People

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• Genetic and environmental underpinnings of substance-related behaviors

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• Psychopathology
• Development

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• Nicotine dependence
• Drug metabolism
• Human genetics

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• How genetic and environmental factors shape brain function, behavior, and psychopathology

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• Structural brain differences in children and adolescents with affective disorders, attention deficit disorder and autism
• Fragile X Syndrome
• Down Syndrome

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• Neurogenomics
• Autism
• Psychiatric genetics

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• Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder and related developmental disabilities

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• Housing and homelessness
• Child maltreatment and child welfare system
• Developmental psychopathology
• Policy and program evaluation
• Prevention science

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• Role of the human gut microbiome in health and disease, notably childhood undernutrition and obesity

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• Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders
• Methodological research in genetic epidemiology

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• Maternal and child nutrition
• Infectious diseases and poverty pathways
• Sustainable development interventions

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• Child welfare research
• Children’s public sector services and policy
• Interagency administrative data research
• Child abuse and neglect
• Violence prevention

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• Identify neural processes underlying specific behavioral capacities in rodent models of cognition

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• Emotional/physical abuse
• Child welfare
• Evidence-based practice
• Engaging hard-to-reach populations in treatment
• Parent training

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• Perinatal mood disorders
• Develop psychosocial interventions for perinatal depression

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• Early emotional development
• Affective disorders
• Affective neuroscience

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• Identification of genes that contribute to vulnerability to dependence on nicotine and heavy smoking

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• Conceptual development and social cognitive development in infancy and early childhood

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• Autism
• Development of language and social cognition
• Social motivation
• Emotion regulation in early childhood
• Biomarkers of child psychiatric disorders
• Neuroimaging

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• Health policy and health economics
• Health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid policy
• Rural health care
• Health reform
• Social Security and pensions

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• 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

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• 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

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• Development of reading
• Attentional control systems
• Description of large-scale functional networks

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• Socioeconomic status

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• Functional Brain Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Mechanisms Supporting Joint Attention Behaviors
• Theory of Mind and Higher-Order Relational Reasoning

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• Functional brain imaging with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance

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• 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

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• Translational Brain MRI Clinical Applications
• Neurophysiology Modeling Using MRI Methods

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• 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

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• Language development

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• Functional Brain Networks in Childhood Anxiety Disorders
• Anxiety
• Depression

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• Pediatric neuropsychology
• Developmental disabilities

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• Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)