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Adolescent Brains, Social Development and Mental Health
This projects leverages large longitudinal dataset, Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development, to investigate the complex relationship between brain development, social behaviors (e.g., peer relationship, prosocial behaviors), sociocultural factors (e.g., parent, peer, and society), and mental health disorders (e.g., risk taking, substance use, peer influence susceptibility), using advanced neuroimaging analysis including representational similarity analysis (RSA), rest-state and task-based functional connectivity (dynamic and static), graph theory, neural activation. We are interested in identifying the developmental trajectories, predictors, and implications of adolescents’ brains.
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Gaming Experience, Social Media, Brain Development, and Socioemotional Development during Adolescence
Adolescent brains are developing while gaming experiences significantly incease during adolescents, the overarching goal of this project to elucidate the relations between violent gaming behaviors, developing brain, and emotion-related mental health (e.g., aggression, anger, and sensational seeking).
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Behavioral and Neural Profiles of Face Processing Behaviors and Implications for Social Development during Adolescence
Face recognition behaviors play a critical role in human social behaviors. This project will systematically investigate the behavioral and neural profiles of face processing behaviors including face identity, emotion, trait inference, race biases, and how these behavioral and neural indicators might be related to future mental health disorders and changes humans’ social behaviors in different contexts.
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Adolescent Development in Inter-racial Contexts and Health Disparities
As U.S. becomes more and more ethnically and racially diverse, it is important to investigate how adolescents develop their social behaviors in inter-racial contexts. This project will broadly focus on urgently important questions such as how adolescents develop their ethnic-racial identity in their social contexts and how it may impact adolescents’ brain development and social development, how adolescents visually and socially perceive people from their own groups and out groups and influence their social behaviors towards other, how social and neurobiological factors may contribute to health disparities among adolescents from different groups.
