The Pittsburgh Girls Study Lab

The Pittsburgh Girls Study is a landmark study contributing to understanding local girls' and women's health and development🤱🏽 | est. 2000

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🚨Looking for an RA🚨We are #hiring an RA to come join our lab studying prenatal stress & child development!
Excited about research that contributes to the elimination of racial disparities in maternal and mental health? Please apply! Find the full job posting in the comments💜

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Question of the week: What is your favorite emotion?

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Finally, here is PGS-RISE RA, Uma Balaji posing in front of her poster, “Promoting Flourishing in Early Adulthood: Social Supports for Black Women Following Adolescent Sexual Trauma” #PittPsychiatry

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The PGS RAs and friends have been busy bees working on their passions! Here are RAs Uma, A’mara (@a_braynen ), and Melanie posing after presenting their research at the annual UPitt Dep. Of Psychiatry Research Day June 8th! #PittResearchDay2023

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PGS RA A’mara (@a_braynen) presenting her 1st poster on PGS-HEArT data, “Characterizing the Relationships Between Multiple Minority Stress and Resilience among LGB Individuals in Early Adulthood”

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The PGS RAs and friends have been busy bees working on their passions! Here are RAs Uma, A’mara (@a_braynen ), and Melanie posing after presenting their research at the annual UPitt Dep. Of Psychiatry Research Day June 8th! #PittResearchDay2023

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PGS RA, Melanie presented her poster titled “Beyond the Classroom: Emerging Adulthood Psychosocial Outcomes among Adolescent Youth who Received School Services for Learning Difficulties”! #PittPsychiatry

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The PGS RAs and friends have been busy bees working on their passions! Here are RAs Uma, A’mara (@a_braynen ), and Melanie posing after presenting their research at the annual UPitt Dep. Of Psychiatry Research Day June 8th! #PittResearchDay2023

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Happy PRIDE🏳️‍🌈 from the PGS team! Have you heard of the PGS-HEArT🩷 Study [link: HEArT Study | PGS (https://t.co/pvtluKfW47)]?

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Check out our coworker and friend Gabrielle English, RA for The Baby Brain-Emotion Study (BaBES) posing by her poster, “Concurrent and Prospective Associations Between Infant Negative Affect and Maternal Depression” #PittPsychiatry

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The PGS RAs and friends have been busy bees working on their passions! Here are RAs Uma, A’mara (@a_braynen ), and Melanie posing after presenting their research at the annual UPitt Dep. Of Psychiatry Research Day June 8th! #PittResearchDay2023

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The PGS RAs and friends have been busy bees working on their passions! Here are RAs Uma, A’mara (@a_braynen ), and Melanie posing after presenting their research at the annual UPitt Dep. Of Psychiatry Research Day June 8th! #PittResearchDay2023

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Very impressed by the Op-Ed piece by Dr. Stacy Frazier (@StacyFr79173946) and Elissa Trucco on Florida laws that negatively impact children’s mental health! https://t.co/GpOetMiauT

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#HappyJuneteenth! At the #PGSLab we are committed to equity in all aspects of research, which wouldn’t be possible w/o our participants! Check out this week’s #journalclub article for discussion, co-authored by our colleague @IreneTung, and our journal club statement of purpose!

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Who could it be?

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Guess who?
This RA takes pride in having the cutest office décor <3 Three words they would use to describe their office are: aesthetic, eye-catching, and bubbly!

Hint: There may be a clue hidden in this photo.

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#FlashBackFriday to RA Uma’s time at #SRCD2023! In 'Social Connectedness and Wellbeing among Black Women following Adolescent Sexual Trauma' Uma found that for PGS-RISE youth, sexual trauma during adolescence was associated with slightly lower flourishing in early adulthood.

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This week in #maternalmentalhealth, check out PGS post-doc @KelseyEMageePhD’s poster exploring how stress moderates the association between preconception emotion dysregulation and postpartum pain severity for Black Women in #PGSECHO!

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Did you miss the May #ECHODiscovery presentation on what the preconception period can tell us about maternal and child health?

All materials are available now, including a synopsis of a presentation by @HipwellAlison of @PittPsychiatry: https://t.co/Sz4ui8iSKc

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#RASpotlightoftheWeek South FL native & @mtholyoke alum C/O ‘22 A’mara (@a_braynen they/she) dbl-majored in Africana Studies and Psychology, w/ a concentration in #BlackFeministThought. Their research centers the emotional and identity development of QT-BIPOC in early adulthood!

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This week we’re featuring @HipwellAlison poster exploring how prenatal emotional support is associated with less postpartum health anxiety among Black women irrespective of stress exposure! #MaternalMentalHealthMonth #BlackMaternalHealth

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@JahanviNayani @PsychChatter @PsychinOut @NextGenPsych @PsychResList Hi there! Yes we are still hiring!

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🚨Looking for an RA🚨We are #hiring an RA to come join our lab studying prenatal stress & child development!
Excited about research that contributes to the elimination of racial disparities in maternal and mental health? Please apply! Find the full job posting in the comments💜

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In honor of #MothersDay recently, we’re highlighting a recently published #PGS article: https://t.co/YFYkmtpeoj, Psychological Well‑Being Across the Perinatal Period: Life Satisfaction and Flourishing in a Longitudinal Study of Young Black and White American Women🤰

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Back with another #RASpotlightofTheWeek ft. Pitt native Luke! They studied Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University C/O ‘21. They’re broadly interested in trauma and development in pursuit of a masters in clinical mental health and counseling.

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Today's the day! #PGSresearch #pgsECHO #ECHODiscovery #tunein <3

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Coming next Wednesday 5/10 @ 1pm ET: @HipwellAlison of @PittPsychiatry will give an #ECHOChildHealth #ECHODiscovery presentation on what the preconception period can tell us about maternal and child health: https://t.co/Bv8Y56VKgK