Jake Son Receives F30 Fellowship Award

Childhood and adolescence are critical developmental periods during which traumatic experiences can lead to impaired executive function and increased likelihood of psychopathology. While stress related brain aberrations have been widely noted, far less is understood about their developmental trajectory and whether the specific timing of the emergence of stressors may impact long-term function of brain networks related to cognitive function. In May 2023, MD/PhD graduate student, Jake Son, a promising physician-scientist, was awarded an F30 NIH fellowship to utilize cutting-edge brain mapping methods and longitudinal analytic tools to identify the impact of trauma exposure and HPA axis activation on developmental trajectories of cognitive control in typically developing children and adolescents. Mr. Son is a graduate student in Dr. Tony Wilson’s DICoN Laboratory at the Institute for Human Neuroscience at Boys Town National Research Hospital and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

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