Ashley Nielsen
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Ashley Nielsen
@ashley-n-nielsen.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Professor in Pediatric Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis

babies 👶🏼, fMRI 🧠, multivariate prediction 👩🏼‍💻, pre- & post-natal exposures🤰🏼, neuroplasticity ✨, mental health 🧘🏼‍♀️, higher education 👩🏼‍🏫
Reposted by Ashley Nielsen
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!
December 18, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Ashley Nielsen
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/...
PNAS
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December 5, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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...
December 2, 2024 at 11:26 PM