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As a developmental/clinical psychologist, Dr. Wakschlag's scientific focus is on how early development (from the prenatal-preschool period) shapes mental health pathways. One major line of inquiry is characterizing the phenotype of emergent mental health problems in early childhood. She and her collaborators have generated the first “developmentally-sensitive toolkit” specifically designed to enhance early identification of mental health problems, via by empirically-based differentiation of the normative misbehavior of early childhood from the onset of disruptive behavior at preschool age. Currently, these tools are being used to pinpoint corollary neurodevelopmental atypicalities, with work underway to ready the tools for clinical use. Most recently, this work has focused on the neurodevelopment of irritability as a shared substrate of common childhood-onset mental disorders. The second major focus of her research is elucidating prenatal origins of disease pathways. In particular, this work focuses on causal modeling of prenatal smoking “effects” on disruptive behavior. This includes the development of novel methods for multi-level characterization of adverse prenatal environments, investigating prenatal environment x gene interactions, and pinpointing the developmental sequence of exposure-related neurobehavioral vulnerabilities from infancy-adolescence. Examination of prenatal smoking effects “within psychosocial context,” has led her to a burgeoning emphasis on the role of early life stress in these pathways. Increasingly her work in this area aims to discover the patterns of brain:behavior atypicality associated with adverse prenatal exposures. The long term goal of these efforts is to serve as an impetus for moving the “dial” of mental health prevention much earlier in the disease sequence, by providing well characterized neurodevelopmental phenotypes of disease susceptibility to serve as core prevention targets.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, The University of Chicago
… → 1992
Social Work, MA, The University of Chicago
… → 1983
Psychology, BA, Barnard College
… → 1980
Research interests
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Developmental Alterations
- Developmental Methods
- Developmental Origins of Disease
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Disruptive/Antisocial Behavior
- Gene-Environment Interactions
- Prenatal Environment and Developmental Outcomes
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Grants
Corbett Ryan-Northwestern-Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Infant Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention Project (the “Corbett Ryan Project”)
Bass, M., Flynn, R., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Smith, J. D., Sukal Moulton, T., Wakschlag, L. S. & Peyton, C.
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation
3/1/20 → 2/29/24
Project: Research project
Optimizing prediction of preschool psychopathology from brain: behavior markers of emotion dysregulation from birth: A computational, developmental cognitive neuroscience approach
Allen, N. B., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Norton, E. S., Siddique, J. & Wakschlag, L. S.
National Institute of Mental Health
2/1/20 → 2/28/25
Project: Research project
2/2 Optimizing access, engagement and assessment to elucidate prenatal influences on neurodevelopment: The Brains Begin Before Birth(B4 ) Midwest Consortium
Wakschlag, L. S., Allen, N. B., Massey, S., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Miller, E. S. & Norton, E. S.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
9/30/19 → 3/31/21
Project: Research project
NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox
Bass, M., Blackwell, C. K., Cella, D., Flynn, R., Gershon, R., Kaat, A. J., Kallen, M. A., Lai, J., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Nowinski, C. J., Shaunfield, S. L., Wakschlag, L. S., Waxman, S. R. & LaForte, E. M.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
9/20/19 → 9/19/20
Project: Research project
Research Output
Corrigendum: “The Early Childhood Irritability-Related Impairment Interview (E-CRI): A Novel Method for Assessing Young Children's Developmentally Impairing Irritability” (Behavior Therapy (2020), 51(2), (294–309), (S0005789419300954), (10.1016/j.beth.2019.07.008)
Wakschlag, L. S., Matras, S. A., Estabrook, C. R., Hlutkowsky, C. O., Anderson, E. L., Burns, J., Briggs-Gowan, M. J., Petitclerc, A. & Perlman, S. B., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Behavior Therapy.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Open Access
Investigating child self-report capacity: a systematic review and utility analysis
Bevans, K. B., Ahuvia, I. L., Hallock, T. M., Mendonca, R., Roth, S., Forrest, C. B., Blackwell, C., Kramer, J. & Wakschlag, L., May 1 2020, In : Quality of Life Research. 29, 5, p. 1147-1158 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Multi-method assessment of irritability and differential linkages to neurophysiological indicators of attention allocation to emotional faces in young children
Deveney, C. M., Grasso, D., Hsu, A., Pine, D. S., Estabrook, C. R., Zobel, E., Burns, J. L., Wakschlag, L. S. & Briggs-Gowan, M. J., Jul 1 2020, In : Developmental Psychobiology. 62, 5, p. 600-616 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Pragmatic Health Assessment in Early Childhood: The PROMIS® of Developmentally Based Measurement for Pediatric Psychology
Blackwell, C. K., Wakschlag, L., Krogh-Jespersen, S., Buss, K. A., Luby, J., Bevans, K., Lai, J. S., Forrest, C. B. & Cella, D., Apr 1 2020, In : Journal of pediatric psychology. 45, 3, p. 311-318 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Responsive Parenting Buffers the Impact of Maternal PTSD on Young Children
Greene, C. A., McCarthy, K. J., Estabrook, C. R., Wakschlag, L. S. & Briggs-Gowan, M. J., Apr 2 2020, In : Parenting. 20, 2, p. 141-165 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article