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I received my Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis in 2008. I have a strong interest in how task control develops over age, and how atypical development illuminates the vulnerable aspects of cognitive development pathways. My lab pursues academic and mental health differences and how they relate to core control networks of the brain in youth. We’re particularly focused on how networks of the brain involved in task control relate to academic skill development and skill improvement over time. We study brain and behavioral changes over two time periods: over the course of an intervention or education span (e.g., summer), and over the course of early puberty. To address these questions, we use behavioral methods such as cognitive tests (where we measure response times, accuracy on tasks, or eye movements), actigraphy (where we measure activity levels during sleep and wake), pubertal hormone assessments, neuropsychological assessments, neuroimaging (fMRI, resting-state fcMRI), and studies of patient populations (e.g. children with Tourette syndrome, ADHD, or dyslexia).
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