Ashley Clare Parr

Assistant Research Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Laboratory of Neurocognitive Development (LNCD) 🧠 (formerly @ashcparr)

[Ashley Clare Parr @AshleyClareParr]

What drives youth substance use (SU) and what distinguishes youth-limited patterns from those that continue to escalate into adulthood?
We followed >800 youth across adolescence into adulthood in the NCANDA-A cohort.
In Nat. Commun.: https://t.co/yl89gyZSUg

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Developmental variation in basal ganglia tissue iron, neurocognitive functioning, and impulsivity is associated with substance use trajectories in youth | Nature Communications
https://t.co/drGnGgfF0Q

[Ashley Clare Parr @AshleyClareParr]

Work was done in collaboration with @tervoclemmensb @bealuna55 @aojha7 @finncalabro Daniel Petrie, Kate Nooner, Susan Tapert, Will Foran, Doug Fitzgerald, David Goldston & Duncan Clark & NCANDA @LNCD_Pitt #Adolescence #SubstanceUse #Dopamine #DevelopmentalNeuroscience

[Ashley Clare Parr @AshleyClareParr]

What drives youth substance use (SU) and what distinguishes youth-limited patterns from those that continue to escalate into adulthood?
We followed >800 youth across adolescence into adulthood in the NCANDA-A cohort.
In Nat. Commun.: https://t.co/yl89gyZSUg

[Ashley Clare Parr @AshleyClareParr]

Understanding how dopamine-related neurobiology, impulsivity, and cognition develop over time may help identify youth at greatest risk, while also revealing the developmental processes that support normative declines in adolescent risk-taking behavior, including substance use.