Katie A. McLaughlin

Katie A. McLaughlin is an American clinical psychologist and developmental scientist whose research examines how childhood adversity and stress influence brain development and risk for mental disorders. She is the Executive Director of the Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health and Knight Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to developmental psychopathology, including the conceptualization of “dimensional models” of adversity and the identification of neurodevelopmental mechanisms linking early-life stress to later psychopathology.

Her work integrates psychology, neuroscience, and epidemiology to improve understanding of how social inequality and environmental experiences shape mental health across the lifespan. She has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by ''Web of Science'' each year since 2016 and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Provided by Wikipedia