News

10/25/2025-10/28-2025

Members of the AMP lab present their research at the annual Society for Research in Psychopathology conference in Los Angeles, CA!

Robert, Gili, Renata, and Dr. Fulford at Gili’s poster

Drs. Mote and Fulford at their symposium, alongside their co-presenters (including lab member Renata!)

7/7/2025

Check out Jasmine Mote’s newest article in Scientific American on the science of self-control and conscientiousness: The Benefits of Raising Conscientious Kids. Congratulations, Dr. Mote!

6/4/25

Congrats to Gili! Her paper on the multifaceted contributors to narrative identity disruption in psychosis was just published in Journal of Mental Health!

5/21/25

Congrats to Gili for getting her F31 NRSA about daily experiences of social disconnection in youth recovering from a first-episode psychosis. Gili will be using a mixed-methods approach to elucidate phenomenological, developmental, and symptomatological dimensions of loneliness.

5/20/25

Congrats to Gili! She was invited to speak at a symposium at the Association of Psychological Sciences in Washington, D.C.; she will be presenting theoretical work on the role of phenomenology in improving/expanding measurement approaches in experience sampling (ESM).

5/19/25

Congrats to Joe Maimone for being accepted to SAA in Leuven, Belgium! He will be presenting a symposium on May 27th titled “Exploring mechanisms of loneliness using the Social Homeostasis Theory”

2/21/25

Congrats to Renata Botello for matching with UCLA for her sixth-year internship!

11/21/24

Congrats to Dr. Arti Gandhi for defending her dissertation on the utility of a mindfulness intervention for improving well-being among people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders!

10/25/24

Congrats to Dan Fulford for being mentioned in this article on new frontiers in digital health!

8/8/24
Congrats to Gili Grunfeld for her paper on phenomenological approaches to experience sampling, accepted to the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science!

8/7/24
Congrats to Gili Grunfeld on her paper on consistency of delusional themes across first and subsequent episodes of psychosis, published in JAMA Psychiatry!

7/26/24
Congrats to Dr. Jess Mow for defending her dissertation on rejection sensitivity among people with schizophrenia!

3/27/24
Congrats to Dr. Tairmae Kangarloo for defending her dissertation today on greenspace exposure and loneliness among people with schizophrenia!

9/23/23
Members of the AMP lab present their research at the annual Society for Research in Psychopathology conference

9/5/23
Gili Grunfeld joins the AMP Lab as a Clinical Psychology PhD Student! Read about Gili on the People page

4/20/23
Join our lab in attending NAMIWalks Massachusetts on Saturday May 20th, 2023 at Artesani Park from 9am – 1pm. Come join us in supporting Mental Health for All!

2/17/23
Congratulations to Jessica Mow on match day! We are so excited for her that she has matched with VA Palo Alto!

10/1/22
Congratulations to undergraduate research assistant Celina Nguyen for receiving an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Award!

9/10/22
Members of the AMP lab present their research at the annual Society for Research in Psychopathology conference

9/6/22
Joseph Maimone joins the AMP Lab as a Clinical Psychology PhD Student! Read about Joe on the People page

7/5/22
Amber Wolf joins the AMP Lab as a new Research Coordinator!

7/1/22
Jasmine Mote joins the AMP Lab as a Research Assistant Professor! Read about Jasmine on the People page

3/8/22
Congratulations to Jessica Mow for her recently awarded Clara Mayo Memorial Fellowship – awarded to support female psychology doctoral students – which will be utilized to fund her dissertation!

2/14/22
Congratulations to PhD student Renata Botello on her acceptance to the practicum position at McLean Behavioral Health Partial Hospital Program! 🎉

7/26/21
Elizabeth Schupbach joins the AMP Lab as our new Research Coordinator!

3/30/21
Congratulations to Sam for graduating from Sargent’s PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences program!

8/27/20
Renata Botello joins the AMP Lab! Read about Renata on the People page

7/23/20
PhD student Emma Weizenbaum was awarded the Walter G. McMillen Memorial Award for Parkinson’s Disease Research by the American Psychological Association’s Adult Development and Aging division!

6/25/20
Dr. Fulford discusses the lab’s work in social isolation and loneliness on the HealthMatters podcast. LINK

5/12/20
AMP Lab undergraduate RA Alisa Gold was awarded the Sargent College Senior award for professional contributions… she also successfully completed her Thesis for Distinction in the lab. Go Ali!

4/7/20
PhD student Jessica Mow was awarded a scholarship to attend the American Psychological Association’s Advanced Training Institute on analysis of intensive longitudinal data!

2/12/20
Bittersweet news: AMP Lab postdoc, Dr. Jasmine Mote, to leave the lab (bitter) to start her own lab(sweet) at Tufts University in the fall! Stay tuned for more details.

9/30/19
Check out AMP Lab postdoc Dr. Jasmine Mote’s new paper with Dr. Fulford and collaborators in PLOS One.

9/23/19
AMP Lab awarded grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and test models of social isolation and loneliness using digital phenotyping (EMA and smartphone sensors) Details here

9/19/19
Members of the AMP lab present their research at the annual Society for Research in Psychopathology conference

9/9/19
Tairmae Kangarloo joins the AMP Lab!

5/31/19
Congratulations to Emma for her Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) Student Poster Competition award at APS19!

4/9/19
AMP Lab postdoc Dr. Jasmine Mote was recently accepted as a 2019 mHealth Summer Training Institute Scholar at UCLA!

3/29/19
Members of the AMP lab present their research at the annual Society for Affective Science conference

9/24/18
Members of the AMP lab present their research at the annual Society for Research in Psychopathology conference

9/5/18
Undergraduate neuroscience student and AMP Lab research assistant Jourdan Parent has been accepted to undertake an honors thesis “looking” at pupil dilation and eye blink rate… congrats, Jourdan!

9/5/18
Jessica Mow joins the AMP Lab!

8/21/18
AMP Lab Postdoc Jasmine Mote’s recent publication was featured by the American Psychiatric Association! See the full article here

7/2/18
Dr. Jasmine Mote joins the AMP Lab! Read about Jasmine on the People page

6/19/18
Dr. Fulford and Emma Weizenbaum awarded Digital Health Initiative grant to use mobile technologies to study individualized computational models of cognitive performance.

5/14/18
Katie Gill joins the AMP Lab!

9/1/17
New article published in Schizophrenia Bulletin

8/1/17
Seeking actors for NIH-funded grant

7/13/17
Dr. Fulford awarded Digital Health Initiative grant to use mobile technologies to study social isolation in schizophrenia Read more

5/26/17
Symposium on the use of mobile technologies as assessment and intervention tools at APS in Boston!

2/17/17
Dr. Fulford awarded grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a mobile application designed to support social functioning in schizophrenia