Speaker
Marie Camerota
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Brown University)
Biography
Dr. Marie Camerota is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. She conducts her research at the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women and Infants Hospital. She is currently the PI of a K01 grant from NIMH that is focused on trajectories of epigenetics in relation to attention problems in children born very preterm. Dr. Camerota received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. She completed a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University in the Brown Center at Women and Infants Hospital.
Dr. Camerota's research investigates the influence of environmental experience (including caregiving) and biological factors on neurodevelopmental trajectories in both typically-developing and at-risk children. She has specific expertise in higher-order cognitive processes including executive function (EF). Her work includes a behavioral epigenetics focus, investigating how differences in DNA methylation may be associated with environmental experience and predict child neurodevelopmental outcomes.