My first (postdoc) fMRI paper is out! Together with the amazing Dr. Bridget Callaghan, who initiated and designed this project to begin with, and DAN LAB, we show parental buffering effects on youth' amygdala and mPFC during fear learning. Specifically: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de…

“We need to be more vigilant and supportive of those around us that we expect to be resilient, like our farmers.” — Dr. Christina Proctor, TEDxUGA 2024 UGA Public Health

Fostering inclusion in EEG measures of pediatric brain activity nature.com/articles/s4153…

Congrats to YDI alum Mallory Raya Cotton for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers, early in their careers.

Congratulations to YDI student Linhao Zhang for achieving the Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award! Linhao's dissertation will use three studies to examine the impact of sleep on neural development and adolescent risk for psychopathology.

Wrote a review with my two former postdoctoral advisors! Learned from the best: Resting state functional brain connectivity in child and adolescent psychiatry: where are we now? nature.com/articles/s4138…

New study from YDI suggests Black youth are paying an emotional toll of higher anxiety and depression due to racism. UGA Research HDFS UGA UGA FACS news.uga.edu/black-youth-pa…

We had an incredible time today learning from UGA FACS Alumni Shaun Golden from Golden Opportunity For You. Shaun works with youth as a motivational speaker, helping kids, teens, and young adults build resilience against everyday stress.

Black adolescents’ experiences with racial discrimination may put them at higher risk of depression and anxiety, according to a study published this week in JAMA Network Open that sheds light on the long-term impact of racism. wapo.st/45o4qXK

Excited to share our new paper JAMA Psychiatry: “Exploration-Exploitation and Suicidal Behavior in Borderline Personality Disorder and Depression” with Michael Hallquist, Angela Ianni, MD, DPhil, Aleksa Kaurin (she/her), Aidan Wright, and Alex Dombrovski 🇺🇦. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… #suicide #BPD #MDD 🧵:

Capturing the complexity of child behavior and caregiver-child interactions in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (#HBCD) Study using a rigorous and equitable approach sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Out now in Child Development! We identified longitudinal associations between family-level profiles of parental reactions to children's emotions and youth internalizing and externalizing symptoms srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Midlife mortality from deaths of despair (suicide, drug overdose, alcoholic liver disease) has risen sharply since the concept was defined, with particularly large increases for American Indian or Alaska Native and Black individuals from 1999 to 2022. ja.ma/46Fw0Al

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