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Depression, Anxiety and Stress Lab

COVID-19 Update
Our lab is currently pausing all recruitment and in-lab activities in order to prioritize the health and well-being of our participants and lab members during this difficult time. We will notify you when lab activities return to normal – in the meantime, we would like to provide resources regarding the COVID-19 situation to individuals and […]
Welcome to the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress (DAS) Lab at UBC!
We are working to better understand the onset, presentation, and course of depression and anxiety disorders in adolescents and adults. We are particularly interested in why some individuals experience depression and anxiety in response to stress and why others do not.
Contribute to the DAS Lab
The success of our research is thanks to the individuals who participate in our studies and the efforts of our research team. Learn more about contributing to the work we are doing as a participant or lab member.
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We are located in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. 2136 West Mall Room 1716 Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T1Z4 Tel 604 822 9951 Email daslab@psych.ubc.ca

Welcome to the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Lab!

Welcome to the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress (DAS) Lab at UBC! We are working to better understand the onset, presentation, and course of depression and anxiety disorders in adolescents and adults. We are particularly interested in why some individuals experience depression and anxiety in response to stress and why others do not. We have a number of projects underway designed to answer these questions by investigating cognitive, emotional, and biological responses to stress and negative affect.

The success of our research is thanks to the individuals who participate in our studies and the efforts of our research team. Learn more about contributing to the work we are doing as a participant or lab member.

COVID19-Update

Our lab is currently pausing all recruitment and in-lab activities in order to prioritize the health and well-being of our participants and lab members during this difficult time. We will notify you when lab activities return to normal – in the meantime, we would like to provide resources regarding the COVID-19 situation to individuals and families who are interested. Below are a few different resources we recommend:

Information from the Canadian Government regarding COVID-19

Information for how to cope with stress related to COVID-19

Information for how to cope with anxiety related to COVID-19

Information on how to talk to your children about COVID-19

Learn about what our amazing Research Assistants have been doing outside of DAS Lab! Congratulations Tugu for graduating with a BA Major in Psychology and Minor in International Relations with Class I Standing and for being awarded the Faculty of Arts International Student Scholarship! Tugu also presented virtually at the UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference this March on The Efficacy of Mental Illness Stigma Interventions on Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective […]

Dr. Katerina Rnic presents at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention! Dr. Rnic presented virtually at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention! Read about her project below:

Early life stress is associated with youth-onset depression for some types of stress but not others New meta-analysis led by Dr. Joelle LeMoult finds that individuals exposed to early life stress (ELS) were more than twice as likely to develop a major depressive disorder in childhood or adolescence than youth who were not exposed to ELS [...]

Maggie Coval presents at the Women’s Brain Health: Young Investigators Symposium! Congratulations to research assistant, Maggie Coval for virtually presenting her poster on the Gender Differences in Depression During Pre-Adolescence: Associations Among Social Support, Self-Compassion, and Depression at the Women’s Brain Health: Young Investigators Symposium!

Congratulations to Ashley Battaglini on her achievements! Congratulations to Masters student, Ashley Battaglini for winning a Psi Chi Spring Graduate Research Grant and for successfully defending her Master’s thesis on Intra- and Interpersonal Emotion Recognition! Learn more about Ashley here.

Phone: 604 822 9951
Email: daslab@psych.ubc.ca
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