ProfessorSarah Whittle

Understanding the neural basis of the experience of negative moral emotions in healthy and depressed adolescents

Environment-by-brain development interactions as predictors of adolescent depressive symptoms and psychological well-being: structural brain development as a marker of responsivity to maternal parenting and socioeconomic status

The effects of family environments on structural covariance of cortical networks in late childhood

The role of adrenarche in shaping the mind: how adrenarcheal hormones contribute to the development of brain connectivity and internalising symptoms

The influence of parenting and genetic variants on internalising symptoms during late childhood: neural mechanisms and the HPA-axis

Affective functional brain development from late childhood to early adolescence: interactive effects of adrenarcheal timing and parenting, and associations with internalising and externalising symptoms

Empathy during childhood; an investigation of associations with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and brain structure and function

Associations between estradiol, brain structure and function, and extinction recall in adolescents

Associations between early adversity, brain development, and mental health during adolescence

The role of maternal and paternal factors in adolescent brain development and internalizing problems

Understanding youth resilience: the role of the brain and protective factors

The impact of parenting on emotion regulation brain function and mental health in early adolescence

Pubertal Hormonal Dynamics and the Developing Brain: Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation and Mental Health Risk in Adolescent Females

Development of the prefrontal cortex and its relationship to self-regulatory abilities during adolescence

Interactions between affective motivations and cognitive control in the prediction of adolescent risk taking behaviour

The role of positive affect and depressive illness in the structural development of the neural reward system during adolescence

A diathesis-stress approach to the development of adolescent depression: a prospective, longitudinal assessment of the relative contribution of neurobiological and socio-environmental risk factors

Adolescent-onset depression: the interplay between family relationships, brain development and inflammation

An FMRI investigation of emotion regulation in youth depression

A three-component, hierarchical model of executive attention: Relations to developmental self-regulation, internalising, and externalising problems

Functional brain networks in schizophrenia: mapping connectivity and topology at early and late psychotic illness stages

NEURODEVELOPMENTAL MECHANISMS LINKING CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY WITH RISK FOR PSYCHOSIS

The Role of Developmental Timing of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Brain Development and HPA-Axis Function