Dr. S. Duke Han

“I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.” —Maya Angelou

Career highlight ✅. Renowned biogerontologist and University Professor Tuck Finch wanted to have lunch with me. Grateful to have such amazing colleagues focused on aging here at the University of Southern California. @dornsife.usc.edu @uscpsychology.bsky.social

⚡NEW STUDY⚡ Age-Dependent Gray Matter Correlates of Perceived Financial Exploitation Vulnerability in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults. Led by talented postdoc fellow Dr. Belinda Zhang, this implicates the precuneus and amyg/hippo in financial vulnerability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟 NEW PAPER 🌟 Higher-Order Executive Functions are Associated with Financial Altruism in Older Adults. This study expertly led by graduate student Cassidy Molinare is the first published study using the D-KEFS Advanced. Free to download at the link below! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In the spirit of open science and data sharing, I am happy to announce that the Han Research Lab will post data we have collected and code for all study publications moving forward. These will be posted to Zenodo at the link below. #openscience #datasharing zenodo.org/communities/...

Investiture Day for the University of Southern California’s 13th president Beong-Soo Kim! Has any university president ever played cello at his/her own investiture? #TrojanFamily #FightOn

Great meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) journals Editors-in-Chief at GSA headquarters in DC! Lots of exciting new projects and directions on the horizon! @geronsociety.bsky.social

Marketwatch recently highlighted some of our NIA-funded work to understand risk factors for scams in older age. @dornsife.usc.edu @uscpsychology.bsky.social www.marketwatch.com/story/these-...

We had the rare opportunity to gather all the University of Southern California postdoctoral fellows current and past who worked under me in one pic. I’ve been so blessed to have had the honor of working with some amazing people over the years, and I am so proud of their accomplishments. #mentorship

Great to be on the @geripal.bsky.social podcast with Lauren Nicholas and Jason Karlawish!

This is a straight-up appreciation post for the amazing and talented people in my lab, working hard to promote the health, wellbeing, and independence of older adults. If you want to know more about what we do, please check out www.hanresearchlab.com. @uscpsychology.bsky.social

Here is my penultimate annual editorial as Editor-In-Chief of The Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, and it might be one of the most important pieces I have ever written. This is dedicated to those standing in gap... @geronsociety.bsky.social academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

The journal welcomes empirical and theoretical work that advances understanding of women’s cognitive function, mental health, affective processes, stress, behavior, and well-being as they relate to aging. Submissions are due October 15. https://bit.ly/42mOu7u @oupacademic.bsky.social

This marks the bittersweet end of my three-year term as an American Psychological Association Council Representative for the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology. I am proud of the work that we did to advance neuropsychology, mental health, and psychological science. @apadivision40.bsky.social

RIP Glen Hansard. The clips from the funeral have been gutting me. One of the greatest performers I have ever seen.

Made it to #INS2026inDublin! Looking forward to connecting through mentoring and learning through the science sessions here in beautiful Trinity College Dublin. @insneuro.bsky.social

Excellent keynote lecture from Dr. Muireann Irish on altered reward processing in frontotemporal dementia for #INS2026inDublin. Much of her work implicates the nucleus accumbens. @insneuro.bsky.social

Greetings from one of my favorite places on earth, Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland has always been a place where heaven meets earth in a special way to me and my family. Wishing you and yours well and blessings for the rest of your summer!

Also proud of graduate student Melanie Leguizamon presenting her work “Mood Symptoms Differentially Moderate The Link Between Cognitive Reappraisal And Financial Exploitation Vulnerability In Older Adults” in the #AAIC26 poster session today! @alzassociation.bsky.social @uscpsychology.bsky.social

So proud of postdoctoral fellow Dr. Belinda Zhang presenting her work “Age-dependent Gray Matter Correlates Of Financial Exploitation Vulnerability In Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults” in the #AAIC26 poster session today! @alzassociation.bsky.social @uscpsychology.bsky.social

News from #AAIC26: Results from the Alzheimer's Association-funded LatAm-FINGERS study build on last year’s landmark findings from U.S. POINTER.

Lucia Crivelli presenting evidence that a culturally adapted multidimensional lifestyle intervention can help reduce cognitive decline in Spanish speaking older adults (LatAm FINGERS study). #AAIC26 @alzassociation.bsky.social

So proud of graduate student Cassidy Molinare presenting her work on “Executive Functioning, Memory, And Scam Susceptibility In Older Adults Without Dementia” at #AAIC2026! @uscpsychology.bsky.social

The Han Research Lab and friends are representing at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2026! #AAIC #AAIC2026

At #AAIC representing the Han Rssearch Lab, National Institute on Aging (NIA) funded OMNI ADRD, and the University of Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Research and Education Core. My lab has five posters being presented today, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Come say hi! #AAIC2026

Here is your next #serenity video. This one is courtesy of the beautiful city of Amsterdam.

The new #oliviarodrigo album is brilliant. The beginning, middle, and end of a relationship. Reminds me of a modern day lalaland. Brava Olivia👏👏👏 #OR3 music.apple.com/us/album/you...

The authors of the latest PSPI provide an overview on the latest in fraud research. They also strive to highlight the urgency of fraud’s impact. @sdukehan.bsky.social

The first annual OMNI ADRD conference is in the books! This network is working hard to make digital cognitive measures valid, open, and accessible for #Alzheimers prevention trials. Here’s to a productive next four years! If you want to learn more, check out: omni-adrd.org

Here is your next serenity video. This one is courtesy of Corona Del Mar, Newport Beach, California. #serenity #beach #summer

Doing my civic duty…#vote

Please see this important announcement about how the proposed changes threaten how scientific science is conducted in our country. The United States is the leader in scientific advancement and these proposed changes threaten our position and progress. updates.apaservices.org/federal-rese...

The Brain’s Night Shift: How Sleep, Waste Clearance, and Dementia May Be Linked www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/t... #Alzheimers #dementia #sleep #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

⭐️WE ARE HIRING⭐️ The Han Research Lab is hiring a full time staff position to help run our studies. This is ideal for recent grads who are planning to apply for advanced health degrees and want to work for up to a few years before. Candidates can apply here: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

So happy to be the first to introduce Dr. Laura Fenton to the world! I have been so honored to be a part of your professional journey, and I know only the best is yet to come! Congratulations Dr. Fenton! @dornsife.usc.edu @uscpsychology.bsky.social

Clinical research can’t be done alone. It’s only as good as the team behind it, and I am so grateful for this team of amazing staff scientists, fellows, grad students, full-time staff, and undergraduate volunteers that I work with to improve the health and wellbeing of older adults. #teamscience

So great to see one of my oldest friends in neuropsychology, Dr. Amy Jak in Ann Arbor! She just accepted an amazing position as Professor of PM&R at the University of Michigan. Amy and I were fellow interns at UCSD many years ago and she has had a storied career since then. Great to see you Amy!

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Belinda Zhang @belindayzhang.bsky.social knocked it out of the park presenting her work at the CAPRA-NBER meeting at the University of Michigan! Nice job Belinda!👏👏👏 @uscpsychology.bsky.social

So proud of Clinical Psychology PhD graduate student Daisy Noriega-Makarskyy winning the Steve Regeser López Award for Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Science! Congratulations on this well deserved award Daisy! @uscpsychology.bsky.social

The included articles strengthen our understanding of reliable and valid methodological approaches for examining social determinants of health. https://bit.ly/4waA7B4 @oupacademic.bsky.social

So proud of my graduate student Cassidy Molinare for successfully defending her masters thesis! @uscpsychology.bsky.social

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