N3 early Neuroimaging, Neuroimmune and Neuropsychology Lab

The overarching goal of my research is to identify early immune, brain, and neuropsychological antecedents of childhood psychiatric risk to reduce the time to intervention for young children. I accomplish this through two complementary lines of study involving national and international birth cohorts, and clinical samples of pregnant women. I currently have a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Career Development Award (k23) to study the effects of maternal immune activation (infection and inflammation) on early brain and emotion regulation development in a Finnish national birth cohort and a newly recruited sample of pregnancy women at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. I am also contact Principal Investigator (PI) on a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01 grant to identify circuit-based markers of regulatory deficits that are passed inter-generationally and persist from infancy to early childhood.

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