Adolescence

This project employed advanced statistical approaches to redress issues in the field examining antisocial phenotypes in relation to executive functions. We found some support for existing literature while extending it to demonstrate distinct brain and executive function associations in the presence of Callout-Unemotional traits and Conduct Problems.

Presenting findings related to distinct functional brain patterns and cognitive control vulnerabilities for the antisocial phenotypes callous-unemotional traits and how these could contribute to core impairments involving inferring others emotions.

On the topic of empathy and its role in the development and remittance of substance use disorders

On the topic of cognitive control impairments impacting affective theory of mind associated with the youth antisocial phenotype callous-unemotoinal traits.

On the topic of functional connectivity informing potential mechanisms underlying the youth antisocial phenotype callous-unemotoinal traits.

This original data collection (PI Winters) tests the impact of cognitive control on affective theory of mind in a sample of early adolescents that vary on callous-unemotional traits.

This project examined the extend to which perspective-taking accounted for the relatoinship between cognitive control and perspective taking as well as the underlying functional brain properties of these assocaitions.

Callous-unemotional traits (CU) associates with impairments in emotional responsivity. However, there is less evidence on associations …

Results from computatoinally simulating lesions acorss the functional connectome to predict CU traits.

On the topic of cognitive control and its association with affective theory of mind in relation to the youth antisocial phenotype callous-unemotional traits.