HDFS Faculty Labs
Adult Development and Aging
The BRAiN Laboratory
The BRAiN Laboratory studies the mechanisms of decline, maintenance, and plasticity of the adult and aging brain. The lab is interested in how brain health translates to cognitive performance in aging.
Health, Emotion, and Aging Research Team
HEART examines how individuals develop the abilities to regulate emotional experiences and cope with daily stressors and how these skills can be harnessed to promote healthy and successful aging.
Healthy Cognitive Aging Lab
The Healthy Cognitive Aging Lab identifies and evaluates factors that promote healthy age-related cognitive changes, serve as early indicators of cognitive decline, and reduce the risk of developing dementia.
Promoting Healthy Aging and Families Research Lab
We support individuals as they experience aging-related family issues through the development and testing of new interventions and support mechanisms designed for family caregivers and care recipients and for grand-families.
Cognition and Health Analytics Lab
To be updated soon.
Treatment, Intervention, and Prevention Science
Adolescent Wellness Lab
The Adolescent Wellness Lab studies how to lower stress and depression, increase healthy behaviors, decrease teens’ likelihood of developing physical and mental health problems, and prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Campus Connections Therapeutic Mentoring Lab
Campus Connections is grounded in evidence-based practices for youth mentoring while also conducting rigorous research to maximize intervention effects.
Parent-Child Relationships and Well-Being Lab
In the Parent-Child Relationships and Well-being Lab, our mission is to enhance relationships, health, and well-being among children and families exposed to adversity and to provide children and families with additional supports and resources to help them thrive.
Risk, Resilience, and Developmental Psychopathology
Developmental Disabilities Research Laboratory
The Developmental Disabilities Research Laboratory at Colorado State University aims to improve our understanding of development in Down syndrome and other disabilities.