The Science of Stress & Health

The Lab at NDSU

Setting up a virtual reality psychophysiology session in the lab. Our lab is dedicated to examining interactions among the mind, body, and environment as they pertain to health and health-related outcomes. Our primary focus is on how stress affects health. We apply social psychological methods to help us determine who…Continue reading “The Lab at NDSU”

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Join Our Lab: Undergraduate Research Assistants Wanted for Spring 2027

Curious about how stress affects the body, and what that means for our health? Dr. Hilmert’s Health Psychology lab is…

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Psychology Major Feature

NDSU University Relations produced a short video about the psychology major at NDSU featuring our lab. One of our excellent…

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Mind, Body, & Baby Lab

The Mind, Body & Baby (MBB) Lab studies how stress during pregnancy relates to maternal physiology, fetal growth, and birth…

Stress and Sleep Outreach 2.0

6 May 202223 Oct 2026

After a very successful Avenues of Scientific Discovery presentation, graduate students Garrett Byron and Odalis Garcia suggested we use the stress reduction, sleep improvement materials to help out undergraduates during…

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Red River Psychology Conference 2022

22 Apr 202223 Oct 2026

Congratulations to the four undergraduate members of the lab who presented posters at the Red River Psychology Conference today! Anna, Mandi, Cayden, Olivia, and Garrett did a great job representing…

Avenues of Scientific Discovery Participation!

3 Apr 202223 Oct 2026

This year, in collaboration with Dr. Katherine Duggan and the PATHS Lab, our lab participated in the NDSU Avenues of Scientific Discovery, "a one-day conference for middle and high school…

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The American Psychosomatic Society Annual Convention

25 Mar 202223 Oct 2026

This week, members of the lab travelled to Long Beach, CA where the American Psychosomatic Society held their 79th annual meeting. Graduate student, Garrett Byron, presented the poster "Using virtual reality to…

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New Grant Submitted!

24 Feb 202223 Oct 2026

Dr. Hilmert and Garrett Byron submitted an R15 grant application, titled, "Prenatal maternal stress, nutrition, and blood sugar: A continuous glucose monitoring study in mid pregnancy," to the National Institutes…

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Congratulations Dr. Bagne!

3 Dec 202123 Oct 2026

This week, our senior lab member, Angela Bagne, successfully defended her dissertation, titled, “Measuring Infant Emotion Regulation within the Still Face Procedure: A novel approach to assessing regulation development in…