First semester at UGA was a blast! I’m incredibly lucky to have had the pleasure of teaching and getting to know this amazing group of students. Happy holidays and #GoDawgs!

When pregnant mothers experience social disadvantage, the brains of their newborns have measurably different functional connectivity, especially in the amygdala, an area with links to psychiatric disorders. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A nice little summary of our new paper out in PNAS. link.growkudos.com/1q2uuiaw16o

New paper out today in PNAS 🎉 demonstrating: 1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth 2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity doi.org/10.1073/pnas...