Claudia Lugo-Candelas | The Helix Center

Claudia Lugo-Candelas

Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)

Institution: Columbia

Discipline: Biology & Medicine

Appearances: 1

Notable: Named Bender-Fishbein Scholar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2020); funded by NIH and NARSAD; PhD in clinical psychology from University of Massachusetts, Amherst; committed to research on minoritized and underserved communities

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Biography

Licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the perinatal programming of risk and resilience for neurodevelopmental disorders. She uses MRI to study structural and functional brain changes in children across development and how prenatal factors affect brain development and mental disorder onset.

Sample Works

Associations Between Brain Structure and Connectivity in Infants and Exposure to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors During Pregnancy (JAMA Pediatrics) (2018) Paper
Prenatal Developmental Origins of Future Psychopathology: Mechanisms and Pathways (2019) Paper
ADHD and Risk for Subsequent Adverse Childhood Experiences: Understanding the Cycle of Adversity (2021) Paper

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