Lecturer and Researcher @KingsIoPPN. Find me on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/divyangana.…
Joined August 2011
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2 Oct 2025
New paper in Nature Mental Health where we show that macroeconomic inequality is associated with brain structure and function over and above individual SES and other state-level factors. These alterations may serve as pathways to mental health problems.
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Congratulations to Dr Divyangana Rakesh, Lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology, who is one of 15 scholars from across the globe selected to join the @CIFAR_News Global Scholars program!
🔗 Read more: kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-divyangana…
@Divyanganar
#ScienceatKings #NextGenResearchers
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27 Nov 2025
Excited to share this new paper from my lab led by Jiayi Zheng (Jenny) showing how higher sleep duration, lower screen time, and participation in extracurricular activities promotes cognitive development during adolescence.
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What helps some children thrive cognitively despite growing up in poverty?
In this #MindtheKids episode, @Divyanganar joins @DrJaneGilmour & @umartoseeb to discuss resilience in disadvantaged youth.
🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/3JNughu
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30 Sep 2025
Proud to be part of the collaboration that has produced this great study:
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3 Jun 2025
Study in @BiologicalPsyc1 reveals beneficial nature of #greenspace exposure for #braindevelopment in early #adolescence spkl.io/6018fAzGM
#mentalhealth #urbanplanning
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19 Mar 2025
It was an honor to chat about strength-based approaches in developmental cognitive neuroscience alongside @mellwoodlowe & @Divyanganar w/amazing host @GAbdurokhmonova ✨ Check it out to hear about the current state of this work, where it’s going, and why it’s important 👇
19 Mar 2025
🎙️ New Podcast Alert! 🚨
In this episode of Sensitive Periods, we explore strength-based approaches in developmental cognitive neuroscience.💡 Discover how research is shifting towards resilience & strengths rather than deficits! 🎧Listen now: buff.ly/3Khcb1L
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21 Apr 2025
Blog by @Divyanganar
Discover the factors that promote #CognitiveResilience in children from low-income families. Learn how extracurricular activities, family environment, and neighbourhood play crucial roles. bit.ly/4i434Gt
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Why are young girls, who begin puberty ahead of their same-age, same-sex peers, at an increased risk of depression and anxiety? Dr @Divyanganar outlines her research on this subject for the @BBRFoundation
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"Although growing up in poverty carries many risks, some children defy the odds & demonstrate positive cognitive outcomes." This blog explores how to foster #Resilience in disadvantaged contexts.
Read the full blog by @Divyanganar to learn more. bit.ly/4i434Gt
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New blog post by @Divyanganar! Discover the factors that promote #CognitiveResilience in children from low-income families. Learn how extracurricular activities, family environment, and neighbourhood play crucial roles. bit.ly/4i434Gt
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28 Apr 2025
Excited to share our new paper where we show on links between #greenspace exposure, brain development over time, and mental health and academic outcomes, now published in Biological Psychiatry. Led by Qingyang Li!
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@SarahLWhittle
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12 Mar 2025
🚨 HIRING 🚨 a Postdoctoral Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience @KingsIoPPN
My group's research aims to understand how social and physical environments impact brain and behaviour development.
Application window closes in three days!
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7 Mar 2025
🚨 HIRING 🚨 a Postdoctoal Associate in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience @KingsIoPPN. My group's research aims to understand how social and physical environments impact brain and behaviour development.
Accepting applications until March 15th!
jobs.ac.uk/job/DLX655/post-d…
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Congratulations to @Divyanganar, who has been named a @PsychScience APS Rising Star, a designation presented to outstanding APS Members in the earlier stages of their research career whose innovative work has advanced the field!
Dr Rakesh's research: kcl.ac.uk/people/divyangana-…
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11 Feb 2025
POSTDOC POSITION at @KingsIoPPN
The postdoc will work on an @UKRI_News funded project on disadvantage, neurodevelopment, and cognitive outcomes using openly available infant and adolescent data. See the job ad here: fluxsociety.org/postdoctoral…
Please share and repost! 🙏
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5 Feb 2025
POSTDOC POSITION
Join us! We study adolescent development in a social world and risk/resilience factors using multi-modal approaches. Multiple potential lines of inquiry, ample opportunity for collaborative projects. More info below:
📢We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!
Join our team at to work on a NIMH/Templeton-funded intensive longitudinal study that uses fMRI, EMA, & passive phone sensing to understand adolescents’ social worlds and their wellbeing! More information here:
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14 Jan 2025
In this #OpenAccess paper, @Divyanganar et al. aim to identify factors that promote cognitive resilience among youth from low-income backgrounds in a large population-based sample, leveraging the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. bit.ly/3Pu8IWy
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20 Jan 2025
In this #OpenAccess paper, @Divyanganar et al. aim to identify factors that promote cognitive resilience among youth from low-income backgrounds in a large population-based sample, leveraging the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. bit.ly/3Pu8IWy
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How does low socioeconomic status (SES) impact brain development?
Dr @Divyanganar has been awarded grants by the @BBRFoundation and @UKRI_News / @The_MRC to investigate the biological mechanisms behind the impact of low SES on cognition and #MentalHealth kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-divyangana…
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