Discipline(s):
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology

Area(s) of Expertise:
Developmental Neuroimaging, Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampal Development, Biologic Embedding, Stress Reactivity in Childhood

E-Mail:
msherida@hsph.harvard.edu

Background:
Margaret Sheridan is a clinical psychologist with a general interest in the processes which effect brain development. She completed her clinical internship at NYU Child Study Center/Bellevue Hospital in July, 2007 and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in August, 2007. Her graduate research focused on the neural correlates of working memory and inhibition in adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). While at Berkeley she also examined the neural correlates of learning and inhibition in children from low and high socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds using fMRI. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar Margaret plans to continue this cross-disciplinary investigation into the effect of environmental variables associated with SES on neural development. She will particularly focus on the role that SES-associated stress plays in neural development with a view towards understanding how changes in neurobiology may mediate the relationship between social variables and health outcomes.

Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Margaret Sheridan's available publications in PubMed.