Courtney Filippi

Courtney Filippi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying early social-emotional development, particularly in infancy and early childhood. She employs neuroscientific methods like fMRI and longitudinal designs to study developmental trajectories linked to anxiety and cognitive outcomes.

Dr. Filippi holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Her work emphasizes translational research to inform early interventions targeting mother-infant dyads for long-term resilience.

Key research areas include neurobehavioral pathways to anxiety disorders, developmental origins of temperament, and neural correlates of novelty processing. She leads studies like the NEAT (Novelty and Early Assessment of Temperament) study and participates in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD).

Her publications span developmental psychology, neuroscience, and child psychiatry, with recent work published in journals like Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging and Developmental Science.