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Deanna Barch, PhD
Deanna Barch studies how early adversity (e.g., poverty, stress, and disparities in access to health care) shape early brain development and subsequent risk for mental health challenges.
Other WashU investigators working on topics of brain development, law and policy
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Behavioral and psychiatric correlates of brain responses to social feedback
Rappaport BI, Kujawa A, Arfer KB, Pegg S, Kelly D, Jackson JJ, Luby JL, Barch DM. (2023) Psychophysiology
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth
Duell N, Perino MT, McCormick EM, Telzer EH. (2023) Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Latent Profiles of Maternal Distress: Associations With 5-Year Maternal and Child Mental Health Outcomes
Njoroge WFM, Gerstein ED, Lean RE, Paul R, Smyser CD, Rogers CE. (2023) Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The Association Between Maternal Cortisol and Infant Amygdala Volume Is Moderated by Socioeconomic Status
Herzberg MP, Triplett R, McCarthy R, Kaplan S, Alexopoulos D, Meyer D, Arora J, Miller JP, Smyser TA, Herzog ED, England SK, Zhao P, Barch DM, Rogers CE, Warner BB, Smyser CD, Luby J. (2023) Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science