Ashley defended her dissertation on May 28 and is off to the Charleston Consortium for internship this summer. Congratulations, Ashley!
Congratulations to Ashley Huggins!
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Image processing for ABCD
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is an ongoing, nationwide study of the effects of environmental influences on behavioral and brain development in adolescents. The main objective of the study is to recruit and assess over eleven thousand 9-10-year-olds and follow them over the course of 10 years to characterize normative brain and cognitive […]
Amygdala functional connectivity following trauma
Understanding neural mechanisms that confer risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is critical for earlier intervention, yet longitudinal work has been sparse. The amygdala is part of a core network consistently implicated in PTSD symptomology. Most neural models of PTSD have focused on the amygdala’s interactions with the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, […]