Representing the Brown School, the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Medicine and the School of Law.

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Arpana Agrawal, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Genetic and environmental underpinnings of substance-related behaviors

Deanna Barch, PhD

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Research Topics

  • Psychopathology
  • Development

Joseph Bloom, PhD

Genetics

Research Topics

  • Nicotine dependence
  • Drug metabolism
  • Human genetics

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

Joseph Dougherty, PhD

Genetics

Research Topics

  • Neurogenomics
  • Autism
  • Psychiatric genetics

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

Katie Plax, MD

Pediatrics

Research Topics

  • Socioeconomic status

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

Abraham Snyder, PhD, MD

Radiology

Research Topics

  • Language development

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

Jason Yi, PhD

Neuroscience

Research Topics

  • Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)