Meaghan Perdue
Postdoc @UMassChan Shriver Center Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopmental Initiative studying brain and cognitive development in kids 🧠📚, former postdoc @UCalgary
- Reposted by Meaghan PerdueResearch assistant job posting is live! Come join us in Calgary and be part of a supportive, interdisciplinary team. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1631661...
- We will soon be hiring a research assistant in Calgary to work on projects related to brain imaging, prenatal alcohol exposure, and mental health. Please reach out if you're interested, and I will share the posting once it's live. @ucalgary.bsky.social @mathisoncentre.bsky.social
- Reposted by Meaghan PerdueThe future of pediatric brain research is here thanks in part to Brain Canada's critical platform support grant program!! C-PIP is uniting hospitals, researchers, and technology to transform child neuroimaging in Canada. Read More: shorturl.at/KVwQi
- Reposted by Meaghan PerdueDemocratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
- Our new article shows that fiber density in the left arcuate fasciculus is consistently associated with phonological decoding ability, with better decoders showing greater fiber density even before learning to read. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Analysis included 280 dMRI scans from 66 English-speaking children, MRI acquired between ages 2-12, and reading ability assessed between ages 6-12. Most children performed in the average-above average range, with ~9% scoring below average, similar to population rates of reading disability.
- Post-hoc analysis showed marginal effects of microstructural lateralization, with better decoders showing leftward lateralization from early in development
- This work was done with fantastic colleagues @ucalgary.bsky.social @catherinealebel.bsky.social @bryce-g.bsky.social @kathrynmanning.bsky.social
- Reposted by Meaghan PerdueSpEd teachers are the special forces of the education workforce. They have the highest level of skill/expertise in an incredible range of skills (behavior management, assessment, instruction, law/policy, etc.). We need more special education teachers, not less.
- Now published open access - we found that total choline and glutamate+glutamine were elevated in children exposed to alcohol prenatally during early childhood. doi.org/10.1007/s110... with @catherinealebel.bsky.social
- Total choline in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was associated with overall executive functioning in children with an without alcohol exposure, while glutamate+glutamine in the ACC was uniquely associated with inhibitory control in the alcohol-exposed group
- Findings have implications for understanding the roles of neural excitability and membrane metabolism in cognitive functioning in children with and without prenatal alcohol exposure #neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky
- 🚨New Preprint!🚨 doi.org/10.1101/2024... We found elevated choline and glutamate/glutamine in young children exposed to alcohol in utero vs unexposed children, and metabolite levels were associated with executive functioning indexed by parent report and a motor inhibitory control task
