Changing Brain Lab

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

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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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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

https://t.co/4o5jiRqAS6 [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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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!

[Cassidy McDermott @CassidyLMcD]

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:
https://t.co/LvUQnrWqCA

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Check out this new preprint, by our very own @UTooley!

[Ursula Tooley, PhD @UTooley]

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?

https://t.co/RlJmhAnzlq

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Happy to share this new work from our lab!

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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

https://t.co/3q6gfbfR0K

with @ally_mackey @anneparkt @D_Martinez_ @sam_dashineau