Moriah Thomason, PhD
Principal Investigator
Moriah Thomason is the Barakett Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Population Health in the New York University School of Medicine. She formerly served as Director of the Perinatal Neural Connectivity Unit within the intramural Perinatology Research Branch of NICHD/NIH, where she established a pregnancy cohort of more than 300 culturally and racially diverse women and their children and developed methodology for examining human brain functional circuitry before birth. Her current NIH projects examine developmental disease origins and environmental programming of early human brain development. In particular, her projects are focused on the effects of stress and trauma, socioeconomic risk, and chemical exposures on child neurobehavioral development and health.
Education
2006-2011
Stanford University
NIMH NRSA Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, Departments of Psychology and Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, Mentors: Ian Gotlib, PhD and Gary Glover, PhD
2009-2011
UCLA
Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of NeuroImaging (LONI), Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Mentor: Paul Thompson, PhD
2001-2006
Stanford / MIT
1994-1998
PhD in Neuroscience, NIMH NRSA Predoctoral Training Fellowship, Neuroscience Institute, Stanford, Year 5 move to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, PI: John D.E. Gabrieli
B.A. in Psychology with High Honors
University of California, Berkeley