Postdoc - Developmental and Clinical Neuroscience
University of California, Davis - 2023
Leehyun Yoon
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Mechanistic understanding of the development of self-esteem, social motivation, and emotion regulation using neuroimaging techniques and behavioral experiments; preventing and treating depression and interpersonal difficulties
972-883-4484
VP 8.20
Developmental Social Affective Neuroscience (DSAN) Lab
Curriculum Vitae
Not currently accepting undergraduate students
Professional Preparation
PhD - Social Neuroscience
Korea University - 2019
Korea University - 2019
BA - Psychology & Philosophy
Korea University - 2014
Korea University - 2014
Research Areas
My research field is developmental social affective neuroscience, and my research focuses on how people at different developmental stages and with different mental health conditions update self-views and maintain a positive (but not too positive) sense of self when faced with ups and downs in social and performance outcomes. More broadly, my research aims to understand how and why self-related processing, thought patterns (e.g., rumination, pessimism, attribution), and social behaviors change across development and how such development is affected by common mental health problems such as depression.Publications
Barendse, M. E. A., J. R. Swartz, S. L. Taylor, J. R. Fine, E. A. Shirtcliff, L. Yoon, S. J. McMillan, L. M. Tully, and A. E. Guyer (2024). Sex and pubertal variation in reward-related behavior and neural activation in early adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2024 - publications
Yoon, L., Keenan, K., Hipwell, A. E., Forbes, E. E., & Guyer, A. E. (2023). Hooked on a thought: Associations between rumination and neural responses to social rejection in adolescent girls. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2023 - publications
Rohrsetzer, F., Balardin, J. B., Picon, F., Sato, J. R., Battel, L., Viduani, A., Manor P. H., Yoon, L., Kohrt, B. A., Fisher, H., Mondelli, V., Swartz, J. R., Kieling, C. (2023). A magnetic resonance imaging-based morphometric and structural covariance network study of Brazilian adolescents stratified by depression risk. Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry. 2023 - publications
Baranger, D. A., Lindenmuth, M., Yoon, L., Guyer, A. E., Keenan, K., Hipwell, A. E., & Forbes, E. E. (2023). Accelerated neurodevelopment of reward anticipation processing in adolescent girls with depression. medRxiv, 2023-09. 2023 - preprint
Yoon, L., Rohrsetzer, F., Battel, L., Anés, M., Manfro, P. H., Rohde, L. A., ... & Swartz, J. R. (2022). Frontolimbic network topology associated with risk and presence of depression in adolescents: a study using a composite risk score in Brazil. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 8(4), 426-435. 2022 - publications
Holbrook, C., Yoon, L., Fessler, D. M., Moser, C., Delgado, S. J., & Kim, H. (2022). Moral parochialism and causal appraisal of transgressive harm in Seoul and Los Angeles. Scientific reports, 12(1), 14227.
ISO 690 | 2022 - publications
ISO 690 | 2022 - publications
Beard, S. J., Yoon, L., Venticinque, J. S., Shepherd, N. E., & Guyer, A. E. (2022). The brain in social context: A systematic review of substance use and social processing from adolescence to young adulthood. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 101147. 2022 - publications
Yoon, L., Rohrsetzer, F., Battel, L., Anés, M., Manfro, P. H., Rohde, L. A., ... & Swartz, J. R. (2022). Reward‐and threat‐related neural function associated with risk and presence of depression in adolescents: a study using a composite risk score in Brazil. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 63(5), 579-590. 2022 - publications
Awards
Travel Award - UC Davis Postdoctoral Scholar Association [2021]
Excellent thesis and presentation award - Korean Psychological Association [2018]
Appointments
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2024–Present]
University of Texas at Dallas [2024–Present]