutive year.
Interview with Thomas Ritz in the Newsletter of the Student Committee of the Society For Psychophysiological Research (SPR) <view interview>
Breathe easy - a preview of a feature on our breathing training research in the Fall/Winter issue of SMU Magazine <view preview>
The Siegelman Charitable Fund awarded Dr. Meuret $50,000 from her ongoing investigations in anxiety disorder treatment.
Studies Show Benefits of Controlled Breathing to Mind and Body <view article>