SCANlab

The Stress, Cognition, and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory

Our Mission

WELCOME! The goal of our work at the Stress, Cognition, and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (SCAN Lab) at the University of New Orleans is to inform prevention, mitigation, and treatment of adult mental illness by identifying and understanding risk factors in childhood.

To this end, we study how the physiological effects of anxiety and stress influence development and health in populations of children at-risk for serious mental illness in adulthood including anxiety disorders and schizophrenia.

For some children and adolescents, severe or chronic stress can interact with other risk factors to increase the likelihood of psychopathology.

In our research, we use a variety of tools including functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as behavioral, physiological, hormonal, immunological, and cognitive measures to understand how stress impacts development.