Undergraduate Student
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
Lauren is a senior at The University of Texas at Austin who will graduate in May 2025 with a BA in Health and Society and minors in Educational Psychology and Entrepreneurship. She serves as an undergraduate research assistant with the Dunsmoor Lab, a behavioral neuroscience lab at UT Austin's Dell Medical School, where she contributes to investigations on learning, memory, and emotion. Lauren is currently completing her honors thesis, through which she is conducting an independent quantitative research project on how practices and perceptions in meditative practice correlate with allostatic load according to sex differences in adults. She is primarily interested in translational psychological research on interventional and preventative methods at the intersection of Western medicine, holistic practices, and the therapeutic use of psychedelics to treat mental illnesses at their root.
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Thursday, April 17, 2025
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST