Marie Hayes, PhD – Lead Coordinator of the Neurogenetics Consortium at
Maine Institute for Human Genetics & Health
Interests: Human developmental neuroscience, sleep and spontaneous movements in neonates and relationship to SIDS and other sleep disorders, developmental psychobiology, CNS pathology and functional impairment in the human infant from predisposition to stress, prenatal stress, prenatal exposure to alcohol and other substances.
Michio Fukumizu, MD, PhD
National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology & Psychiatry, Japan
Interests: Pediatric Neurology
Current Project: 1. Circadian physiology in disabled children and adults 2. Respiratory Physiology in disabled children and adults 3. Sleep disorders in Developmental Pediatrics
Allyson A. Gilles PhD Student in Clinical Psychology (Developmental Track)
Research Interests: 1) the sequela of psychopathology of children who are exposed prenatally to various experiences, including neurotoxins, maternal stress, and prescription medication, 2) children's development of psychopathology within families that include generations of various mental illness among its members, 3) intervention treatments for disorders found in children that reflect a continuum of loosely connected symptoms, including autism, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
Current Project: longitudinal, single-subject research project that focuses on the behavioral treatment of children with Autism and sleep disorders and includes parental intervention and child-focused training methods
Marcia Troese PhD Student in Clinical Psychology (Developmental Track)
Research Interests: Behavioral toxicology/teratology, particularly prenatal substance exposure.
Current Project: Investigates the neurocognitive development of event-related potentials in infants with prenatal methadone exposure using an auditory oddball paradigm and visual paradigm of facial expressions.
Jonathan A. Paul PhD Student in Neuroscience Track, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Research Interests: The emergence of cognitive abilities during critical periods in cortical development.
Current Projects: Facial affect discrimination in infants with agenesis of the corpus callosum (ACC) and ERP methodology for infant subjects.
Ryan Logan PhD Student in Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience Track
Research Interests: The effects of alcohol on the circadian clock, behavioral effects of alcohol, the interaction effects of alcohol and GABA receptors in the CNS, androgen exposure during critical developmental periods and the effects on neurological development--testosterone exposure peri and prenatilly and autism spectrum disorders, also, developmental effects on social cognition of alcohol--animal and human clinical models.
Current Project: Developmental models of ACC and the relationship between social cognition frontal lobe functioning and anterior commissure formation
Joseph D. Wellman MS Student in Higher Education
Research Interests: Social interaction/behavior, social development, social perception/attribution, stigma and prejudice.
Current Projects: Parent-child interaction in children with social anxiety. MS thesis research focuses on how victim/perpetrator sex dynamics effect college students perceptions and attributions about an intimate partner violence incident.
