Bio

Margaret Sheridan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Sheridan uses multi-method tools including fMRI, EEG, and psychophysiology to examine how early experiences shape the developing brain leading to risk for psychopathology.  Her research ambitiously examines these factors in cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental designs. She focuses in particular on the period of early childhood and adolescence, two periods of maximal change in the neural architecture of the prefrontal cortex. Dr Sheridan was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar from 2007-2010 at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. Her research is funded by several grants, including the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Development, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Science Foundation. Dr Sheridan has published extensively, with 90 publications and 7 book chapters.