Shackman Lab is posied to take the world by storm this Spring with an exciting series of posters, talks, and professional development workshops! Some highlights include …

SOBP Annual Meeting in NYC

FRIDAY, MAY 01, 7 AM, Astor Ballroom

-> Early Career Investigators’ Breakfast (Invitation Only). Dr. Shackman will chair the “Career Trajectories” group

FRIDAY, MAY 01, 5 PM, Poster Session II, West Side Ballroom

-> Heightened Subcortical Reactivity to Threat and Exposure to Negative Life Events Jointly Predict the Longitudinal Course of Specific Internalizing Symptoms. Shannon Grogans…& Alexander Shackman. Key Words: anxiety and depression, extended amygdala (CeA/BST), periaqueductal gray, Internalizing symptoms, threat anticipation

-> Unexpected Danger: Neural Computations of Aversive Prediction Errors. Mesude Okhan…Alexander J. Shackman & Andrew S. Fox. Key Words: Aversive Prediction Errors, Amygdalostriatal transition zone (AST), Threat Processing, BOLD fMRI

SATURDAY, MAY 02, 5 PM, Poster Session III, West Side Ballroom

-> Understanding the Relevance of Dynamic Neural Responses to Anticipated Threat for the Emergence of Internalizing Illness. Kalina Kalinova…& Alexander J. Shackman. Key Words: machine learning-based neural signature, anxiety and depression, fear and anxiety, fMRI, RDoC.

ADAA Annual Meeting in Chicago

-> Facet-level perceived social support as a predictor of current and prospective social anxiety in at-risk adults: Evidence from retrospective report. Jennifer Cunneen…& Alexander J. Shackman

VSS Annual Meeting in St. Pete Beach, FL

-> Noninvasive temporal interference stimulation of amygdala circuits modulates pupillary responses during threat anticipation. Marne White…Alexander J. Shackman & Zane Xie

UMD Graduate Research Fair (April 8th, 2026, Stamp Union)

-> Hoover, H., Didier, P. R., Anderson, A. S., Islam, S., Kim, H. C., Tillman, R. M., Grogans, S. E., Fox, A. S., Smith, J. F., DeYoung, K. A., & Shackman, A. J. (2026). Pervasive anxiety in objectively safe contexts is associated with concurrent internalizing symptoms and future panic.

Psychology Department Undergraduate Research Fair (April 22nd, Noon, BPS Atrium)

-> Liu, E., Hemphill, L., Davis, B. L., Todd, I. A., Orth, R. D., Bennett, M. E., Shackman, A. J., Blanchard, J. J., & Smith, J. F. (2026). Understanding the neural underpinnings of paranoid ideation in psychosis.

-> Ghimire, M., Kalinova, K. N., Islam, S., Anderson, A. S., DeYoung, K. A., & Shackman, A. J. (2026). Examining the relationship between personality facets and alcohol consumption.

Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (June 17, 2026)

Dr. Shackman -> “The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety” (colloqium)