Best poster award for Dr. Campbell

Congratulations to Dr. Darren Campbell, assistant professor in the department of Psychology, who won the best poster award at the 12th New Principal Investigators Meeting, hosted by the Canadian Institute of Health Research Institute of Genetics and Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction at Mont-Gabriel, Quebec on 1-3 November, 2013.Dr. Campbell’s poster, Social Phobia Fusiform Functional Connectivity: The Threat of Faces, garnered one of two best poster awards among the 65 poster presentations from across Canada.
The award winning study demonstrated that people with social phobia (those who fear and avoid interacting with strangers or those they do not know well) show a pattern of brain responses suggesting that visually examining a stranger's face activates self-focused, social rejection concerns, while healthy comparison participants show the opposite pattern.