my research
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My program of research examines neurodevelopmental mechanisms underlying the early life and intergenerational programming of psychological risk. I take a biopsychosocial approach to this work, examining behavioral, neural, and hormonal markers of neurodevelopment in fetuses, infants, and children as well as how the social environment can act as a mechanism for (or a buffer mitigating) the transmission of risk. I am particularly interested in transdiagnostic markers of child clinical risk that can be studied during sensitive periods of development in the hope that it will inform universal intervention efforts at stages when they are most likely to be effective.
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Fetal frontolimbic connectivity prospectively associates with aggression in toddlers
Fetal hippocampal connectivity shows dissociable associations with maternal cortisol and self-reported distress during pregnancy
Prenatal distress links maternal early life adversity to infant stress functioning in the next generation
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Reconceptualizing prenatal stress as a multilevel phenomenon will reduce health disparities
Geotemporal analysis of perinatal care changes and maternal mental health: An example from the COVID-19 pandemic
A survey of protocols from 54 infant and toddler neuroimaging research labs
Maternal childhood adversity associates with frontoamygdala connectivity in neonates
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