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Ashley Nielsen

@ashley-n-nielsen.bsky.social

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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 👩🏼‍🏫

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Ashley Sanders @ashleyfsanders.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 05/12/2024

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/...

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Ashley Nielsen @ashley-n-nielsen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A nice little summary of our new paper out in PNAS. link.growkudos.com/1q2uuiaw16o

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Social disadvantage during pregnancy is associated with newborn brain function

Social disadvantage (e.g., reduced household income, poorer neighborhoods) can be a major risk factor for developing children and is associated with altered trajectories of brain development. Yet, giv...

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Ashley Nielsen @ashley-n-nielsen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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...

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