BALLER LAB
Lab News
Dr. Baller hits the SOBP circuit!
At SOBP 2025, Dr. Baller presented the talk "Interpreting the Signal" during the Brain Preconference Meeting and again during Neuroscience for Prime Time as part of the NNCI's "This Talk is Really Cool" Series. She rounded out her conference with a poster presentation entitled: "Anxiety as a disease of white matter network disruption: Association between anxiety severity and multiple sclerosis lesion burden in the uncinate fasciculus."
Dr. Baller Presents at ANPA
Dr. Baller presents "Presidential Invited Symposium at the American Neuropsychiatric Society's Annual Meeting: A network-based approach to understanding depression in multiple sclerosis" at the 2025 American Neuropsychiatric Association conference.
Elena Presents at Penn Psychiatry Research Day
Elena presents her poster "Investigating Mood and Cognition in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis" at the Dwight L. Evans, M.D. Penn Psychiatry Research Day.
Dr. Baller Wins Teaching Award of Excellence!
Dr. Baller was selected for this year's Leonard Berwick Memorial Teaching Award by the Perelman School of Medicine. This award recognizes “a member of the medical faculty who in his or her teaching effectively fuses basic science and clinical medicine."
Paper Accepted to JAMA Network Open
Dr. Baller’s paper “Association of Anxiety with Uncinate Fasciculus Lesion Burden in Multiple Sclerosis” has been accepted and published in JAMA Network Open! Here, authors use clinical MRIs and data from the electronic medical record to show that lesions to the tract that supports hubs of the anxiety network increases risk for anxiety in MS!
Follow Us on Bluesky!
The Baller Lab is now on Bluesky Social. Connect with us @ballerlab.bsky.social!!
Dr. Baller Submits Paper to medRxiv
Dr. Baller submits her paper "Association of Anxiety with Uncinate Fasciculus Lesion Burden in Multiple Sclerosis" to medRxiv.
This Stuff is Really Cool!
Dr. Baller selected to give her 'TSIRC' "Please Let This Work..." at the Neuroscience for Prime Time session at SOBP 2024!
Elena Writes and Submits Her First Paper
Elena Cooper submits her first first-author paper "Investigating Mood and Cognition in People with Multiple Sclerosis: A Prospective Study Protocol" to medRxiv!!!
MLIM at Cornell Hosts Dr. Baller in their Virtual Seminar Series
Dr. Baller presents on emerging techniques to characterize psychiatric heterogeneity in the healthy and medically ill in the Machine Learning in Medicine (MLIM) virtual seminar series at Weil Cornell Medicine and Cornell-Ithaca.
BBRF Press Release Reviews Baller Lab's Research
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation's press release features Baller Lab's multiple sclerosis depression research!
Dr. Baller's Biological Psychiatry Paper Reviewed
Drs. Tozlu and Kuceyeski of Weill Cornell's Department of Radiology review "Mapping the Relationship of White Matter Lesions to Depression in Multiple Sclerosis"!
Elena Cooper Joins the Lab
Elena joins the Baller Laboratory as Dr. Baller's new Clinical Research Coordinator!
Interview with MEDPAGE
Dr. Baller interviewed by MEDPAGE to discuss the relationship between lesion location and burden and depression.
Paper Accepted to Biological Psychiatry
"Mapping the relationship of white matter lesions to depression in multiple sclerosis" has been accepted to the journal Biological Psychiatry!
NARSAD Young Investigator Award
Prof. Baller is awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain Behavior Research Foundation!
