Linking psychometric and multimodal neural measures of socioemotional functioning to early antisocial behavior and environmental risk
- Leading Researcher:
- Sarah Brislin, Ph.D.
- Interests:
- Special Needs Populations, Substance use/use disorder
- Contact:
- sarah.brislin@rutgers.edu
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Graduate/Medical Students is not accepted
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Post Docs is not accepted
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Residents is not accepted
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Undergraduates is not accepted
Little is known about the mechanisms that confer risk for antisocial behavior during adolescence, as previous studies have focused on small, non-representative samples, and further research to determine these mechanisms is needed to improve methods of treatment and prevention. Socioemotional functioning (SEF)- reflecting one’s ability to orient to and appropriately respond to emotional cues from others- is a promising candidate mechanism for mitigating the onset of antisocial behavior and developing targeted treatments. This project uses multimodal (self, parent, and teacher-report, neuroimaging, census) data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study and ABCD-Social Development substudy to improve measurement of SEF at the phenotypic and neural level, linking individual differences in SEF to antisocial behavior and environmental risk and protective factors.