Devyn Cotter, PhD
@devyncotter.bsky.social
Postdoc in the SCAN Lab and Ghassabian Lab at NYU || SMC (BS), QMUL (MSc), & USC (PhD) alum || brain development, environmental exposures, stress and inflammation 🧠
🧵 Presenting the last paper of my PhD dissertation! With all of my work demonstrating air pollution as a neurotoxicant (through inflammatory mechanisms), I wanted to know if good sleep could alleviate some of the negative impacts on air pollution on the adolescent brain
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Sleep moderates how prenatal and childhood pollutant exposure impacts white matter microstructural integrity in adolescence
npj Biological Timing and Sleep - Sleep moderates how prenatal and childhood pollutant exposure impacts white matter microstructural integrity in adolescence
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November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🧵 Presenting the last paper of my PhD dissertation! With all of my work demonstrating air pollution as a neurotoxicant (through inflammatory mechanisms), I wanted to know if good sleep could alleviate some of the negative impacts on air pollution on the adolescent brain
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life update! last week, I successfully defended my PhD in neuroscience. The path to becoming Dr. Cotter was not as straightforward as 12-year-old me thought it would be 😅 but we made it. So grateful to my mentor, my lab, and my friends and family for helping me achieve this lifelong dream.
March 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
life update! last week, I successfully defended my PhD in neuroscience. The path to becoming Dr. Cotter was not as straightforward as 12-year-old me thought it would be 😅 but we made it. So grateful to my mentor, my lab, and my friends and family for helping me achieve this lifelong dream.
New preprint out! This is the last paper of my PhD dissertation work 🥲 Using ABCD data, we found that habitual sleep may be protective against air pollution’s neurotoxic effects on global white matter microstructure in adolescents. Get your Zzz’s people
Sleep duration and efficiency moderate the effects of prenatal and childhood ambient pollutant exposure on global white matter microstructural integrity in adolescence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638133v1
February 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
New preprint out! This is the last paper of my PhD dissertation work 🥲 Using ABCD data, we found that habitual sleep may be protective against air pollution’s neurotoxic effects on global white matter microstructure in adolescents. Get your Zzz’s people