Representing the Brown School, the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Medicine and the School of Law.
Arpana Agrawal, PhD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Genetic and environmental underpinnings of substance-related behaviors
Ryan Bogdan, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- How genetic and environmental factors shape brain function, behavior, and psychopathology
Kelly Botteron, MD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Structural brain differences in children and adolescents with affective disorders, attention deficit disorder and autism
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Down Syndrome
Robert Fitzgerald, PhD, MPH
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder and related developmental disabilities
Patrick Fowler, PhD
Brown School
Research Topics
- Housing and homelessness
- Child maltreatment and child welfare system
- Developmental psychopathology
- Policy and program evaluation
- Prevention science
Jeffrey Gordon, MD
Pathology & Immunology
Research Topics
- Role of the human gut microbiome in health and disease, notably childhood undernutrition and obesity
Andrew Heath, DPhil
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders
- Methodological research in genetic epidemiology
Lora Iannotti, PhD
Brown School
Research Topics
- Maternal and child nutrition
- Infectious diseases and poverty pathways
- Sustainable development interventions
Melissa Jonson-Reid, PhD
Brown School
Research Topics
- Child welfare research
- Children’s public sector services and policy
- Interagency administrative data research
- Child abuse and neglect
- Violence prevention
Adam Kepecs, PhD
Neuroscience
Research Topics
- Identify neural processes underlying specific behavioral capacities in rodent models of cognition
Trish Kohl, PhD
Brown School
Research Topics
- Emotional/physical abuse
- Child welfare
- Evidence-based practice
- Engaging hard-to-reach populations in treatment
- Parent training
Shannon Lenze, PhD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Perinatal mood disorders
- Develop psychosocial interventions for perinatal depression
Joan Luby, MD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Early emotional development
- Affective disorders
- Affective neuroscience
Pamela Madden, PhD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Identification of genes that contribute to vulnerability to dependence on nicotine and heavy smoking
Lori Markson, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Conceptual development and social cognitive development in infancy and early childhood
Natasha Marrus, MD, PhD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Autism
- Development of language and social cognition
- Social motivation
- Emotion regulation in early childhood
- Biomarkers of child psychiatric disorders
- Neuroimaging
Timothy McBride, PhD
Brown School
Research Topics
- Health policy and health economics
- Health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid policy
- Rural health care
- Health reform
- Social Security and pensions
Mary McKay, PhD
Brown School
Research Topics
- Child mental health services
- Child- and family-focused HIV prevention and care
- Poverty and economic inequality
- Public health interventions to strengthen families, communities and systems
Susan Perlman, PhD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Cognitive and neural analyses of mechanisms underlying the development of emotion and its effects on social interactions focussing on the infancy and early childhood periods
Steven Petersen, PhD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Development of reading
- Attentional control systems
- Description of large-scale functional networks
John Pruett Jr., MD, PhD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Functional Brain Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Mechanisms Supporting Joint Attention Behaviors
- Theory of Mind and Higher-Order Relational Reasoning
Marcus Raichle, MD
Radiology
Research Topics
- Functional brain imaging with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance
Cynthia Rogers, MD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Neuroimaging biomarkers of abnormal social and emotional development in formerly preterm children
- Effects of adverse environmental factors on social and emotional development of preterm and full term infants
Joshua Shimony, MD, PhD
Radiology
Research Topics
- Translational Brain MRI Clinical Applications
- Neurophysiology Modeling Using MRI Methods
Christopher Smyser, MD
Neurology
Research Topics
- Neural network development in preterm and term infants as part of an ongoing study examining cerebral abnormalities associated with neurodevelopmental impairment in prematurely born children
Chad Sylvester, MD, PhD
Psychiatry
Research Topics
- Functional Brain Networks in Childhood Anxiety Disorders
- Anxiety
- Depression
Desirée White, PhD
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Research Topics
- Pediatric neuropsychology
- Developmental disabilities