@ChangingBrain

Allyson Mackey's lab @penn. Interested in how the brain changes as people grow and learn and the basic mechanisms of brain plasticity.

 Philadelphia, PA
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Joined August 2017
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New paper out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Early stressful experiences are associated with reduced neural responses to naturalistic emotional and social content in children, led by @anneparkt Thread below sciencedirect.com/science/ar… [1/6]
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Some kids did a parent-child interaction task. Negative parenting behaviors during the task were associated with reduced activity in the VTA and cerebellum during positive emotional events. Next question for us: do parenting interventions impact kids’ emotional processing? [5/6]
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We hope this task and open data are helpful to others who want to study social and emotional processes in young kids. [6/6]
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Cognitive Skill Instruction is a method of teaching aimed at improving the essential qualities your brain uses to think, listen, and learn. Here’s how we suggest you implement it for your child! [1/6]
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Persistence is a skill we can help cultivate in young children. Here’s how Dr. Julia Leonard, former Postdoc at The Changing Brain and current Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale suggests you do it! Stay tuned for more monthly infographics!
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Cassidy McDermott@CassidyLMcD8 Jun 2021
New article out today in PNAS with @ally_mackey and the @ChangingBrain Lab @Penn! We show that early life stress is associated with earlier emergence of kids’ permanent molars: pnas.org/content/118/24/e210… Thread below… 1/10

Early life stress is associated with earlier emergence of permanent molars | PNAS

Exposure to adversity can accelerate biological aging. However, existing biomarkers of early aging are either costly and difficult to collect, like...

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Check out this new preprint, by our very own @UTooley!
Ursula Tooley, PhD@UTooley26 Jan 2021
New preprint examining cortical patterns of children’s brain networks with @ally_mackey and @DaniSBassett! Lots of great work has examined functional communities (a.k.a. networks) in adults. We wondered--do children's brains show the same patterns? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/6

Functional brain network community structure in childhood: Unfinished territories and fuzzy...

Adult cortex is organized into distributed functional communities. Yet, little is known about community architecture in childhood. Here, we address this gap by studying the community structure of...

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Happy to share this new work from our lab!
julia_a_leonard@julia_a_leonard25 Jan 2021
1. New paper out in Child Development: Children Persist Less When Adults Take Over The title kind of says it all, but a thread below srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com… with @ally_mackey @anneparkt @D_Martinez_ @sam_dashineau
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