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Jennifer C. Ablow is an Associate Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Her research examines prenatal and postnatal stress, parental mental health, and early adversity effects on infant development and emotion regulation. She is a licensed psychologist and certified Child Parent Psychotherapy clinician, actively engaged in clinical interventions for perinatal mental health.
Dr. Ablow's primary research interests include infant-parent attachment, maternal brain responses, and the intergenerational transmission of stress. Her work investigates how socioeconomic factors and maternal depression impact fetal and infant neurodevelopment, with the goal of developing preventative interventions during sensitive developmental periods. She utilizes physiological and neuroimaging methods to study mother-infant dyads, focusing on populations facing socioeconomic challenges and maternal depression.
Analysis of her publication record (2010-2021) reveals consistent focus on biological embedding of early adversity, with attachment security acting as a key buffer against inflammatory responses. Dominant themes include differential susceptibility to environmental risk, neural correlates of maternal depression, and poverty's impact on infant regulatory development. Her work bridges developmental, clinical, and health psychology through longitudinal studies of physiological markers and behavioral outcomes.
Dr. Ablow mentors graduate students in the Psychology Department and directs the Developmental Sociobiology Lab. She is currently not accepting new graduate students for Fall 2025. Her clinical practice includes facilitating prenatal depression prevention groups, mindfulness-based parenting programs for new mothers, and video feedback interventions to promote secure attachment.
The Developmental Sociobiology Lab investigates how early family processes become embedded in neurobiological systems supporting emotion regulation, with research spanning prenatal through infancy periods. Emphasis is placed on identifying sensitive developmental windows for intervention in at-risk populations, particularly those experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage and maternal mental health challenges.
