WBHI trainees named BBRF Young Investigators

Drs. Magdalena Garcia-Martinez and Carina Heller received Brain & Behavior Research Foundation 2025 Young Investigators grants. 

Dr. Garcia-Martinez's project seeks to identify early biomarkers of PD vulnerability that could inform future risk prediction and intervention efforts. The study will enroll primiparous women with and without a history of depressive episodes—the strongest predictor of PPD relapse—for multimodal MRI, blood sampling, and neuropsychological assessments across 17 longitudinal visits, spanning pre-conception to 1 year postpartum.

Dr. Heller's project will characterize structural and functional brain developmental trajectories in adolescents initiating HC use in a large longitudinal, heterogeneous sample drawn from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.